新闻1。批准prescho开发协议ol at Halifax councillor’s house Zane Woodford reports on the approval of a development agreement for councillor Shawn Cleary’s house Wednesday night during a virtual public meeting. Cleary and his wife, Michelle, have been running a preschool, Maple Tree Montessori, from their home at the corner of Quinpool Road […]
HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets
Morning File, Wednesday, July 8, 2020
新闻1。Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]
Should Nova Scotia schools open in the fall, and if so, what should that look like?
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As parents and teachers wait for the provincial government to release its plan for reopening public schools in the fall, children’s health experts say the benefits of returning to school outweigh the risks. “We need to find a way, much like we have throughout opening […]
Cabinet roundup: Northwood review, mass shooting inquiry, schools, Liscombe Lodge, and Northern Pulp
Jennifer Henderson attended the virtual post-cabinet meeting scrum Thursday, when government ministers take questions from reporters. Northwood Review: The premier and Health minister faced questions around the government’s choice to release only the recommendations and not the findings from a two-person review panel appointed to look into practices at Northwood’s Halifax facility, where 53 people […]
Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday was heavily focused on Friday’s reopening of services like salons, barber shops, spas and dine-in restaurants shut down since March. “Today’s another good day in terms of cases,” Premier Stephen McNeil said, opening the briefing with the announcement […]
Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda
Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020
新闻1。Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]