News 1. Cabinet shuffle This item is written by Joan Baxter. Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is no more. Yesterday, Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government renamed it the Department of Lands and Forestry (not, however, Lands and Forests, something lamented by the insightful Facebook page devoted to Nova Scotia’s “Woods and Water”). Timberlea-Prospect […]
Cannabis and child endangerment
Morning File, Friday, June 22, 2018
News 1. PC Leadership candidates The five PC Leadership candidates held a debate at Alderney Landing last night, and Jennifer Henderson went to see what they had to say. Click here to read “Meet the PC Leadership candidates.” This article is for subscribers. Click here to subscribe. 2. Lacrosse “Media reports suggest that the owner of […]
The Halifax Examiner is four years (and one day) old
Morning File, Tuesday, June 19, 2018
News 1. The Halifax Examiner is four years (and one day) old I missed it yesterday, but Monday was the fourth anniversary of the Halifax Examiner. I announced the Examiner with a promotional video that in retrospect was way too much about me: Wow, I sure look young there. But I don’t want this operation […]
Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet
Morning File, Tuesday, April 17, 2018
1. Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet CBC reporter Jack Julian interviewed the 19 year old who was arrested in the mischaracterized “data breach” of the province’s Freedom of Information website. Julian’s article is a great piece of reporting; it is well-written, sensitive, informative, and enraging. If police statements about […]