Halifax Council kneecaps a struggling industry
Newspaper revenues are in catastrophic decline, but Halifax Council has chosen this moment to attack a key revenue source of the region's largest newspaper publisher....
06 June, 2019
Activists kill a roundabout, ensuring more pollution and more pedestrian injuries
The overwhelming advantages of roundabouts are not controversial, except in the sense that climate change and vaccination programs are controversial....
25 February, 2019
Kicking Butts
Butts's statement also included what had been missing in the PMO's defense: a full-throated denial, devoid of weasel words. ...
19 February, 2019
Hey forecasters: nix “wind chill.” Give us real temperatures
Real temperature can be measured. How an individual will perceive the combination of real temperature and wind cannot be quantified....
19 February, 2019
Andrew Scheer goes to Windsor
Scheer tailored his remarks to a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative audience, but found himself in an audience of hard-core right wingers. ...
19 February, 2019
The ghost of sea level rise yet to come
"Today's high winds out of the north created quite a storm surge along the southern shore of the Bras d’Or Lake," writes hydrologist Fred Baechler....
30 November, 2018
Zoe Lucas presents the subtle autumn colours of Sable Island
During September and October, the vegetated terrain of Sable Island becomes a tapestry of pale yellow, tan, amber, buffy, sienna, orange, red and purple, with the greens of juniper and crowberry woven throughout....
22 October, 2018
Doing the wrong thing at Crescent Beach
Beaches are complex, dynamic, fragile systems that protect coastlines from storm damage, support wildlife, and offer recreational pleasures. They are imperilled when road builders with no scientific expertise in beach management muck about with excavators....
17 September, 2018
Inviting contractors to pave sand dunes in Canada’s Ocean Playground
"They are proceeding with the road repaving project in ignorance of the dynamics of the beach and dunes and therefore are putting the system at risk."...
13 September, 2018
Journo hubris: Crowing about an oil spill
Today’s Morning File led off with a victory lap in which Editor Tim Bousquet proclaimed that, “as I predicted, [the Tuft's Cove spill] was much larger than originally reported.” I call B.S....
15 August, 2018