Weekend File, June 11, 2022
Welcome to Weekend File, the place you’ll discover hyperlinks to all of the articles you might need missed final week. Leap to sections on this article:
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Saturday, June 4
Mass Casualty Commissioners contemplating request to permit direct cross-examination by victims’ legal professionals
The legal professionals representing households of the victims of the mass shootings in April 2020 could have an opportunity to query witnesses. Jennifer Henderson reported that Emily Hill, senior counsel for the Mass Casualty Fee, confirmed the fee is contemplating a request from one of many households’ legal professionals. Final week, throughout fee hearings in Truro, there have been protests and boycotts by two authorized companies representing 15 households of the homicide victims.
Sunday, June 5
The clock is ticking, however Nova Scotia remains to be not appearing on ticks and Lyme illness
Might was Lyme Illness Consciousness Month, however as Joan Baxter wrote, the month got here and went with out a lot consciousness about Lyme illness in any respect, despite the fact that Nova Scotia has the best per capita incidence of Lyme in Canada. Baxter wished to understand how successfully the province is conserving the general public knowledgeable and up to date on ticks and Lyme.
Monday, June 6
1. Nova Scotia Energy price enhance: simply extra company obfuscation, jiggery-pokery and sleight of hand
“Present us the cash!” That’s what Nova Scotia Energy says to ratepayers. However when ratepayers say “Present us the numbers!” the utility clams up. “In reality, removed from explaining itself, the privately-owned public utility — the identical one that’s anticipating us to pony up 10% extra for our electrical energy over the following three years — believes we’ve got no proper to find out about such issues,” wrote Stephen Kimber in his newest column.
2. Morning File: If everybody goes additional into debt, we’ll all be wealthy!
As Mary Campbell within the Cape Breton Spectator reported, the CEO of the Port of Sydney needs to show the Joan Harriss cruise pavilion on the Sydney waterfront right into a mini-mall for locals. Tim Bousquet had some ideas on this “financial growth” plan. Bousquet additionally had ideas on a “ship” with no captain that discovered itself in RisePEI after being diverted from its transatlantic voyage.
3. How the mass assassin leisurely drove by the primary streets of Truro with out being stopped by police
“By means of the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, there was a collection of miscommunications and blended messages between the RCMP and the Truro Police Service such that the killer was capable of slowly drive proper by the centre of Truro with out being seen or confronted by Truro police,” wrote Tim Bousquet. As a result of the killer wasn’t stopped in Truro, he continued on to Shubenacadie the place he killed three extra folks.
4. RisePEI wins courtroom battle over seaside entry in Cow Bay
The general public will quickly have entry to the Silver Sands Seaside in Cow Bay. As Zane Woodford reported, the municipality has gained its courtroom battle to reopen the general public path to the seaside. The HRM headed to courtroom to revive a right-of-way throughout Ross Rhyno’s land to the seaside. Rhyno had constructed fences and blocked entry to the seaside, arguing the receding shoreline had rendered the easement invalid as a result of HRM’s land is so typically underwater.
5. Dal marine biology pupil creates video, infographic with shark-smart tips on nice whites
Yvette d’Entremont interviewed Vanessa Schiliro, a Dalhousie College marine biology pupil who created a five-minute video and infographic to share shark-smart suggestions with Atlantic Canadians who benefit from the ocean. Schiliro additionally has a ardour for “rebranding” of the nice white shark and mentioned it’s essential to lift consciousness of the essential function they play in conserving oceans balanced and wholesome. This story actually has chunk.
6. Ardel Smith’s profession as a helicopter pilot takes him to nice heights
Matthew Byard profiled Ardel Smith, the primary Black plane pilot from Nova Scotia to fly helicopters. Byard instructed us about Smith’s profession as a helicopter pilot, which included stints working in Yellowknife. Smith now flies helicopters for the Division of Pure Sources and Renewables.
Tuesday, June 7
1. Ladies tee up for Black Lives Matter Golf clinic
Final weekend Matthew Byard headed to Grandview Golf and Nation Membership the place Black Lives Issues Golf was internet hosting a golf clinic for ladies that was fairly a success. “We had older ladies, we had youthful ladies, we had ladies from the church, we had ladies from numerous communities that got here out, they usually come collectively to help the trigger,” mentioned Doug Hill, board member with BLMG. “I used to be fairly happy with their degree of participation.”
2. Missed communications amongst Communications personnel led to failure to alert public to the killer’s pretend police automobile
Jennifer Henderson took us by a doc titled “RCMP Public Communications,” which particulars why details about the pretend police automobile wasn’t launched to the general public before it was on Sunday, April 19, 2020. As Henderson requested on this report, if Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton had know the killer was driving a pretend police automobile, would they’ve stayed house that morning?
3. Morning File: Overexposed: put down the digicam and benefit from the expertise
Ethan Lycan-Lang spent final weekend at a household occasion the place he had to participate in far too many photographs. That acquired him enthusiastic about how we take photographs to seize each reminiscence quite than simply having fun with the expertise. And he additionally took a take a look at how the rising value of dwelling is affecting Canadians. What he discovered is just not good.
4. Nova Scotia UARB cuts payday mortgage rates of interest
Zane Woodford reported on a call launched by the provincial Utility and Overview Board (UARB), which has lowered the utmost curiosity payday lenders can cost from $19 on a $100 mortgage to $17, as of Sept. 1. Then beginning Jan. 1, 2024, that determine will drop once more, to $15. Nova Scotia’s present most is the second highest in Canada, with Newfoundland and Labrador capping curiosity at $21 on a $100 mortgage. When the Nova Scotia most drops to $15 per $100, it can match British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick.
Wednesday, June 8
1. UN worldwide scientific committee assembly in RisePEI to debate African slave commerce
Matthew Byard spoke with Dr. Afua Cooper, who’s a board member for the Routes of Enslaved Peoples Venture. That venture, previously generally known as The Slave Route Venture and based in 1994 as an initiative by UNESCO, is assembly in RisePEI now, the primary time the group has met in North America. The group is in RisePEI to debate the causes, penalties, and impacts of the African slave commerce.
2. Morning File: Ditching the “tradition of blame”
Suzanne Lease reported on the Going for Broke podcast and among the themes it explores comparable to low wages, ageism, the housing disaster, and the way we deal with important staff. She additionally instructed us about Maddie Laffin and Josey Hughes, two younger entrepreneurs in Tennecape, NS, who personal and function the Tennecape Café. The children are all proper.
3. Nova Scotia senator calling for extra long-COVID analysis
Senator (Dr.) Stan Kutcher instructed Yvette d’Entremont he will get brief bouts of extreme fatigue or “horrific” complications out of the blue, months after contracting COVID-19. Kutcher is one in all many elevating concern about long-COVID and its impacts. “Individuals who know these things are beginning to ring alarm bells that this virus is just not over with us when the preliminary an infection is over in many individuals,” Kutcher instructed d’Entremont this week.
4. CCPA-NS: authorities should handle impression of province’s low-wage economic system
“We will now not promote the province as being aggressive primarily based on a race to the underside if you’ll, and we’ve got loads of proof that tells us the impression that the race to the underside has,” mentioned Christine Saulnier, director of Canadian Centre for Coverage Alternate options-Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), in an interview with Yvette d’Entremont. That was among the messaging in a written submission CCPA-NS despatched to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts this week. d’Entremont discovered extra in regards to the impacts of the low-wage economic system on Nova Scotia and Nova Scotians.
Thursday, June 9
1. Committee recommends in favour of 26-storey downtown Dartmouth growth
The Design Advisory Committee gave its approval to a proposal for a brand new growth in downtown Dartmouth. However as Zane Woodford reported, among the committee members weren’t followers of the general public artwork proposed for the location. The builders, Boston Developments Ltd., have proposed a sculpture by artist Vassilis Vassili. “I discover it’s not artwork in any respect,” mentioned committee member Thomas Gribbin. “It doesn’t encourage me within the slightest.”
2. Houston promotes tax break to draw younger tradespeople to the province
Jennifer Henderson was on the RisePEI Shipyard on Wednesday the place Premier Tim Houston was selling a tax break for younger tradespeople. The tax break, referred to as Extra Alternative for Expert Trades (MOST), is predicted to assist about 7,500 present and new staff within the expert trades.
3. Lucasville group holding fundraising stroll to foyer for protected greenway, public transit
Matthew Byard spoke with John A. Younger and Cynthia Lucas from the Lucasville Greenway Society, which is lobbying for a greenway within the historic Black group. Lucasville doesn’t have sidewalks or public transit, they usually instructed Byard the realm isn’t protected for a lot of residents. The society is internet hosting a fundraising stroll on Saturday the place they hope to lift consciousness in regards to the want for the greenway.
4. 27 minutes: the RCMP’s communications division hesitated when the general public most wanted to be warned in regards to the mass assassin
Tim Bousquet reported on the testimony of Cpl. Jennifer Clarke and Lia Scanlan on the Mass Casualty Fee this week. Clarke and Scanlan testified in regards to the communications on the morning of Sunday, April 19, 2020, and particularly the one tweet Clarke wrote. That one tweet that had particulars in regards to the pretend police automobile sat unapproved for 27 essential minutes.
5. The Tideline: Stages and The Villains Theatre
Dartmouth’s annual theatre extravaganza Phases returns reside to Alderney Touchdown this week for reveals, works in progress, solo experiments, and every kind of untamed weirdness. That features SHAKESPEARE’S TIME MACHINE by The Villains Theatre, a classically irreverent comedy by Dan Bray. Co-director Rebecca Wolfe and performer/producer Colleen MacIsaac are on the present this week to speak post-pandemic life within the theatre, their private Phases picks, and extra. Plus a brand new music from Good Expensive Good!
6. Morning File: Expensive diary: trustworthy notes from a journaling journalist
In his second Morning File of the week, Ethan Lycan-Lang shared a few of his secrets and techniques about easy methods to be trustworthy in your journaling. “Right here’s what I’ve discovered: being trustworthy — I imply deeply, brutally, root-cause trustworthy — is painfully difficult,” he wrote. Lycan-Lang additionally wrote in regards to the tales we discover in airports. When he mentioned tales, he meant nightmares.
7. The demise of Mountain Gear Co-op might spell costly hassle for Nova Scotia
In 2020, a federal regulation and a BC decide dismantled Mountain Gear Co-op (MEC). Now, the identical federal regulation that was used to destroy MEC is being cited by Paper Excellence in its $450 million lawsuit in opposition to the province of Nova Scotia associated to the creditor safety of Northern Pulp. And the case is being heard by the identical decide. Joan Baxter had this primary article in a two-part collection on what this implies for Nova Scotia.
Friday, June 10
1. Morning File: ‘We actually don’t want any extra cops; we actually don’t want any extra money’
“If all you may have is a hammer, each downside is a nail,” Tim Bousquet wrote on Friday. He’s been pondering loads about that aphorism as he watches and reside tweets the Mass Casualty Fee proceedings. Bousquet shared his predictions for the end result of the fee. There will probably be suggestions, however solely these associated to the funding of police will “be pursued with enthusiasm” as a result of “all we’ve got is hammers.”
From our archives
Nearly a yr in the past, Joan Baxter wrote this two-part collection on ticks. Partly 1 of “A plague of ticks, tick-borne illnesses, and poli-ticks,” Baxter reported on how the province is monitoring and managing tick-borne illnesses and well being dangers of these illnesses. And partially 2, Baxter came upon what will be achieved to higher handle and reduce the dangers of tick-borne illnesses in Nova Scotia.
It appears like a phenomenal weekend to be exterior, so be watchful for ticks. Baxter’s reporting is an efficient place to begin to study extra about ticks, Lyme illness, and different tick-borne illnesses.
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