1The lawyer representing disgraced Dalhousie dental student Ryan Millet claims the university advised Millet to lie about being suspended when filling out licensing applications. That’s just one of the charges in a lengthy letter to Dal president Richard Florizone that lawyer Bruce T. MacIntosh sent to media yesterday afternoon. According to the release, Millet is […]
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Monday’s 7 things you gotta know
1 The casualties from the new Nova Scotian film industry have started to arrive. Last week Nova Scotia Business Inc. started accepting applications for film and TV productions under the Liberals’ new tax credit system. A Jim Henson Co. show planning to shoot here has ditched NS for British Columbia, and Screen Nova Scotia’s Marc […]
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Friday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Things got rowdy last night at a public meeting for a Lake Echo waste site. As previously noted, Lawrence Bellefontaine’s Kiann Management wants a waste processing facility on an empty Lake Echo lot so badly that the company’s already started dumping materials before any plans have been approved by the city. Neighbouring residents aren’t […]
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Thursday’s 7 things you need to know
[Image-1] 1 The Dingle is closed! Repeat; the Dingle Tower has been closed! Due to vandalism. A safety screen at the top of the tower has been kicked in. Listen up, teens: it is not cool to vandalize Dingles. 2 Awareness of Nova Scotia amongst global business people is “virtually non-existent.” So says a provincial […]
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Thursday’s 6 things you need to know
1 When the Macdonald Bridge was built 60 years ago it linked two distinct cities. Nowadays, it’s a part of the Halifax Regional Municipality but our two harbour bridges are still run by a strange authoritative body in the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission. As the Big Lift lifts off, this week’s Coast cover story looks at […]
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Wednesday’s 9 things you need to know
[Image-1] 1 The Cornwallis Street Baptist Church will be holding a vigil this Friday to mourn the nine people killed last week at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The reverend Rhonda Britton tells Metro; “We have been devastated with the news of what happened in Charleston and we are grieving […]
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Tuesday’s 8 things you need to know
1 It’s official—Halifax has a brand-new Guinness World Record holder. The Guinness organization has confirmed that 12-year-old Olivia Rybika-Oliver can spin on figure skates faster than anyone on the planet. Her 342 revolutions per minute obliterates the old record, a sedate 308 RPM that now seems like the speed records are played at. Rybika-Oliver set […]
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8 things you need to know Monday
1 Two women and one man were arrested over the weekend during a local protest against Canada’s new anti-terror bill. Police took in two Bill C-51 protesters who were sitting in traffic at Spring Garden Road and Birmingham Street, but later released them without charges. A 26-year-old man was then arrested for causing a disturbance, […]
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Thursday’s 9 things you need to know
1 Radio station Q104—the “home of rock and roll”—has apologized after sharing a Facebook photo mocking Caitlyn Jenner. An image of a dog with a caption reading “Bruce Jenner’s cat” was shared by the station yesterday. After complaints, Q104 deleted the “Facebook meme post” and replaced it with the following apology. The recent Q104 Facebook […]
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Wednesday’s 10 things you need to know
1 Two cannons were removed from Province House yesterday to restore their sandstone platforms. One, near the statue of Joseph Howe, was placed in 1829 and used to protect the Hollis Street entrance. The other, which was in storage, previously acted as Halifax’s noon and evening gun from 1882 to 1905. Some lucky communications worker […]
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Tuesday’s 7 things you need to know
1 Shell Canada has received the go-ahead to start exploratory oil drilling in the Shelburne Basin. Environment minister Leona Aglukkaq’s environmental assessment claims the nearly $1 billion energy project doesn’t pose a significant environmental threat. Milage on “significant” will vary. As John Davis points out in the Shelburne County Coast Guard, Stantec’s environmental assessment of […]
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5 things you need to know Monday
1 Six months after Gloria McCluskey brought up noisy train whistles, CBC gets around to interviewing Dartmouth residents about the noise that’s keeping them up at night. The whistles only started because of the extra people and traffic crossing the tracks from the nearby King’s Wharf development. It looks like more safety measures—including two $7,000 […]
