Stepping back from the debate over Friday’s Occupy eviction, I would like to use the event to shed light on a recurring abuse at City Hall: the improper use of secret council meetings. And so, I have sent the following letter to city officials. 14 November 2011 To: Cathy Mellet, HRM Municipal Clerk Nancy Dempsey, […]
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Occupy NS eviction: Who OKed the cowardly and shameful act?
I was asked to comment on CBC’s Newsworld today, and while at the Ceeb’s Bell Road studio, ran into Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. I proceeded to interview him about yesterday’s eviction of the Occupy Nova Scotia demonstrators. Listen to the first part of my interview here. Listen to the second part of my interview here. […]
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City evicting Occupiers
UPDATED BELOW, 4:09pm UPDATE II, BELOW, 5:25pm Occupy Nova Scotia demonstrators were served an eviction notice today. The timing was telling. The Occupiers won great good will by agreeing to move their encampment from Grand Parade, so that their protest would not take away from Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Grand Parade cenotaph. By all […]
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Occupy Argyle Street
Last week, Economy Shoe Shop owner Victor Syperek complained to Chronicle-Herald reporter Remo Zaccagna about the hole in the ground over on Argyle Street, the approved but unbuilt convention centre complex, which has become a cesspool overrun with rats. Zaccagna went on to interview developer Joe Ramia, who admitted that he has no tenant for […]
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Council live-blogging, explained
Sigh: I have to explain myself. That’s never an enjoyable task, but it takes on an added degree of annoyance when it doubles up as having to explain satire. Kind of destroys the whole point of it. But, alas, it’s come to this because I find the very success of my live-blogging of council meetings […]
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Truth & Reconciliation: Thursday, October 27
WARNING: this transcript contains graphic descriptions of physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Editor’s note: The following is from Tim Bousquet’s Twitter live-blogging of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Atlantic Event, held in Halifax last week. Bousquet has been using Twitter to live-blog many governmental meetings, and we’ve seen the 140-character-burst format works well for a […]
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Truth & Reconciliation Commission comes to Halifax
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established as part of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit related to the native residential school system in Canada. The purpose of the commission is to take testimony from the thousands of native people who were victimized by the residential schools (both directly, at the schools, and the continuing […]
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Truth & Reconciliation: Nelson Morris’ aunt’s letter
Today, at the Truth & Reconciliation Commission event in Halifax, Nelson Morris gave testimony before the commission, and had read into the record a letter his aunt had written before her death. Morris’ aunt had attended the Shubanacadie Indian Residential School from 1947 to 1952. I’m posting a recording of the letter being read; listen […]
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Road rage page on Barrington Street bus
I caught the #41 bus in to downtown from Dartmouth this morning. I was heading to the Truth & Reconciliation meeting at the convention centre, but I wanted to grab a cup of coffee at Just Us so stayed on the bus when it stopped at the Scotia Square stop. Typically, the bus waits a […]
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Truth and Reconsiliation: Iris Nicolas gives testimony
This is the testimony of Iris Nicolas, a native woman from New Brunswick who attended the Shubanacadie Indian Residential School. I came in after she began her testimony, but what I’ve recorded here is very moving. I also didn’t have time to get my proper recorder operating— I apologize the quality isn’t great on this. […]
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Why they protest
Judging by my Twitter feed, the Occupy Nova Scotia demonstrators are annoying some people. “Canada didn’t have American-type financial deregulation, so the protests are misplaced,” is a typical tweet dismissing the group camped out in Grand Parade (and who mayor Peter Kelly is threatening to evict). It’s true that Canada didn’t follow the insane deregulation […]
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Peter Kelly continues to mis-execute
As of Tuesday, mayor Peter Kelly has still not completed his duties as executor of the estate of Mary Thibeault. As The Coast revealed in an exclusive report earlier this year—see “Peter Kelly’s Failure of Will,” March 24—the 91-year-old Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida home on December 7, 2004. A former Bedford resident, […]