I’m expecting to get bitched at on here so I thought I’d apologize to the asian girl sitting next to me at the laundry mat the other day. I was listening to stand up comedy on my ipod and thought it was weird just sitting there laughing to myself so I took out my book […]
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Apology to Corporate Research Associates Inc. and Don Mills
A recent blog post, written by Tim Bousquet and published at thecoast.ca May 26, was unfair to local polling company Corporate Research Associates and its president, Don Mills. The bulk of the blog post repeated excerpts from a press release from the citizens’ group Save the View. That press release claimed that a CRA poll […]
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Black firefighters enraged
[image-1] Management at the Halifax Fire Department has again failed to properly address racist behaviour, say black firefighters. Last month, a black firefighter assigned to Station 50 on Hammonds Plain Road picked up a clipboard with the daily checklist for fire truck inspection, and discovered a racist and sexist “poem” written on the back of the clipboard. The firefighter immediately reported the incident to superiors but management did not issue a condemnation of the incident until after the Halifax Association of Black Fire Fighters complained. The week delay angers the HABFF, as an immediate and public management condemnation of racist
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Fire investigators confirm Coast analysis of Spryfield fire
Today, from the Chronicle-Herald: The investigation into a forest fire that destroyed eight homes in the Spryfield area this spring is over and no charges will be laid. The Department of Natural Resources investigated the fire with help from Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service and Halifax Regional Police. They found that an unextinguished campfire […]
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Spryfield fire questions
Remember the Spryfield fire? Monday, May 4, I spoke with both Mike LeRue of Halifax Fire and Emergency Services and Jennifer Gavin of the provincial Department of Natural Resources, and both promised they’d issue an explanation of what had happened “by the end of the week.” That was over two weeks ago. Still nothing. Here’s […]
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HFD’s old boy network
A series of human rights complaints and questionable management decisions has plagued the Halifax fire department. Last week we detailed allegations by black firefighters of institutional racism in the city’s Fire and Emergency Services Department (see “Fired up,” April 7, link below). This week, a woman firefighter goes public to say that she too is […]
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Black firefighters file human rights complaint
When word leaked out this week that a group of black firefighters had filed a complaint against the Halifax fire department with the Human Rights Commission, fire chief Bill Mosher tried to frame the issue as an overreaction by two unduly sensitive employees. “We had met with [black firefighters] and came up with an action […]