“I couldn’t get in today even though I have all the right badges,” Emily Rideout tells me. “It’s total BS.” She confirms reports that NGO workers have been mostly shut out of today’s negotiations and plenaries in Copenhagen. UN climate chief Yvo de Boer is claiming responsibility for booking more than 46,000 people into the […]
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Copenhagen Cops crack down
My friend Brad Axmith, a Canadian who has been living in Copenhagen for a number of years, wrote me this week. He calls himself a centrist and a “concerned bystander trying to take note of the changes being instituted in my children’s land of birth.” He is also a scholar with an astute eye for […]
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Summit talk starts to heat up
Negotiations are heating up in Copenhagen. Tuvalu has demanded that any agreement coming out of negotiations be legally binding. Their reasoning: they’d prefer not to sink. Back in 1992, at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, parties signed a treaty called the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Signatories agreed to create protocols setting […]
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Kimber: police chief’s explanation fails
Tom Martin had it wrong, Halifax Police Chief Frank Beazley told CBC Radio’s Information Morning on December 1. In my story for The Coast (November 19, 2009) on the city’s striking number of unsolved homicides, I’d quoted Martin, a respected retired homicide detective as saying: “To my knowledge, the cold case unit has not laid […]
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Dead Wrong: Halifax’s unsolved murders
OK, boys…Pack it up…Back to what you were doing…We’re done here… Tom Martin had known it was coming. Call it his experience or—perhaps, more to the point—his boss’s lack of experience. Whatever, Martin had guessed this morning’s outcome even before Bill Hollis, the staff sergeant in charge of major crimes, descended from the department’s executive […]
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Grand Parade ready to remember
The cenotaph at Grand Parade should be ready in time for Remembrance Day, says city spokesperson Shaune MacKinlay. “But it’s up to the veterans’ group if they are going to have their ceremony,” says MacKinlay. “They’ll inspect it and make a decision in a few days.” During a routine maintenance of the structure this summer, […]
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Abolish Skateboard helmet laws in Halifax!
If you don’t skateboard you probably think that the semi-new law that forces skateboarders to wear helmets is a great idea. I am bitching to tell you that it isn’t. To begin the Police force is funded by our tax dollars. They are wasting our tax dollars by NOT addressing the majority. Skateboarding amounts for […]
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Stupid Cops
This bitch goes out to the cops who held my one friend for questioning and took my other SOBER friend to the drunk tank last night (thursday the 20th) at a certain bar famour for its powerhour from 9-10 on that night. Just because somebody forgot to pay their tab during a big party does […]
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Sex work in the shadows
Halifax’s sex workers are regularly assaulted and have even been killed on the job. But as a result of our hypocritical
attitudes toward sex—we can sell anything using appeals to our sexual selves, except sex itself—we can’t find a way to
protect these women. Meredith Dault tells their story. photos Aaron McKenzie Fraser
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City hires auditor
Hoping to allay criticism that it is unwisely spending taxpayer money, Halifax council has hired an auditor general to inspect the city’s books. The decision was made in a secret council session last Tuesday, and no substantial information has been released to the public—we don’t yet know the name of the person hired, the person’s […]
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Skate free and/or die
Citing safety concerns, the law says skateboarders must wear helmets. But some skaters and their supporters see the police
crackdown at the Commons Skatepark as mean-spirited and counterproductive.
