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In today's Morning File, stories by @mmughees.bsky.social and Jennifer Henderson. Yesterday, I interviewed four more mayors and wardens. That makes 25 I've interviewed to date, halfway through my goal of interviewing all 49. Here's some of what I've learned. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

After interviewing 25 of 49 Nova Scotia mayors and wardens, here's what I've learned so far - Halifax Examiner10 takeaways from my interview series.www.halifaxexaminer.ca

Local media matters! "Centralized programming" is NOT the same.

Brynn Budden, a spokesperson with HRM, sent me this email today: "At this time, there is no new information to communicate on the status of the Student Transit Pass Program." So, we'll wait and see. I will contact the Minister of Education, though.

MLA Tim Outhit says Nova Scotia, Halifax have reached a new deal on student bus pass program Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

MLA Tim Outhit says Nova Scotia, Halifax have reached a new deal on student bus pass program - Halifax ExaminerOuthit made the announcement at a town hall in Lower Sackville on Wednesday night.www.halifaxexaminer.ca

I have a pretty full and active life with work, fun, birding, horseback riding, and some other projects in the works. And you know why I can do this? Because I’m single.

I’m at the town hall at Acadia Hall in Lower Sackville hosted by MP Braeden Clarke, along with MLAs Tim Outhit, Brad Johns, and Paul Wozney, and councillors Billy Gillis and Jean St-Amand. #nspoli

This is a very good chat better @landofsticks.bsky.social and @joeycoleman.ca about Halifax's new CAO Marnie Cluckie. I learned a lot about Cluckie's work as former City Manager in Hamilton.

There's a community town hall in Lower Sackville at 6pm tonight. The event is hosted by MP Braedon Clark, along with Halifax councillors Jean St-Amand and Billy Gillis, and MLAs Brad Johns, Tim Outhit, and Paul Wozney. I'll be there, too. www.facebook.com/events/27356...

Lessons from Hamilton, Ontario: Here’s how to stop an AI data centre proposed for your community Today's Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Lessons from Hamilton, Ontario: Here's how to stop an AI data centre proposed for your community - Halifax Examiner"City councils have more power than they think."www.halifaxexaminer.ca

To make typos is to be human.

‘For too long in this province, every project has been a ‘no,’ Tim Houston tells Bridgewater and Area Chamber of Commerce Story by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

'For too long in this province, every project has been a 'no,' Tim Houston tells Bridgewater and Area Chamber of Commerce - Halifax ExaminerA couple dozen protesters gathered outside hotel where premier was attending the third event in his summer tour.www.halifaxexaminer.ca

“There’s recent literature on the loss of the ability of regular people to think for themselves. Everything is just a swirl of nonsense, non-sense, no underlying sense. I see this across the demographic spectrums; it infects people regardless of age, race, or education.”

Here's the latest in my series on Nova Scotia mayors and wardens: Mayor Clay Kenney hopes Clark’s Harbour and its fishery can weather the storms of climate change www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/m...

Mayor Clay Kenney hopes Clark's Harbour and its fishery can weather the storms of climate change - Halifax Examiner"Hopefully, we'll all come out of this on the good side."www.halifaxexaminer.ca

AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

AI-generated fake historic images are destroying our past, present, and future - Halifax Examiner"There have always been plagiarists, careless and lazy researchers, and bad actors. AI in its current incarnation and its rapid, seemingly thoughtless, dissemination just takes it to a whole new level...www.halifaxexaminer.ca

When I lived downtown Halifax years ago, I spent so many nights working that I really didn't get a chance to enjoy the city. Anyway, here's a ruby-throated hummingbird I watched at the Public Gardens last night. I had tourists from Vancouver watching too.

Chris Green at Atlantic News, Colin Chisholm from allNovaScotia, and I were set to record an episode of HRM Roundtable today but this guy had to go to the vet. So, we’re recording next Friday.

Just because parents have money doesn't mean their kids have money. Just feed all the children at schools.

I haven't interviewed Stewiacke Mayor Doug Glasser yet, but this story will remain on my radar.

Pictou Mayor Jim Ryan is the latest interview in my series on Nova Scotia mayors and wardens. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/m...

Mayor Jim Ryan is helping steer historic town of Pictou in a new direction - Halifax ExaminerWhen the Northern Pulp mill closed in 2020, Pictou got a new lease on life.www.halifaxexaminer.ca

"I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?" - Joseph Howe, 1835 greatcanadianspeeches.ca/2021/05/21/j...

Joseph Howe on press freedom, 1835Joseph Howe was a self-taught printer and journalist in the colony of Nova Scotia. He used his newspaper, the Novascotian, to criticize the British colonial administration, a tightly managed club c…greatcanadianspeeches.ca