Philip Moscovitch

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Articles

Sabotage, malicious compliance, and a small magazine that was way ahead of its time

Jan 24, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

The second installment in Suzanne Rent’s ongoing investigative series about the Nova Scotia SPCA has been published. In this article, Rent focuses on finances, fundraising, and what appears to be a lack of transparency at the organization. Here’s one part of the story, which includes a response from SPCA board chair Mike Hurley:Lydia said she remembers that staff in the Cape Breton shelter would organize their own fundraisers, including 50-50 draws, at pubs in Sydney.
Find what you love and spend some time doing it

Jan 20, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

“Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has released the documents detailing campaign contributions to all candidates in the October 2024 municipal election,” Suzanne Rent reports. Rent looks at who funded the mayoral campaigns of Andy Fillmore, Waye Mason and Pam Lovelace. No surprise, Fillmore raised the most money — over $300,000 — and his campaign donors included many developers and high-profile business people. Mason raised about half that amount, and Lovelace brought in just over $30,000.
'Number go up': Ed Zitron chronicles the 'rot economy'

Jan 15, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

Do more on affordable housing and homelessness, do less on bike lanes. Those are some of the takeaways from a Halifax Regional Municipality residents’ survey run last year, Suzanne Rent reports. Michael Pappas, the director of corporate planning and performance at HRM, gave a presentation on the report to council yesterday.
Breaches, scams, and other delights

Jan 13, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

“This year, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) will lead a project to inoculate hemlock trees in municipal parks and is recruiting volunteers to help,” Suzanne Rent reports. “The goal of the program is to protect the trees from hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive species that is threatening hemlocks in Nova Scotia and well beyond.”The hemlock woolly adelgid is an invasive species that attacks hemlocks, leaving a trail of destruction.
Background music, background movies, and the devaluing of art

Jan 10, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

“Pointing to a “shocking escalation” of lives lost due to intimate partner violence (IPV) in Nova Scotia in recent weeks, advocates are calling on the province to act immediately,” Yvette d’Entremont reports. d’Entremont speaks with Meghan Hansford, the housing support program manager at Adsum for Women & Children about the “alarming pattern of domestic violence homicides and femicides,” in Nova Scotia. Hansford says:The reality is that the consequences of inaction are clear.
The "deserving poor" in the GoFundMe era

Jan 7, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

“The superintendent of the Halifax Regional Detachment of the RCMP said population growth and a need for more community policing is why RCMP are requesting 23 more officers and new satellite offices in the next two budget years,” Suzanne Rent reports. Speaking to the Board of Police Commissioners yesterday, Halifax RCMP acting commander Supt. Don Moser laid out the force’s request for funding for 2025-2026. The board also heard from Insp.
'Everything has a shelf life': Saying goodbye to books

Jan 3, 2025 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

As of Jan. 1, 2025, income assistance in Nova Scotia will be indexed to the annual consumer price index. From a provincial media release sent out yesterday:More than 37,000 Nova Scotians receiving income assistance will see their payments increase by 3.1 per cent in 2025 as the Province links rate increases to the annual consumer price index to address rising living costs.
Love, grief, and a hamburger-shaped cat: Meet the typewriter poet

Dec 23, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

Jennifer Henderson looks at the current status of the province’s review into policing, and just how public the review’s public engagement has been. She writes:On July 10, after Barbara Adams replaced Brad Johns as the justice minister, the province issued a news release announcing the public could participate in the review of police services through an online survey that would run until July 31. “In person” engagement sessions were promised for the late summer and early fall.
'We often think we’re in the middle of nowhere, but really we're right in the middle of everything'

Dec 20, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

“Halifax Regional Police (HRP) will be getting two armoured Ford 350s in the spring, while a request for a third armoured vehicle is still subject to approval by Halifax Regional Council,” Suzanne Rent reports:In an email, [city] spokesperson Ryan Nearing wrote that two level-three armoured trucks were approved in the 2024/25 capital budget. According to page G37 of the capital budget, the two vehicles are F350s totaling $410,000.
Health care and the personal costs of cancer

Dec 10, 2024 | halifaxexaminer.ca | Philip Moscovitch

Joan Baxter continues her coverage of the green hydrogen beat, this time reporting on what we know about how much water two potential projects could require:Should EverWind Fuels and Bear Head Energy ever start producing “green” hydrogen and ammonia as they are proposing to do in Point Tupper on the Strait of Canso, they are going to use fresh water. And a lot it – about 24.5 million litres a day, enough to fill 10 Olympic swimming pools.