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indefatigable adjective
in·de·fats·i·ga·ble ˌin-di-ˈfa-ti-gə-bəl
: incapable of being fatigued : UNTIRINGMerriam-Webster Dictionary
That’s the dictionary definition of “indefatigable.”
Right here’s the Bousquet definition of “indefatigable”: Jennifer Henderson.
Jennifer is retired. After a distinguished profession on the CBC, she may have simply rested on her laurels, and spent her days visiting her grandchildren and enjoying playing cards along with her buddies. And he or she does. However that’s not all. She has grow to be a one-person dynamo, overlaying all issues Province Home and Nova Scotia Energy (and extra) for the Halifax Examiner.
There’s hardly a day that goes by that Jennifer isn’t popping up on my e-mail or textual content — often each — desirous to cowl this story or that, or telling me I ought to take note of a sure difficulty. I generally jokingly discuss with her as my project editor, however she really does hold her nostril to the bottom and is aware of what’s coming down the pike higher than I do.
Jennifer jumps into press conferences and query intervals and contacts sources with the ebullient enthusiasm of a rookie reporter however carrying the skeptical knowledge of expertise.
Truthfully, I don’t know the place she finds the vitality. I get drained simply watching her.
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1. Halifax Police
“Halifax cops aren’t pleased with their chief. That a lot is obvious,” writes Stephen Kimber:
After that, nevertheless, the state of affairs — together with what is actually unsuitable with the drive and what truly must be carried out to repair it — turns into murky.
Click on right here to learn “Union-chief spat simply the tip of the troubles at Halifax Regional Police.”
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2. Lemuel Marcus Skeete
“The son of a Black army veteran from Cape Breton who died final week says his father was a ‘variety, selfless one that simply needed to make the world a greater place,’” studies Matthew Byard:
The obituary for Lemuel Marcus Skeete mentioned he was surrounded by relations at Ocean View Persevering with Care Centre in Dartmouth on the time of passing on Sunday, Nov. 6. His household wrote that Skeete was the final surviving African Nova Scotian veteran of the Second World Warfare.
Skeete was born in Cape Breton on Aug. 13, 1922, and grew up within the Black neighborhood of Whitney Pier.
“He was within the army previous to elevating a household,” mentioned Skeete’s son, Darcy Skeete, in an interview with the Halifax Examiner. “The struggle was over in 45, and I’m one of many youthful children, and I wasn’t born till 64.”
Byard goes on to profile the lifetime of a fairly exceptional man.
Click on right here to learn “‘Variety, selfless’ Black army vet remembered for giving again to Cape Breton neighborhood.”
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3. Critics ‘extraordinarily involved’ about St Barbara’s new proposal
“On Wednesday, St Barbara Ltd hosted an ‘open home’ in Sheet Harbour to ‘share details about modifications and updates’ to its plans for an open pit gold mine in Fifteen Mile Stream, positioned within the Liscomb Recreation Sanctuary,” studies Joan Baxter:
Fifteen Mile Stream is without doubt one of the three open pit gold mines St Barbara plans to open on the Japanese Shore to make sure steady gold manufacturing as soon as its Touquoy mine is exhausted. The plan has at all times been to crush the uncooked ore at these new mines, and truck it again to Moose River on private and non-private roads, for ultimate processing of the ore and gold extraction…
When Atlantic Gold first submitted the Fifteen Mile Stream mine undertaking to the IAAC in Might 2018, it acknowledged that the mine can be a satellite tv for pc of the Touquoy mine, and would course of roughly two million tonnes of gold-bearing ore per 12 months for six years. The ore, in keeping with the unique plan, can be hauled 76 kilometres overland on “present highways” — #374, to Freeway 7, by Sheet Harbour and onto the Mooseland Street —from Fifteen Mile Stream to Moose River for ultimate processing. The mine would have a single open pit, and for that, 1.3 km of the Seloam Brook must be diverted.
Distinction that with the modifications offered in a poster on the open home in Sheet Harbour.
First, there shall be 4 open pits, not only one.
The mine will function not for six years as initially deliberate, or seven as St Barbara later mentioned, however for “as much as 10 years,” in keeping with a poster on the open home.
The “slurry focus” that shall be trucked overland to Moose River for ultimate processing won’t be dewatered and dry as beforehand deliberate.
There shall be 9 haul roads involving “watercourse crossing constructions” fairly than the 2 in unique plans.
Nor did the unique plans for Fifteen Mile Stream contain any explosives storage on the website. Now, in keeping with the abstract of undertaking modifications supplied on the open home, there should be “explosive storage and entry street improvement” on the website.
The poster on modifications on the mine says that now the corporate should divert 1.9 kilometres fairly than earlier figures of 1.3 km and 800 metres of Seloam Brook into an “engineered” channel.
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4. COVID
On Thursday, Nova Scotia reported new 15 deaths from COVID recorded throughout the latest reporting interval, Nov. 1-7.
The reporting of deaths lags, so not one of the newly reported deaths occurred through the reporting week, nevertheless it’s very seemingly that there have been individuals who died from COVID through the reporting week, they usually’ll be recorded later this week.
In complete, all through the pandemic, there have been 617 deaths from COVID in Nova Scotia, 505 of that are thought-about Omicron deaths (since Dec. 8, 2021).
The epidemiological abstract for October shall be launched tomorrow, so I can’t now provide you with particulars about the latest deaths. However normally, earlier summaries have proven that 90%+ of the deceased are 70 years outdated or older, and about half lived in long-term care services.
Moreover, through the Nov. 1-7 reporting interval, 35 individuals have been have been hospitalized due to COVID.
Nova Scotia Well being reported the COVID hospitalization standing as of Thursday:
• in hospital for COVID-19: 34 (6 of whom are in ICU)
• in hospital for one thing else however have COVID-19: 155
• in hospital who contracted COVID-19 after admission to hospital: 75
These figures don’t embody any (if any) youngsters hospitalized with COVID on the IWK.
Additionally through the Nov. 1-7 reporting week, there have been 671 lab-confirmed (PCR checks) new instances, which is the bottom weekly new case depend this calendar 12 months. Nevertheless, it’s arduous to know what to consider this.
First, many individuals both can’t get or don’t trouble to get PCR examined. My guess is that as COVID has been normalized, extra individuals aren’t bothering, so the case depend might replicate that.
An anecdotal instance: On Wednesday, I went to the Dartmouth Normal drive-thru website to get a PCR check (I’m destructive). I’ve carried out this 3 times by the pandemic, and the earlier two occasions the appointment occasions have been fairly full, and there was a line up of vehicles after I bought there. However on Wednesday, the reserving system was vast open, I may choose any time I needed, and there have been no different vehicles after I bought there. Is that as a result of nobody has signs and they also don’t should be examined, or is it that they simply don’t care sufficient to get examined anymore? I could be unsuitable, however I’m guessing it’s the latter.
Second, the persevering with excessive demise charge says one thing. Perhaps it’s simply that COVID is bouncing round nursing houses and nowhere else, however that appears unlikely; a extra seemingly rationalization is that COVID is widespread out in the neighborhood and that gives extra pathways into the nursing houses.
In any occasion, right here’s the takeaway from Thursday’s information: deaths from COVID are growing, and at the moment are at a Northwood-a-month degree; new hospitalizations are barely down; and who is aware of about new instances?
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5. Irving earnings
“Irving Oil raked in 1 / 4 of a billion {dollars} in earnings in the identical 12 months it persuaded Saint John metropolis council and the New Brunswick authorities at hand it a 25-year tax break, leaked paperwork present,” studies Jacques Poitras for the CBC:
The corporate made $250.7 million in 2005, a 12 months during which Saint John capped Canaport LNG’s property tax invoice at $500,000.
The associated fee to town was estimated at $112 million over a quarter-century.
Poitras says Irving’s earnings have been detailed in a doc that’s a part of the Paradise Papers leak to the Worldwide Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
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6. Abolition Intimacies
The launch for El Jones’ new guide, Abolitionist Intimacies, is that this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7pm at Alumni Corridor on the College of King’s Faculty campus.
The blurb from Fernwood Press:
In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the motion to abolish prisons by the Black feminist rules of care and collectivity. Understanding the historical past of prisons in Canada of their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy grow to be imbued with state violence at carceral websites together with prisons, policing and borders, in addition to by purported care establishments similar to hospitals and social work. The state additionally polices intimacy by mechanisms similar to jail visits, strip searches and managing neighborhood contact with incarcerated individuals. Regardless of this, Jones argues, intimacy is integral to the continuing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation by the care work of constructing relationships and organizing with the individuals inside. By characteristically fierce and private prose and poetry, and motivated by a decade of jail justice work, Jones observes that abolition isn’t solely a political motion to finish prisons; it is usually an intimate one deeply motivated by dedication and love.
You may learn Evelyn C. White’s overview of Abolitionist Intimacies right here.
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7. Empire ransom
On Wednesday, I mentioned the ransomware assault on Empire, the Stellarton-based firm that operates throughout Canada because the chains Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Meals, and Lawtons Medication. Friday, the web site BleepingComputer supplied extra data:
Whereas the corporate is but to reveal any data linking this ongoing outage to a cyberattack, native media reported that Canadian provincial privateness watchdogs from Quebec and Alberta have confirmed receiving “confidentiality incident” notifications from the retailer.
Because the Quebec watchdog instructed The Canadian Press, such alerts are solely despatched following incidents the place private data has been accessed in a breach.
Moreover, based mostly on ransom notes and negotiation chats BleepingComputer has seen, the attackers deployed Black Basta ransomware payloads to encrypt techniques on Sobeys’ community.
BleepingComputer was instructed by a number of sources that the assault occurred late Friday/early Saturday morning.
Pictures shared by Sobeys workers on-line additionally present in-store computer systems displaying a Black Basta ransom be aware.
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Moreover, this week, Sentinel Labs discovered proof connecting Black Basta to the Russian-speaking, financially motivated FIN7 hacking group recognized for deploying POS malware and focusing on a whole bunch of corporations worldwide in spear-phishing assaults.
As I learn that, if you happen to use Lawtons as your pharmacy, a bunch of Russians now have your well being information.
I’m impressed that in contrast to most native English audio system, the Russians perceive that “information” is plural.
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8. Twitter vs. Mastodon
Oh, Twitter.
At first, I believed Elon Musk’s buy of the platform can be rocky, however finally he may enhance the service a bit. Within the summary, issues like a partial paywall for business accounts with very massive follower counts might have made some sense — would, say, Woman Gaga bat a single hair of an eyelid to spend a number of {dollars} a month for continued entry to her 85 million followers? And there may have been different refined modifications that may enhance the consumer expertise — edit buttons and the like — whereas riskier ventures like video and micropayments could be price investigating. A intelligent administrator may need been in a position to flip the money-losing enterprise round.
However overlook in regards to the summary, and overlook a couple of intelligent administrator. We’re watching a spectacular practice wreck.
Now I’m questioning if Twitter will survive in any respect, so I’ve opened a Mastodon account as a fall-back.
Yesterday, I posted the identical ballot on each Twitter and Mastodon, asking what customers considered the way forward for Twitter.
Listed here are the outcomes as of this morning on Twitter, with 734 individuals weighing in:
The way forward for Twitter is:
- It’ll be higher — 7.4%
- similar as at all times — 24.9%
- Chapter, however then sane — 35.3%
- No future — 32.4%
And listed below are the outcomes on Mastodon, with 86 individuals weighing in:
The way forward for Twitter is:
- It’ll be higher — 1%
- similar as at all times — 16%
- Chapter, however then sane — 38%
- No future — 44%
There’s nothing scientific about this ballot, nevertheless it’s fascinating that no less than as far as the respondents to my ballot go, individuals on each platforms are usually pessimistic about the way forward for Twitter. Not surprisingly, the parents who’ve already migrated to Mastodon are much more pessimistic.
I’m nonetheless discovering the tradition at Mastodon, and studying find out how to finest use it. However up to now, my impression is that it’s higher designed for productive discourse, and that design is mirrored by a neighborhood dedicated to, effectively, not being assholes.
I’ve seen complaints in regards to the supposed issue of utilizing Mastodon, however that’s foolish. It’s simple.
A really fast primer. In contrast to Twitter, Mastodon isn’t a single platform, however is fairly a set of impartial servers, referred to as “cases,” which might be federated. What which means is you be a part of an Occasion of your selecting, after which you possibly can see what everybody in that Occasion is speaking about, but in addition whoever you comply with in different Situations. In apply, it’s fairly much like Twitter however there’s no means {that a} single individual like Musk can take management of it. Additionally, dangerous actors are weeded out rapidly.
I joined the Halifax Social Occasion, which is run by a bloke named Peter Smith. Smith looks like a good fellow, and is working the place responsibly, but when I would like, I can migrate my account to another Occasion simply sufficient. (I don’t see this taking place.)
Test it out, if you would like. Or don’t. The world will survive with out social media.
Authorities
Metropolis
In the present day
Grants Committee (Monday, 10am, Metropolis Corridor) — agenda
Advisory Committee on Accessibility in HRM (Monday, 4pm, on-line) — particular assembly
Tomorrow
Halifax and West Group Council (Tuesday, 6pm, Metropolis Corridor and on-line) — agenda
Province
In the present day
No conferences
Tomorrow
Veterans Affairs (Tuesday, 2pm, One Authorities Place) — Navy Transition into Expert Trades; with representatives from the Division of Labour, Expertise, and Immigration; Mainland NS Constructing Trades; Canadian Armed Forces Transition Centre Halifax; Nova Scotia Group Faculty
On campus
Dalhousie
In the present day
How the apply of pathologizing race has influenced our understanding of world lung well being(Monday, 12:30pm, on-line) — Stanja Stanojevic will speak:
The apply of utilizing race or ethnicity in medication to clarify variations between people is being referred to as into query as a result of it could contribute to biased medical care and analysis that perpetuates well being disparities and structural racism. A generally cited instance is the usage of race or ethnicity within the interpretation of pulmonary operate check (PFT) outcomes. The apply has world implication to our present understanding on lung well being. On this speak I’ll overview the historical past of how race got here for use in apply and the underlying sources of variations in lung operate, together with these which may be captured by race or ethnicity. I’ll display how the present apply of PFT measurement and interpretation is biased in its capability to explain precisely the connection between operate and well being outcomes. I’ll summarize the arguments in opposition to utilizing race-specific equations in addition to handle considerations about eradicating race. Lastly, I’ll suggest modifications in interpretation methods and future analysis which will assist to cut back well being disparities.
Tomorrow
Viola Desmond Legacy Lecture (Tuesday, 7pm, on-line) — that includes artist and educator Vivek Shraya:
Vivek is an artist whose physique of labor crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visible artwork, theatre, and movie. Her album Half-Time Girl was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, and her best-selling guide I’m Afraid of Males was heralded by Vainness Honest as “cultural rocket gas.” She can also be the founding father of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books, which helps rising BIPOC writers.
A seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pleasure Toronto Grand Marshal and has been a model ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Basis, whose mission is based on a dedication to feminism and racial, social and gender justice. vivekshraya.com is the digital archive for a residing trans artist of color, that includes her music, writing, visible artwork, theatrical and movie works, from 2002 to current.
Saint Mary’s
Tomorrow
‘They at all times left room’: on writing for an different voice: A School Creator Collection studying with Luke Hathaway (Tuesday, 12pm, Room LI135, Patrick Energy Library) — Hathaway will learn from his newest guide of poems, The Affirmations; RSVP right here
Within the harbour
Halifax
The container ship CMA CGM Jules Verne was in port yesterday. At 176,435 tonnes, it is without doubt one of the largest container ships on the planet, and I imagine the biggest container ships to ever name in Halifax
10:00: Lagrafoss, container ship, arrives at anchorage from Reykjavik, Iceland
11:00: Neptune Koper, automobile provider, arrives at Autoport from Emden, Germany
13:00: Polar Prince, tender, sails from Dartmouth Cove for sea
15:00: NYK Nebula, container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from Caucedo, Dominican Republic
15:00: Lagrafoss strikes to Pier 41
15:30: Irving Beaver, barge, and Atlantic Elm, tug, sail from Dartmouth Cove for Saint John
16:00: MSC Rossella, container ship, arrives at Berth TBD from Montreal
17:00: Atlantic Sealion, barge, and Atlantic Beech, tug, sail from Pier 24 for sea
18:30: James Prepare dinner, analysis/survey vessel, sails from Pier 9 for sea
20:00: Tropic Lissette, cargo ship, strikes from Pier 42 to anchorage
20:30: Neptune Koper sails for sea
21:30: Tropic Lissette sails for Palm Seaside, Florida
Cape Breton
12:00: AlgoNova, oil tanker, arrives at Authorities Wharf (Sydney) from Quebec Metropolis
Footnotes
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