Information
1. N.S. celebration leaders’ first debate: setting, range, inclusion are fundamental matters
For those who missed it, and also you’d moderately not go to YouTube and sit by means of 90 minutes of three males speaking in a dimly lit room, yow will discover all the things it is advisable to know in Jennifer Henderson’s handy recap of last night’s proceedings.
Among the many sizzling button matters coated:
- Well being care, the household physician scarcity, and the dealing with of long-term care
- Boosting range in courtrooms and making certain the land claims in conventional African-Nova Scotian communities are lastly settled
- Rankin and the Liberals’ dealing with of the candidacy of Robyn Ingraham, who was requested to resign due to boudoir pictures of her on-line (extra on that in Views)
- The financial system shifting out of the pandemic, together with the way to greatest practice Nova Scotians for jobs, what the minimal wage ought to be, and the way firms ought to be taxed
- Whether or not the federal government ought to help Northern Pulp’s proposed wastewater remedy plant that will pump handled effluent into Pictou Harbour
- The setting, and the timeline for closing coal-fired energy crops and changing fossil-fuel power sources with renewable ones resembling wind and photo voltaic. Additionally, the difficulty of Owl’s Head Provincial Park.
See what the totally different leaders needed to say about these points and extra in Henderson’s article.
2. Black Truro space candidate whose indicators have been burned and vandalized provides her response to the incident
Tamara Tynes Powell, the Liberal candidate for Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River, readies marketing campaign indicators Saturday, simply hours earlier than a lot of them have been discovered vandalized and burned. Photograph: Tamara Tynes Powell / Fb
On Monday, our Native Journalism Initiative Reporter Matthew Byard reported that campaign signs in Truro for Liberal candidate Tynes Powell had been vandalized and burned. Tynes Powell is the primary Black candidate within the historical past of her using (Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River) and the one girl working there this yr.
In an article published yesterday afternoon, Byard interviewed Tynes Powell and requested for her response to the incident and the way it’s affected her marketing campaign, an incident that Cumberland-Colchester MP Lenore Zann, in a social media submit, referred to as “pure outdated right-wing racist Hate rearing it’s (sic) ugly head as soon as extra.”
The Examiner requested Tynes Powell in an interview if she has ideas, fears, or issues on whether or not the story making the information may have a detrimental influence on her probabilities of successful by rallying racist voters to the polls to vote towards her.
“Completely,” she mentioned. “Loads of instances the thought is, you recognize, ‘Am I going to be blamed for this? Am I going to be blamed for utilizing the race card?’ I feel its only a pure consequence, sadly, of the pores and skin we’re in. However that being mentioned, if you reside on this pores and skin, you study to know all of the hate that comes together with it.”
“So for me it’s extra necessary that I rise up towards any kind of hatred act. And if that was to imply that I wasn’t elected, then that implies that there’s much more work to do, and it doesn’t essentially cease the work that I’ll proceed doing.”
Learn the complete article to see extra of Tynes Powell’s response and find out how her household’s political historical past within the Truro space has instilled in her a “ardour for politics” that gained’t be simply extinguished by acts of hate and destruction.
3. The crossroads of anti-racism activism and training for seniors
Shartelle Lyon and her mom Sharmay Beals-Wentzell based the Valley Anti-Racism Affiliation following the homicide of George Floyd. Photograph: Shartelle Lyon
How does the demise of George Floyd, racist graffiti on highway indicators in Windsor, and an anti-racism affiliation result in the creation of a sequence of digital info periods for seniors?
Discover that out, in addition to what these periods entail, in Matthew Byard’s second story in immediately’s Morning File, a couple of mother-daughter duo whose ardour for anti-racism impressed these upcoming digital info movies and ZOOM Q&As for seniors, hosted by professionals from the province’s Black group.
4. New Tideline episode: Jacob Sampson
Jacob Sampson
This piece is written by Suzanne Hire
We’ve obtained one other episode of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne printed for you this morning.
It’s summer season theatre season and Thorne sits down with Jacob Sampson simply forward of opening evening for Shakespeare By The Sea’s mainstage present of the season, A Midsummer Evening’s Dream. In addition to speaking about getting again to the stage at SBTS, Sampson chats in regards to the award-winning play he wrote for himself, Chasing Champions, a little-known story in regards to the Nova Scotian boxer Sam Langford.
Hearken to the full episode here and take a look at past episodes of The Tideline here.
5. COVID replace
Photograph: Martin Sanchez/Unsplash
Tim Bousquet is on trip for the remainder of the week, so Suzanne Hire has the COVID report from Wednesday. I’m blissful to relay that new COVID instances are additionally on trip on this province.
There have been no new instances introduced Wednesday, and there are actually a complete of 9 recognized lively instances in Nova Scotia.
As of yesterday, 75.7% of the province’s total inhabitants has obtained not less than one dose of the vaccine.
For extra vaccination numbers and charts, in addition to information on case demographics, the place to get examined, the way to e-book a vaccination, and the areas across the province the place Public Well being has issued potential COVID publicity advisories, click on this link to the full COVID report from Wednesday here.
6. Halifax’s Ellie Black injured; will miss ultimate occasion in inventive gymnastics immediately
Canadian gymnast Ellie Black competes within the stability beam in the course of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on Sunday, July 25, 2021. Photograph: Leah Hennel/Canadian Olympic Committee
I haven’t been watching a lot of the Olympics this yr. Between the dearth of followers within the stands, the folks’s opposition to the video games in Japan, and the final state of the planet and worldwide group in the intervening time, I simply can’t appear to get into the “larger, sooner, stronger” spirit this time round.
However I’m nonetheless cheering on our Canadian athletes, even when I’m not watching. They’ve been coaching their complete lives, in spite of everything, and it’s not like they obtained to select the time by which they’d enter their aggressive prime.
One Canadian athlete I gained’t have the ability to cheer on immediately is Halifax’s personal Ellie Black.
In a information launch Wednesday, the Canadian Olympic Committee introduced an harm to her ankle will drive her to overlook immediately’s ultimate occasion in inventive gymnastics. Black, who’s competing in her third Olympic Video games, sprained the ankle in coaching Tuesday. Though she’ll miss the prospect to vie for a medal immediately, her workforce is hopeful she’ll get better in time to compete within the stability beam ultimate on Aug. 3.
As of this text’s publication, Canada has won 10 medals — two gold, three silver, and 5 bronze.
Views
1. Digital pasts, “transparency,” and political futures
Robyn Ingraham. Photograph: The Mild Barber Fb profile
And so, on the eleventh hour yesterday, the Liberal Social gathering nominated its candidate for the riding of Dartmouth South, filling a spot that had been left empty since Robyn Ingraham dropped out on July 17, the day after she’d introduced her candidacy within the first place. From there, it’s been a narrative that’s developed bizarrely.
Once I first heard that the Liberal candidate for Dartmouth South had dropped out of the race on day one of many marketing campaign, I didn’t assume a lot of it. One other younger MLA candidate pressured to resign due to some outdated, embarrassing pictures or posts {that a} provincial celebration’s screening workforce, strapped for time and workers, did not flag till it was too late — nothing new. Simply one other political gaffe within the age of social media.
When the Examiner first talked about it in Jennifer Henderson’s first election campaign roundup on July 19, the story was talked about as a one-sentence apart on the very backside of her article, below the subheader, “marketing campaign trivia.” Right here’s how Henderson summed it up then:
The Liberal candidate for Dartmouth South, Robyn Ingraham, resigned her candidacy on the primary day of the marketing campaign citing her nervousness associated to some modelling pictures.
In fact, we’d later discover out the story wasn’t only a piece of “trivia.” On July 21, Ingraham would submit a protracted assertion on Instagram saying the Liberals had requested she drop out of the race on account of concern over some boudoir pictures she’d posted on-line. Images she’d brazenly disclosed to the celebration as probably controversial. After agreeing to step down, she then had assist crafting a message that blamed her resignation on stress and concern for her psychological well being.
In her Instagram submit, Ingraham referred to as the entire ordeal misogynist: “This screams gender inequality from all angles, why ought to I be ashamed of my physique and what I determine to do with it?” And several people have agreed with her. It’s not like she did something unlawful or clandestine. The CBC published an opinion piece from a former Liberal vetter who mentioned the pictures in query wouldn’t have stopped her from giving Ingraham the OK as a Liberal candidate. Her reasoning, aside from the truth that no moral points have been raised:
In a democracy, shouldn’t the folks we elect symbolize all of us, the “commoners,” and never only one phase of society?
It’s an excellent level. To not overgeneralize, however for those who went to Ingraham’s using and requested anyone strolling down Portland Road whether or not they’d have an issue being represented by somebody with piercings, tattoos and artistically erotic pictures of themselves on-line, I’d wager most would think about her a really applicable consultant.
First off, we’re reaching a degree the place increasingly politicians grew up with social media which implies a lot of their controversial, private, embarrassing moments and errors have been documented publicly since they have been in grade college. (To not say that Ingraham’s pictures have been a mistake.) Political events are going to should get used to that, and notice that, whereas moral conerns raised by posts will at all times be legitimate, sustaining the squeaky clear political picture is not attainable or fascinating.
Ingraham’s Insta submit laid it out in so many phrases:
Our youthful era, my era and far of yours have a few years of social media below our belt. It was my understanding that you’d and might be there for me, and for others who determine to use sooner or later. I hope you recognize this shall be a typical concern for future nominees and candidates…
As this story’s taken form over the past week and a half, and we’ve had time to contemplate and digest it and its newer developments, I’ve come to the next conclusion: What’s most disappointing in regards to the Liberals’ request that Ingraham step down over these pictures after which cover the rationale for her resignation, is absolutely the hypocrisy of it.
The chief of the Liberal Social gathering just lately confessed — publicly and unsolicited — to 2 DUI fees from his youth. He sat on that info all through his political profession till a month earlier than his first election as premier, at which level he publicly disclosed his youthful transgressions. Now, to come clean with the errors of your previous is a laudable factor, however Rankin’s disclosure and apology solely went midway (Stephen Kimber completely outlines the methods by which Rankin fumbled his DUI disclosure in this piece from early July.) For those who’re attempting to be “clear,” possibly take a follow-up query in regards to the fees, or carry up that you just have been “discovered harmless” on one cost due to a technicality.
What did Ingraham do? Why is it she will’t run for the Liberals and Rankin can? At first of her nascent — now probably completed — political profession, she was upfront together with her celebration about some probably controversial, however completely authorized, non-inflammatory, on-line photos. Her celebration didn’t flag them as a problem, however requested her to maintain it quiet, then they did flag it and requested her to resign, then they requested her to cover the reality in regards to the motive for her departure.
The Halifax Examiner has chronicled some examples of the Nova Scotia Liberal Social gathering’s transparency over time (latest examples here, here, here, here, and here). When he took workplace, Iain Rankin said he’d run a more transparent government than his predecessor. Greater than misogyny or uptight stuffiness, the case of Robyn Ingraham reveals that, whether or not it’s in governing or campaigning, Nova Scotia’s Liberals proceed to have their very own concepts in regards to the definition of “transparency.”
Observed
Leftovers from final week…
L.B. Jenson’s sketch of Charlie Snow’s outdated tattoo parlour on Barrington, now the positioning of Scotia Sq..
I’ve obtained another sketch to share from L.B. Jenson’s 1969 assortment of drawings, Vanishing Halifax. The pictures I included in my last Morning File — the Outdated City Clock, the Grand Parade, Public Gardens, Bollord Home, and many others. — appeared fairly effectively unchanged immediately.
Not so, for the tattoo parlour pictured above, which was previously situated by the no-longer-existent intersection of Barrington and Hurd. Really, by the point Jenson’s assortment was printed, the store, owned and operated by a Mr. Charles Snow, had already fallen to make means for the Scotia Sq. advanced. Since I couldn’t take a photograph of the placement myself, I believed I’d scour the web this week to see if I may discover an outdated picture from somebody’s archives.
The one one I may discover was connected to this fascinating MacLean’s article from August 1943, that gives the reader a reasonably detailed have a look at what enterprise was like contained in the parlour throughout World Struggle II. And that’s all it’s, actually: a complete account of a tattoo parlour, its proprietor, and the clientele that patronized it 80 years in the past. There’s no story actually. So novel have been tattoos to the final Canadian public on the time, {that a} easy description of the goings-on inside such an institution was price 1,500 phrases in a nationwide journal.
As such, it’s a time capsule of part of Halifax that’s gone without end now. It’s these little sketches of small particulars of life up to now — often solely present in letters and journals — that basically carry historical past to life. Excess of outdated paperwork, treaties, and textbooks, anyway.
The parlour’s proprietor was one Professor Charles Snow, an English expat who discovered his commerce by practising on himself as a sailor in World Struggle I. (He stored his 300 tattoos hidden below his shirt in order to take care of a good look in his day-to-day dealings).
I’ve by no means stepped foot within the tattoo parlours Halifax has to supply immediately, however I’m prepared to wager they’re nothing like Snow’s was. Right here’s how the article describes his booming wartime enterprise in 1943:
In Halifax the unprecedented progress in Professor Snow’s enterprise has paralleled the bounce in numbers within the Royal Canadian Navy. Hundreds of children—plenty of them Continued on web page 23 who by no means noticed the ocean earlier than—are within the Navy now. Being sailors, they need to be tattooed. The professor can’t let you know what number of have winced below his needle for there have been so many he hasn’t been in a position to maintain observe.
His studio is an enormous naked room, one nook blocked off by a four-foot board fence—the “bullpen.” Snow and his topic sit on wood chairs, going through one another, contained in the bullpen. On the professor’s elbow is a shelf coated with electrical needles, ink pots, celluloid stencils, bandages. Males ready their flip within the bullpen lean towards its boards, smoking and watching Snow at his job.
A small tattoo might be utilized in a couple of quarter hour. First, hair is shaved with a straight razor from the realm of pores and skin for use as “canvas.” Then a skinny layer of grease goes on. Then the design, which has been scratched on celluloid. The scratches maintain ink powder which is transferred by strain to the grease on the pores and skin.
Preliminaries over, needling begins. There’s a totally different needle for every shade—black, yellow, pink, brown, blue. A needle is propelled by a tiny electrical motor like that in an electrical razor, which drives it into your cover 3,000 instances a minute.
It Hurts.
Painless tattooing isn’t painless. You notice that if you see a troublesome weatherbeaten service provider seaman, veteran of North Atlantic convoy service, flip white as a sheet and wobble on his chair.
“About one in a 100 will get like that,” says the professor calmly. “Simply nerves. Right here, lad, loosen your collar and put your head between your knees. That’s it.”
Professor Charles Snow applies his commerce on somebody’s arm in 1943. Photograph: MacLean’s Archives
The preferred tattoos on the time, based on the article, have been naval insignia, headstones as tributes to fallen comrades, and touchups that eliminated outdated girlfriends’ names and changed them with the identify of the shopper’s present lover. Snow says the excessive level of his profession was tattooing a final will and testomony on the again of one in every of his clients. The person introduced a lawyer in to ensure it was completely authorized. He left two homes to his spouse and son.
There have been sure issues Snow wouldn’t tattoo (his guidelines and opinions about tattooing are amusingly conservative by immediately’s requirements). First off, he wouldn’t ink arms or faces. Solely “wrist to neck — and that’s all.” No point out of whether or not he’d tattoo beneath the belt. Possibly in 1943, it was simply taken as a provided that that space was off limits for ink, I don’t know.
He additionally had just one design on the prepared for the uncommon feminine patrons who’d pop in. It was a butterfly. Why only a butterfly for the women? The reporter by no means requested, and now that info is misplaced to us without end.
There was a bit extra selection for the boys, however he nonetheless refused to tattoo sure pictures: photos of bare women for one. He would, nevertheless, gladly tattoo a washing go well with on high of such a tattoo if a buyer got here in with regrets that it appeared conceited. Apparently by 1943, there wasn’t as a lot name for racy tattoos like that anymore:
Professor Snow says morals of the current era are higher than these of their fathers. Infrequently does he have a request these days to etch a nude woman on a tar’s chest.
In the complete recorded historical past of human occasions, that may be the one documented occasion of an elder wanting on the youth of his day and deeming them morally superior to his personal era. I can’t assist however applaud Professor Snow for that — unusual outdated rules be damned.
So what tattoos did Snow approve of?
“I at all times prefer to see a lad get a horseshoe with ‘Mom’ in it,” mentioned the professor. “Reveals his ideas are in the best place.”
Truthfully, simply learn the entire thing. It’s a completely entertaining step again in time.
Authorities
No conferences
On campus
It’s summer season
Within the harbour
Halifax
06:30: Asterix, replenishment vessel, arrives at Dockyard from sea
07:00: Oceanex Sanderling, ro-ro container, strikes from Pier 41 to Autoport
07:30: Algoma Verity, bulker, strikes from anchorage to Gold Bond
10:45: NH Siri, oil tanker, arrives at Imperial Oil from Beaumont, Texas
11:45: Oceanex Sanderling strikes again to Pier 41
18:00: Atlantic Sky, ro-ro container ship, arrives at Fairview Cove from Norfolk
18:30: Taipei Trader, container ship, arrives at Pier 42 from New York
Cape Breton
17:00: Eagle Kuching, oil tanker, sails from Level Tupper anchorage for sea
Footnotes
- I don’t have something towards tattoos, however I doubt I’ll ever get one. I modify my thoughts about issues an excessive amount of. Plus I already spend sufficient cash on issues I don’t really need.
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