A shout-out to quiet folks dwelling in a world that simply received’t shut up

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1. EverWind Fuels’ inexperienced hydrogen venture

four men and one woman lined up at a podium, all smiling

Premier Tim Houston (proper), Trent Vichie (centre), Membertou First Nation Chief Terrance Paul (second from left), and different dignitaries on the signing of the MOU with Uniper and E.On. Photograph contributed by EverWind

This morning, now we have Joan Baxter’s second article in a two-part sequence the Examiner is co-publishing with The Vitality Combine in regards to the “inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia” venture EverWind Fuels has proposed for Level Tupper in Nova Scotia. You may learn half 1 right here.

Partially 2, Baxter writes about how “EverWind Fuels’ ‘inexperienced hydrogen’ venture relies on sketchy carbon calculations and an unlimited public subsidy:”

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is an enormous fan of EverWind’s “inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia” venture proposed for Level Tupper in Cape Breton.

In late August, a smiling Houston was photographed, along with EverWind Fuels’ CEO Trent Vichie, Membertou First Nation Chief and CEO Terrance Paul, and different dignitaries, on the signing of a memorandum of understanding between EverWind and Uniper, a world power firm with its largest market in Germany.

The memorandum states that EverWind and Uniper intend to barter an “offtake” settlement that Uniper will finally purchase 500,000 tonnes of “inexperienced ammonia” per 12 months from the Level Tupper plant. EverWind signed a second memorandum of understanding the identical day with one other European power big, E.On, for one more 500,000 tonnes.

On the time of the signing, Houston commented: “EverWind’s venture helps our provincial objectives of decarbonization and inexperienced power management.”

Houston continued, “We’re excited in regards to the alternatives that inexperienced hydrogen and inexperienced ammonia initiatives [sic] present for the province, together with new clear power jobs, supporting Nova Scotia’s carbon emissions discount targets, and establishing Nova Scotia as a worldwide chief within the manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen for home and export markets.”

Actually, as detailed in Half 1 of this sequence, there’s at the moment just one inexperienced hydrogen and ammonia venture proposed in Nova Scotia, and it’s the one EverWind Fuels proposes for Level Tupper, close to Port Hawkesbury on the Canso Strait in Cape Breton.

Click on right here to learn half two. 

And click on right here to learn half certainly one of Baxter’s sequence.

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2. One Affected person, One File

A smiling woman with her hair in a ponytail wearing a cream coloured blazer over a printed top.

Dr. Leisha Hawker, president of Docs Nova Scotia. Photograph: Contributed

“Think about having the outcomes of your bloodwork, X-rays, prescriptions, and medical historical past accessible on one computerized well being document that travels with you to appointments — whether or not in particular person or on-line — to see a household physician or a specialist, and which is able to stay accessible in case your physician retires and also you’re fortunate sufficient to seek out one other one. Science fiction?,” studies Jennifer Henderson.

Nicely, we could not should think about anymore! As Henderson writes, the Houston authorities is on the point of announce it would award a contract to an organization that can arrange digital well being data for each Nova Scotian. Henderson writes:

Dubbed “One Affected person, One File” (OPOR) the initiative goes all the best way again to December 2014, when the coverage was first accredited by the NDP Dexter authorities.

In an e-mail response to a request to interview a senior official accountable for OPOR, Well being Division spokesperson Khalehla Perreault stated, “We’re within the last phases of the procurement and can’t remark presently.”

Henderson takes take a look at why it’s taken years for the province award a young, however she additionally breaks down the patchwork of methods medical doctors now use for affected person data — and the dangers that include utilizing the present methods. Simply learn the part about how Dr. Leisha Hawker, a doctor and president of Docs Nova Scotia, offers together with her sufferers’ data with clunky and outdated methods.

Click on right here to learn her story (which is behind our paywall; you possibly can subscribe right here.)

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3. Writing about dwelling with ALS

A smiling Black woman in a wheelchair and bundled up with blankets. Next to her is a poster of the cover of her book, Writing with My Eyes: Staying Alive While Dying

Angela Parker-Brown on the e book launch of Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive Whereas Dying. Photograph: Matthew Byard

On the weekend Matthew Byard went to the e book launch for Writing With My Eyes: Staying Alive Whereas Dying, which was written by Angela Parker-Brown of Truro. Parker-Brown, who has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), wrote all the e book utilizing eye-gazing expertise. Byard writes:

Within the e book’s intro, Parker-Brown explains how she makes use of each an eye-gazing program and system to speak and write together with her eyes.

“This celebration shouldn’t be about me,” Parker-Brown stated utilizing the identical expertise she used to write down the e book. “It’s about all of us and our shared love of studying books, and about opening our minds to share the experiences of others. I usually say that it’s your encouragement that began me on the journey to write down this e book. It’s the fruits of that journey that brings us collectively at present.”

Click on right here to learn Byard’s story, which is an excellent learn.

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4. Making a tradition of consent

A graphic that says we do not live in a culture of consent. In the background is a photo of a dictionary definition of consent.

“We don’t dwell in a tradition of consent,” writes Ann de Ste Croix, coordinator of the Transition Home Affiliation of Nova Scotia (THANS), on this visitor commentary. de Ste Croix continues:

I used to be reminded of this reality when scrolling via the feedback of a information article criticizing the latest ruling by the Supreme Court docket of Canada that maintains that “stealthing” — the act of pretending to make use of a condom, or eradicating one previous to intercourse with out the companion’s consent — is sexual assault. Whereas this ruling offers additional authorized clarification on the difficulty of consent and condom use, it would sadly not handle the lack of expertise relating to what constitutes consent among the many inhabitants. These lively within the violence towards girls (VAW) sector witness the assorted ways in which this lack of knowledge manifests itself, is perpetuated, and causes hurt.

Click on right here to learn the article.

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5. ‘Frank’-ly, my pricey, I don’t give a rattling

A cartoon of a man in a coffin with the text "that's all Frankland!"

Frank Journal saying its personal demise.

Stephen Kimber writes about Frank Journal, which introduced its personal demise final week. However Kimber remembers the unique Frank Journal, and never the publication it turned:

When Frank first confirmed up on native newsstands 35 years in the past, it was a publication in contrast to any seen right here earlier than. And never simply in Nova Scotia. The closest equal was the British political satirical journal Personal Eyeon which it was loosely based mostly.

That in all probability shouldn’t have been shocking.

David Bentley is the British ex-pat journalist behind the unique Frank.

He was additionally — it’s price acknowledging — the conceiver-in-chief of at present’s allnovascotia.com and its still-growing assortment of allsomewhere.com enterprise information web sites, the late lamented Halifax Day by day Information and its prequel Bedford-Sackville Weekly Informationto not overlook a few of his extra forgettable adventures like Who’s Information“an area Toronto Individuals factor” that failed to seek out traction amongst Torontonians and Fleura managed circulation trend tabloid that lasted only a few points again within the early Nineteen Seventies.

Bentley, in brief, is that uncommon factor — a journalist who was additionally an entrepreneur and dedicated to being good at each.

Frank, to be frank, was a fortuitous accident.

Click on right here to learn Kimber’s column.

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6. St Barbara and Canadian regulators

An aerial view of the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River shows the massive crater of the open pit, with the tailings pond and waste rocks piles in the distance behind. Photo: SImon Ryder-Burbidge

Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River, Nova Scotia. Photograph: Simon Ryder-Burbidge

We’ve taken Joan Baxter’s article, Canadian regulators giving Australia’s St Barbara what it desires, out from behind the paywall.

St Barbara Ltd, the Australian firm that owns Atlantic Gold / Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River and needs to open three extra mines on the Japanese Shore of Nova Scotia, appears to be having a run of terribly luck with regards to choices by authorities regulators on this a part of the world.

Final week St Barbara CEO Craig Jetson knowledgeable buyers that the Nova Scotia authorities had accredited a rise within the peak of its tailings facility on the Touquoy mine.

This resolution nervous teams involved in regards to the enlargement of gold mining within the province and authorities help for the trade, following Jetson’s go to to the province in Could, when — as Jennifer Henderson reported right here — the St Barbara CEO met with each Premier Tim Houston and Nova Scotia Atmosphere and Local weather Change Minister Tim Halman.

Halman additionally informed Henderson that his division had not too long ago employed two “enterprise relations officers” to supply corporations with “one constant level of contact.”

Now the federal authorities has additionally given St Barbara precisely what it has requested for.

Click on right here to learn Baxter’s article.

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A shout-out to the quiet folks in a world that received’t shut up

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Photograph: Unsplash

A number of years in the past in a newsroom the place I used to be working, the boss referred to as a group assembly. I used to be comparatively new at that job and that boss launched me as “the quietest particular person he had ever met.” He favored to level this out usually, which was impolite and embarrassing. Additionally, the job didn’t require fixed speaking, so I’m undecided why he felt the necessity to consistently say this (I’ve ideas on him that I’ll maintain to myself).

I’ve heard feedback all my life about being quiet. If you happen to’re a quiet, reserved particular person by nature, you’ve heard it, too. And at present I’m writing on behalf of quiet folks all over the place to let you know all: please shut up about this.

Quiet folks dwell in a world the place loud, talkative persons are usually thought-about to be extra assured, safer, extra gifted, extra enjoyable, and extra fascinating. In the meantime, quiet persons are usually considered insecure, boring, or incompetent; individuals who don’t have opinions or something fascinating to say. Quiet persons are additionally usually thought-about to be snobs or bitches (okay, generally we might be bitchy, identical to everybody else). And for some motive, quiet folks make others, like my former boss, uncomfortable.

Consider all of the unfavorable connotations that individuals join with being quiet. If there’s a information story a couple of assassin, what do the neighbours usually say? They have been so quiet.

After which there’s the road I’ve heard many instances: “It’s at all times the quiet ones you need to be careful for!” Once more, the implication is quiet persons are bizarre and as much as no good.

I received’t do a psychological evaluation of why persons are loud and really feel the necessity to speak on a regular basis, however we actually dwell in a world that encourages — and even appears to choose — people who find themselves at all times speaking. I wouldn’t wish to speak on a regular basis! That simply sounds exhausting.

It’s not even that I dislike every little thing that’s loud. I really like loud music at live shows, in my automobile, and in my home whereas I’m doing house responsibilities. I really like thunderstorm; the louder the higher.

In my job being quiet is a optimistic. I’m listener and observer. I’ve interviewed a whole bunch of individuals through the years, and I’m occupied with what they should say. I’m additionally by no means quick on story concepts and I feel it’s as a result of not solely am I innately inquisitive about every little thing, I additionally know when to be quiet, observing and listening to what’s taking place round me. I feel many quiet persons are the identical; we admire tuning out the chatter, and may hear for what’s most essential and fascinating.

After all, there are occasions once we all want to talk up. Like many individuals, for years I dreaded public talking, however in my 20s I realized this was really a talent you possibly can be taught, and now I take pleasure in public talking — if I do know what I’m speaking about. I’ve given displays, emceed occasions, and co-hosted a dwell radio present the place we (principally) informed dangerous jokes (that was the most effective half). And but, folks will nonetheless say to me how stunned they’re I might do such issues (some folks even get indignant that quiet persons are good at issues!) Once more, too many individuals equate quiet with incompetent.

A reader advised I take a look at the work of Susan Cain, writer of Quiet: The Energy of Introverts in a World That Can’t Cease Speaking. Introverts, like quiet folks, get loads of flak, too. Introverts are at all times informed to “be a part of the social gathering.” But, why don’t we inform extroverts to cease dominating the social gathering?

Cain has on her web site a quiz to seek out out for those who’re an extrovert or introvert. I used to be testing the questions for the quiz to be taught the place I’d match, and whereas I’m quiet, I wouldn’t say I’m a complete introvert. Whereas I do dislike small speak, and particularly gossip, I like each one-on-one conversations and group actions, I don’t have anxiousness round utilizing the cellphone, and once I’m not working at house, which I really like, I choose not being at house. I like getting out, going locations, and making an attempt new issues, even when I’m horrible at them.

As Cain writes on this article, many individuals’s introversion/extroversion falls on a scale, so there are calm introverts, anxious introverts, anxious (or impulsive) extroverts, and calm extroverts. Nonetheless, society equates introversion (and shyness) with unfavorable qualities. And introversion and shyness aren’t essentially the identical. Cain writes:

But when shyness and introversion are so completely different, why do we frequently hyperlink them, particularly within the widespread media?

A very powerful reply is that there’s a shared bias in our society towards each traits. The psychological state of a shy extrovert sitting quietly in a enterprise assembly could also be very completely different from that of a relaxed introvert—the shy particular person is afraid to talk up, whereas the introvert is just overstimulated—however to the skin world, the 2 look like the identical, and neither kind is welcome. Research present that we rank quick and frequent talkers as extra competent, likeable, and even smarter than sluggish ones.

And there are environments wherein being quiet is most well-liked. Australian musician Demi Louise shared a tweet wherein she scolded English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock for shedding his mood on a loud, talkative viewers member, and “severely abusing her in an intimidating manor (sic).” Hitchcock responded with this tweet, saying he has “zero tolerance” for anybody who talks at his present. “If you wish to take heed to them reasonably than me then by all means have your a refund. I hate shedding my mood in public, but when I’m provoked …” he wrote.

Happily, many commenters responded in help of Hitchcock. Ron Sexsmith wrote, “Good on you Robyn. It’s the worst feeling while you’re making an attempt to do your job and oblivious individuals who’ve paid however act such as you’re not even there yammer away. I normally say stuff like “Can I’ve much less of that desk in my monitor.” How I want extra settings have been like acoustic reveals and the expectations have been that individuals would simply hear and revel in!

And I’ve to say, being a quiet child might be tough. I feel mother and father who speak on a regular basis and who take pleasure in being the centre of consideration will need to have a tricky time understanding their quiet child who’s their exact opposite. I can attest that even some academics don’t “get” the quiet children, though they write on our studies playing cards we’re a “pleasure to have in school.” I requested my quiet child about this on the weekend and she or he agreed a few of her academics through the years favoured the louder, talkative college students.

When a child who’s quiet consistently hears from mother and father and academics that they’re too quiet and should “come out of their shell,” what they’re actually listening to is that they aren’t adequate. This isn’t solely unhelpful, however it may be extremely damaging. I feel we’re now higher at understanding that youngsters have other ways of studying. These quiet children are engaged and paying consideration. They doubtless do have questions in regards to the work, however have their very own methods of discovering out the solutions. And so they’re equally as competent as the youngsters who dominate the category with their enter. It’s good to encourage quiet children to take part in school, however I’m undecided many academics know the way to do that correctly.

Years earlier than I had that boss who identified I used to be the quietest particular person he knew, a mentor of mine stated I had “quiet dedication.” I favored that significantly better. It’s much more becoming.

So, to my fellow quiet folks: there’s nothing incorrect with you, so don’t let anybody persuade you in any other case. Now that I’ve stated my piece, you possibly can speak amongst yourselves. I’ll simply zip it and get again to work.

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Seen

In August, I wrote about Colin J. Muise, an area photographer and digital designer, who’s been creating costumes of well-known Nova Scotia landmarks and sharing images of him in these costumes. Muise has created costumes of the Peggy’s Cove lighthouse, the City Clock, and The Wave sculpture on the Halifax waterfront.

Throughout our interview, Muise informed me he was engaged on two new costumes, together with one of many smokestacks of Tuft’s Cove. However he determined to maintain the opposite one a secret, including he thought it might be a landmark nobody would count on.

Nicely, on the weekend Muise lastly shared his newest creation: one of many Purdy’s Wharf towers. The images have been shared on Halifax Noise.

 

A man dressed in a jacket with blue panels and fringe and wearing black boots poses in front of two waterfront office towers.

Pictures: Colin J. Muise

A closeup of a man dressed in a jacket with blue panels and fringe and wearing black boots poses in front of two waterfront office towers.

I’m wanting ahead to Muise’s different landmark costumes.

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Authorities

Metropolis

Tuesday

No conferences

Wednesday

Audit and Finance Standing Committee (Wednesday, 10am, Metropolis Corridor) — agenda

District Boundary Resident Overview Panel (Wednesday, 3:30pm, Metropolis Corridor) — agenda

Western Frequent Advisory Committee (Wednesday, 6:30pm, on-line) — agenda

Public Data Assembly – Case 23617 (Wednesday, 6:30pm, 711 Pockwock Rd, Higher Hammonds Plains) — Higher Hammonds Plains Land Use Designation Overview; extra data at this e-mail handle

Province

Veterans Affairs (Tuesday, 2pm, Province Home) — Psychological well being help for veterans and households, with representatives from the Workplace of Addictions and Psychological Well being, OSI Clinic, Temper Problems Society of Canada, CLANNAD, and Veterans Affairs Canada


On campus

Dalhousie

European Union: A Transformative Expertise (Tuesday, 10:05am, Room 217, Henry Hicks A&A Constructing) — Declan J. Walsh from College School Cork, Eire will converse

All for One, or One for all (Tuesday, 7pm, Tupper Medical Constructing) — a panel dialogue which is able to focus on “Can common well being care meet the wants of a various inhabitants?”


Within the harbour

Halifax
06:30: Siem Cicero, automobile provider, arrives at Autoport from Emden, Germany
06:30: Tropic Lissette, cargo ship, sails from Pier 42 for Palm Seaside, Florida
08:45: Carnival Magic, cruise ship with as much as 4,428 passengers, arrives at Pier 22 from Saint John, on a seven-day roundtrip cruise out of New York
16:30: Siem Cicero sails for sea
18:00: Carnival Magic sails for Sydney
19:30: Endeavour II, oil tanker, sails from Imperial Oil for sea
23:00: Ipanema Road, oil tanker, sails from Irving Oil for sea

Cape Breton
08:30: Radcliffe R. Latimer, bulker, arrives at Aulds Cove quarry from Sydney
09:00: Nieuw Statendam, cruise ship with as much as 3,214 passengers, arrives at Sydney Marine Terminal from Halifax, on a seven-day cruise from Boston to Quebec Metropolis
17:30: Nieuw Statendam sails for Charlottetown

 


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