The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia has announced eight new cases of COVID-19 today (Sunday, June 13). Of today's new cases, four are in Nova Scotia Health's … [Read More...]
So… Nova Scotian
It all seems, well, so … Nova Scotian. Let’s begin way back in the late 1960s and early seventies when a local developer named Ben McCrea cobbled together various … [Read More...]
10 new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia on Saturday, June 12
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1 new death, 8 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Friday, June 11
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories A man in … [Read More...]
How Ralston MacDonnell cheated the taxman, moved NSCAD to the Port, and got a lucrative Port contract along the way
News 1. Acadians go to court "The organization representing the province’s Acadians has filed a notice of motion with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court as part of their decades-long attempt to secure an electoral riding in the Chéticamp area of … [Read More...]
15 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Thursday, June 10
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Acadians go to court in bid for a Chéticamp electoral riding
The organization representing the province’s Acadians has filed a notice of motion with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court as part … [Read More...]
Life after lockdown: where does the time go?
News 1. The Harvest Plans Map Viewer, and other attempts at "transparency" in Nova Scotia's forestry Here’s a story … [Read More...]
Public engagement, future of the forestry, and the Harvest Plans Map Viewer
In December 2020, Mike Lancaster was invited to attend an online meeting of the Western Region Stakeholder Interaction … [Read More...]
Committee recommends in favour of one Dartmouth development, defers another
One Dartmouth developer ticked a box on Wednesday, while another will have to wait. The municipality's Design Advisory … [Read More...]
13 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Wednesday, June 9
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The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools
News 1. Gold and silver awards for Examiner contributors at the Atlantic Journalism Awards Congratulations to the … [Read More...]
Bill C-10 and the future of Canadian content in broadcasting, on the internet
Maureen Parker has put in a dozen years of "prep and work and lobbying and money, and sweat and tears" in an effort to get … [Read More...]
Five Little Indians: calling Canadians to account
Spurred by reports about the remains of Indigenous children found on the grounds of a former Indian Residential School in BC … [Read More...]
Park name changes, parking for free, roadside memorials, and more: Halifax council roundup
Cornwallis Park is now officially Peace and Friendship Park. Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of the … [Read More...]
IWK chief of psychiatry: Distress calls, eating disorders up, but no overall changes in admission rates
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Halifax councillor wants staff report on municipality’s use of polygraph testing
Coun. Shawn Cleary wants a staff report on the municipality's use of polygraph testing for employment screening. At the … [Read More...]
17 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, June 8
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The story of NSCAD president Aoife Mac Namara’s firing is as bad as we thought
News 1. Kayla Borden "Kayla Borden wasn’t just complaining about the two officers who handcuffed her last summer," … [Read More...]
Meet the African Nova Scotian woman doctor who is fighting vaccine misinformation one post at a time
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Kayla Borden’s lawyer says this is what systemic racism looks like
Kayla Borden wasn't just complaining about the two officers who handcuffed her last summer. She was complaining about the … [Read More...]
14 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Monday, June 7; Strang recommends people who got first dose of AstraZeneca get a second dose of mRNA vaccine
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What shouldn’t go back to “normal?”
News 1. COVID-19 update Tim Bousquet was away for a well-deserved weekend off, so I filled in on the COVID updates. A … [Read More...]
Fitch Report showing some results
Three months ago the Liberal government announced several changes designed to reduce ambulance wait times at overcrowded … [Read More...]
12 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Sunday, June 6
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Free speech and ‘really good conversation:’ Opportunities to teach and to learn
I used to think of myself as a free speech absolutist. I still do, mostly. But I’m now a little less absolute in my … [Read More...]