Environmental groups are pushing back against three proposed cuts in a rural area near Lake Deception north of Shelburne. The cuts are on Crown land allocated to 13 companies in the Westfor group, which includes Northern Pulp, Louisiana Pacific, Ledwidge Lumber, and Harry Freeman & Sons. These “variable retention” cuts (a forest industry euphemism for land on which … [Read More...]
Bad news for local journalism
News 1. Torstar shuts down StarMetro newspapers The Toronto Star is closing down all of the StarMetro newspapers across the country, including the The Star … [Read More...]
Steal Away Home: Eddie Carvery’s protest and the value of Black life
This Saturday, I took a guest speaker to Africville. Black people across the world have heard of the destruction of the community, and they always want to make a … [Read More...]
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A place with islands to give away
You can't be everywhere at once. That's why I'm thankful for the Halifax Examiner's Jennifer Henderson. If I'm regretting not being able to go to this public meeting or that important announcement, Henderson has been, and can tell me all about it in … [Read More...]
Northern Pulp owes the province $85 million
Philip Moscovitch told me yesterday that I buried the lede when I announced a couple of weeks ago that I've been hired by the CBC to write and host a podcast series about the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. So here it is right in the lead (let … [Read More...]
Mining for (public) dollars
In the beginning, by which I mean 2007, there was the Mining Association of Nova Scotia, also known as MANS, an appropriate acronym for an industry lobby group with a 17-member board of which 15 are men. It should be said, however, that MANS is not … [Read More...]
Physician assistants? It shouldn’t be that hard. Really
A September announcement that the province’s health department plans to launch a new pilot project to road-test the use of … [Read More...]
The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters
November subscription drive Once again, I'm running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris … [Read More...]
AirBnBs increase housing costs for everyone, says urban planning prof
“It’s not the number of short-term rentals in a neighbourhood that affect how people feel about AirBnBs,” a McGill University … [Read More...]
Secrecy is a feature, not a bug
News 1. More fisheries mismanagement The environmental group Oceana Canada, which describes itself as "an independent … [Read More...]
HRM women: Hell no, we don’t want a stadium
November subscription drive Last week, I talked about Phil Moscovitch and a piece he wrote for a Morning File in July about … [Read More...]
Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport
November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got … [Read More...]
Waiting for Fitch: the much-delayed consultant’s report you may never get to see in full
“Last week the government issued a tender for a system-design review of Emergency Health Services. The minister said after 25 … [Read More...]
The Climate Emergency
Previously in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. It’s not often that I root for the anti-hero in a book, but it seems … [Read More...]
The long, bizarre, and costly journey of the knife used to convict Glen Assoun
November subscription drive When I learned about the Glen Assoun case in 2014, I sat down and read the 1999 court … [Read More...]
Street checks: there’s not much hope for change
This month, Nova Scotia passed a law banning street checks – but what will change? Even before Retired Justice Michael … [Read More...]
Drink lead, kid
November subscription drive Stephen Kimber has been around the Examiner for so long, it's easy to take his weekly columns … [Read More...]
It’s Living Wage Week!
November subscription drive Phil Moscovitch and I worked on some of the same publications for years. We only met in person … [Read More...]
Windsor Halloween display opens generational wounds of racist violence
African Nova Scotian community members in Windsor, Nova Scotia say they are facing harassment after speaking out about … [Read More...]
Are anti-vaxxers meeting with your MLA?
November subscription drive It's getting frosty out there, which means its the time of year when we at the Examiner take a … [Read More...]
Maritime Launch Services and its private/public servants
It’s not the first time I’ve waded through many hundreds of pages of correspondence released by a government under a FOIPOP … [Read More...]
Truly, no one much takes this supposed climate emergency seriously
November subscription drive Through the Halifax Examiner's first couple of years, I wrote Morning File every day. Then, the … [Read More...]
Whose deaths matter?
Why do the Liberals continue to get it so wrong even when they seem to be trying to get it right? Early last month, for … [Read More...]
The Halifax Examiner subscription drive: what your support funds
November subscription drive It's that time again: a month when we unceasingly plead for new subscriptions. To be fair, … [Read More...]
Birds of a feather attack together
News 1. Whitman running for mayor Matt Whitman is running for mayor in next year’s municipal election. Zane Woodford … [Read More...]
More jerks who pay less than a living wage
News 1. The Climate Emergency We've taken the first two parts of Linda Pannozzo's four-part "The Climate Emergency" … [Read More...]