News 1. Motor Vehicle Act "The province has put out an open call for input on a new Traffic Safety Act to replace the much-amended and much-maligned Motor Vehicle Act (MVA)," writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: The call-out is remarkably open ended, simply asking people to read over the current MVA and “tell us what changes we should consider to the … [Read More...]
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How would you change the rules of the road?
The province has put out an open call for input on a new Traffic Safety Act to replace the much-amended and much-maligned Motor Vehicle Act (MVA). The call-out is … [Read More...]
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Now that the Leibovitz collection tax scam has failed, the Nova Scotia government is going to pay Leibovitz $2.3 million
News 1. Fool's Gold, Part 2 The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator have co-published the second instalment of Joan Baxter's investigation into mining … [Read More...]
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Fool’s gold
A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the second in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. Going for gold The CEO and chairman of Vancouver-based Atlantic … [Read More...]
Side guards on trucks will save lives, but the trucking industry is hiring pricey lawyers to oppose them
News 1. Side guards On Monday, November 17, 2008, 27-year-old Jaclyn Hennessey left the Tim Horton's on Barrington Street (now a Starbucks) and was walking quickly southward, across Sackville Street, trying to beat the changing light. Just … [Read More...]
The company behind the proposed Canso spaceport is lobbying the federal government for funding
News 1. Nova Scotia's looming oil-drilling disaster Canadian regulators have failed to reduce the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-like blowout at BP's deep-sea well on the Scotian Slope, and the company plans to respond to a blowout with an … [Read More...]
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Hijacking “reasoned debate” for right-wing noise at MSVU
Mount Saint Vincent University grappled this month with a complex web of issues that will feel uncomfortably familiar to … [Read More...]
I toured the Burnside jail, and then asked prisoners what they thought
On Tuesday morning, I attended the media tour of Burnside jail with Tim. Tim summarized the tour this way: This was a PR … [Read More...]
Nova Scotia’s looming oil-drilling disaster
When BP named its exploratory well in the Mississippi Canyon the Macondo Prospect after the doomed fictional town of Macondo … [Read More...]
Disasters, environmental and otherwise
News 1. The FOIPOP security failure Yesterday, Allnovascotia.com reported that, through a Freedom of Information … [Read More...]
How Loblaw is using Instacart to screw workers
News 1. Fool's Gold Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator published the first instalment of "Fool's … [Read More...]
Fool’s Gold
A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. Part 1: Welcome to the Gold Rush There’s a 21st century gold rush … [Read More...]
Halifax to Gdynia, Poland: “Let’s just be friends”
News 1. Biometrics at the jail Yesterday morning, the provincial Corrections department opened up part of the Burnside jail … [Read More...]
Ben Cowan-Dewar has got the government financing mojo
News 1. Cabot Links Cabot Links has received a $2 million loan to "expand resort operations" from the Atlantic Canada … [Read More...]
Don’t Smile Be Happy
News 1. From who me to #metoo Writes Stephen Kimber: In which Stephen McNeil continues to be Stephen McNeil, dismissing … [Read More...]
Desmond Cole Reads the Local News
Desmond Cole is in Halifax this weekend, keynoting at the Media and the Law conference. At around midnight on Saturday after … [Read More...]
From who me to #metoo
Why am I not surprised? Last Monday, Halifax police dropped all charges against the 19-year-old they’d arrested less than … [Read More...]
Examineradio 157: unionizing the people who do the necessary work
This week we interview Darious Mirshahi, an organizer with the Service Employees International Union, about his … [Read More...]
What we know about the security failure
I'm a panelist at the Media and the Law Conference this morning, and as usual I'm having to spend the last hours before the … [Read More...]
The world’s top expert on deep sea drilling disasters worries about “the relatively high likelihoods” of a blowout at BP’s Scotian Shelf operation
News 1. Blowout Antonia Juhasz, who is an energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil, has … [Read More...]
Understand how Andy Fillmore derailed a plan to demolish the Cogswell Interchange and you’ll understand how we got the Nova Centre
News 1. The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator's exposé on the security failure Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner … [Read More...]
BREAKING: Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure
Highlights of this article: • Provincial government employees who were made aware of the security failure with the Freedom … [Read More...]
How we obtained the search warrant documents
Here's how we obtained the documents. First, a quick primer on search warrants. To get a search warrant, police have to … [Read More...]
Brown-bagging it old school style at the liquor store
News 1. Charges dropped in security failure case In a short press release issued yesterday — which still manages to confuse … [Read More...]
Which crazy religion is Halifax Mayor Mike Savage promoting this week?
News 1. The offshore will make everyone rich Writes Stephen Kimber: "Many international companies believe we have … [Read More...]
Politicians’ snake oil hopes and dreams meet economic, environmental reality
You can draw a neat, straight line. Start with the October 5, 1971, front page of the Halifax Chronicle Herald, with its … [Read More...]