“It’s not the number of short-term rentals in a neighbourhood that affect how people feel about AirBnBs,” a McGill University researcher told a crowd of 120 people at the Central Library last evening. “It’s whether short-term rentals make their own housing situation worse by raising rents or forcing people to move elsewhere.” Urban planning professor David Wachsmuth is … [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 charity established to restore Canadian … [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 Becky from Lockeport. I said what I … [Read More...]
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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 pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I'll keep it short. We need your … [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 years in its current form he thought it was time for a review to ensure the system continues to follow best practices…” CBC … [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 that as I neared the end of Jeremy Lent’s latest book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for … [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...]
“We need guts”
News 1. Power back on after being cut for incident in South End NS Power cut power to thousands of residents in the … [Read More...]
Halifax in two acts: The Hotel Barmecide
News 1. Crowns Writes Stephen Kimber: After a crazy week of blind-siding legislation, insults, distortions, bluster, … [Read More...]
Tidal power update: new legislation clears way for three new projects, but a tidal power industry is still “decades” away
The dream of commercializing renewable energy from the world’s largest tides got a new lease on life last week. The Nova … [Read More...]
The Crown attorneys are singing a new tune now that the Neoliberal state is attacking them
On Friday, lawyers for the province's Crown attorneys and for the government met in court as the government pursued an … [Read More...]
Stephen McNeil and the Crowns: Magic realism meets reality
So let us review. On Mar. 31, 2019, the collective agreement between Crown prosecutors and the Nova Scotia government … [Read More...]
Stephen McNeil’s austerity philosophy: if only everyone were paid less, we’d all be rich
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Nova Scotia government doubles down on gold mining
There were moments during last week’s “Water Not Gold” rally outside the Alt Hotel at the Halifax airport where the “Gold … [Read More...]
UARB approves fracking explosives assembly site in West Hants
A remote corner of the municipal district of West Hants has been rezoned so its American owner, Halliburton Partners Canada, … [Read More...]