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Archives for January 2017

Six steps for making the Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park a reality

January 31, 2017 By Chris_Miller 4 Comments

Several months have passed since Halifax Regional Council voted down a sprawling development proposal for the Birch Cove Lakes. That near-unanimous decision to save the future regional park was an important moment for the city. The mayor and councillors chose to listen to the public (1,420 letters were submitted, nearly all in favour of the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Birch Cove Lakes, Chris Miller, Diana Whalen, HRM regional plan, Tim Outhit

Hooray for our side: Morning File, Tuesday, January 31, 2017

January 31, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Hooray for our side “Hundreds gathered for a candlelight vigil Monday evening in Halifax’s Grand Parade in front of city hall to mourn those killed in a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque,” reports the Canadian Press. As with last week’s Women’s Marches and the widespread political demonstrations at US airports and town […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: American fascism, demonstration, Hooray for our side, NSTU, Quebec City mosque, Sherri Borden Colley, universities lawsuit, vigil

Judge rules for Sipekne’katik First Nation in Alton Gas case

But Justice Suzanne Hood's decision doesn't halt work on the project.

January 31, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has quashed a decision made by Environment Minister Margaret Miller last April. The Minister rejected a First Nations appeal of her department’s decision to proceed with the controversial $320 million dollar Alton Natural Gas Storage project near Stewiacke. The Sipekne’katik First Nation is concerned  about the potential impact on...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: development, environment, Indigenous

A Chronicle of errors

Is the Chronicle Herald, in fact, the shittiest daily newspaper in Canada?

January 30, 2017 By Russell Gragg 10 Comments

So here we are, one year into what may become the longest newspaper strike in Canadian history. The real reporters, editors, and photographers walking the picket line — those that haven’t accepted jobs elsewhere — may be demoralized, but it hasn’t translated into their content. You can still find excellent journalism at the Local XPress. Because that’s what […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: bad grammar, Chronicle Herald, shittiest newspaper, typos

How will you respond to fascism? Morning File, Monday, January 30, 2017

January 30, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

News 1. Fascism If you use the F-word, inevitably some people respond by saying “this isn’t fascism because unlike Hitler…” or whatever. But of course fascism in the 1930s was expressed in its own time; 80 years later, it will be expressed differently. Trump is a fascist, his government fits the dictionary definition of fascism, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anna Quindlen, Cory Bowles, Erica Baguma, facism, Hannah Arendt, Jacob T. Levy, Josh Jones, Laura Regan, Mary Tyler Moore, Ron Foley Macdonald, Thomy Nilsson

Another Monday in Chaos

It’s Monday. So it must be time for the latest zig in the zig-zaggy, twisty-turny, tortured tale of Stephen McNeil and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.

January 30, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

It’s Monday. So it must be time for the latest zig in the zig-zaggy, twisty-turny, tortured tale of Stephen McNeil and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union. On Friday afternoon, the union announced its 9,300 members would resume their work-to-rule job action today because — in the words of union president Liette Doucet — “we don’t...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: NSTU, Stephen McNeil, teachers strike

Cyber warfare is here to stay

“We don’t even know what cyber sovereignty is," says cyber security expert Gary Brown.

January 29, 2017 By Chris Lambie

When he addresses military audiences, Gary Brown often fields questions from soldiers who can’t see how cyber warfare is relevant to their lives. They’ll tell Brown, a professor of cyber security at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia, that they aren’t involved in cyber operations and can’t see why they should care about cyber warfare....

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: cyber attacks, cyber sovereignty, Gary Brown, Humanitarian Law Conference

Death, Monopoly, and Taxes: Morning File, Saturday, January 28, 2017

January 28, 2017 By El Jones 6 Comments

News 1. Death in Prison Last year at this time, I wrote about the Bell Let’s Talk  campaign, and how Bell has multi-million dollar contracts on federal prison phones that allow them to charge predatory rates to prisoners and their families. I pointed out in that article that we criminalize mental illness and use incarceration instead […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bell monopoly, CORCAN, death in prison, exploitation of prisoners, Ivan Zinger, Jean-Philippe Crete, migrant workers, Oxford Frozen Foods, phones in prison, prison pay scale, slave labour in prison, Syrian Refugees

Chronicle Herald death spiral: Examineradio, episode #98

January 27, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

On what is one of the longest episodes in Examineradio’s history, we devote almost the entire show to marking the auspicious occasion of the one-year anniversary of the Chronicle Herald strike. First we speak with veteran arts reporter Stephen Cooke about the cautious optimism surrounding the current round of negotiations between the union and management and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Journalism Tagged With: #BellLetsTalk, Examineradio, HST, NSTU, podcast

The parking violation death sentence: Morning File, Friday, January 27, 2017

January 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. HST hit to Nova Scotia Yesterday, I linked to Charlottetown Guardian reporter Teresa Wright’s bombshell that Atlantic provinces are being told to return “hundreds of millions” of dollars of miscalculated HST payments back to Ottawa. I wrote: Wright doesn’t put a dollar figure on the amount Nova Scotia owes, but assuming that the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: automated stop announcements, Bob Bjerke, Halifax Transit, Kyle McCracken, NS owes HST, Randy Delorey, Susan Bradley, Teresa Wright, The parking violation death sentence

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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