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Archives for June 2019

Where are the women in the Nova Scotia workforce?

Morning File, Friday, June 28, 2019

June 28, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 10 Comments

News 1. Neighbours speak up about short-term rentals Alexander Quon at Global has a good piece on the short-term rental market in Nova Scotia. Quon interviewed Bill Stewart who lives in the Hydrostone and who’s frustrated with some of the problems coming from the short-term rentals on his block. Stewart says there’s a “string of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, Black Battalion Historical Marker Society (BBHMS), CBC building, HRM Workforce Report, Jill Grant, phone scam, Preston Mulligan, Robert Devet, rooming houses, Shelter Movers, Sherry Borden Colley, short term rentals, women in the workforce, Yvette d'Entremont

Climate change is killing the right whales

Morning File, Thursday, June 27, 2019

June 27, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Why aren’t Cabot Links or Ben Cowan-Dewar registered as lobbyists? “You would have to be completely foolhardy to question the brain trust that has formed to support spending public money to build an airport in Inverness but foolhardy’s my middle name so — hold my beer,” writes Mary Campbell for the Cape Breton Spectator: […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 4th Estate, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Boris Worm, Brenda Large, Cabot Links airport, Cesar Lalo, climate change, lead pipes, lobbying, Michael MacDonald, Patrick MacDougall, Richard Woodbury, right whale death, Sean Brilliant, Shelburne School for Boys, William Shrubsall

If you live on the Halifax peninsula or in Dartmouth inside the Circ, you’re probably drinking water out of lead pipes

Morning File, Wednesday, June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Windsor Exchange Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler takes a look at the promised upgrades to the Windsor Exchange: Transport Canada’s press release makes no mention of transit or active transportation, but seems to keep the focus on moving vehicle traffic and freight: “This work includes realigning the Bedford Highway, upgrading Lady Hammond Road […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dead right whale, Elizabeth McMillan, Halifax Water, housing affordability, Katelyn MacLeod, Labour Department, lead pipes, Neptune TG, rent in Halifax, workplace deaths, Zane Woodford

Iain Rankin promises big changes in forestry management, but the province is moving slowly

June 26, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Give Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin credit for trying. Last November, Rainkin accepted all 45 recommendations from Bill Lahey, a former deputy environment minister and university president hired to figure out how to make Nova Scotia forests healthier and more productive. Lahey’s recommendations were aimed at improving   biodiversity and reducing the amount of...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andy Kekacs, Bill Lahey, Bill Oprel, Biodiversity Act, biomass, clearcutting on Crown lands, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Emera, Forest Management Guide, Lahey report, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners & Operators Association, Port Hawkesbury Paper, Ray Plourde

Redesigning the Windsor Exchange: if we get it right, it could be great

June 25, 2019 By Erica Butler

Sometimes government makes an announcement, and even though you know it’s ages from reality, and will probably be announced and re-announced many times hence, you simply can’t help but get excited at the possibilities. Such is the case with the announcement by Transport Canada earlier this month that the federal department will help fund a...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: active transportation, Africville, Africville Park and National Historic Site, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, CAO Jacques Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, Eliza Jackson, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Karen Oldfield, MP Andy Fillmore, Port of Halifax, Transport Canada, Windsor Street Exchange

The convention centre property tax bill for this year alone is $3.6 million more than expected

Morning File, Tuesday, June 25, 2019

June 25, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. After the Gold Rush: the toxic legacy “If learning from past mistakes were a government tradition in Nova Scotia, the current government would not be exhibiting all the symptoms of gold fever,” writes Joan Baxter.” But it is, and it looks like a raging bout of the affliction.” Baxter goes on review the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Convention centre, councillor Waye Mason, Graham Larkin, Halifax Convention Centre, Jean Laroche, Michael Gorman, MLA Alana Paon, Neil Young, Newbridge Academy, PC leader Tim Houston, Strategic Road Safety Framework, Vision Zero, Zane Woodford

After the gold rush

Nova Scotia is ignoring the toxic legacy of past mining manias while rushing headlong into the next

June 25, 2019 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

If learning from past mistakes were a government tradition in Nova Scotia, the current government would not be exhibiting all the symptoms of gold fever. But it is, and it looks like a raging bout of the affliction. In the past few years, it has amended legislation based on recommendations made by the industry’s cheerleader-in-chief, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: 2012 Geological Survey of Canada, Adele Poirier, arsenic from mining, arsenic in well water, Arsenic Task Force, Atlantic Gold, Bruce Nunn, Christian West, Cooper Quinn, cyanide, Department of Energy and Mines, Donald James, Dustin O’Leary, Enfield, Gary Andrea, George O’Reilly, gold mining, gold rush, Gold Show, grants for mineral exploration, Historic Gold Mines Advisory Committee, historic mines tailings sites, IAMGOLD, Jacob Hanley, James Millard, John Wightman, Linda Campbell, Lisa Jarrett, Lori Blackburn, Magnum Resources, mercury, Mineral Resources Development Fund (MRDF), Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Mining Society of Nova Scotia, Montague Mines, Moose River gold mine, Osprey Gold, Perry MacKinnon, Prospectors and Developers Association Convention (PDAC), Prospectors Association of Nova Scotia, Rick Horne, Sean Kirby, St. Barbara Limited, tailings, tailings dams, Touquoy mine, Waverley

It won’t be loading passengers any time soon, but the Alakai ferry has returned to Yarmouth

Morning File, Monday, June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Steve Craig “It is way too early to read anything of significance from a single constituency byelection in the muddling middle of any government’s mandate,” writes Stephen Kimber. “But let’s give it a shot…” Click here to read “The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless.” This article is for subscribers. Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Air Canada, Alakai, Allie Jehle, BDS movement, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Craig Kennedy, Dalhousie Student Union, Erin Moore, Greg Wright, Halifax Against Hate, Icarus Report June 24 2019, Jo Castillo, land title initiative, MLA Alana Paon, national citizens alliance, Nazis, Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Sandra Hannebohm, Sherri Borden Colley, Tiffani Adams, Yarmouth ferry

The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless

It is way too early to read anything of significance from a single constituency byelection in the muddling middle of any government’s mandate. But let's give it a shot...

June 23, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

“Steve Craig won the byelection for MLA in Sackville-Cobequid… The district has long been solidly NDP, so a PC victory is notable, but I wouldn’t read too much into it.” —Tim Bousquet June 19, 2019 Tim is right, of course. It is way too early to read anything of significance from the political leavings in...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: NDP leader Gary Burrill, Next Nova Scotia election, Sackville-Cobequid byelection, Stephen McNeil, Tim Houston

The Lantz interchange, Richard Butts, and suburban sprawl

Morning File, Friday, June 21, 2019

June 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Yarmouth Ferry is a bust “Nova Scotia Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan admitted under questioning from reporters following a Cabinet meeting Thursday that the province has no idea if or when the Yarmouth ferry will operate this summer,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “Certainly we are worried about this season and our tourism operators,” said Minister […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armco Capital Inc, Clayton Developments, Doug Barron, Francis Campbell, Lantz interchange, Minister Geoff MacLellan, New Riders of the Purple Surf, Richard Butts, Shaw Group Ltd, sidewalk clearing RFP, stadium, Yarmouth ferry

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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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