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Archives for January 2020

Minimum wage increase is both too much and not enough

Morning File, Friday, January 31, 2020

January 31, 2020 By Katie Ingram 12 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Joan Baxter reviews the new ministerial orders requiring environmental monitoring of the pumping of wastewater from Northern Pulp Mill into Boat Harbour as the mill winds down operations. Baxter finds that the orders are appropriately stringent, however: As the Halifax Examine reported here, in October 2018, the pipeline sprung a large […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Barbara Darby and Airbnb, Becky Dingwell, car explosion Quinpool, coronavirus, Dalhousie Student Union, Elizabeth McSheffrey, John McPhee, Luc Erjavec, Marcel Tarnogorski, Marie-France LeBlanc, Megan MacBridge, mental health walk in clinic, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Leo Glavine, Museum of Natural History, NDP leader Gary Burrill, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia minimum wage increase, parking garage Summer Street, Premier Stephen McNeil, transit safety, Wanderers Ground

The province issues tough new orders to Northern Pulp

January 31, 2020 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Wednesday afternoon at 3:59 PM an email landed in my inbox. It was from Nova Scotia Environment and it was short, even terse: Environment Minister Gordon Wilson has issued a ministerial order to govern how Northern Pulp must conduct its orderly shutdown of the mill, today, Jan. 29. The ministerial order and terms and conditions […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Boat Harbour Act, Boat Harbour Effluent Treatment Facility (BHETF), Brian Hebert, Environment Minister Gordon Wilson, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp effluent, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachel Boomer, William Palmer

Fifteen years in, Nova Scotia might just fix tax assessment inequities

Morning File, Thursday, January 30, 2020

January 30, 2020 By Erica Butler 14 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp confirms extension to April 30 News 95.7 has reported on a Northern Pulp announcement stating the company has received permission from Nova Scotia’s Minister of the Environment to be able to continue discharging into Boat Harbour until the end of April 2020. New pulp processing waste is still not allowed, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Boat Harbour, Brett Bundale, Capped Assessment Program (CAP), Elizabeth McSheffrey, French River watershed, Laura Fraser, Lionel Desmond, Louise Delisle, Margaret MacQuarrie, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp extension, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM), Pam Berman, Paul Palmeter, property tax assessments, Shelburne well, Sobeys bag, Tatamagouche water supply, Westmount

How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital

January 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armoyan Group, Bengal Lancers, Centre Plan, councillor Waye Mason, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Partners for Care, Paula Bond, QE2 redevelopment, QEII redevelopment, Victoria General Hospital (VG), Wanderers Grounds

Surplus cash could help Halifax council avoid tax hike

January 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Larger than expected growth in property assessments and a budget surplus could help Halifax regional councillors avoid a tax rate increase for the year ahead. Chief financial officer Jane Fraser presented updated financial numbers to council’s budget committee on Wednesday. Fraser told councillors her office has now reviewed the final 2020 assessment numbers, and the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: city budget surplus, Jane Fraser

The cruelty of a cashless society

Morning File, Wednesday, January 29, 2020

January 29, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. City HR department lies about progress in implementing recommendations to address racism and discrimination A staff report that came to council yesterday says the city drastically overstated progress being made on implementing the recommendations of a 2016 report on the racism faced by Black municipal workers. Zane Woodford reports: A few months after […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea McGuire, Carolyn Ray, cashless ban, Charles Inglis, Communities, Communities Culture and Heritage (CCH), coronavirus, councillor Waye Mason, Craig Steven Wilder, David Banfield, ditch tax, Emily Lawrence, Francis Campbell, Halifax Water, Kim Hart Macneill, King's College and slavery, Mark Hodgins, Megan McBride, Nicole Munro, North End Community Health Centre, parking garage Summer Street, Premier Stephen McNeil, QEII redevelopment, SALT, scratch and sniff, slavery in Halifax, The Bus Stop Theatre, universities and slavery

Halifax HR department overstated progress in implementing recommendations from report on anti-Black racism

January 28, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city drastically overstated its progress in implementing the recommendations from a 2016 report that found rampant anti-Black racism in the municipal workforce, leaving one councillor wondering whether the city has done anything since to address discrimination. Last year, the department reported that 87.9% (79) of the 90 recommendations from the Employment Systems Review, or...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Black city workers, Caroline Blair-Smith, Councillor Lindell Smith, Employment Systems Review, Municipal Operations Programs (MOPS)

Parking in the park: Halifax council wants public presentation on controversial Halifax hospital parkade

January 28, 2020 By Zane Woodford

After the provincial government released a tender for its controversial hospital parkade, regional council wants a presentation on the plan to build on the city’s land. The province wants to build a seven-storey, 900-space parkade next to the Museum of Natural History on Summer St. as part of the QEII Hospital project. The new parkade...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bengal Lancers, councillor Waye Mason, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Wanderers Grounds

Here’s the best map of Cape Breton

Morning File, Tuesday, January 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Lionel Desmond inquiry “Two days before former soldier Lionel Desmond used a rifle to fatally shoot three members of his family and then kill himself, his wife Shanna told him to leave their home in rural Nova Scotia after a heated argument, a fatality inquiry heard Monday,” reports Michael MacDonald for the Canadian […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea MacIvor, councillor Waye Mason, gunshot wound Digby, intimate photos, Lionel Desmond, map of Cape Breton, Mary Campbell, Matthew Bowes, Michael MacDonald, Pam Berman, parking garage Summer Street, Tim's Mom

Unearthing the city’s buried history

Morning File, Monday, January 27, 2020

January 27, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. New street checks almost the same as the old Stephen Kimber writes how even after a ban on street checks and an apology from the police chief, the practice still goes on. As former police officer Maurice Carvery says, “they haven’t stopped; they only changed.” This article is for subscribers. Please subscribe. 2. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), Carrie Low, Chris Miller, Chris Trider, Darlene Gilbert, David Jones, Eastern Battery, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Fort Clarence, Grafton Park, Grassroots Grandmothers Circle, Imperial Oil refinery, Jennifer Copage, Jonathan Fowler, Justice John Bodhurtha, Lori MacLean, Madonna Bernard, Matt Spurway, Memorial Library, Michael Gorman, MP Sean Fraser, Owls Head Park, Paula Isaac, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Ray Larkin, Robert Grant, shooting Chisholm St, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik, Stephen Archibald and Poor House Burying Ground, Supreme Court Justice Suzanne Hood, Transportation and Public Works (TPW), two spaces, vehicle pedestrian collision report

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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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