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Archives for May 2020

12-year-old Damini Awoyiga makes masks, and writes poetry about the coronavirus

May 31, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Twelve year-old Damini Awoyiga is encouraging girls to be creative and to find their voice during the COVID-19 lockdown. A poet, singer, and award-winning author, Damini recently got a sewing machine. She says that sewing is an important skill for women whose bodies don’t always […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Damini Awoyiga, Feminism, Folake Awoyiga, Girls conference, masks, pandemic

Shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care

Our current crisis in long-term care, now in the spotlight because of COVID-19, is the result of lots of choices governments have made. We need a public inquiry to hold them accountable, and to make sure our long-term care future is better than its past.

May 31, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Choices? Crushing health care unions versus investing in long-term care? Slashing $8 million from the provincial budget for grants to long-term health care facilities versus investing in long-term care? Boasting about shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care? Cutting taxes for corporations versus investing...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: COVID-19, Long Term Care, Northwood, Stephen McNeil

Nova Scotia massacre: Did the RCMP “risk it out” one time too many?

May 30, 2020 By Paul Palango 6 Comments

Catharine Mansley was a Mountie for 24 years. In time her mind began to go from all the stress of being a RCMP patrol officer in Halifax County. She began drinking. When she complained about her problem to her supervisors, that just added to them. She was caught driving drunk twice. Convicted once, she went […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Catharine Mansley, Const. Heidi Stevenson, Councillor Wade Parker, Edgar MacLeod, Jim Bronskill, Mark Furey, mass murder shooting spree, Michael Gregory, Portapique, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Inquiry, RCMP

“Nature won”

Supreme Court ruling orders province to meet the obligations of the Endangered Species Act.

May 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

“Nature won.” That’s how retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft reacted to a judge’s decision on Friday which essentially orders the Department of Lands and Forestry to obey provincial law when it comes to protecting endangered, threatened, and vulnerable species. There are 60 plants and animals identified under Nova Scotia’s Endangered Species Act. But the judicial...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Blomidon Naturalists Society, Bob Bancroft, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), East Coast Environmental Law Association (ECELAW), Endangered Species Act, Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists, Halifax Field Naturalists, Jamie Simpson, Jeremy Smith, Justice Christa Brothers, Lahey Report on Forestry, Lisa Jarrett, Nature Nova Scotia, Richard Beasley, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Species at Risk Act, Western Canada Wilderness Committee

The pandemic diaries

Thousands of Nova Scotians are documenting their daily lives through the coronavirus crisis

May 30, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. What do you miss most about pre-pandemic life? What worries you? How do you feel about the reopening? Has the pandemic provided any silver linings?  These are just some of the questions being asked by St. Francis Xavier University psychology professor Karen Blair as part […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, diary study, Karen Blair, Kathryn Bell, LGBTQ, pandemic

For the first time since the outbreak started, Nova Scotia announces no new known cases of COVID-19

Gathering limits are increased from 5 people to 10 people.

May 29, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The first three known cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia were announced on March 15, for testing conducted the previous day. Every day since then, there have been announcements of more cases, with a one-day high of 55 new known cases on April 22. The […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: coronaviruus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, pandemic, physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil

Halifax heritage committee green-lights Kenny-Dennis, Acadian Recorder redevelopment

May 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee is recommending in favour of an addition to the historic Kenny-Dennis and Acadian Recorder buildings in downtown Halifax. Dexel Developments won the tender process to lease and develop the properties at 1724, 1730, and 1740 Granville St. from the provincial government, and posted the plan for what it calls the Press...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aaron Murnaghan, Acadian Recorder building, Dexel Developments, Freak Lunchbox, Heritage Advisory Committee, Jim Ballinger, Kenny-Dennis building, Press Block

Downtown Dartmouth renewal funding restored as council finishes COVID-19 budget adjustment list

May 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors voted to restore $2 million in funding for land purchases in downtown Dartmouth, along with money for three jobs related to the city’s climate change plan and two snow-shovelling programs at their budget committee meeting on Friday. The budget committee has been meeting nearly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: budget adjustment list, climate change, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, Downtown Dartmouth plan, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Water, Jane Fraser, Peter Duncan, property taxes, Sawmill River, sidewalk clearing, snow shovelling

Economists totally did not expect the global pandemic

Morning File, Friday, May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. RCMP and rural policing “The RCMP’s rural policing strategy has been for many years an ongoing disaster and a danger to the public in Colchester County, say two municipal councillors with law enforcement backgrounds,” reports Paul Palango: Most of the victims killed in the Nova Scotia massacre of April 18-19 lived in Colchester […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Business Minister Geoff MacLellan, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), coronavirus, COVID-19, Keynesian policies, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia economy, pandemic, provincial economic forecast, slow streets, Stephen Archibald and spring

New phone line helps monitor conditions in jails during COVID-19

May 29, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. A new phone line has been launched by East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS) to monitor conditions in provincial jails during the COVID-19 epidemic. Sheila Wildeman, Chair of the ECPJS, says that the line grew out of a planned project to monitor provincial jails. When […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, East Coast Prison Justice Society (ECPJS), Hanna Garson, Harry Critchley, NS prisons, pandemic, prisoners and coronavirus, Sheila Wildeman

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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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