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Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world

Morning File, Wednesday, June 29, 2022

June 29, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission: letter to RCMP Commissioner critical of political pressure during investigation Jennifer Henderson has the latest story from the Mass Casualty Commission. Last week, Henderson and the Halifax Examiner broke a story that suggested the head of the national RCMP, at the behest of the federal Liberal Party, potentially compromised an […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: automatic transmisson, CAA, Colorado Avalanche, Corvette, driving, electric vehicles, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Europe, Ferrari, Halifax Crescents, hockey, Joe Malone, Lambourghini, Long Shots: The Curious Story of the Four Maritime Teams that Played for the Stanley Cup, manual transmission, Memorial Cup, Moncton Victorias, Mooseheads, Nathan MacKinnon, New Glasgow Cubs, New York Times, NHL, Nova Scotia, Stanley Cup, Sydney Millionaires, Trevor J. Adams, Volkswagen

Last Hope camp wraps up time at Beals Brook after province scales back planned cut

June 23, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

On Tuesday, a group of citizens who set up camp off a remote dirt road near Highway 10 in Annapolis County back in December declared partial victory, believing enough of the area was now under provincial protection. The group, which had spent 202 days at the site, enduring the elements, including blizzards and knee-deep snow, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Annapolis County, Beals Brook, Black-Foam, clearcuts, Crown land, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Frances Anderson, Frosted Glass, Highway 10, Last Hope camp, Last Hope Campaign, lichens, Nina Newington, Nova Scotia, Randy Neilly, rare lichens, shelterwood cut, WestFor, Wrinkle Shingle

Taking the first steps on the drastic plastic problem

Morning File, Wednesday, June 22, 2022

June 22, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 7 Comments

News 1. RCMP Commissioner tried to “jeopardize” mass murder investigation to advance federal gun control efforts The latest string of shootings south of the border, Uvalde and Buffalo chief among them, has stirred up the same debates in the United States this past month. More gun control versus freedom to live (and die) as Americans […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: American Beauty, Baccaro Point, Barrington Municipality, Cineplex, CTV, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax Regional Municipality, health care, housing, Jennifer Henderson, Jonathan MacInnis, Kathy Johnson, Kevin Spacey, Lauren Ferris, Lolita, MACPASS, Mai Rabson, parking, parking meters, plastic bags, plastics ban, SaltWire, shoreline cleanups, single-use plastics, The Canadian Press, Tim Bousquet, Transport Canada, Ukraine, Wi-Fi, Zane Woodford

ArriveCAN app: little health benefit, big costs for Canadian travellers

Morning File, Wednesday, June 15, 2022

June 15, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Halifax approves plan for designated tent sites; police will handle situations as last resort “The last thing that we want to do, the very last thing that we want to do, is physically remove anyone from their site,” Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella told the municipality’s councillors Tuesday. “I think we’ve all […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: anxiety, ArriveCAN app, border crossing, Canada, Canadian border, Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), CBC, climate emergency, COVID-19, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Greater Niagara Chamber of Commerce, passports, proof of vaccination, terrorist attacks, Toronto, travel, United States, van attack, Yonge Street, Yvette d'Entremont

Dear diary: honest notes from a journaling journalist

Morning File, Thursday, June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 1 Comment

News 1. MCC: RCMP communications and a costly 27 minutes From Tim Bousquet’s latest report on the Mass Casualty Commission: By 7:30am on Sunday morning, the RCMP were aware that the killer had not been found and the he might have a car that looked exactly like an RCMP cruiser. At 8am, Halifax police obtained […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: airport travel, airports, Bristol Airport, COVID-19, Diary, Ethan Lycan-Lang, George Stigler, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, John Mulaney, journal, journaling, Kitty Hawk, Pearson Airport, Ryan Whitney, Wright Brothers

Overexposed: put down the camera and enjoy the experience

Morning File, Tuesday, June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 3 Comments

News 1. The burning question: why did police fail to alert the public about the killer’s fake cop car? From Jennifer Henderson this morning:  Two years ago last April, health care workers Heather O’Brien and Kristen Beaton were killed in their cars on the Plains Road near Debert by a gunman posing as a police […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: affordablility, cameras, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, cost of living, Ethan Lycan-Lang, everything sucks, food insecurity, gas prices, housing, inflation, interest rates, iPhones, life, milk, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, photography, privacy

Losing their religion: Newfoundland’s Catholic churches face atonement

Morning File, Thursday, June 2, 2022

June 2, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang Leave a Comment

News 1. More Nova Scotians are leaning on food banks to get by As grocery bills keep climbing, more Nova Scotians than ever are going to food banks, reports Yvette d’Entremont. Speaking before the provincial public accounts committee Wednesday, Feed Nova Scotia’s executive director, Nick Jennery, said inflated food prices aren’t causing the spike. “The […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Catholic church, church, Eisner Cove, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Planifax, Port Wallace, reconciliation, Sandy Lake, special planning areas

Should we be betting on gambling advertising in sports?

Morning File, Tuesday, May 31, 2022

May 31, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

News 1. Residents: Dartmouth Cove shouldn’t be turned into a “dump” Earlier this month, Zane Woodford reported on an application from 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd. and owner Bruce Wood to use a piece of property off the shore of Dartmouth — a water lot in Halifax Harbour — as a dumping ground for rock from […]

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Public importance of private woodlots

Morning File, Wednesday, May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Public importance of private woodlots This item was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang. There’s been a lot of discussion about how we manage our forests in this province; forests that are both disappearing and deteriorating in health. Ask most biologists, environmentalists, and non-industry foresters and they’ll tell you “discussion” is all there’s been when […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Kekacs, bike lane, Claudia Chender, CoVaRR-Net, COVID-19, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Globe and Mail, Karen Gatien, Karla Jessen Williamson, Lahey report, Moira MacDonald, Northern Pulp, Not Just Bikes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners, Patricia Amero, private woodlots, Raymond Plourde, residential schools, Silvicultural Guide for the Ecological Matrix, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Toronto Islands, urban design, vaccine hesitancy, Western Woodlot Services Cooperative, William Lahey, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today

Morning File, Thursday, May 19, 2022

May 19, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 6 Comments

News 1. Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé to resign Halifax’s highest paid employee will be stepping down at year’s end. As Zane Woodford reports, Jacques Dubé, Halifax Regional Municipality’s chief administrative officer for nearly six years, will resign at the end of 2022. The news was shared in a release from the HRM. “Since September 2016, […]

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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