Beth MacLean is an intellectually disabled middle-aged woman who spent 35 years in institutions, including more than four years in a locked-down psychiatric unit of the Nova Scotia Hospital known as Emerald Hall. She is currently living at Quest in Lower Sackville waiting for placement in a group home. A decision filed with the Nova...
The Ivany Report set a target of a $4 billion tourism industry in Nova Scotia by 2024. We’re nowhere near that. Now what?
Despite making significant progress in attracting more visitors and generating $2.6 billion in revenue last year, the province’s tourism industry is still a long way from the goal of $4 billion by 2024 envisioned by the Ivany Report five years ago. “We’re updating our strategy which we are calling The Second Half,” Judy Saunders told...
Feeling blue? Go to the purple house
Morning File, Friday, November 29, 2019
One of the stories I think the Examiner has covered best recently is the Northern Pulp saga. As Joan Baxter pointed out last week, deadlines are looming — both the December 17 deadline for the Department of Environment’s decision on the environmental assessment for the proposed pipe, and the January 31 deadline for Northern Pulp […]
Health Authority hits re-set button
Four years after the amalgamation of nine separate district health authorities into one centralized organization known as the Nova Scotia Health Authority, the responsibility and the money for running hospitals and health programs will shift to senior managers in four zones — North, South, Eastern, and Western. The oversight for ensuring consistency and planning will...
Central Nova MP Sean Fraser: Don’t change Boat Harbour Act
Even if Northern Pulp’s controversial new effluent treatment plant gets the green light from the Nova Scotia Department of Environment next month — a decision less likely after concerns voiced to the province by five federal departments have been made public — it looks next to impossible for the replacement for Boat Harbour to proceed […]
Bad math at Lands & Forestry
An "arithmetic error" increased the cut for the WestFor timber companies by a whopping 28% — until the Halifax Examiner discovered the mistake.
In what can only be described as a peculiar series of events, the Department of Lands and Forestry is cancelling the third year of an interim lease signed with WestFor Management Inc. WestFor represents 13 forestry companies which are allocated wood from Crown land in southwestern Nova Scotia previously managed by Bowater Mersey. Back in […]
Environmentalists say logging companies are rushing clearcuts near Lake Deception before new forest regulations come into effect
Environmental groups are pushing back against three proposed cuts in a rural area near Lake Deception north of Shelburne. The cuts are on Crown land allocated to 13 companies in the WestFor group, which includes Northern Pulp, Louisiana Pacific, Ledwidge Lumber, and Harry Freeman & Sons. These “variable retention” cuts (a forest industry euphemism for...
AirBnBs increase housing costs for everyone, says urban planning prof
“It’s not the number of short-term rentals in a neighbourhood that affect how people feel about AirBnBs,” a McGill University researcher told a crowd of 120 people at the Central Library last evening. “It’s whether short-term rentals make their own housing situation worse by raising rents or forcing people to move elsewhere.” Urban planning professor […]
Tidal power update: new legislation clears way for three new projects, but a tidal power industry is still “decades” away
The dream of commercializing renewable energy from the world’s largest tides got a new lease on life last week. The Nova Scotia government amended a law to give three tidal developers permission to pursue the goal. The first project to test the powerful tidal waters of the Bay of Fundy, a $20 million-plus venture between...
UARB approves fracking explosives assembly site in West Hants
A remote corner of the municipal district of West Hants has been rezoned so its American owner, Halliburton Partners Canada, can manufacture “perforation equipment” used in offshore oil and gas exploration. Since February, Halliburton — the largest provider of “fracking” services in the world — has been storing explosives used in the oil and gas...
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