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Old people in prisons are facing a COVID-19 “death sentence”

April 5, 2020 By Moira Donovan Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Since COVID-19 arrived in Canada, Mary’s phone has become a source of dread. When it doesn’t ring, she’s on edge, thinking the worst for her elderly father. But when she does get a call, she fears it’ll be the one where someone from Joyceville Institution […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Adelina Iftene, coronavirus, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), COVID-19, Elizabeth Fry Society, Emma Halpern, handwashing, pandemic, prisoners and coronavirus, social distancing

Bridging the digital divide: “I know more than 100 people who don’t have a phone”

April 3, 2020 By Moira Donovan Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Even at the best of times, Canada’s so-called ‘digital divide’ prevents millions of people from easily accessing the information they seek. But amid the situation created by COVID-19, advocates and service providers in Halifax say those without access to internet and phone services have lost […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Adsum House, coronavirus, COVID-19, CRTC, digital divide, internet access, Laura Tribe, Michelle Malette, Mobile Outreach Street Health (MOSH), national broadband, OpenMedia, pandemic

Crowded beaches underscore the lack of coastal access

When the pandemic is over, and Nova Scotians can once again go to the beach, do they want to do so in a way that repeats the scenes of mid-March — with the majority crowding together at a handful of public sites — while private landowners dictate access everywhere else?

April 1, 2020 By Moira Donovan 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As COVID-19 forces people to re-consider basic aspects of their lives — work, school, the role of government — there’s a question particular to Nova Scotia to contemplate: How easily, in a coastal province, we can actually access the ocean? Two weeks ago, as normal […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: beaches, Chris Trider, climate change, Coastal Protection Act, coastal strategy, Cole Harbour-Lawrencetown Coastal Heritage Park System, coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Lawrencetown, Nancy Anningson, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), pandemic, Premier Darrell Dexter, social distancing, surfing, Surfing Association of Nova Scotia, Tony Charles, Vic Ruzgys

Refugees caught in health care Catch 22

November 2, 2015 By Moira Donovan

If you’re on income assistance in Nova Scotia, you’re eligible for pharmacare – unless, that is, you’re a refugee claimant. The Department of Community Services’ Employment Support and Income Assistance policy contains misleading information on medical expenses for refugees, says Gillian Zubizarreta, Settlement Coordinator at the Halifax Refugee Clinic. As a result, she says, Department...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Gillian Zubizarreta

The latest neo-liberal buzzword: Resiliency

September 1, 2015 By Moira Donovan

How academics at Dalhousie University unwittingly started a movement that punishes people for being poor and says capitalism is the solution to all our problems. How did this gaggle of liberals measure this mental toughness of resilience? One common tool to measure resilience is called the Children and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). The CYRM-28 is a 28-item questionnaire...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only

Will Nova Scotia take environmental racism seriously?

July 29, 2015 By Moira Donovan

Indian Brook used to have the best water for miles around, said Dorene Bernard. But no one likes to drink it now. The change came in 2012, when the community’s water table was contaminated by digging at the nearby Nova Scotia Sand and Gravel pit. The community was issued a do-not-drink advisory, and the Department...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only

International Students Give N.S. Universities a Failing Grade

May 16, 2015 By Moira Donovan

At the public consultation on universities that took place in the Fall of 2014, international students participating in a consultation session in Halifax were asked whether they would recommend the province’s universities to peers in their home countries. The answer was a resounding ‘no,’ according to students who attended the session. “Many of them said that the amount of...

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Mapping the Social Arctic

May 15, 2015 By Moira Donovan

For most, it’s hard to imagine a harder environment to navigate than the Arctic. 19th century British explorers certainly thought so; British ships trying to find the Northwest Passage were frequently trapped or destroyed by the ice, including Sir John Franklin’s doomed vessel, recently discovered in the waters off King William Island in Nunavut. But what if...

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Convoluted Regulations Prevent Students from Accessing Income Assistance

May 11, 2015 By Moira Donovan

A student in Dalhousie’s Transition Year Programme has had her income assistance cut by the Department of Community Services, prompting the Dalhousie Student Union and community groups to call on the government to revise the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act. Section 67 of the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act states that anyone attending...

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Racist Graffiti a Symptom of Systemic Problems at Dalhousie

May 8, 2015 By Moira Donovan

When Kalkidan Gebre found graffiti on a desk in Dalhousie’s Killam library reading “no n*****s allowed #whitepower”, her first response after taking a picture was to scratch it out. She didn’t want anyone else to stumble across it and experience the same shock she had, and in any case she didn’t think anything would come...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dalhousie

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PRICED OUT

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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

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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