News 1. Council considers tougher penalties on landlords for egregious behaviour At yesterday’s meeting, Councillor Waye Mason, long a champion of licensing landlords, proposed tougher penalties for landlords who deliberately make their properties uninhabitable in an attempt to force out tenants. As usual, Zane Woodford covered the meeting for the Examiner. He writes: Mason brought […]
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Great books shouldn’t be medicinal
Morning File, Friday, November 27, 2020
Today’s Morning File provides a nice summation of why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner. A deep dive into what the future holds for the lobster fishery, three stories on COVID-19, including Yvette d’Entremont’s remarkable piece on the little understood “long haulers” — people who experience effects of the disease for months on end […]
Riding the second wave
Morning File, Monday, November 23, 2020
News As Tim Bousquet said on Friday, when you get to this stage of the Halifax Examiner annual November fundraising drive you start running out of things to say. We have a lot to get to this morning, so I will keep this short. I want to say a few words about how Bousquet reacted […]
Dreaming our way through the pandemic
Morning File, Monday, November 16, 2020
We are heading into the last couple of weeks of the annual Halifax Examiner subscription drive, and I want to say a few words about longer investigative pieces. Any news outlet will carry a mix of stories: you’ve got news, you’ve got opinion, sometimes you’ve got comics and crosswords too. And there are investigations. Investigative […]
Cruising down the Sandwich River
Morning File, Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Before we get to the news and views and such, allow me to point out that we are in the midst of the Halifax Examiner’s annual subscription drive. (Subscribe!) By subscribing or renewing now, you allow the Examiner to plan for the year ahead. This venture is entirely funded by subscription and donation — planning […]
Invest in Killam to offset your rent increase
Morning File, Thursday, November 5, 2020
November marks the Halifax Examiner’s annual subscription drive — the time of year when we give you a behind-the-scenes look at the Examiner, point out some of the great things about this publication (sometimes people call it a newspaper, which I kind of like), and urge you to please subscribe so we can keep doing […]
Selling your credibility is a bad idea
Morning File, Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Every November, the Halifax Examiner holds its annual subscription drive. Your subscriptions are what keep this enterprise going. The breaking stories, the opinion pieces, the first-person essays, the sharp commentary, the Morning Files — none of this would happen without your subscriptions. There are no ads, there is no branded content, there are no grants. […]
Lock your doors and make sure to post about it on social media
Morning File, Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Note: As Tim Bousquet mentioned yesterday, in lieu of our annual subscribers’ party (not happening because of COVID-19), the Examiner is taking the opportunity to have some fun and answer questions from readers. We’re taking questions until October 31. After that we’ll record a special podcast in which Bousquet and the rest of the Examiner […]
Reading, from books to Coffee News
Morning File, Tuesday, October 20, 2020
News 1. Goldboro LNG plant: no guaranteed loans, no definite source of gas Yesterday, the Examiner published the first installment of Joan Baxter’s new two-part series on the proposed LNG plant near Port Hawkesbury. In the intro to the piece, called “The Goldboro Gamble,” Baxter writes: Not much about the project’s prospective financing and gas […]
On with the show
Morning File, Wednesday, October 14, 2020
News 1. Meet the new health boss, same as the old health boss Jennifer Henderson covers yesterday’s provincial cabinet shuffle, focusing in particular on Leo Glavine’s re-appointment to the health portfolio, which he previously held from 2013-2017. As part of his job, Glavine inherits the long-term care mess. Henderson writes: There are currently more than […]
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