Starting this week, we have new feature here at the Halifax Examiner. It’s called Weekend File. Every week, the Examiner publishes plenty of articles from our reporters, plus new content in Morning Files. We know you’re busy and don’t have time to read all of them each day, so we’re putting the week’s work together […]

News 1. Mapping the money continues Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson added more spending announcements to the “It’s raining money in Nova Scotia” map. As Bousquet writes, there’s been $78,254,000 in new spending announcements since June 7. In a Twitter thread, Bousquet shared this electoral map produced by the CBC after the last election and […]

News 1. Mapping the money  It’s raining money in Nova Scotia! The map above shows all the new money — $59,314,000 — the Rankin government has showered around the province since June 6. The map does not include $36 million in additional spending since March, when the the provincial budget was approved; that COVID-related […]

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Nova Scotia announced six new cases of COVID-19 today (Saturday, June 19). Four of the new cases are in Nova Scotia Health’s Central Zone […]

News 1. Lawsuit alleges police failures during Nova Scotia’s mass murder Jennifer Henderson reports on what’s ahead this October for the families whose loved ones were killed in the mass murder in April 2020. This October is when the Mass Casualty Commission will start its public inquiry, but as Henderson writes, its the same month […]

News 1. COVID-19 update Tim Bousquet was away for a well-deserved weekend off, so I filled in on the COVID updates. A total of 30 new cases of COVID-19 were announced on the weekend: 18 new cases on Saturday; and 12 new cases on Sunday. As of Sunday, there were 204 active cases in Nova […]