News 1. COVID-19 update: Three new cases and the AstraZeneca vaccine The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Tim Bousquet has the COVID-19 update. Three new cases were announced on Wednesday. Two of those cases are in the Central Zone. The third is in the […]

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Lauren Mills heard about volunteering at the pop-up testing site at the convention centre from a friend from university. Mills lives downtown and has some free time, so last week she signed on to help. She got […]

News 1. Ferry management fee This item is written by Tim Bousquet. $1.17 million per year. That’s the amount of the management fee the province of Nova Scotia pays Bay Ferries for operating the Yarmouth ferry — and for three years running, for not operating the ferry. That $1.17 million is over and above all […]

News 1. Postcards from the edge of a clearcut This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Lands & Forestry Minister Derek Mombourquette is getting a lot of mail these days. More than 5,000 barn-red postcards featuring a stylish moose on the front and a plea to stop clearcutting on Crown land have been distributed over […]

News 1. Lisa Banfield seeks to keep court records sealed This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, the lawyer for Lisa Banfield filed a motion in provincial court to keep certain records secret. Some quick background: After the mass murders of April 18/19, the RCMP made about 25 applications to the court for search […]

News 1. New development proposed for former Penhorn Mall location Zane Woodford reports that Clayton Developments Ltd. and Crombie REIT are looking for a development agreement for the lands in Dartmouth where the old Penhorn Mall was located.   Woodford writes:  It’s the first half of the planned redevelopment of the area, with the existing commercial space — a Sobeys […]

News 1. Two and a half years later, Nova Scotia Power still hasn’t revealed the “root cause” of the Tufts Cove oil spill Jennifer Henderson got a look at a report by auditor Bates White into fuel costs at Nova Scotia Power.  Henderson reports there were no “fireworks” in the audit, but it did uncover […]

News 1. Jen Powley: Turn the convention centre into affordable housing Writer and advocate Jen Powley takes a look at some of the ways the province could solve the issue of affordable housing. Powley talks about how Sydney, HRM, Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, Truro, and Wolfville could come together and ask the feds for money to build affordable housing, […]