Dear Mayor Savage and Halifax Regional Municipality Councillors, Welcome to Council! To the new members: welcome; to the incumbents: welcome back. It’s your first week, it’s 2020, and we’re in the midst of a generation-defining pandemic. Thank you for your service. We’re counting on you. Councillors, we are a group of Dalhousie University researchers who […]
What 2020 has been like for the Halifax Examiner
Morning File, Monday, November 2, 2020
What a year. Because our annual subscription drives are in November, this is the time of year when I look back and consider the growth of the Examiner and think about the future. I started the Examiner in the summer of 2014, and it was at first a one-man operation. I was shocked at the […]
How the Justice Department is attempting to whitewash the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun
Morning File, Friday, October 30, 2020
News 1. New council “The new regional council was sworn in at a socially distanced ceremony at the Halifax Convention Centre Thursday night, ushering in a more diverse era of municipal politics in the city,” reports Zane Woodford: There were fewer than 100 people at the event in the big ballroom at the convention centre […]
It can take up to 10 days to get COVID test results in Nova Scotia
Morning File, Wednesday, October 28, 2020
News 1. Police Review Board hearing continues “The supervisor in charge of a Halifax Regional Police officer who arrested a Black man after he was found in a city park after hours said he was shocked to learn the incident had ended in arrest, but he said the constable was right to demand the man’s […]
The self-isolation requirement for travellers is working
Morning File, Monday, October 26, 2020
Note: We’re gearing up for the annual Halifax Examiner November subscription drive. This year, we’re going to put together an “Ask Us Anything” session, where readers can ask us whatever they want about the Examiner and our work. (If you don’t know what an Ask Me Anything is, read here.) Philip Moscovitch has agreed to […]
Stephen McNeil’s former chief of staff Kristan Hines lobbied for tourism relief program benefiting Cabot Links; neither Hines nor Cabot are registered lobbyists
Morning File, Friday, October 23, 2020
News 1. Inquiry “Reports from the public inquiry into the Nova Scotia mass shooting are due in 2022, and a third commissioner has been appointed to conduct the inquiry, the federal and provincial governments announced on Thursday,” reports Zane Woodford: In a news release, the two levels of government announced Kim Stanton — a lawyer […]
The Tideline, episode 2: Tara Thorne with Aquakultre
Episode 2 of The Tideline with Tara Thorne will be published tomorrow (Thursday) morning; a teaser: This week, Tara catches up with hip hop artist Lance Sampson aka Aquakultre, who’s been poised for a big year since winning CBC Searchlight in 2018, only to find his release date smack in the middle of quarantine. […]
There’s not much to say, so here’s a cool video of Jupiter
Morning File, Wednesday, October 21, 2020
News 1. The Goldboro Gamble, Part 2 Yesterday we published the second part of Joan Baxter’s two-part “Goldboro Gamble” series. In Part 2, Baxter shows how and why Canadian and German environmentalist activists are coming together to oppose the proposed Nova Scotian liquified natural gas plant. For example, writes Baxter: Andy Gheorghiu is a policy advisor […]
Can we have a fuller conversation about racism?
Morning File, Monday, October 19, 2020
News 1. Arrests in violent attacks The RCMP announced two arrests over the weekend related to the violence in Southwest Nova Scotia. The first arrest was related to the attack on Chief Michael Sack: RCMP charge man with assault of Chief Sack October 17, 2020, New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia…Meteghan RCMP have laid charges in relation […]
Police are being criminally investigated for their involvement in the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun, but there is still no investigation into the unsolved murder of Brenda Way
Morning File, Friday, October 16, 2020
News 1. Investigating cops, and non-investigating cops Yesterday, at the post-cabinet scrum with reporters, Justice Minister Mark Furey told me that the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) has agreed to investigate police action related to the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. Last month, SIRT Director Felix Cacchione told me that in his opinion the Assoun […]
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