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Weekend File

All the articles we published from May 16 to 20, 2022.

May 21, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday   Monday, May 16 1. The Bar Society’s governing council — ‘We’re supposed to be lawyers?’ The saga at the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society seems to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Weekend File May 21 2022

Last week tied the record for weekly COVID deaths in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Friday, May 20, 2022

May 20, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. COVID Twenty-four people died from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia last week (May 10-16) — that ties for the highest weekly death toll with the week ending April 25. The 24 deaths by age cohort: • Under 50: 0 • 50-69: 2 • 70+: 22 The weekly Epidemiologic Summary reads: “Of the 24 deaths […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File

National study to assess pandemic’s health impacts, potential long-term effects of COVID-19

May 19, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

About 8,000 blood test kits and surveys are being mailed to Nova Scotia households as part of a national study to assess the pandemic’s health impacts and potential long-term effects of the virus. “This will give us a better view overall of how Canadians have fared and what they’re bringing forward into the future and […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News Tagged With: Canadian COVID-19 Antibody and Health Survey, COVID-19, COVID-19 Immunity Task Force, Dr. Catherine Hankins, infection-acquired antibodies, long COVID, McGill University School of Population and Global Health, Public Health Agency of Canada, SARS-CoV-2, Statistics Canada, vaccine-induced antibodies, Yvette d'Entremont

NSTU president concerned about conflict as province announces end to mask mandate in schools

May 19, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The head of the union representing the province’s teachers says while members appear evenly split over the removal of mandatory masking in schools, there are concerns teachers will bear the brunt of family’s frustrations over the province’s decision. “You can strongly recommend (masking), but as soon as you remove the word mandatory, I think we’re […]

Filed Under: COVID, Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Becky Druhan, COVID-19, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Dr. Joanna Holland, IWK Health Centre, mask mandate, masking, Nova Scotia schools, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), pandemic masking, Paul Wozney, Yvette d'Entremont

Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today

Morning File, Thursday, May 19, 2022

May 19, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 6 Comments

News 1. Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé to resign Halifax’s highest paid employee will be stepping down at year’s end. As Zane Woodford reports, Jacques Dubé, Halifax Regional Municipality’s chief administrative officer for nearly six years, will resign at the end of 2022. The news was shared in a release from the HRM. “Since September 2016, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Coun. Waye Mason, Cst. John MacLeod, Globe and Mail, Halifax Regional Police, homelessness, HRM, John Doyle, monarchy, P.A.D.S. Community Network, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, Royal Family, Sally Rooney, Starr Park, Vicky Levack

Dartmouth man charged with wilful promotion of hatred

May 19, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Mark Andrew Kozlowski of Dartmouth is facing criminal charges of wilful promotion of hatred. The charges stem from a complaint to Queens District RCMP in September 2020 about a sign outside of a cottage that read Redneck Hangout and had an image of a noose. On Labour Day weekend 2020, Angela Bowden, who is Black, […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotians, Angela Bowden, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Mark Andrew Kozlowski, Matthew Byard, RCMP, Wilson's Equipment Ltd.

“Representation matters”: Vince Williams talks about the inaugural CFL Officiating Academy training camp

May 18, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

This past weekend in Toronto, the CFL held its training camp for the upcoming 2022 season for league officials who referee CFL games. It was also the first training camp attended by participants of the inaugural CFL’s Officiating Academy, which was announced earlier this month. Vince Williams of Halifax and Anthony Williams from Dartmouth are […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Education, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotian, Atlantic University Sport, Black Nova Scotians, Canadian Football League, CFL, Football Canada, Football Nova Scotia, Maritime Football, sports, Vince Williams

Developer wants to clear trees early at fast-tracked Dartmouth development sites

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

Clayton Developments has applied to “enable early tree removal and earthworks” at two of its special planning areas in Dartmouth — the Port Wallace and Eisner Cove lands. The provincial government’s housing task force identified the two properties as special planning areas in March, along with seven others in the Halifax area. That means they […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Politics, Province House Tagged With: A.J. Legrow Holdings, Andrew Bone, Bill Zebedee, Clayton Developments, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth, Eisner Cove, Halifax Regional Council, Housing for the Halifax Regional Municipality Act, Housing Minister John Lohr, Jared Dalziel, Joan Baxter, Lake Charles, Mount Hope Avenue, Port Wallace, Southdale, special planning area, Zane Woodford

Property owner applies to infill Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

The federal government is seeking public feedback on a proposal to infill the Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove, and the councillor and MP for the area aren’t impressed. 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd., owned by Bruce Wood, applied in March to fill its 2.7-hectare water lot, PID # 00114132 or 1 Parker St., with rock from […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd, Bruce Wood, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth Cove, Fisheries Act, King’s Wharf, Mill Cove, MP Darren Fisher, pyritic slate, Zane Woodford

Halifax chief administrative officer Jacques Dubé resigns

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 7 Comments

Halifax’s chief administrative officer is resigning. Jacques Dubé will leave the role at the end of 2022, the municipality announced in a news release on Wednesday. Dubé will “continue his duties over the next six months and assist with the eventual transition process,” the municipality said. Mayor Mike Savage praised Dubé in the release. “Jacques’ […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Amanda Whitewood, Bob Bjerke, CAO Jacque Dubé, Clayton Developments, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Mayor Mike Savage, Richard Butts, Zane Woodford

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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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Recent posts

  • Weekend File May 21, 2022
  • Last week tied the record for weekly COVID deaths in Nova Scotia May 20, 2022
  • National study to assess pandemic’s health impacts, potential long-term effects of COVID-19 May 19, 2022
  • NSTU president concerned about conflict as province announces end to mask mandate in schools May 19, 2022
  • Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today May 19, 2022

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