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Is your school safe to reopen? Don’t ask your lapdog Liberal MLA

Why do we bother to elect members of the legislature to represent us if they won’t, or can’t, or, most certainly, don’t?

August 30, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. So, my question today is this: Why do we bother? Why do we bother to elect members of the legislature to represent us if they won’t, or can’t, or, most certainly, don’t? Let’s start with the latest iteration of the Fangless Five Space Wasters, which […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House Tagged With: accountability, COVID-19 and politics, Fangless Five

Parents, teachers’ union voice concerns about Back to School plan

August 27, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Four representatives of the Nova Scotia Parents for Public Education group joined forces with the Nova Scotia Teachers Union today at a news conference to plead for improvements to the province’s Back to School plan. “Is our Back to School Plan good enough to keep […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News

As school reopening plans proceed, the Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education attempts to muzzle teachers

August 26, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 4 Comments

The president of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union says an email message sent to all staff who work for the Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education (CCRCE) is an attempt to muzzle concerns raised by teachers and other staff about safely returning to school.  The Chignecto Central area covers 67 schools from Elmsdale north to […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House

Union leaders: Schools could be ‘match that lights the second wave’

August 19, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 5 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. With less than three weeks before schools reopen in Nova Scotia, union leaders representing public education system workers are calling on the province to provide answers to their concerns about the return to school plan.  “What happens if a student gets sick? What happens if […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House

Halifax withholding millions in education funding in fight with provincial government

August 14, 2020 By Zane Woodford 5 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The municipality is withholding $14.5 million in education funding in the wake of its COVID-19 budget crunch, arguing it shouldn’t have to pay for a service that wasn’t provided in the last few months of the 2019-2020 school year. Along with its property taxes, Halifax […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Education, Featured, News, Province House

Protesters call for removal of NSCAD board, reinstatement of fired president

August 13, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Dozens of people gathered in Granville Mall on Thursday to call for the removal of NSCAD’s board of governors and the reinstatement of its former president. Former NSCAD president Dr. Aoife Mac Namara was fired without a publicly-stated reason (“personnel matters”) in late June after less than a year in the role. In that short […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News

Parents, teachers say Nova Scotia needs a plan for outdoor learning

July 31, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Getting kids outside and into nature to learn has plenty of benefits, but some parents and teachers say they’re not sure how outdoor classrooms and outdoor learning, which the province is encouraging in its back-to-school plan, could work this upcoming school year. Stacey Rudderham is […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, Cam Collyer, coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Doug Hadley, Evergreen, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) privacy breach, outdoor classrooms, outdoor learning, pandemic, return to school plan, social distancing, Stacey Rudderham, Violet MacLeod

Anti-Black racism in schools: still a long way to go

July 24, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

On June 11, Andrea Marsman posted a question to the Black Educators Association Facebook page: HAS ANYONE IN NOVA SCOTIA EXPERIENCED or WITNESSED “ANTI-BLACK RACISM” in the SCHOOL SYSTEM?? AS A STUDENT? TEACHER? ADMIN? EPA? STUDENT SUPPORT WORKERS? PARENT? OUR POWER IS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR COLLECTIVE VOICE!!!!!!!!! Marsman is past-president of the Black […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Education, Environment, Featured, Investigation, Journalism, Log in, News, Province House

Back to school plan is released

July 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province has released its Back to School plan. (Click here to read it.) There are three scenarios mapped out in the plan: Full Reopening, a “blended” model, and At Home Learning. Full Reopening The intention is that all schools will fully open on September […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Andrew Lynk, Dr. Robert Strang, IWK, pandemic, school reopening

Churchill: our schools will open 100 per cent… unless they don’t

It's easy to understand why the government's school-opening plan is still more hope than certainty. What's less easy to understand — or forgive — is its business-as-usual secrecy, which has created unnecessary anxiety among students, parents, teachers and business.

July 19, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It’s hard not to sympathize with those charged with deciding whether and how to re-start the province’s public schools. There are the many known unknowns, of course, but there are also too many unknown unknowns, not to mention — or forget — all the unthinkable […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19 and public schools, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Government secrecy

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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