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 Note: the province will no longer release daily case figures on the weekend, so this daily article will likewise not run on weekends. Nova […]
Lawsuit claims SaltWire used the pandemic as an excuse to fire 6 long-term Charlottetown employees and replace them with lower-paid workers
Morning File, Friday, July 23, 2021
News 1. Incels “A Dalhousie University sociologist who researches the incel community says it’s important for us to know more about them, their misogynistic views of women, and the dangers of their online harassment spilling over into real world violence,” reports Yvette d’Entremont: “When I started looking at their websites, it was very interesting on […]
Nova Scotia announces 1 new COVID-19 death and zero new cases on Thursday, July 22
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 A woman in her 50s has died from COVID-19. She lived in the Halifax area; she is the 93rd person to die from the […]
Delving into the online world of incels
"The level of hatred that they have for women is something that I still find shocking, even a couple of years into it," says Dalhousie University sociologist whose team is researching internet discussion forums for incels and how their "extreme and hostile” misogyny spills over into the real world.
A Dalhousie University sociologist who researches the incel community says it’s important for us to know more about them, their misogynistic views of women, and the dangers of their online harassment spilling over into real world violence. “There’s not a ton of research on this, which is surprising to me because a lot of people […]
For Jerry Granelli, music “was what he did. It was him. There was no separation.”
Morning File, Thursday, July 22, 2021
News 1. Candidates (mostly) oppose South Shore open-pen fish farms Candidates in the riding of Chester-St. Margaret’s appeared at a forum on fish farming held outside the Blandford Community Centre yesterday. The event was organized by two groups opposed to fish farms on the South Shore, the Twin Bays Coalition and the Healthy Bays Network, […]
Liberal candidate Jacob Killawee tried to sell himself as a critic of the aquaculture industry, but potential voters weren’t buying
Jacob Killawee, the Liberal candidate for the riding of Chester–St. Margaret’s, tried yesterday to sell himself as a critic of the aquaculture industry, but a skeptical audience of potential voters wasn’t buying. Killawee appeared outside the Blandford Community Centre with the other three candidates for the riding — Jessica Alexander (Green), Danielle Barkhouse (PC), and Amy […]
Search warrant served on CKF plant in Hantsport, target of federal environmental investigation
A pulp plant in Hantsport that manufactures paper plates (Royal Chinet) and egg cartons out of recycled fibre is being investigated by officials with Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC). Federal officials and RCMP officers armed with search warrants rolled up at the CKF Inc. Factory in unmarked vehicles on July 14 and proceeded to seize...
What are Paper Excellence’s real plans for Northern Pulp?
This week two men presented the company’s plans for a “complete transformation” of the the mill at a special Pictou Town Council meeting. They faced persistent questions and made some telling comments that do not bode well for Nova Scotia.
Paper Excellence is on a desperate charm offensive in Nova Scotia, trying to build “trust,” get support to refit and re-open its Pictou County Northern Pulp mill, make people believe that the company has somehow transformed itself overnight, and convince us all to forget its many egregious environmental, social, and political transgressions and bullying tactics....
7 new cases of COVID-19 over 2 days are announced in Nova Scotia on Wednesday, July 21
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 seven new cases of COVID-19 today, Wednesday, July 21; the new cases cover the two-day period of Monday, July 19 and […]
Vanishing Halifax
Morning File, Wednesday, July 21, 2021
News 1. For the first time in Nova Scotia election history, all the candidates in one riding are Black In Monday’s Morning File, Tim Bousquet introduced readers to the Examiner’s newest reporter, hired through the Local Journalism Initiative, Matthew Byard. Byard (whose last name coincidentally rhymes with “hired”) has been brought on to cover African […]
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