• Black Nova Scotia
  • Courts
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transportation
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

Weekend File, July 2, 2022

All the articles we published from June 25 to 30.

July 2, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

  Welcome to our 52nd Weekend File! One year of weekly article compilations. Jump to sections: Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday   Saturday, June 25 Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation Joan Baxter had the latest on Atlantic Gold and its plans (maybe) for a mine in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Weekend File July 2 2022

Nova Scotia’s second busiest emergency department is dealing with record-breaking overcapacity

June 30, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The chief of the province’s second busiest emergency department says record-breaking overcapacity issues are making it increasingly difficult for them to fill the gaps of a primary care system in crisis. “Our capacity at best is probably 140 a day, and we’ve been averaging over 150 a day fairly regularly and more in the last […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, News Tagged With: Cobequid Community Health Centre, Cobequid emergency, CTAS, Dr. Mike Clory, emergency department, emergency department capacity issues, family doctors, Halifax Infirmary, Lower Sackville, primary care, walk-in clinics, Yvette d'Entremont

What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife

Morning File, Thursday, June 30, 2022

June 30, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

News 1. Sable Island fog Paul Withers at CBC recently visited Sable Island where scientists are there for an international study on how to predict fog, which poses a lot of challenges for meteorology. Project leader Joe Fernando of Notre Dame University told Withers they chose Sable Island because it’s one of the foggiest places […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Air Canada, BellaBot, Canadian Women’s Foundation, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, CTV Atlantic, David Milstead, flights, fog, Fog and Turbulence Interactions in the Marine Atmosphere, Globe and Mail, HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, invisible work, Joe Fernando, Joeli Brearley, Katherine Norris, Logan Robins, Mary Campbell, May Garden, Modern Restaurant Management, motherhood, Nandini Roy Choudhury, National Invisible Work Day, Notre Dame University, Paul Withers, Pregnant Then Screwed, Sable Island, Sara Spike, service robots, Standing Committee on the Status of Women, Tara Thorne, tax evasion, tax fraud, Tobi Emonts-Holley, UN Women, United States Office of Naval Research, unpaid work, women's work

Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world

Morning File, Wednesday, June 29, 2022

June 29, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission: letter to RCMP Commissioner critical of political pressure during investigation Jennifer Henderson has the latest story from the Mass Casualty Commission. Last week, Henderson and the Halifax Examiner broke a story that suggested the head of the national RCMP, at the behest of the federal Liberal Party, potentially compromised an […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: automatic transmisson, CAA, Colorado Avalanche, Corvette, driving, electric vehicles, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Europe, Ferrari, Halifax Crescents, hockey, Joe Malone, Lambourghini, Long Shots: The Curious Story of the Four Maritime Teams that Played for the Stanley Cup, manual transmission, Memorial Cup, Moncton Victorias, Mooseheads, Nathan MacKinnon, New Glasgow Cubs, New York Times, NHL, Nova Scotia, Stanley Cup, Sydney Millionaires, Trevor J. Adams, Volkswagen

Halifax council votes to plan for Centennial Pool replacement, support universal basic income, and more

June 28, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

When Halifax finally builds a competition-ready pool, it might not be on the peninsula. And that’s fine by the area councillors. Coun. Waye Mason brought a multi-faceted motion to council on Tuesday aiming to get staff moving on a “deep dive” into a new 50-metre pool for the municipality: That Halifax Regional Council direct the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Bruno Elliot MacNeil, Canada Games Centre, centennial pool, Cornwallis committee, Cornwallis Street, Coun. Kathryn Morse, Coun. Lindell Smith, Coun. Shawn Cleary, Coun. Waye Mason, Dalplex, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Needham Community Centre, Sportsplex, United Memorial Church, Zane Woodford

Group wants heritage designation for house of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A local historian says the city should preserve a home where the province’s first Black physician, Dr. Clement Ligoure, operated a clinic and helped victims of the Halifax Explosion. Last Saturday, Development Options Halifax, a group that says it’s working to preserve the city’s historic, cultural and social identity, and design, hosted a tour through […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian, anti-Black racism, Atlantic Advocate, Dr. Clement Ligoure, Friends of the Halifax Common, Halifax Explosion, Halifax Regional Municipality, No. 2 Construction Battalion, Racism, William Breckenridge

Letter to RCMP Commissioner Lucki rebuked her for trying to influence messaging after mass murders

June 28, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 5 Comments

Editor’s note: after this article was published, the Mass Casualty Commission tabled the letter from Lia Scanlan to RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, placing it on the commission website. You can read it here. The ongoing public inquiry into the mass murders of April 2020 is supposed to help us understand what happened and make recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Lia Scanlan, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Minister Bill Blair, Paul Thompson, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell

The casual ableism of cooking snobbery

Morning File, Tuesday, June 28, 2022

June 28, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Pat Dunn “didn’t exactly anticipate” backlash his appointment would cause Matthew Byard interviews African Nova Scotian Affairs minister Pat Dunn, almost a year after his appointment. Dunn says he was surprised by the backlash that followed his naming to the post: Dunn told the Examiner he was appointed as minister of African Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: ableism, Claire McNeil, cookbook, cooking, Disability, Disability Rights Coalition, Eagle Head, Gabrielle Drolet, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE), inclusion, inclusive housing, infilling, Kevin Harrison, Kevin Kindred, Martha Paynter, Peter Kelly, Prince Andrew High School, wetlands, Women's Wellness Within, Woodlawn High School, working from home

Dunn says he ‘didn’t exactly anticipate the backlash’ after he was appointed as minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs Pat Dunn spoke to the Halifax Examiner last week about the work of the office and the “backlash” he faced after his appointment in the fall. Following last summer’s provincial election, the Examiner was first to ask ‘Who will be the next minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs?’ after […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia Affairs, and Heritage, Brandie Shannon, Communities, culture, Dwayne Provo, Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Pat Dunn, Tourism

Books about Black history, Black Canadians highlight of Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute event

June 27, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

Books about Black Canadians and Black history were among many highlights of the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute’s (DBDLI) Report to the Community, which took place Thursday night at the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in Cherry Brook. “Our institute’s commitment to being a leading publisher of Africentric resources is evidenced through growth of […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: A Child of East Preston, Abid Ahmad, African Nova Scotia, Africentric, Ancestral Roots Summit, and the Americas, Black Canadians, Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, Black history, Black History: Africa, Brian Daly, Canadian Association of Black Journalists, Cape Breton, CBC, Cherry Brook, CRTC, DBDLI, Delmore Buddy Daye, Dr. George Frempong, J-School Noire, Kevin Harrison, NSCC, racialized communities, Randy Headley, Report to the Community, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Sylvia Parris-Drummond, The Caribbean, University of King's College

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 571
  • Next Page »

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • Weekend File, July 2, 2022 July 2, 2022
  • Nova Scotia’s second busiest emergency department is dealing with record-breaking overcapacity June 30, 2022
  • What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife June 30, 2022
  • Stuck on stick: clinging to the manual in an automatic world June 29, 2022
  • Halifax council votes to plan for Centennial Pool replacement, support universal basic income, and more June 28, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022