Dear readers, The third wave of the pandemic has been painful: 22 people in Nova Scotia have died, with 22 different sets of family, friends, and loved ones left to grieve. Thousands more have fallen ill, too many landing in hospital and the ICU. All of us have suffered with worry and dread, and faced […]
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The Halifax Examiner has qualified for the Digital News Subscription Tax Credit, under section 118.02 of the Income Tax Act. The tax credit allows individuals to claim up to $500 for subscriptions to qualified Canadian journalism organizations. See here for more details, and for the tax forms necessary to claim the credit. The Examiner’s QCJO# is […]
What if there were real penalties for legal ‘delay of game’?
It's been 11 months since the Nova Scotia mass shooting and the Crown and the Mounties are still doing their best to make sure we can't find out what happened in the investigation. Perhaps it's time there were consequences.
Before the 2019-20 season, the National Hockey League changed its rules around what are known as “coach’s challenges.” For those of you don’t give a flying puck about hockey, I’ll skip over most of the details you don’t need to know — but perhaps a little background might be helpful to my larger point. Which […]
Miscommunication: how government’s PR gatekeepers are increasingly controlling the message
Unbeknownst to many people — and definitely unbeknownst to me before I returned to Nova Scotia after many years of working overseas and resumed reporting here in 2016 — journalists do not have quite the same rights that other citizens do in this province. Apparently we journalists are not supposed to try to get into […]
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Yet another November subscription drive ask
Stephen Kimber has been commenting on Nova Scotia and its politics for more than 50 years. Now a weekly columnist for the Examiner, he looks back and offers his take on the Examiner's place in that history and the importance of telling stories that matter.
Stephen Kimber, who has been commenting on the local political scene since the 1970s, began writing a regular weekly column… Tim Bousquet November 2, 2020 It was late October 2016, and I’d just had the coffee and that conversation with my editor at Halifax Metro. Thank you for your service, Philip Croucher said not at […]
Introducing: The Tideline, with Tara Thorne
I’m excited to announce that the Halifax Examiner is producing a new entertainment podcast — The Tideline, with Tara Thorne. The podcast premieres next Thursday, October 15, with a new episode every week after. The Tideline is separate and distinct from the Halifax Examiner’s news coverage, but we are mirroring the Examiner’s advertising-free, subscriber-supported model. Yes, […]
Tara Thorne and the tweet that trumped 20 years of exemplary arts coverage
How do we balance Tara Thorne’s history of supporting artists and culture in Halifax with what even one of her supporters described as 'a hurtful and very bad joke tweet'? These days, it seems, we don't.
I will confess off the top I don’t know the specifics of what freelance arts journalist Tara Thorne tweeted about the premier’s son, but — based on what I read about the now-deleted tweet — I don’t have any interest in seeking it out. What I do know is that Thorne apologized for the tweet...
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Anti-Black racism in schools: still a long way to go
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 […]
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