The Coast, Halifax’s former print alt-weekly, has been sold to a B.C.-based media company. Overstory Media Group announced the purchase in a news release on Wednesday, writing, “The acquisition of the acclaimed publication reinforces Overstory’s commitment to supporting and strengthening local news.” The company owns several media outlets, or brands, in Western Canada, including […]
Black ice: Continuing the tradition of Black hockey in Nova Scotia and P.E.I.
Growing up as the only Black hockey player on Prince Edward Island, Ryan Maxwell said he knows what it’s like to stand out. Maxwell was five years old when he and his mother, Anne Maxwell, moved from Dartmouth, N.S., to Anne’s hometown of Charlottetown, P.E.I. With hockey roots on both sides of his family, Maxwell […]
2 years ago today, the first cases of COVID were announced in Nova Scotia, and 35 days later the mass murders occurred; the Halifax Examiner has been here for you ever since
Two years ago today, on March 15, 2020, Nova Scotia’s Department of Health announced that the first three cases of COVID-19 had been discovered in the province. Thirty-five days later, on April 19, 2020 Nova Scotians woke up to the terrible news that an unbelievable murder spree was unfolding. The pandemic and the mass murders […]
Lack of Black voices in local media ‘inexcusable,’ journalism prof says
Brian Daly has worked in the media for nearly 30 years. He's now at the University of King's College where he's teaching the next generation of Black journalists.
Brian Daly keeps a world map on the wall of his office to remind him of the map that was laid out on a table in the study room in his family home where he grew up, and where his father still resides. Among other decorations and mementos in Daly’s office are two retro analog […]
One media dinosaur gobbles up another
Last week's Postmedia purchase of Brunswick News won't make New Brunswick's newspapers better. And it won't do anything to solve Postmedia's ongoing debt crisis. Or save Saltwire from itself. But then, maybe that's a good thing.
Be careful what you wish for. For more than 50 years, critics rightly railed against the concentration of media ownership in New Brunswick. The 1970 Special Senate Committee on Mass Media, for example, described the all-powerful Irving family’s control of all New Brunswick’s English daily newspapers as well as much of the province’s business and...
Choosing the news that makes the headlines
Morning File, Wednesday, February 9, 2022
News 1. Woodford Report It’s Wednesday morning, which means Zane Woodford has all the news you need to know from Halifax regional council’s meetings Tuesday. Find the detailed report here. Here’s one of the highlights: New art gallery In 2020, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia asked Halifax to put $7 million toward the construction […]
Job opening: African Nova Scotian community reporter
The Halifax Examiner is hiring! Through the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI), the Halifax Examiner has secured funding for a full-time African Nova Scotian community reporter. This is a contract position, exact dates still to be determined, but the contract will be for about nine months. It is our hope that the contract will be extended […]
A note to readers: How the Halifax Examiner has covered COVID, and what comes next
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 […]
Subscriptions to the Halifax Examiner qualify for the Digital News Subscription Tax Credit
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 […]
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