There are lots of words and a little money for public transit in the provincial budget released Thursday, and despite a lack of hard figures around commitments to bus electrification and new ferry routes, Halifax’s mayor is encouraged by the government’s direction. Premier Iain Rankin’s first budget plans for $12.4 billion in spending for fiscal...
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 […]
Report: child care centres are seeing a “dramatic” decline in enrolment due to COVID
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. The authors of a national report released today highlighting COVID-19’s impact on Canada’s child care sector are sounding the alarm about the need for sustained, substantial operational funding to transform child care “before it’s too late.” The […]
Nova Scotia introduces bill to open adoption records
“We took a massive leap forward today,” a jubilant Scott Pyke told journalists today after Community Services Minister Kelly Regan tabled legislation to make it easier for adopted children and birth parents to find each other. Nova Scotia is the last province in Canada to open up adoption records that had allowed birth parents an […]
No clear answers to clearcut questions
Officials from the Department of Lands & Forestry give only vague assurances that tighter logging rules will be applied, eventually.
Which rules are going to apply to hundreds of harvests approved on Crown land during the 2.5 years since the Lahey Report came out: the Interim Guide in place today or new rules poised to be introduced that will force companies to take less wood and leave more trees behind to improve biodiversity? That’s an...
Nova Scotia announces changes to improve emergency response times
It’s been a month since a 49-year-old Bass River woman named April George experienced a heart attack and her husband waited 80 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Sadly, George did not survive. Sadly, the story of her husband calling 911 and waiting more than hour for paramedics to arrive in a rural community is...
Can we finally hope to hope?
We have a new provincial government that at least seems to be making the right progressive noises. COVID-19 vaccines are headed our way. And spring is in the air...
The first hint that the change of Nova Scotia government might be more than a simple shuffling of shop-worn deck chairs did not come from the new government. It landed on the day before Iain Rankin was even sworn in as premier. On Feb. 22, Bay Ferries Ltd. issued a “media advisory,” publicly releasing information...
Nova Scotia finally reaches a financial settlement with Glen Assoun, compensating him for the 17 years he was imprisoned for a crime he did not commit
The Province of Nova Scotia has reached a financial settlement with Glen Assoun, the Dartmouth man who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of murdering Brenda Way. Assoun was fully exonerated two years ago this week — on March 1, 2019. Although he received a tiny interim compensation, the wait for a […]
Public health on life support: underfunded and underappreciated
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Nova Scotians have become well-acquainted with the words “public health” over the last year, but what they may not know is that public health has been chronically underfunded for decades and the COVID-19 crisis will make things […]
Nova Scotia’s vaccination registration website overwhelmed, taken off line
If you’ve spent the day trying to book a COVID-19 vaccination appointment for someone 80 or older without success, you’re not alone. The third-party server responsible for booking the online appointments has been disabled, and the provincial Department of Health and Wellness isn’t sure exactly when it’ll be back online. Social media has been abuzz […]
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