The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Seventeen new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia today (Wednesday). Sixteen of those cases are in Nova Scotia Heath Authority’s Central Zone, one of which is the case connected to St. Margaret’s Bay Elementary school, […]
Rights groups call on justice minister to hold Nova Scotia RCMP accountable for using Facebook surveillance tool
Civil rights groups are calling on the Halifax board of police commissioners and the provincial justice minister to hold the RCMP accountable after a news investigation found the Mounties used a Facebook surveillance tool in Nova Scotia. Last week, following a deep look into the RCMP’s surveillance tactics, the British Columbia-based independent news website the […]
“Freeman on the Land” bullshit
Morning File, Wednesday, December 2, 2020
News 1. Council considers tougher penalties on landlords for egregious behaviour At yesterday’s meeting, Councillor Waye Mason, long a champion of licensing landlords, proposed tougher penalties for landlords who deliberately make their properties uninhabitable in an attempt to force out tenants. As usual, Zane Woodford covered the meeting for the Examiner. He writes: Mason brought […]
Halifax council aims to beef up bylaw enforcement to stop landlords from pushing tenants out illegally
Tired of hearing stories of landlords removing tenants’ doors and windows to force them out, Halifax regional councillors want to step up enforcement of the municipality’s minimum standards bylaw. “There’s been a recent rash of very disturbing media reports that have been kind of printed at face value where some landlords — just a few, […]
Halifax councillors interested in using money-losing convention centre as homeless shelter
With the convention centre’s losses mounting, Halifax regional councillors are expressing interest in using the space as a homeless shelter. Council was tasked with approving a fiscal 2020-2021 business plan for the convention centre at its meeting on Tuesday, a full eight months into the fiscal year. Despite a budgeted deficit of $11.1 million, council […]
10 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Ten new case of COVID -19 were announced in Nova Scotia today (Tuesday). All are in the Central Zone. There are now 142 known active cases in the province. No one is currently in hospital with the […]
Juno and Umbrella Academy star Elliot Page comes out as trans
"I can ... finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self," says beloved Halifax actor.
Beloved Halifax actor Elliot Page has come out as trans today. Page was the Oscar-nominated star of the 2007 film Juno, playing a teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy. Page is now starring in the Netflix series The Umbrella Academy, playing superhero Vanya Hargreeves. Closer to home, inspired to action when close friend Lil MacPherson gave Page […]
Auditor general looks at provincial government’s spending on COVID relief
The provincial government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help people and businesses affected by the disruption to work and family life caused by the pandemic. Today’s report from the province’s acting auditor general Terry Spicer is not a commentary on policy decisions or a performance audit that tracks how much of taxpayer […]
You asked the Examiner crew anything, and we answered
Morning File, Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Ask Us Anything! We asked readers to ask us anything, and lots of you did. Philip Moscovitch collated those questions and brought them to me, Zane Woodford, Yvette d’Entremont, Suzanne Rent, Joan Baxter, and Iris the Amazing. (For space reasons, we weren’t able to include everyone.) Have a listen (yes, I misspoke and said “square […]
Decarbonization: how will Nova Scotia Power get to “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions?
“Powering a Green Nova Scotia, Together.” That’s the title of a long-awaited, long-term strategy filed by Nova Scotia Power to the regulator describing how the company proposes to reduce our carbon footprint over the next 25 years. “The need for deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction is recognized across the globe” says the Integrated Resource...
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