Hi, I’m Joan Baxter, a Nova Scotian journalist and author. Some of my books are actually quite upbeat, proving that I’m not always a bearer of bad news. News 1. Abandoned tidal turbine Jennifer Henderson updates the situation of the abandoned tidal turbine in the Minas Basin in this article for the Examiner. After a […]
Outlines of the stadium proposal emerge
Morning File, Wednesday, July 11, 2018
News 1. Stadium details Yesterday, Bedford councillor Tim Outhit posted details of the stadium proposal on his Facebook page: Next Tuesday Regional Council will be asked to give direction to the CAO to officially enter into investigations and preliminary negotiations with the private group looking to bring a regional CFL team to Halifax. They will […]
Bill Spurr has a terrible boss, so a puppy had to die
Morning File, Friday, June 1, 2018
News 1. Discrimination A firefighter who says her 18-year career was plagued by sexual harassment is demanding that Halifax Regional Municipality step up to resolve discrimination cases like hers that drag on for years,” reports the CBC: Kathy Symington has collected 1,400 pages documenting her sexual harassment case against Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency. She said […]
Nova Scotia is destroying its forests by chasing the biomass delusion: Morning File, Friday, February 23, 2018
News 1. Biomass “Guysborough County harvester Danny George is accusing the Department of Natural Resources of allowing old-growth hardwood to be cut and burned in Nova Scotia Power’s biomass boiler at Point Tupper,” reports Aaron Beswick for the Chronicle Herald. Beswick gets into the details of that charge, and it’s worth reading the whole article. […]
The Herald’s news reporting on Northern Pulp Mill looks like a packaged advertising deal: Morning File, Tuesday, January 16, 2018
1. Fracking “On the same day that Nova Scotia’s governing Liberals introduced legislation to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the province, I happened to be on a ‘fracking tour’ in the U.S. with a bus load of other environmental journalists in a place that had instead embraced it,” writes Linda Pannozzo. That news was […]
Whom Gods Destroy: Morning File, Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Incentives! The subscription drive consultants (two guys at the end of the bar I talked to the other night) tell me that I’m supposed to offer incentives to entice people to subscribe. So, during the month of November, each new annual subscriber will get a Halifax Examiner T-shirt, here modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: […]
How not to impress the queen: Morning File, Friday, October 28, 2016
News 1. Catie Miller “The man who killed Catie Miller and dismembered her body was arrested early in the police investigation because his appetite for murdering women was so strong, officers feared he would carry out his fantasies again,” reports Susan Bradley for the CBC: Jason James Johnson was captured on wiretaps talking “about his desire to […]