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Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home

June 3, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday was heavily focused on Friday’s reopening of services like salons, barber shops, spas and dine-in restaurants shut down since March. “Today’s another good day in terms of cases,” Premier Stephen McNeil said, opening the briefing with the announcement […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), coronavirus, COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, household bubbles, Lyndsay Armstrong, Northwood class action lawsuit, pandemic, physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil, Preston Mulligan, school reopening

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

Morning File, Friday, January 24, 2020

January 24, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp takes the province to court Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter report on the news that Northern Pulp is taking the province to court, and on the Pictou Landing First Nation’s reaction. Yesterday afternoon the company issued a news release stating it will ask the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to undertake […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Andrew MacLeod, carbon calculator app, Const. Jasmin Razic, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Godfred Chongatera, Gregor Craigie, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), John McPhee, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Manivasan Moodley, Maurice Carvery, Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Paul Godfrey, Pema Chödrön, Postmedia, Project Sunshine, racial profiling, Sakyong Mipham, Shambhala, Tampere, taxi driver sexual assault, Tesform Kidane Mengis, Wendy Martin

The Cory Taylor case: Nova Scotia’s racist context and cops investigating cops

Morning File, Wednesday, October 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Cory Taylor decision Yesterday, Justice Gerald Moir issued a decision in Cory Taylor’s appeal of the Police Complaints Commissioner’s dismissal of his complaint that Halifax police “arrested him without cause, used unnecessary force to do so, and caused him serious injury.” Taylor is Black. At the time of the August 2017 incident, Taylor was […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ahsan Habib, Alicia Draus, Chad Hudson, Cory Taylor, Emma Davie, Fred Sanford, John Wesley Chisholm, Justice Gerald Moir, Michael Gorman, Minas Tidal, Pempa'q In-stream Tidal Energy Project, People's Party of Canada, Police Complaints Commission, Spicer Marine Energy Inc., stadium traffic, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), tidal power, Yarmouth ferry delay, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Yvette d'Entremont

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Morning File, Tuesday, September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Naturalists go to court “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers will decide whether the Minister of Lands and Forestry has failed to live up to the obligations set out in the Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife in the province,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We seek the Court’s assistance as a last resort,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Anne McLellan, Brett Ruskin, Brian Muldoon, Cermaq, collapsed crane removal, Cooke Aquaculture, Darrell Dexter, Dorothy Grant, EcoJustice, Evan Williams, exposure, fish farms, Glen Cooke, global warming, Graeme Benjamin, Hany El Naggar, Harbourside Engineering Consultants, housing affordability, Howard Ramos, Income inequality, Janice Harvey, Kathleen McNab, Kelly Cove Salmon, left hand turns, lobster fishery, Marla MacInnis, menstrual products in schools, Michigan Lane, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Lloyd Hines, Nicole Munro, period poverty, Peter MacKay, Protect Liverpool Bay (PLB), R&D Crane Operator Ltd, rent control, Robert Devet, Sabino Urciuoli, sinkhole Trans Canada Highway, Spring Garden Road redesign

Afua Cooper: “We need to smash those [racist] stereotypes and see the humanity in each and every one of us”

Morning File, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

May 22, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Bank of Canada acknowledges that climate change will impact the economy “For the first time ever, the Bank of Canada has released a report examining the threat climate change poses to the country’s financial system,” reports Karina Roman for the CBC. The report in question is the Bank’s annual Fiscal System Review, which […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, Alicia Draus, Bank of Canada, Catherine Tully, climate change, Connor Smithers-Mapp, Equity Watch, Freedom of Information request, Graeme Gibson, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), human resources (HR), Ipsos Reid, Josh K. Elliot, Judy Haiven, Karina Roman, Leslie Oliver, Margaret Atwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), privacy breaches, Racism, Rella Black History Foundation, Rick Howe Show, Robert Devet, Silver Donald Cameron, Task Force on Commemoration, Victoria Walton, Viola Desmond, Wanda Robson, Yvonne Colbert

The Donkin mine is a disaster waiting to happen

Morning File, Thursday, January 3, 2018

January 3, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Donkin collapse “Work at the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton has been suspended after a roof collapse late last week,” reports the CBC: There was no mining operation underway when the collapse occurred Dec. 28 and no injuries were reported, said Shannon Kerr, a spokesperson for the provincial Labour Department. … Donkin mine vice-president Shannon […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Charles Mandel, Chris Blanchard, Chris Cline, Devon Cupery, Don Blankenship, Donkin mine roof collapse, ice on sidewalks, John Calder, Kameron Coal, Massey Energy, Performance Coal Company, Shannon Campbell, Shannon Kerr, sidewalk snow clearing, Springhill Mining Disaster, The Cline Group, The Wisconsin Resource Council, Waye Mason, Zane Woodford

CN wants to buy HalTerm, and what that means for other prospective megaports in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Friday, December 7, 2018

December 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. ServiCom ServiCom has closed its call centre in Sydney, and laid off all 600 workers. “ServiCom site director Todd Riley blasted the company’s executive team for misleading him and all employees at the centre,” reports Chris Shannon for the Cape Breton Post: “Any time would be hard, but Christmastime? To me, it’s a very […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN), Chris Shannon, Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, Evelyn White, Halterm, Jean Jacques Ruest, Justin Boutilier, Maurice Ruddick, megaport, plastic bag ban, Rick Grant, ServiCom, Stephen Archibald and Acadian Bus Lines terminal, Susan Bradley, Tiffany Chase, Todd Riley, Tufts Cove oil spill, Zane Woodford

1,500 people will soon be crammed into one block on Robie Street

Morning File, Tuesday, September 25, 2018

September 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Robie Street mega-development “An advisory committee is recommending a massive development for central Halifax go ahead, though preferably a shorter version,” reports Zane Woodford for StarMetro Halifax: Regional council’s Halifax Peninsula Planning Advisory Committee met Monday to consider the proposal for the corner of Robie St. and College St.: a 400-unit residential building […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abortion, Access to Information request, advertorials, Alicia Draus, Avon River Causeway, Catherine Tully, Chronicle Herald advertorial, dispensary raid, Friends of the Avon River, Jean Laroche, Jessica Leeder, King's County review, Michael Gorman, Robie and College towers, Robie Street mega-development, Rouvalis family, Zane Woodford

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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