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Don’t teach crows to pick up cigarette butts

Morning File, Tuesday, February 8, 2022

February 8, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Nova Scotia Power: New ways of making customers pay We’ve probably all heard by now of the proposed Nova Scotia Power rate hikes, but today Jennifer Henderson digs into a more insidious scheme to have ratepayers finance new infrastructure. She writes: What seems unforgiveable is a proposed change in how the company would […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Alton Gas, Bitcoin, Boswords, Clayton Developments, Colin Hawks, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, crossword puzzles, Dan Kinsella, Dion Beary, Dirk Baur, Eisner Cove, El Jones, George Lloy, Harry Critchley, Isaac Saney, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Kaeli Swift, Matthew Byard, mining, Perth, Perth Heat, Police Act, Richard Preston, Scott MacCallum, Stewiacke, University of Western Australia, Zane Woodford

Weekend File

The articles we published from October 16 to 22, 2021.

October 23, 2021 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File. Here are links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday     Sunday, October 17 1. White lawyer Nash Brogan and Black lawyer Lyle Howe are each charged with professional misconduct, but the Barristers Society is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Albert Marshall, Allana Loh, Alton Gas, anti-vaxxer, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area, Bunside, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), CBRM, COVID-19, CPAWS, Devin Maxwell, Disability, Disability Atlantic Arts Symposium, Eastern Front Theatre, Fademasters, fat bikes, Fat Juliet, Halifax, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Transit, Halifax’s License Appeal Committee, Harry Critchley, homelessness, housing crisis, Kayla Borden, Law Amendments Committee, Lionel Desmond, Lyle Howe, Mary Campbell, Nash Brogan, nicole gnazdowsky, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Peggy's Cove, Port Wallace, Raymond Sheppard, Shubenacadie River, Spring Garden Road, Stephen Kimber, Tremanye "Trobiz" Howe, urban legend, Valley Regional Hospital, Weekend File Oct 23 2021, Zane Woodford

Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

Morning File, Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Draconian cuts at SaltWire This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Mark Lever, president of SaltWire, announced that in response to the economic fallout from COVID-19, the company is making huge, draconian cuts: Please know these decisions deeply impact our SaltWire family. This is not […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adsum House, AltaGas, Alton Gas, Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), COVID-19, Halifax Transit, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO), Minister Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), prisoners and coronavirus, Saltwire layoffs, self-isolation, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards, Twila Gaudet, virtual doctors

Court hears Sipekne’katik appeal of Alton Gas decision

February 19, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

How much consultation is enough when it comes to approving development on land where First Nations claim — but have not received — title to Crown land? That’s one of the thorny questions at the centre of the Sipekne’katik First Nation’s appeal of a decision by the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment which gave the...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Alton Gas, Environment Climate Change Canada, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Mi’kmaq people, Ray Larkin, Sean Foreman, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards

Unearthing the city’s buried history

Morning File, Monday, January 27, 2020

January 27, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. New street checks almost the same as the old Stephen Kimber writes how even after a ban on street checks and an apology from the police chief, the practice still goes on. As former police officer Maurice Carvery says, “they haven’t stopped; they only changed.” This article is for subscribers. Please subscribe. 2. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), Carrie Low, Chris Miller, Chris Trider, Darlene Gilbert, David Jones, Eastern Battery, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Fort Clarence, Grafton Park, Grassroots Grandmothers Circle, Imperial Oil refinery, Jennifer Copage, Jonathan Fowler, Justice John Bodhurtha, Lori MacLean, Madonna Bernard, Matt Spurway, Memorial Library, Michael Gorman, MP Sean Fraser, Owls Head Park, Paula Isaac, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Ray Larkin, Robert Grant, shooting Chisholm St, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik, Stephen Archibald and Poor House Burying Ground, Supreme Court Justice Suzanne Hood, Transportation and Public Works (TPW), two spaces, vehicle pedestrian collision report

“There’s something in the water”

Ellen Page speaks to the Halifax Examiner about her forthcoming feature film and what she hopes it will accomplish

August 14, 2019 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a telephone interview about her forthcoming film on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, which will have its world debut this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was hammering her […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Alton Gas, Boat Harbour, Dale Poulette, Ellen Page, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Environmental Noxiousness Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH), Environmental Racism, Gaycation, Ian Daniel, Ingrid Waldron, Julia Anderson, Lil MacPherson, Louise Delisle, Michelle Francis-Denny, Northern Pulp, Pema Chödrön, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachael Greenland-Smith, Umbrella Academy, US Vice President Mike Pence

The McNeil government is going for the secrecy gold medal

Is Nova Scotia Canada’s most secretive jurisdiction? Or does it just act that way? Consider a few especially egregious, not-at-all-transparent episodes from just the last week.

July 21, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Is Nova Scotia Canada’s most secretive jurisdiction? Or does it just act that way? Consider a few especially egregious, not-at-all-transparent episodes from just the last week. Let’s start with the latest on plans to build a new 126,000-sq. ft. community outpatient healthcare facility in Bayers Lake Business Park. Though the facility is ostensibly going to...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Alton Gas, Community Health Partners, Community Outpatient Centre, conquered people, Devin Stevens, Government secrecy, healthcare, Indigenous rights, Justice Duncan Beveridge, P3 hospital projects, Stephen McNeil, Yarmouth ferry

Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Your tax dollars at work covering government butt

As Justice David Farrar summed up the appeal court ruling in the Alex Cameron case: “It would be manifestly unfair to allow the province to hide behind solicitor-client privilege while at the same time impugning the conduct of its solicitor.” But that didn't stop the McNeil government from trying. And trying.

May 18, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Last week, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal instructed the McNeil government to stop hiding behind the skirts of solicitor-client privilege in order to hobble a lawsuit brought against it by a former government lawyer who claims the government impugned his conduct and attacked his character and reputation. Alex Cameron, a 26-year veteran of the...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alton Gas, Freedom of Information, justice, Stephen McNeil

Water, water everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, April 11, 2019

April 11, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

News 1. Feds announce environmental assessment for Boat Harbour plan Jennifer Henderson has the latest on the Boat Harbour cleanup plan. Yesterday, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced it would be undertaking an environmental assessment. Henderson explains the lagoons are where tens of million of litres of daily effluent from the kraft pulp mill at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Alton Gas protest, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Smith, Atlantic mackerel, Boat Harbour, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), cannabis, Clara Dennis, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Archives, Paul Withers, Ryan Ross, SaltWire, StatsCannabis, Stephen Archibald and crenellations, Transcontinental, weed prices

Alton Gas asks court for order to remove Mi’kmaw protestors from Shubenacadie River site

March 13, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

A group of 40-50 people opposed to a plan by Alton Natural Gas Storage Inc. to dump brine into the Shubenacadie River packed a courtroom in Halifax yesterday afternoon. They were there to support protesters Dale Poulette, a Mi’kmaw man who considers himself a traditional water protector, and Rachael Greenland-Smith, an environmental researcher. Both are […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Alton Gas, Dale Poucette, Darlene Gilbert, Dorene Bernard, Grassroots Grandmothers Circle, James Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Justice Gerald Moir, Mi’kmaw protestors, Rachael Greenland-Smith, Rob Turner, Robert Grant, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), treaty rights

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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!

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