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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

Province: Sipekne’katik First Nation should blame itself for lack of consultation over Alton Gas project

February 20, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

A lawyer for the Province of Nova Scotia says the Sipekne’katik First Nation has no one but itself to blame when it argues there was “inadequate consultation” with the government over the Alton Gas decision. The First Nation opposes the development of natural gas storage caverns at Alton, a $130 million project that was approved...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, Assembly of Mi’kmaw Chiefs, Chief Paul Prosper, Chief Rufus Copage, Conestoga-Rovers, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO), Robert Grant, Sean Foreman, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards

More jerks who pay less than a living wage

Morning File, Wednesday, October 30, 2019

October 30, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. The Climate Emergency We’ve taken the first two parts of Linda Pannozzo’s four-part “The Climate Emergency” series out from behind the paywall. Here’s “Part 1: Why it’s time to ditch the language of economic growth.” And here’s Part 2: Why growth, even if it is green, is not enough.” 2. New traffic act delayed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allanique Hunter, Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, bad landlord, Cornwallis Task Force, Darlene Gilbert (Thunderbird Swooping Down Woman), Dignity Period, Erin Casey, Friendly Divas, Halloween costumes, Jean Laroche, Jen Gunter, Julie-Simone Rutgers, Katy Parsons, Kelsey Jones, living wage, Madonna Bernard (Kukuwes Wowkis), Michael MacDonald, Monica MacDonald, Motor Vehicle Act, Nova Scotia Period Poverty Summit, Paula Isaac (Kiju Muin), Robert Devet, shit wages, Suzanne Lively, Traffic Safety Act, Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines, Walmart

UARB submission raises safety concerns about Alton Gas project

January 14, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

A retired geologist who worked for the province of Nova Scotia as well as the mining giant INCO says he has safety concerns about the proposed Alton Natural Gas Storage Project. Robert Grantham’s letter to the Utility and Review Board (UARB) states not enough information has been made public about the rock formation near Alton...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, BGC Engineering Inc, Danielle Stewart, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Heritage Gas, Justice Suzanne Hood, Lori MacLean, Maritimes Energy Association, MLA Larry Harrison, Paul Allen, Ray Ritcey, Robert Grantham, Shubenacadie River, Sipek’natik First Nation, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

The new gas economy: the offshore, pipelines, and Alton Gas

Most of the natural gas used in Nova Scotia came from the Sable Island gas field. But now, as the offshore gas industry collapses, Heritage Gas is looking to increase sales and keep prices low by importing gas from the U.S. and western Canada to the Alton Gas storage project.

July 4, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

No one who keeps an eye on the Nova Scotia energy scene was surprised to learn that EnCana plans to halt production at its ill-starred Deep Panuke offshore gas development in two to three years. Not only was the project 10 years late and a billion dollars over budget, water problems have plagued it, reducing...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: AltaGas, Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, Chief Michael Sack, Deep Panuke, Enbridge, EnCana, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Heritage Gas, John Hawkins, Killam Properties, Lori MacLean, Maritimes Energy Association, Ray Ritcey, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katick (or Indian Brook) First Nation

PRICED OUT

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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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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