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Engineering study: three top options to protect Chignecto Isthmus will cost between $189 million and $301 million

March 18, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

An engineering study looking at ways to protect the piece of land connecting New Brunswick and Nova Scotia suggests the top three options will cost between $189 million and $301 million. The Chignecto Isthmus is a 21-kilometre wide stretch of land linking the two provinces and is the only land bridge connecting them. An estimated […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amherst, Bay of Fundy, Chignecto Isthmus, climate change, dikes, dykes, engineering study, Jill Green, Kim Masland, New Brunswick, New Brunswick border, New Brunswick Transportation & Infrastructure, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia border, Nova Scotia Public Works, Sackville, Stantec, trade corridor, TransCanada, Wood Environment, Yvette d'Entremont

Proposed Wentworth Valley wind farm gets blowback

While local group fears negative effects, Northern Pulp stands to profit from the giant wind project because it’s on Northern Pulp land purchased with a loan from Nova Scotians.

December 6, 2021 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Let’s start with a quick Nova Scotia quiz. Question #1: What do the following three things have in common? (1) A large new wind farm proposed for Wentworth Valley, (2) an open pit gold mine at Moose River in Halifax Regional Municipality that is owned by Australia’s St Barbara Ltd and operated by its subsidiary […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: 3G Energy, Amherst, Angus Doane, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia (AMNS), Beaver Dam gold mine, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate crisis, Community LIaison Committee, Dan Eaton, Darrell Dexter, Duff Montgomerie, electricity generation, Elemental Energy, Enercon, fossil fuels, Garfield Moffatt, Germany, government loan, greenhouse gas emissions, Gregor Wilson, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Higgins Mountain, Higgins Mountain Wind Farm, Kejimkujik National Park, Lunenburg, Maryam Baksh, Moose River, Moose River gold mine, Muskrat Falls, NDP government, Neenah Paper, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Northern Timber, Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), Paul Pynn, Peggy's Cove, Protect Wentworth Valley, renewable energy, Sean Lewis, Shawn Duncan, solar energy, South Canoe, St Barbara Ltd, Stevens Wind Ltd, Strum Consulting, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Wentworth ski hill, Wentworth Valley, wind energy, wind farm, wind turbine

Stable owners look to feds to pony up with financial help

Morning File, Thursday, April 30, 2020

April 30, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1.“COVID cluster” info misleads health care providers — and the public Tim Bousquet looks at all the “Covid clusters” the Nova Scotia Health Authority has mapped and how they are being used by healthcare providers. The information in those clusters is being used to deny people medical attention. Bousquet got the list of 10 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Abbigail Cowbrough, Amherst, Brian MacDonald, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), CH-148 Cyclone helicopter crash, coping with COVID-19, COVID-19 financial relief, Heather Myrer, HMCS Fredericton, Karen Blair, Kevin Donovan, mansion renovation, Marie-Claude Bibeau, Marylyn Andrews, mass shooting murder Portapique, Mel Boutilier, mental health, Murray Brewster, ranches and stables, Restojunkie, Robert Wright, Rocky Hollow Ranch, Shane Cowbrough, Yves Hamelin

A Modest Proposal: Morning File, Saturday, September 16, 2017

September 16, 2017 By El Jones 12 Comments

1. A Modest Proposal (Rick Conrad covered this story yesterday in his Morning File.) Stephen McNeil, history expert, has more thoughts on history. McNeil was asked about the town of Amherst, named after Jeffrey Amherst of the smallpox blanket Amhersts, following Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s decision to remove the street name Amherst. “People are going […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, challenging, Clonard Keating, El Jones, imagine if it were a Black person game, Premier Stephen McNeil history expert, Rebecca Thomas, renaming controversy, smallpox blankets, Winston Churchill

Halifax, Tatooine, the city with two suns: Morning File, Thursday, October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives yesterday released a report, “Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity,” written by labour economist Jordan Brennan. At 46 pages, the report is a short and easy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Anne Derrick, Arabic language radio station, austerity, carbon tax, George Baker, ghost building, Hal Davidson, Hollis and Bishop Street design proposal, industrial accident, Irving, Jennifer Taplin, Jordan Brennan, McNeil Liberals, Richard Starr, Steve Bruce, Tatooine, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, two suns

“Radiating outward opportunities” and other assorted bullshit: Morning File, Tuesday, October 4, 2016

October 4, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Council candidates slam the Chronicle Herald Eighteen council candidates issued the following statement yesterday: We, the following candidates for HRM Council, have collectively taken a stand against supporting the Chronicle Herald’s efforts to engage our campaigns for information.  We support the unionized workers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Andrew Weaver, carbon tax, Chronicle Herald strike, Council, Francis Campbell, George Baker, guaranteed income, incident report, Jennifer Craig, Jennifer Henderson, John Davis, Maria Cromwell, Matt Whitman, Paul Withers, Robert Devet, Sheila Upshaw, Shell Canada, signatories, Stephen McNeil, Treaty Day, Zane Woodford

Comma Who Is White Comma: Morning File, Saturday, October 1, 2016

October 1, 2016 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. Tim Bousquet discovers new day in the year According to the Morning File template, opened by contributor El Jones on Friday, September 30th, Tim Bousquet has discovered a new day of the year, September 31st. The Examiner wants to congratulate Mr. Bousquet on this exciting new contribution to horology. The new “leap September” will […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Bousquet Yay! Kittay Day, commercialization, Daniel P. Sampson, Derek Bok, George Baker, George Elliott Clarke, George Tsimiklis Institute of Architecture, Graham Reynolds, Greg Marquis, hangings, Harvey Amani Whitfield, KKK, Klan, knuckle calendar, lynchings, New England Planters, Richard Florizone, Robert Devet, slavery, The Birth of a Nation, Timothy Jacques

Salvage: The Stephen Maher interview. Examineradio, episode #74

August 12, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with Michener Award-winning journalist Stephen Maher about his new novel, Salvage. Set on the South Shore, the book is a gritty thriller packed full of Nova Scotia-isms. Maher’s book will be released this weekend with a Saturday party in Chester and a launch in Halifax on Sunday afternoon at the Economy Shoe Shop. Also, totally racist […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Amherst, Chronicle Herald, Examineradio, journalism, podcast, Stephen Maher, WTCC

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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