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Mice will play when crane removal delayed

Morning File, Wednesday, October 16, 2019

October 16, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. NSP asks for rate increase Yesterday, Nova Scotia Power (NSP) was at the Utility and Review Board asking for a rate increase, which means customers will pay 1.5 per cent more each year for the next three years. NSP says it’s asking for the rate increase because of rising fuel costs. Jennifer Henderson […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), crane incident, FP Wakaba, Haley Ryan, Heather Bowlby, Kathy Symington, mice infestation, Michael Tutton, MLA Hugh MacKay, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), OCEARCH, Rebecca Carole, white sharks around Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia’s looming oil-drilling disaster

Canadian regulators have failed to reduce the likelihood of a Deepwater Horizon-like blowout at BP's deep-sea well on the Scotian Slope, and the company plans to respond to a blowout with an oil dispersant that could compound the catastrophe.

May 18, 2018 By Linda Pannozzo 6 Comments

When BP named its exploratory well in the Mississippi Canyon the Macondo Prospect after the doomed fictional town of Macondo from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, that alone should have raised alarm bells. The story of seven generations of the Buendía family are set in the Colombian town, which is beset by […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Access to Information request, Aspy D-11, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Ben Fieldhouse, Bill C-22, BP, Brian Robinson, Bruce Hollebone, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), capelin, capping stack, Cecilia Lougheed, Centre for Catastrophic Risk Management, Centre for Offshore Oil, chemical dispersants, Chris Kennedy, Clean Ocean Action Committee, Corexit 9500A, Corexit 9580A, Cory Dubetz, Craig Purchase, Deepwater Horizon, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Don Aurand, Ecosystem Management & Associates, Elsevier, Environment and Climate Change (ECCC), Environmental Impact Statement, Gas and Energy Research (COOGER), Gina Coelho, HDR Inc., James Clark, John Davis, Jonathan Davis, Judith LeBlanc, Linda Pannozzo, Macondo Prospect, Marc Bernier, Marc-Etienne Lesieur, marine rotifer, Mike Stoneman, Minister Catherine McKenna, Minister Dominic LeBlanc, Nalco Environmental Solutions, National Contaminants Advisory Group (NCAG), oil spill, Patrice Simon, Robert Bea, Roberto Rico-Martinez, Sarah Gilbert, Scotian Slope, Shell Canada, Sponson Group, Stantec, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, Thomas King, Tony Hayward

Morning File: look at all those white people near the new Y

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

March 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Health Authority craps on healthy transportation “The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) has taken a surprise position on the expansion and improvement of the South Park street bike lane: they’re against it,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: At least they are against the disruption to available on-street parking that it might cause. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Bridge, ambulances, Amy Wax, architects' rendering of The Curve, Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Canadian Sea Turtle Network (CSTN), Christopher Taggart, Craig Macinnis, Dartmouth General Hospital, Elizabeth McMillan, HRM By Design, Justice Suzanne Hood, Kathleen Martin, Marvin Hudson, Michael James, Morning File, Penn Law School Dean Ted Ruger, Tara Tapics, The clean industries of the future: fracking and clearcutting, The Curve, the new Y

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

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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