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Halifax Transit operator taken to hospital with COVID-19 symptoms, Sackville Terminal closed

July 6, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. One Halifax Transit driver was taken to hospital Monday morning after feeling COVID-19 symptoms, two other drivers were being tested, and the Sackville Terminal was temporarily closed. Ken Wilson, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508, the union representing Halifax Transit operators, confirmed the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, bus driver, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Erin DiCarlo, Halifax Transit, Ken Wilson, pandemic, Sackville Terminal

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

Morning File, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Degtyarev, Andrew McKelvey, Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Cheryl Gardner, climate emergency, Corey Rogers, crane incident, Daniel Fraser, Don Bowser, Ekatirine Keramaris, Firefly Aerospace, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Irving Shipbuilding, Jack Sorbo, John Ball, John Misenor House, Lead Structural Formwork Ltd, Linda Pannozzo, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Natasha Pace, Pavel Degtyarenko, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Shannon, Roger Eckoldt, Steven Lutes, Ukrainian corruption, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

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

Animals are dominating Halifax’s news cycle

Morning File, Thursday, September 13, 2018

September 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. The Whalley trial and Cecil Clarke I’m still wading through Parts 4 through 8 of Mary Campbell’s Whalley trial series, but I skipped ahead to Part 9 (the most recent) to read this: I told you that I was interested in the Whalley trial because I was hoping to get answers to a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, bobcat in James River, Brett Ruskin, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, cougar, cow Barney's River Station, John Whalley trial, Justice Beryl A. MacDonald, Mary Campbell, naming sharks, pedestrian struck Willet Street, Rick Mehta, Scrabble, Stephen Archibald and cobbles, Stuart Peddle, VonMaltzahn v Koppernaes divorce, whale Brier Island

Kersplash: there goes tidal generation

Morning File, Tuesday, August 14, 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

News 1. Emera withdraws from Cape Sharp Tidal This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Emera is out of the tidal power business in the Bay of Fundy, at least for now. The parent company of Nova Scotia Power (and the North American energy conglomerate with $29 billion in assets) announced yesterday it was withdrawing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cassie Williams, Christian Richard, Emera, Fredericton shooting, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Grant Thornton, GreenUnivers, Kevin Bissett, Laurent Schneider-Maunoury, Michael Tutton, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Morgan Lowrie, Naval Energies, Nicole Thompson, Oceans Supercluster, Open Hydro, Patricia Laurent, Rachel Boomer, Renewables Now, reporting ranks in New Brunswick, Samantha Bayard, Stacey Pineau, Steve Hennigar, Tufts Cove oil spill, Vincent Groizeleau

Halifax’s moral panic over the legalization of cannabis

Morning File, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Convention centre Oh, running out of time for this… I’ll write it up today for tomorrow’s Morning File. 2. Smoking ban On Monday, Dartmouth councillor Sam Austin published a blog post saying he was reconsidering his support for the smoking bylaw, weirdly wanting to keep the provisions of the bylaw as they pertain […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bay Ferries, Brett Cantlay, Brett Ruskin, cannabis, Carleton patio, Catherine Tully, Councillor Sam Austin, Downeast Windjammer Cruise Lines, FOIPOP website, groundwater pollution at airport, Gus Reed, Halifax CFL team, Hiroshi Masui, John Demont, John Traves, legalization in Colorado, Makusi language, Nuisance Bylaw, Ron MacDonnell, Smoking ban, Steve Pagels, Terry Jones, Tina Comeau, Transport Canada, Yuki Masui

Robie Street is about to become a construction nightmare

Morning File, Monday, July 9, 2018

July 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. The border Writes Stephen Kimber: In the past month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection stopped 21 vessels in the Gulf of Maine “looking for illegal immigrants.” Illegal immigrants? From Canada? Or should that be to Canada? Click here to read “Donald Trump and the border: He stands on guard for he.” This article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, bus to Bayers lake, Chocolate Lake drowning, DEVCO coal, DOSCO, Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC), Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Landsdowne, Maritime Football Group, Mayor Mike Savage, Robie Street construction map, Silas Brown, stadium, tropical storm Chris

Rockets, cats, construction workers, and Venn diagram jokes: Morning File, Wednesday, October 18, 2017

October 18, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Rent control “Premier Stephen McNeil quickly quashed a proposal from the NDP to bring rent control back to Nova Scotia,” reports Marieke Walsh for Global. Duh. What does McNeil care? His Hollis Street apartment is paid for by taxpayers, to the tune of $1,575 a month. And if the rent goes up, no big deal, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Christopher Gooding, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Construction workers bad and good, cougar in Northport, councillor Bill Karsten, councillor Shawn Cleary, Euler Diagram, Ingrid Nickerson, Kirk O'Connell, launchpad, Lloyd Kerry, Marieke Walsh, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), pedestrian struck Halifax Waterfront boardwalk, Premier Stephen McNeil and rent control, Roger and Robert Taylor, Venn diagram, Zane Woodford

Bullshitter of the day: Martha Crago. Morning File, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Update: Bassam Al-Rawi has been found and served Monday, the Examiner reported that over a week of trying, police had not been able to locate taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi to serve documents notifying him his case would be brought before the Court of Appeal. There had been multiple, but unconfirmed reports that Al-Rawi had left […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bassam Al-Rawi found, Brenda Gallant-Graves, Brett Ruskin, Canso, Dalhousie Senate meeting, Divest Dal, Edward Ellegood, fluffing cosmonauts in Canso, Francoise Bayliss, innovation, John MacDonell, Lantz interchange, Letitia Meynell, Margaret Miller, Maritime Launch Services, Martha Crago, McNeil government, Paul Mombourquette, Penney Group, Richard Florizone, spaceport, Stephen King

To C or not to C? Also: LSD. Morning File, Thursday, February 9, 2017

February 9, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the Silence of the DNR Company Men We’ve published Part 5 of Linda Pannozzo’s “Biomass, Freedom of Information, and the Silence of the DNR Company Men” series, in which we learn that publicly funded information — not available to Nova Scotians — was provided to a pipeline company based in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Myrick, ammunition depot, Brett Ruskin, Colin Darlington, Graham Steele, interpreters, Issam Khoury, Law Amendments, Lesley Hartman, Merek Jagielski, Molly Deveau, Robert Devet, rural libraries

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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.

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After a year’s worth of singles and videos, the Halifax duo is finally releasing its first recorded project in the form of FLUTTER, a six-song genre-agnostic EP that’s deeply personal and incredibly catchy. Art Ross and Aaron Green return to the show a year later to dish on their music-industry immersion, why Ross’ sapphic lyrics strike all kinds of chords, and where you can see them this summer.

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