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Stephen McNeil dodges questions about the proposed Inverness airport and the “conquered peoples” case

July 25, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia cabinet ministers met for the first time in three weeks yesterday. After their meeting, journalists had the opportunity to ask the premier a few questions. Inverness airport One question: How much has the Province been asked to contribute to an $18-million airport in Inverness, Cape Breton? The joint venture would make it easier...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Build Cape Breton, Cabot Links, conquered people, Inverness Airport, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice Minister Diana Whalen, Minister Bernadette Jordan, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Stephen McNeil

“Hands off our protected areas, and lay off our Crown land”

The proposed Inverness airport will either encroach on or be very near to the Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, a protected nature reserve. It's not the kind of place one wants to have commercial jets “screaming in and out," says the Raymond Plourde, the Ecology Action Centre's wilderness coordinator.

July 21, 2019 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

In the past month or so, an awful lot of people — especially people with nothing to gain from a new airport that would serve a couple of luxury golf resorts in Inverness — have put forward more than enough good reasons for both the federal and provincial governments to tell Cabot Links and Cabot […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Andrew Macdonald, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Ben Cowan-Dewar, Build Cape Breton, Cabot Links airport, Cabot Links financing, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Carlyle Group, Daniel Gallivan, Darlene Grant Fiander, Darrell Dexter, Francis Campbell, Frank McKenna, Inverness Airport, Inverness Beach, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Margaree Environmental Association, Mary Campbell, Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, Mike Keiser, Minister Bernadette Jordan, MP Rodger Cuzner, Neal Livingston, Raymond Plourde, Rodney MacDonald, Steven Joyce, Tom Ayers

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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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