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Remember when Premier Stephen McNeil gave $5 million of our money to Sandpiper Ventures to help women-led businesses in Atlantic Canada? A lot of that money went to Vancouver and Winnipeg

Morning File, Friday, July 29, 2022

July 29, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Brian Johnston “The municipality denies that a former Halifax Regional Police officer sexually assaulted a teenaged girl in the early 1990s, but admits the same person later complained to police about the officer fathering her child,” reports Zane Woodford: As the Halifax Examiner reported in January, a plaintiff using the pseudonym X.Y. is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Amy Risley, BDC Capital Women in Technology Venture Fund, Begin AI, Bodidata, Brightspark Ventures, Bruce Terry, Build Nova Scotia, Build Ventures, Callia, Canadian Business Growth Fund, Cathy Bennett, Chère Chapman, Coloursmith Labs Inc, Conexus Venture Capital, DeNova, Fable, Golden Ventures, Innovatia Inc, Karen Hutt, Killick Capital, Mavan Capital, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Nicole LeBlanc, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Ocean Supercluster Program, Pelorus Capital, Peter MacNeil, Pluto Investments, ProcedureFlow, Sandpiper Ventures, Sarah Young, Swiftsure Innovations, Tanya Shaw, Threshold Impact, Tuoc Lyong, Unique CEDC, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Wayne Crawley

Grants for seniors, gold mining, the premier’s ‘friends,’ and more from Question Period

July 29, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

Starting September 1, seniors who live on less than $37,500 a year will be able to apply for a $750 non-taxable grant from the provincial government. Seniors and Long-term Care Minister Barbara Adams says between 60,000 and 70,000 Nova Scotians should be eligible for the grant. Unlike the previous senior care grant introduced last spring, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Beaver Dam, Build Nova Scotia, carbon tax, climate change, Cochrane Hill, Craig Jetson, Dr. Kevin Orrell, Eastern Shore, Ecology Action Centre, Fifteen-Mile Stream, gas prices, gold mining, Guysborough County, health care, Houston government, Invest Nova Scotia, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Karen McKendry, Liberal MLA Derek Mombourquette, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Tim Halman, Minister of Health and Wellness Michelle Thompson, monkeypox, Moose River, NDP Leader Claudia Chender, Nova Scotia, Office of Professional Healthcare Recruitment, Premier Tim Houston, Question Period, seniors, Seniors and Long-term Care Minister Barbara Adams, St Barbara, St. Mary's River, Tom Hickey, Touquoy open pit gold mine, Wayne Crawley

Crown heads roll

July 26, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 7 Comments

The Houston government is consolidating five government agencies down to two after a review designed to improve their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.  As of today, the CEOs of Nova Scotia Business Inc, Develop Nova Scotia, and Innovacorp are out of a job. Laurel Broten, Jennifer Angel, and Malcolm Fraser will receive severance worth six to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Build Nova Scotia, Colton LeBlanc, Department of Finance, Develop Nova Scotia, Fred Tilley, Front-Line Safety, Innovacorp, Invest Nova Scotia, Jennifer Angel, Kim Masland, Laurel Broten, Malcolm Fraser, Municipal Finance Corporation, NDP Leader Claudia Chender, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation, Nova Scotia Lands, Premier Tim Houston, Tom Hickey, Venor, Wayne Crawley

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

Episode 89 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.
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To sleep, perchance to dream — in this humidity?! Shakespeare By The Sea’s production of Hamlet — its first staged tragedy since 2019 — opens on August 5, and director Drew Douris-O’Hara and the man himself, Deivan Steele, stop by the show before rehearsal to chat. Topics include: climate change’s effect on outdoor theatre, the timelessness of Shakespeare’s most popular work, the failure of funding models in all times (not just during COVID), and the resilience of squirrels.

Listen to the episode here.

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