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Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

Morning File, Wednesday, April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Sam Austin blames volunteers for crisis shelter assault Last Saturday morning, members of the anonymous volunteer group Mutual Aid Halifax erected a crisis shelter in Starr Park in Dartmouth. On Monday, Halifax Regional Police say, someone living in the shelter assaulted a local resident who had knocked on the shelter. In a post […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Amy S. Bruckman, Associate Deputy Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Banned Book Week, Bluenose Inn and Suites, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, CBRM, child poverty, children and youth, crisis shelters, Elon Musk, Ethan Molick, Georgia Tech, health, homelessness, housing, John Ghosn, libraries, Mary Campbell, Mass Murders, Mutual Aid Halifax, Nora Young, Portapique, Sam Austin, Sara Kirk, Spark, Starr Park, Twitter, Wentworth Park, Wharton University

10,000 steps and other persistent bullshit

Morning File, Tuesday, February 15, 2022

February 15, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Seven more Nova Scotians have died of COVID-19 Yesterday, Nova Scotia reported seven COVID-19 deaths over three days. More than a third of Nova Scotia’s COVID deaths have occurred since December 3. Welcome to the next phase of our re-opening plan. In his roundup, Tim Bousquet writes: The 68 people now hospitalized because […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Afghanistan, Albert Mehrabian, Black in the Maritimes, British Medical Journal, Cape Breton Spectator, Charlie Warzel, Community Services Minister Karla MacFarlane, COVID-19, Disability Rights Coalition, Emera, Fidel Franco, Galaxy Brain, health care, Jennifer Henderson, Mary Campbell, Matthew Byard, Matthieu Aikins, Milena Khazanavicius, New York Times, Nova Scotia Power, Philip Moscovitch, refugees, scams, ScripTalk, Supreme Court of Canada, Suzanne Rent, Tim Bousquet, Tim Houston, Vicky Levack, water, Wordle

Anaconda joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Part 2. Anaconda aims to avoid a federal impact assessment for its proposed open pit gold mine, but some say the whole regulatory process in Canada is “rigged”

February 11, 2022 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Gold exploration and mining companies are lining up to get at Nova Scotia’s gold, as the province undergoes a fourth gold rush. In 2017, Atlantic Gold opened the province’s first-ever open pit gold mine in Moose River, with plans to open three more along the Eastern Shore, in what it described to potential investors as […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Abbé Jean-Louis LaLoutre, Anaconda Mining, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Aurelius Minerals, Barbara Markovits, Beaver Dam, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, Cape Breton Spectator, Class I environmenal assessment, Class II environmental assessment, clearcutting, Cochrane Hill, corporate capture, DDV Gold, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Donna Ashamock, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, environmental assessment, Fifteen-Mile Stream, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, gold mine, gold rush, Goldboro, Goldboro mine project, green economy, Health Canada, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC), Iris Communications, Joel Bakan, John Perkins, Kevin Bullock, Kirby McVicar, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO), lobbyist, Mainland Moose, Margaret Miller, Mary Campbell, Meguma Gold, Mi'kmaq, Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, Mi’kmaw Ecological Knowledge, Mining Association of Canada, MiningWatch Canada, Moose River, Natural Resources Canada, Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries an Aquaculture, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (NSECC), One WIndow Regulatory process, open pit gold mine, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), regulatory capture, Seamus O'Regan, St Barbara Ltd, Stephen McNeil, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), tailings, tailings facility, The Corporation, Touquoy gold mine, Ugo Lapointe, Vernon Pitts, watersheds, Western Mining Action Network

Harry Bruce on Alexa McDonough: “Alone among 51 political enemies, all men.”

Morning File, Tuesday, January 18, 2022

January 18, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. How long will in-person schooling last? The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Kids across the province went back to school in person yesterday. But for how long? Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU) president Paul Wozney tells Yvette d’Entremont he is not optimistic. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, Profiles Tagged With: Active History, Adria Vasil, Alexa McDonough, Asif Illyas, Atlantic Insight, biomass, Cannonball Adderley, Cape Breton Spectator, Corporate Knights, COVID-19, defunding police, Drax, El Jones, George Palikaras, Harry Bruce, Innovacorp, Lisa Blackburn, Mary Campbell, Meta Materials, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), Oceans Terminal, Paul McEwan, Paul Wozney, Peter McDonough, Philip Moscovitch, Pier 21, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Steve Schwinghamer, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Business and “grouchers” from 1892-1913

Morning File, Tuesday, December 7, 2021

December 7, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Benefits outweigh risks when it comes to vaccinating kids against COVID-19, new study says Yvette d’Entremont speaks with Dr. Karina Top, co-author of a new report on risks and benefits of COVID-19 vaccination for children. Top says there are a lot of good reasons to vaccinate children, especially with the holidays coming: Children […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Spectator, Economic Development, gold, gold mining, Grouchers, History, Innovacorp, Jennifer Henderson, Lighthouse Mennonite Church, Maritime Merchant and Commercial Review, Mary Campbell, natural gas, Philip Moscovitch, Yvette d'Entremont

Remembering Robert Devet

Morning File, Friday, October 15, 2021

October 15, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

  News 1. 26 new cases of COVID-19 announced Nova Scotia announced 26 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, with active cases now at 198. Tim Bousquet has the run-down on all the data you need here. Asymptomatic pop-up testing continues today, from noon to 7pm at the Halifax Convention Centre and Centennial Arena. One of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Aruna Dhara, Cape Breton Spectator, CBRM, Detroit, Economic Development, economic growth, Francesca Ekwuyasi, HRM, Jennifer Henderson, Keith Doucette, Killa Atencio, Kim Morgan, Mary Campbell, Maxwell Hartt, Morning File, Nocturne, Philip Moscovitch, Raven Davis, Sam Austin, smoking

Moral panic and a “fantastic claim”

Morning File, Thursday, October 7, 2021

October 7, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. It’s heartbreaking that Beth MacLean didn’t live to see the largest human rights award in Canadian history Tim Bousquet reports on the Nova Scotia Court of Appeals ruling yesterday that the Province of Nova Scotia systematically discriminated against people with disabilities. He writes: The court extended a previous Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brier Island, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Spectator, CBRM, cocaine, Digby Neck, Fermentation, Kimchi, Kombucha, Les Hay Babies, Martha Stewart, Mary Bailey, Mary Campbell, meat, Noticed in Nova Scotia, Philip Moscovitch, pickles, Quilting, Quilts, Robert Devet, Saurkraut, Sherri Borden Colley, Stephen Archibald

The “Right to Know” in Nova Scotia often goes right to “no”

It’s almost “Right to Know Week” in Nova Scotia, but that doesn’t mean that access to information in the province is something to celebrate, as a recent freedom of information request illustrates.

September 23, 2021 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

In this article, Part 1 of a two-part series about the state of the public’s “right to know” in Nova Scotia, the focus is on what happened when the Halifax Examiner submitted a Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) request to the province about whether it would agree to protect the French River watershed — the water […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: access to information, arsenic, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, Cobequid Hills, Darth DeMont, Department of Energy and Mines, Department of lands and Forestry, Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Don James, Earltown, FOIPOP, Frances Willick, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, French River, French River watershed, Geoscience and Mines Branch, gold, Gordon Wilson, Information Access and Privacy (IAP), Information Access and Privacy Commissioner, International Right to Know Day, Jim Vibert, Mary Campbell, Mi’kmaq Grassroots Grandmothers, Michelle Boudreau, MIchelle Newell, Mike Allen, mineral exploration, mining, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Municipality of the County of Colchester, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, NSE, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), Right to Know, Right to Know Week, SaltWire, Sarah Kirby, Sean Kirby, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Tatamagouche, Tatamagouche (French River) Source Water Protection Advisory Committee, the Coast, Tim Bousquet, Warwick Mountain Gold, Warwick Mountain Project

How to succeed in business by killing a bunch of people

Morning File, Tuesday, June 2, 2020

June 2, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Mass shooting “The class action lawsuit brought against the estate of the man who killed 22 people and injured seven others during a fiery rampage across northern Nova Scotia has been updated through an amended statement of claim,” reports Jennifer Henderson: The lawsuit includes three groups of plaintiffs: those whose loved ones were […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alastair Campbell, Cape Breton Spectator, Entrevestor, Innovacorp, Mary Campbell, Permjot Valia, Silver Donald Cameron, Story Arc Series, The Mysterious East

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

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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

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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