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 […]
10,000 steps and other persistent bullshit
Morning File, Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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 […]
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”
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 […]
Harry Bruce on Alexa McDonough: “Alone among 51 political enemies, all men.”
Morning File, Tuesday, January 18, 2022
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. […]
Business and “grouchers” from 1892-1913
Morning File, Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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 […]
Remembering Robert Devet
Morning File, Friday, October 15, 2021
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 […]
Moral panic and a “fantastic claim”
Morning File, Thursday, October 7, 2021
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 […]
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.
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 […]
How to succeed in business by killing a bunch of people
Morning File, Tuesday, June 2, 2020
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 […]
Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda
Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020
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 […]