This is the second article in a two-part series that the Halifax Examiner is co-publishing with The Energy Mix about the “green hydrogen and ammonia” project that EverWind Fuels has proposed for Point Tupper in Nova Scotia. See Part 1 here. Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is a big fan of EverWind’s “green hydrogen and […]
National Police Federation: Nova Scotians love the RCMP!
Morning File, Thursday, August 11, 2022
Because of supply chain issues, nobody wanting to work anymore, some of the Examiner crew being on holiday, I am in the Morning File seat for the second day in a row. I will try not to use the word “tedious” today. News 1. Tracy Kitch sentenced to five months Tracy Kitch, the former CEO […]
Elizabeth May: the consolidation of the Canadian pulp industry is ‘a remarkable and ominous story’ covered only by Joan Baxter and the Halifax Examiner
Morning File, Monday, July 18, 2022
News 1. Mass Casualty Commission Lisa Banfield testified in person at the Mass Casualty Commission on Friday. I was in the room and followed the testimony on my Twitter feed, but needed to think about it before writing an article. In the meanwhile, Stephen Kimber stepped in and asked “What was it that lawyers for […]
What’s the “one small habit” that keeps a man organized? A wife
Morning File, Thursday, June 30, 2022
News 1. Sable Island fog Paul Withers at CBC recently visited Sable Island where scientists are there for an international study on how to predict fog, which poses a lot of challenges for meteorology. Project leader Joe Fernando of Notre Dame University told Withers they chose Sable Island because it’s one of the foggiest places […]
Calling the quarantine hotline
Morning File, Tuesday, June 21, 2022
News 1. Police board to launch limited independent review of August 18 actions “Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners is moving ahead with an independent civilian review of the police actions of August 18, 2021,” Zane Woodford reports. The board had considered launching such a review last fall, but was waiting on a legal opinion to […]
Investors gone wild: gum, weed, and space
Morning File, Monday, June 13, 2022
News 1. $450 million “Three months before Mountain Equipment Co-op went to the British Columbia Supreme Court for creditor protection in 2020, Northern Pulp — a Paper Excellence company — together with five affiliates and its immediate owner 1057863 B.C. Ltd, had already done so,” reports Joan Baxter: In June 2020, Northern Pulp et al. […]
Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries
Morning File, Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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. […]
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