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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

New report finds poverty, systemic racism and discrimination “most urgent threats” to well-being of NS children, youth

April 26, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

A new report on the well-being of Nova Scotia’s children and youth has found that while many are doing well, far too many are being left behind. The ‘One Chance to be a Child’ report was released Tuesday. Described as the first “comprehensive snapshot” of child and youth well-being in the province, the data profile […]

Filed Under: COVID, Education, Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: child poverty, Dalhousie University, Department of Pediatrics, Healthy Populations Institute, Nova Scotia, One Chance to be a Child, poverty, Sara Kirk, systemic racism and discrimination, Yvette d'Entremont

CCPA-NS report: Child poverty rate down just 0.1 of a percentage point in 30 years

Province's child poverty reduction record worst in Canada; rates are highest in Digby, Annapolis, and Cape Breton where one in three children live in poverty.

November 24, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Nova Scotia has reduced its child poverty rate by just 0.1 of a percentage point in 30 years, making it the province with the worst child poverty reduction record in Canada. That’s one of the takeaways from the 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia. Released today by the Canadian Centre […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2021 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia, Annapolis, Campaign 200 national report card, Canada Child Benefit, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), Cape Breton, child poverty, Christine Saulnier, Digby, Dr. Lesley Frank, family poverty, Nova Scotia, Premier Tim Houston, single parents, Sipekne'katik First Nations, Stillwater Lake, Worst Provincial Performance over 30 Years

Educators for Social Justice NS wants election candidates to implement recommendations to eliminate child poverty

Poverty takes away children's confidence and "they don't see the future the way that they should see it," one teacher said.

July 30, 2021 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

A group of educators advocating for “greater social justice” in schools and communities is calling on Nova Scotia’s political parties to lay out concrete plans for eliminating child poverty. In a virtual media conference Friday morning, Educators for Social Justice Nova Scotia (ESJ-NS) members called on provincial election candidates to commit to implementing 11 recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health Tagged With: Acadia University, Alec Stratford, Angela Wyllie, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), Cape Breton, child poverty, Diane Lewis, Educators for Social Justice (ESJ-NS), Kentville, Lesley Frank, Nova Scotia College of social workers, Yvette d'Entremont

Canada, land of the gas guzzler

Morning File, Thursday, January 16, 2020

January 16, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Partners for Care closes up shops Jennifer Henderson reports for the Halifax Examiner: Partners for Care, the non-profit group which ran half a dozen gift shops at the QE2 Health Sciences Centre for 25 years, abruptly closed the doors at its remaining four locations Tuesday. A charity without charitable activities to operate raises […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blake Shaffer, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, child poverty, Communications Nova Scotia, David Burke, forestry workers, free transit, fuel consumption, gas prices, Halifax Transit, HRM free bus passes, International Energy Agency, Jesse Thomas, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Scotia Works, runway overruns, runway safety zones, Service Canada, Shannon Kerr, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, Uber in Halifax

Public agencies lost at least $2.2 million on aioTV

Morning File, Tuesday, March 5, 2019

March 5, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 11 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has received 3,200 submissions from people with an interest in whether the federal regulator should carry out a review of Northern Pulp’s plan to pipe treated effluent 4.1 kilometers out into prime lobster fishing area in the Northumberland Strait. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aidan McNally, aioTV, Alex Cooke, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Canadian Federation of Students, Canadian Income Survey (CIS), child poverty, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Friends of the Northumberland Strait (FONS), Hani Abdelrahman, Icarus Report March 5 2019, ice on sidewalks, immigration fraud, Innovacorp, James Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Jason Cannon, Michael Earle, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Department of Finance, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry, PEI Premier Wade MacLauchlan, Premier Stephen McNeil, Richard Starr, university tuition fees

Taking out the trash: Thursday, September 14, 2017

Dirty water and a convention centre that keeps on doing its best to exist.

September 14, 2017 By Katie Toth 16 Comments

I’m Katie, a reporter in Halifax who is filling in for Tim today. Follow me on Twitter. News 1. A First Nation with dirty water is turning to new experts for help Tired of waiting for the federal government to take their brown water seriously, Potlotek First Nation in Nova Scotia has hired an Irish […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: child poverty, Halifax Convention Centre, Jimmy Melvin trial, Katie Toth, Potlotek First Nation

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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