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Atlantic Gold is going to court

The St. Barbara Limited company is facing 32 environmental charges, even as more complaints roll in.

January 20, 2021 By Joan Baxter

Just over a month after the construction company contracted by Atlantic Gold to excavate clay for the tailings facility at its open pit gold mine at Moose River assured Krista Gillis of Mooseland that the excavation work wouldn’t cause any more sedimentation in a nearby brook, it has happened again. On Saturday, January 17, Gillis...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Adele Poirier, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS Inc, carbon neutral, climate change, climate emergency, Dartmouth Provincial Court, DDV Gold, Dustin O’Leary, Environment Canada, Fifteen Mile Stream mine, Guysborough Journal, heavy rainfall, Kip Keen, Krista Gillis, Lake Charlotte, Moose River Consolidated Project, Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Rachel Boomer, rainfall records, S&P Global, Scraggy Lake, Seloam Brook, Ship Harbour Long Lake Wilderness Area, St. Barbara Limited, tailings management facility (TMF), Tangier Grand Lake Wilderness Area, Touquoy mine

Council preview: Uber rules, climate plan, cooling-off period for bureaucrats

January 13, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Rules for Uber, a plan for climate change, and a cooling-off period for politicians and staff are all on the agenda for Halifax regional council’s meeting this week. The meeting, starting at 10am Tuesday, also includes an appeal hearing for a design review committee decision at 1pm and a public hearing on a Bedford Highway...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: CAO Richard Butts, climate emergency, councillor cool-off, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, Design Review Committee, development Barrington Street, development Bedford Highway, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city council, lobbyist, Old South Suburb Heritage Conservation District Plan, Pathos Properties Inc, perivale + taylor, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, RCMP Chief Superintendent Janis Gray, review of policing, ride-hailing companies, taxi bylaw, Uber, vulnerable sector checks

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

Morning File, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Degtyarev, Andrew McKelvey, Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Cheryl Gardner, climate emergency, Corey Rogers, crane incident, Daniel Fraser, Don Bowser, Ekatirine Keramaris, Firefly Aerospace, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Irving Shipbuilding, Jack Sorbo, John Ball, John Misenor House, Lead Structural Formwork Ltd, Linda Pannozzo, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Natasha Pace, Pavel Degtyarenko, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Shannon, Roger Eckoldt, Steven Lutes, Ukrainian corruption, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The Climate Emergency

Part 4: Our current economy can't address the crisis; what are we going to do about it?

November 8, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 3 Comments

Previously in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. It’s not often that I root for the anti-hero in a book, but it seems that as I neared the end of Jeremy Lent’s latest book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning — perhaps the longest book I’ve ever read at […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Anders Hayden, circular economy, climate emergency, Copenhagen Accord, GDP, green economy, green growth, greenhouse gas emissions, Jeremy Lent, John Gowdy, Kyoto Protocol, Lahey report, Martin Sers, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Paris Agreement, Peter Victor, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robin Wall Kimmerer, State of the World: Governing for Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals Act, Techno Split, The Energy Emissions Trap, ultrasociality, Worldwatch Institute

Truly, no one much takes this supposed climate emergency seriously

Morning File, Monday, November 4, 2019

November 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

November subscription drive Through the Halifax Examiner’s first couple of years, I wrote Morning File every day. Then, the Examiner started hiring guest writers for Morning File when I was on vacation or out of town. More recently, other writers have become such a regular feature that we no longer call them “guests” — they’re […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canso spaceport, climate emergency, entangled right whale, Keith Doucette, lead in drinking water, Michael Gorman, parking garage Summer Street, right whale necropsy, Robert Cribb, Star Halifax, Suzanne Rent, tap water, Torstar, WSP Canada, Zane Woodford

The Climate Emergency

Part 3: How to turn off the economic growth engine

October 24, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo Leave a Comment

At about 14 minutes into the recent Federal Leaders’ debate there was a back and forth between Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, and Maxime Bernier, leader and founder of the People’s Party of Canada, in which Bernier — who advocates for free-market policies, liberalized trade and private property rights — called […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Anders Hayden, Anthropocene, Atomic Age, climate emergency, ecological economics, economic growth, Elizabeth May, Federal leaders' debate, free market, GHG emissions, Great Acceleration, greenhouse gas emissions, Income inequality, Jonathan Swarts, Lars Osberg, Maxime Bernier, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Peter Victor, sustainable prosperity

Halifax Mayor Mike Savage recognizes “Wrongful Conviction Day” but takes no action on the wrongful conviction his city is responsible for

Morning File, Monday, October 7, 2019

October 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

1. Boat Harbour “The day-by-day countdown to the closing of Boat Harbour happens on a large painting erected in front of the Pictou Landing First Nation band council office, reports Joan Baxter: The painting depicts Boat Harbour as it was before it was dammed (and damned) in 1966, transformed from a healthy tidal estuary to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Carter, Anahad O'Connor, Bradley C. Johnston, CFL stadium, climate emergency, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, Extinction Rebellion, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Kaulbach Island, Lynn Jones, MacDonald Bridge, Melford Railway, red meat, stadium proposal, Tara Parker-Pope, Truro town council, Wrongful Conviction Day

The climate emergency: Why it’s time to ditch the language of economic growth

September 26, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

This is the first in a 4-part series exploring climate change and economic growth, green or otherwise. In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel set in a near-future totalitarian state, the women are subjugated in various horrific ways including that they are allowed to move around anywhere within town but are unaware that […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: carbon laundering, climate emergency, consumption-based accounting, Ecology Action Centre, economic growth, Gardner Pinfold, GDP, greenhouse gas emissions, Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), Paris Agreement, production-based accounting, Stephen Thomas

The provincial government is thinking about using bogus “carbon offsets”

Morning File, Monday, September 16, 2019

September 16, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Dorian “On Sept. 3, 2019, as deadly, destructive Dorian zeroed in on southeastern US coastal states, the four biggest American wireless carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — all pre-emptively announced plans to help their customers stay connected,” writes Stephen Kimber: Verizon, for example offered unlimited calling, texting and data from Sept. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: carbon offset credits, climate emergency, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Natalie Borden, police checks, police theft, social media, truck fire

We’ll get around to that climate emergency eventually

Morning File, Thursday March 7, 2019

March 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News 1. Court This is an abbreviated Morning File because I have to be at the Supreme Court at 9am. I’m going to court to join the CBC and the Canadian Press in their efforts to rescind the sealing order in the Glen Assoun case. That order was issued by Justice Chipman on October 23, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Lahey, Cameron Yetman, climate emergency, Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP), Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee, Erin Appelbe, Glen Assoun resealing order, iMatter, Jamie Simpson, Justice Chipman, Lily Barraclough, Neria Atwine, Peter Duncan, Robin Tress, Shilo Gempton, Stephen Archibald and real fake wood grain, Youth Climate Action Program

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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