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“There’s something in the water”

Ellen Page speaks to the Halifax Examiner about her forthcoming feature film and what she hopes it will accomplish

August 14, 2019 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a telephone interview about her forthcoming film on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, which will have its world debut this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was hammering her […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Alton Gas, Boat Harbour, Dale Poulette, Ellen Page, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Environmental Noxiousness Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH), Environmental Racism, Gaycation, Ian Daniel, Ingrid Waldron, Julia Anderson, Lil MacPherson, Louise Delisle, Michelle Francis-Denny, Northern Pulp, Pema Chödrön, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachael Greenland-Smith, Umbrella Academy, US Vice President Mike Pence

Anthony Leblanc is asking the Trudeau government to pay for his stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 7 Comments

News 1. Alton Gas This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. “There is no evidence to support the occupation of land near Fort Ellis by Dale Poulette, Rachael Greenland-Smith, and others,” said N.S. Supreme Court Justice Gerald Moir in an oral decision granting Alton Natural Gas Storage Inc. a temporary injunction. The injunction is aimed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage protest, Anthony Leblanc, CFL team, Cst. Adam Whynott, Cst. Basso, Dale Poulette, David Patriquin, David Wallace, EcoJustice, Halifax Police, Irving Shipbuilding, James Gunvalsen-Klaassen, James Irving, Justice Gerald Moir, Justice Kevin Coady, Kristin Wilton, Laurence Gary Basso, Linda Pannozzo, lobbying, Marco Vigliotti, Pulp Culture, Rachel Greenland-Smith, Robin MacLachlan, scoreboard, Sgt. Mike Willett, Sgt. Peter Burdock, Sipekne’-katik First Nation, stadium financing, Summa Strategies, Tavia Connolly, Tim Powers

Judge orders protestors off Alton Gas site

March 18, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Justice Gerald Moir has granted Alton Natural Gas Storage a temporary injunction to remove protestors who erected a permanent camp on the access road to the Shubenacadie River. The site is where the company intends to deposit brine from future development of underground salt caverns, so the company can store natural gas in the caverns. […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage protests, Dale Poulette, James Gunvalsen-Klaassen, Justice Gerald Moir, Rachel Greenland-Smith, Rob Turner

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

A young man wearing a purple jean jacket and sporting a moustache lies on the green grass surrounded by pink plastic flamingos

Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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