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Fracking is back on the agenda in Nova Scotia

After years during which nobody seemed to be asking the F-question in the province, suddenly it is being asked again all over the place: To frack or not to frack? Who’s asking and why?

May 6, 2019 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

To frack, or not to frack Nova Scotia? That seems to be the question. Again. There’s been a de facto moratorium on fracking — more specifically on “high-volume hydraulic fracturing in shale” — in the province since 2014, and oil and gas companies haven’t exactly been beating down our doors to get it lifted, demanding […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: AltaGas, Alton Gas Natural Storage, Andrew Nikiforuk, Andrew Younger, Barb Harris, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Cape Breton Spectator, Councillor Lynne Welton, Cumberland Business Connector, Cumberland Energy Authority, David Wheeler, Department of Energy and Mines, Fracking, global warming, Harry Thurston, Heritage Gas Limited, Jennifer Matthews, John Hawkins, Jonathan McClelland, Ken Summers, lobbyist, Maritime Energy Association, Mark Haslon, Mary Campbell, Minister Lloyd Hines, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), PC MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, PC MLA Pat Dunn, PC MLA Tory Rushton, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ray Hickey, Ray Ritcey, Sandy MacMullin, shale gas development, Shelley Hoeg, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, Wheeler report

“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking

September 14, 2018 By Joan Baxter 9 Comments

About 200 people gathered last evening in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County.” The audience was, not surprisingly, clearly divided between those in favour and those against. For many, including several members of the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Cecil Clarke, climate change, Darrel Dexter, David Wheeler, Douglas Leahey, Elizabeth Roscoe, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Fracking, Friends of Science, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Gerard Lucyshyn, Michael Bradfield, MLA John Lohr, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), Scott Armstrong, Tim Houston, Tory Rushton

We’re Cooked: The Case for Ignoring Nova Scotia’s Fracking Potential

January 16, 2018 By Linda Pannozzo 1 Comment

On the same day that Nova Scotia’s governing Liberals introduced legislation to ban high volume hydraulic fracturing in the province, I happened to be on a “fracking tour” in the U.S. with a bus load of other environmental journalists in a place that had instead embraced it. We were headed from New Orleans to the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Bill McKibben, David Wheeler, Energy Minister Geoff MacLellan, Fracking, Jessica Ernst, Linda Pannozzo, Maritimes Energy Association, Seamus McGraw

Are we doing right by international students?

Nova Scotian universities value international students for their big tuition payments and the cultural diversity they bring to campus. How's that working?

April 27, 2017 By Chris Lambie

Elias Galindo was walking down Spring Garden Road around sunset last November with a fellow international student from Mexico when a vanload of young men started following them. It was the day after Donald Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, largely on promises to wall off his country’s southern neighbour, clamp down...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brian Leadbetter, cheating students, Chen Quing, Chengguo Education, Chun Hoe, Claire Linette Seremba, David Wheeler, Diane Hawco, Elias Galindo, international students, Jass Singh, Julia Christensen Hughes, Kayleen Ick, Lars Osberg, racism in Halifax, Salman Sajid, The Halifax Language Institute of Canada, Univfax, Vivian Howard, Wentao Li

Was Barrington Street razed to push out the Italians? Morning File, Thursday, April 6, 2017

April 6, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Custio Clayton says he was racially profiled “I’ve never felt so humiliated in my life; I felt violated,” Custio Clayton tells Ryan Van Horne, reporting for the Examiner. Clayton, a Dartmouth-trained boxer now working as a professional in Montreal with the goal of being one of the world’s top 10 boxers, was stopped by Montreal police on his […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barrington Street, Bev Keddy, David Wheeler, Italian district, Keith Doucette, Richard Deaton, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

End this unpleasant mixture of austerity and divisiveness: David Wheeler

There is no question that three years of an overly-simplistic, 1980s-style focus on "balancing the books" in the province has failed, with a flatlining economy and stagnating wages.

April 6, 2017 By David Wheeler 4 Comments

This morning, it was announced that I will be standing for the NDP at the forthcoming provincial election. I am standing in the riding of Halifax Armdale close by where I lived when I was Dean of Management at Dalhousie University. Armdale is a beautiful and culturally diverse riding which — like the rest of the province […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: David Wheeler, NS NDP

Political Manipulation Could Derail Nova Scotia’s Cap and Trade System

March 13, 2017 By Brendan Haley 1 Comment

Political expediency seems to be motivating the design of Nova Scotia’s carbon pricing system, potentially creating negative consequences for the environment and economy. Last week, the province released a discussion paper on its proposed cap and trade system to comply with the federal government’s plan for a pan-Canadian carbon price. Public comments on this plan […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Brendan Haley, Cap and Trade, carbon pricing, David Wheeler, Nova Scotia Power

On the Money: Morning File, Saturday, December 10, 2016

December 10, 2016 By El Jones 4 Comments

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Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Morgan, Barry Cahill, Black History Month, Carleton Stanley, Claudette Colvin, David Wheeler, E. Pauline Johnson, Feminista Jones, Harriet Tubman, Indigenous women, James McGregor Stewart, Kirsten West Savali, Malcolm X, Mayann Francis, Naomi Moyer, Todd McCallum, Viola Desmond

The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers: Morning File, Tuesday, December 6, 2016

December 6, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 36 Comments

News 1. The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers I almost felt sorry for cabinet minister Michel Samson yesterday. As with the rest of his government, events had overtaken him. He stood before a room full of reporters who were repeatedly calling him out on his contradictions and his uninformed spin. “You say […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Ashcroft Homes, Bill 75, Canadian Martyrs' Church, contract dispute coverage, cyclist struck, David Wheeler, demonstrations, Gary Burrill, inclusion policy, Karen Casey, Kathy Mijatovich, Lenore Zann, Michel Samson, Nancy Rubin, Pam Berman, Parker Donham, Rankin MacSween, Saint Mary's University, Stephen McNeil, vehicle/cyclist collision

Too much news, none of it good: Morning File, Wednesday, November 23, 2016

November 23, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

November Subscription Drive Click here to purchase a subscription to the Halifax Examiner. News 1. Tyler Keizer Police have identified the man killed Monday night on Gottingen Street as 22-year-old Tyler Ronald Joseph Keizer of Halifax. 2. Nihilistic loners’ plot for mass murder “A young Halifax man has been handed a 10-year prison sentence for his role in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Tieleman, Cape Breton University Board of Governors, Dale Keefe, David Jackson, David Wheeler, former reporters, Halifax Shopping Centre, Jackie Foster, James Gamble, Justice Patrick Duncan, Laurie Graham, Marilla Stephenson, Premier Christy Clark, Randall Steven Thomas Shepherd, Ray Larkin, reporters as political hacks, Stephen Kimber, Stephen McNeil, Steve Bruce, Tom McNeil, Tyler Keizer, Zane Woodford

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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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