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Pictou Landing First Nation to Stephen McNeil: Honour the Boat Harbour Act and No Pipe in the Strait

October 6, 2019 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

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. The painting depicts Boat Harbour as it was before it was dammed (and damned) in 1966, transformed from a healthy tidal estuary to a stinking lagoon for the toxic […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: A’se’K, Barry Randle, Betsy MacDonald, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour remediation project, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Chief Andrea Paul, Dorene Bernard, Elizabeth May, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Frank Augustine, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Gardner Pinfold, George Canyon, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, Jerry Dias, Josie Augustine, Ken Swain, Michelle Francis-Denny, MLA Darlene Compton, MP Sean Fraser, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northern Pulp, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Rob Holten, Tonya Francis

Alton Gas asks court for order to remove Mi’kmaw protestors from Shubenacadie River site

March 13, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

A group of 40-50 people opposed to a plan by Alton Natural Gas Storage Inc. to dump brine into the Shubenacadie River packed a courtroom in Halifax yesterday afternoon. They were there to support protesters Dale Poulette, a Mi’kmaw man who considers himself a traditional water protector, and Rachael Greenland-Smith, an environmental researcher. Both are […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Alton Gas, Dale Poucette, Darlene Gilbert, Dorene Bernard, Grassroots Grandmothers Circle, James Gunvaldsen Klaassen, Justice Gerald Moir, Mi’kmaw protestors, Rachael Greenland-Smith, Rob Turner, Robert Grant, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), treaty rights

Environmental Bill of Rights proposed for Nova Scotia

April 24, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia needs nothing short of an Environmental Bill of Rights if it wants to ensure its citizens can drink clean water, breathe clean air, and hold their governments accountable to make polluters pay. That’s the position of a coalition of Nova Scotia environmental groups which celebrated Earth Day by unveiling an Environmental Bill of...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dorene Bernard, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Jonathan Beadle, Lenore Zann, Lisa Mitchell, Louise Delisle, Marlene Brown, Raymond Sheppard

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.

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