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Nova Scotia government doubles down on gold mining

October 25, 2019 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

There were moments during last week’s “Water Not Gold” rally outside the Alt Hotel at the Halifax airport where the “Gold Show” was in progress, when I was reminded of a video from 2011 during Occupy Wall Street. That footage shows protestors marching along Wall Street, calling out money barons, greed, and the neoliberal system […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Billy Lewis, Department of Energy and Mines (DEM), Donald James, East Coast Environmental Law, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Ecology Action Centre, Energy Minister Derek Mombourqeuette, Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA), Gary Andrea, Gold Show, Jacinda Mack, Joan Kuyek, Jor Richman, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Prospectors Association, Perry MacKinnon, Peter Lund, Portia Clark, Ray Plourde, Sean Kirby, Sierra Club, St. Mary’s River Association, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia, Transition Metals Corp., Water Not Gold

Oil industry-friendly politician objects to proposed strengthened environmental assessment rules

April 25, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

A federal bill to change the way environmental assessments of large projects are handled met with strong and mixed reaction at a Senate Committee hearing held in Halifax yesterday. Environmentalists like the fact assessments of new projects must include “climate change” as one factor. “The Bill is not perfect but it is a balanced and...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrea Paul, Bill C-69, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Ches Crosbie, climate change, Dennis Patterson, Deputy Energy Minister Simon D’Entremont, East Coast Environmental Law, EcoJustice, Ecology Action Centre, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Impact Assessment Agency, Karen Hutt, Mark Butler, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Sarah MacDonald, Yuen Pao Woo

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

A Field Guide to Boreal Felt Lichen and DNR Message Control

November 4, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 9 Comments

Endangered boreal felt lichen. Photo courtesy Brad Toms. A redacted email exchange recently obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that on November 7, 2014, Allan Eddy, the associate deputy minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, was not happy with something he had just seen. Eddy was attending the annual science conference […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Andrew Fedora, Bob Bancroft, boreal felt lichen, Brad Toms, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, COSEWIC, David Richardson, Deep Cove, DNR, East Coast Environmental Law, Frances Anderson, Global Forest Watch, Irwin Brodo, Jason Hollett, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Mark Elderkin, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Michael Pickup, MTRI, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Robert Cameron, SARA, Sherman Boates, Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, Species at Risk Act, Tom Duck, Wolfgang Maass

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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