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Healthy Bays Network: Fish farms are not just a rural issue; people in Halifax should be concerned

May 27, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont

A group of community organizations opposed to open-net finfish farms in Nova Scotia have pooled their resources and formed a new organization they say will amplify their voice. In a media release Monday, the newly created Healthy Bays Network (HBN) said Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture regulations have been written for industry, and the voices...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Association for the Preservation of the Eastern Shore (APES), Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF), Bayswater, Cermaq, Cooke Aquaculture, Ecology Action Centre, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), fish farms, Geoff Le Boutillier, Healthy Bays Network (HBN), Joel Richardson, Kelly Cove Salmon, Liverpool Bay, marine aquaculture, Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (DFA), Nova Scotia Salmon Association (NSSA), Protect Liverpool Bay, St. Mary’s Bay Protectors, Twin Bays Coalition

Fish farm limbo

Amid COVID-19, province grants Cermaq Canada more time to decide on Nova Scotia fish farm expansion, leaving affected communities wondering what's next.

March 29, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On Friday, March 27, the provincial government gave Cermaq Canada an extension on the deadline to file an application for its options to lease in four bays in the province. The firm is part of Cermaq Global, formerly a Norwegian state-controlled salmon producer purchased by […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: 240 line, Amy Jonsson, aquaculture, Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia, Ayla Parker, Brandon Tidd, Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA), Casie Melanson, Cermaq Canada, Cermaq Global, Community Information and Advisory Committee (CIAC), coronavirus, COVID-19, Dana McCullough, East of the Moon Fisheries, fish farms, Matt Melanson, Melinda Cole, Minister Bernadette Jordan, Mitsubishi Corporation, Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (DFA), Rayanne Amero, salmon farming

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Morning File, Tuesday, September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Naturalists go to court “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers will decide whether the Minister of Lands and Forestry has failed to live up to the obligations set out in the Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife in the province,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We seek the Court’s assistance as a last resort,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Anne McLellan, Brett Ruskin, Brian Muldoon, Cermaq, collapsed crane removal, Cooke Aquaculture, Darrell Dexter, Dorothy Grant, EcoJustice, Evan Williams, exposure, fish farms, Glen Cooke, global warming, Graeme Benjamin, Hany El Naggar, Harbourside Engineering Consultants, housing affordability, Howard Ramos, Income inequality, Janice Harvey, Kathleen McNab, Kelly Cove Salmon, left hand turns, lobster fishery, Marla MacInnis, menstrual products in schools, Michigan Lane, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Lloyd Hines, Nicole Munro, period poverty, Peter MacKay, Protect Liverpool Bay (PLB), R&D Crane Operator Ltd, rent control, Robert Devet, Sabino Urciuoli, sinkhole Trans Canada Highway, Spring Garden Road redesign

Anthony LeBlanc’s history of playing stadium hardball: Morning File, Monday, January 8, 2018

January 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Poor parenting “Consider the case Mr. S and Ms. C, and their toddler, D,” writes Stephen Kimber: And the question of how much of what gets referred to as poor parenting is simply the result of being parents who are poor. And what that means — or should mean — for public policy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patel, Anthony Leblanc, Arizona Coyotes, Bruce Browser, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald series about CFL franchise, Dave Stewart, Financing a new stadium, fish farms, Francis Campbell, Gary Drummond, Neil deMause, Peter Kelly's little helper, Scott Messervey

Sunshine and turbines: Morning File, Friday, August 26, 2016

August 26, 2016 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Erica Butler, your friendly neighbourhood transportation columnist here at the Examiner. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Northern Pulp still waiting on approval for glyphosate spraying The planned start date for Northern Pulp’s spraying of over 3000 acres of woodland has passed, and the Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Post, Citizen's Climate Lobby, David Henry, Ecology Action Centre, F. Ben Rodgers, fish farms, Glyphosate, Margaret Miller, Northern Pulp, Richard Butts, Shahin Sayadi, sunshine list, wind turbine

Fish farm regulations don’t go far enough, say environmentalists

November 16, 2015 By Erica Butler 1 Comment

Nova Scotia has new regulations for coastal aquaculture, but don’t expect that to put an end to the controversy around open net pen fish farms anytime soon. The new rules will do little to get local communities to accept the salmon and trout industry, says Raymond Plourde, Wilderness Coordinator at the Ecology Action Centre. “That will […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: fish farms, Gloria Gilbert, Raymond Plourde

Something fishy: new report stops short of calling for moratorium on fish farms

January 9, 2015 By Chris Benjamin

by Chris Benjamin Several dozen lobster fishers, anglers, environmentalists, tourist industry representatives, and people in fishing associations gathered at the Lord Nelson Hotel Thursday afternoon for a press conference and support rally. They said they represented more than a hundred groups across Nova Scotia, and another hundred onlookers attended and cheered each speaker. A few...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: fish farms

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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