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Up close and privileged: Nova Scotia’s “One Window” process gives mining execs seats at the table in the halls of power

March 19, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

On November 1, 2018, a year after Atlantic Gold produced its first gold bar at its Touquoy open pit mine in Moose River, 11 provincial public servants gathered for a two-hour meeting with four high-level representatives of the gold mining company. Two were with Nova Scotia Environment, six with Lands and Forestry, and three with […]

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Time for (real) full disclosure on how many public dollars we really paid private lawyers to defend healthcare bullies

Tim Houston's new government deserves credit for releasing a blacked-out 13-year-old document showing how much a previous government claimed to have spent on private lawyers in the Dr. Gabrielle Horne case. Trouble is that number isn't new — or anywhere near complete. It's time for actual full disclosure.

October 3, 2021 By Stephen Kimber

Jean Laroche, the CBC’s veteran legislature reporter, emailed me recently with a “head’s-up” that he would be posting his latest “Gabrielle Horne story” the next day. “It’s by no means the whole story,” he acknowledged, “but it does lift the veil on the [legal] costs a tiny bit more.” It does. But it turns out...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Health, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dr. Gabrielle Horne, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Tim Houston, Workplace bullying

Worse than Russia: Access to information in Nova Scotia places 66th in world rankings

One expert says the FOIPOP Act needs improvements, but that isn't all: "We need an attitude change within the public sector, in which people would see themselves as servants of the people, working for the people, and being open and transparent with the people."

September 24, 2021 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

This, the second of a two-part series about the state of the public’s “right to know” in Nova Scotia, looks at what options are available to those dissatisfied with a Freedom of Information (FOIPOP) result, and how the province’s access to information ranks internationally — spoiler alert: rather poorly — and what should be done […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: access to information, Access to Information and Privacy (ATIP), Arilea Sill, Brad Johns, Centre for Law and Democracy, FOIPOP, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, French River watershed, Information Access and Privacy (IAP), Information and Privacy Commissioner, Michelle Boudreau, Municipality of the County of Colchester, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), public interest, redactions, Right to Information, Right to Know, Right to Know Week, Supreme Court of Canada, Tim Halman, Tim Houston, Toby Mendel, Tracy Barron, Yarmouth ferry

PRICED OUT

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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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