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Take this volunteer “job” and shove it

Morning File, Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. The casino crapshoot Rob Csernyik has an incredible investigative piece on the casinos in Nova Scotia and how locals, not high-rolling tourists, became the big spenders. Csernyik looks back before the first casino opened by ITT Sheraton in the summer of 1995. A poll from 1993 showed that 57.7 respondents were against the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Black Lives Matter, buxom wenches, Casino, Centre Plan, Chantel Moore, Colchester Historeum, Cork Street, COVID-19, defund the police, Department of Health and Wellness, Don't work for free, Dr. Chris Lata, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Foundry Hil, Gary Burrill, Glen Assoun, Halifax Regional Police, ITT Sheraton, IWK, Jane Wright, Ku Klux Klan, LMNO Properties, Lynn Stevenson, Matt Smith, mental illness, mobile crisis unit, museums, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), PC leader Tim Houston, People Against Casinos in Nova Scotia, pirates, Portland Street, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Randy Delorey, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, shooting, social work, STEM Montessori Academy of Canada, Sydney, T. Chandler Haliburton, T.A. Scott Architecture + Design Limited, Truro, Uncover, volunteering, wellness checks

Hospitals, harassment, and a helluva lot of garbage

Morning File, Tuesday, June 26, 2018

June 26, 2018 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim while he’s off learning stuff. News 1. Cape Breton Hospitals: two down, two expanded The province has announced a plan to close two Cape Breton hospitals, replacing them with community health centres. Emergency room services and acute care beds will be absorbed by expanded facilities at two other […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Winn, beach trash, Brittany Paquette, Cape Breton hospitals closing, Danika van Proosdij, Dave Seglins, dine-and-dash Athens Restaurant, Efficiency Nova Scotia, Erica Butler, Friends of McNab’s Island beach cleanup, Gary Burrill, George Mortimer, Halifax office vacancy rate, Josh Healey, laura Parker, lemmings myth, Lindsay Jojnes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia rental market, Project Sunshine report, Rachel Houlihan, RCMP harassment lawsuit, Sakyong Mipham apology, salt marsh restoration, sexualized violence in Shambala community, Solar City program, Tim Arsenault

Fool’s gold

Nova Scotia's Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals (Part 2)

May 23, 2018 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

A Halifax Examiner / Cape Breton Spectator investigation. This is the second in a series of articles on the push for mines and quarries in Nova Scotia. You can find Part I here. Going for gold The CEO and chairman of Vancouver-based Atlantic Gold Corporation, Steven Dean, a man with a history of international coal and […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alastair Tiver, Anaconda Mining, Andrew Bell, arsenic from mining, Atlantic Gold Corporation, Atlantic Mining NS, Barbara Markovits, Bruce Nunn, Chrissy Matheson, Cochrane Hill mine, coronet Metals, councillor Steve Streatch, Darrel Dexter, DDV Gold, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Dufferin gold mine, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP), Fifteen Mile Stream mine, Fool’s Gold part 2, Forrest Higgins, Gary Burrill, Goldboro gold mine, James Millard, Jamie Kneen, Joan Baxter, Marla MacInnis, Mayor Bill Mills, miners’ rights, Mining Watch Canada, Minister Charlie Parker, Moose River, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Oceanic Iron Ore Corp., proposed Beaver Dam mine, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Rachel Boomer, Resource Capital Gold Corp., Scraggy Lake, Steven Dean, tailings water, Tom Ellard, Touquoy mine, transporting cyanide, Wayne Oakley

Toxicologist Douglas Hallett raises concerns about Lafarge tire-burning

November 20, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

A citizens’ group opposed to the burning of tires for fuel at the Lafarge cement plant in Brookfield is asking a court to consider a report from a toxicology expert as part of its judicial review of the Nova Scotia Environment Minister’s decision to approve a one-year pilot project. Douglas J. Hallett (M.Sc and Ph.D...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Douglas Hallett, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Gary Burrill, Jennifer Henderson, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Lydia Sorflaten

How much would you pay for what remains of Stephen McNeil’s dignity? Morning File, Friday, October 13, 2017

October 13, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. $750 “Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil bristled Thursday under NDP questioning about a Liberal fundraising club that will hold an event this weekend at the governing party’s annual general meeting,” reports the Canadian Press: During the legislature’s question period, NDP Leader Gary Burrill asked McNeil whether paying the $750 yearly fee to attend the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carrie Cussons, Energy East Venn diagram, Events East press conference, Gary Burrill, Icarus Report October 16, Joe McGuinness, Joe Ramia, lawsuit against IWK, Lindsey Hubley, Nova Centre bookings, Premier Stephen McNeil and fundraising, Trade Centre Limited

NDP re-introduces same tire-burning ban bill introduced — and passed — by the Liberals in 2008

October 4, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Talk about déjà vu. NDP Environment critic Lenore Zann has resurrected a bill that Liberal MLA Keith Colwell introduced 10 years ago to ban tire-burning in Nova Scotia. All three political parties passed it in 2008 but the law was never proclaimed. Don’t expect the Liberals to pass a carbon copy of their previous bill...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: burning tires, Gary Burrill, Iain Rankin, Jacquelyn Shaw, Jennifer Henderson, Keith Colwell, LaFarge Canada, Lenore Zann, Lydia Sorflaten, Mark Gibson

The Ceramic Cartel must be brought to its knees: Morning File, Monday, June 5, 2017

June 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Beatrice Hunter “Police have taken an Inuk woman into custody in Happy Valley-Goose Bay after she refused to promise a Supreme Court of N.L. judge she would stay away from the Muskrat Falls construction site in Central Labrador,” reports Justin Brake for the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent: Beatrice Hunter, a mother, grandmother and land […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beatrice Hunter, beaurocrat-ese, Bullshitter of the Day Janet Knox, Cape Breton Spectator, David Burke, Gary Burrill, Justin Brake, Lionel Desmond, lobster truck spill, Mary Campbell, Michael MacDonald, Muskrat Falls, Nalcor, Nova Scotia Health Authority briefing note, Supreme Court Justice George Murphy, Susan Leblanc, Vicki Grant, Wade Smith

Four more years… What might have been

Just as Stephen McNeil walked on to the stage to acknowledge his new minority government reality, CBC news announcer Sandy Smith cut in. There’d been yet another change in the party standings, he said, and Stephen McNeil’s Liberals were now in “majority territory.”

June 5, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

For me, the sweetest, saddest moment of last Tuesday’s election night lasted not much more than a moment. And it didn’t happen until the tail end of the first hour of Wednesday morning. Sometime after midnight, I gave up on the TV broadcast. At that point, the CBC decision desk still couldn’t say for certain...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Gary Burrill, Jamie Baillie, NS election 2017, Stephen McNeil

Might, In Fact, Get Fooled Again: Examineradio, episode #114

June 3, 2017 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

Nova Scotia had an election, eh? The end result is the Liberals have a few fewer seats, the PCs and NDP have a few more, and Gary Burrill no longer has to holler questions from the press gallery. One striking upset was the defeat of cabinet minister Joanne Bernard at the hands of NDP newcomer […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: election, Examineradio, Gary Burrill, Jamie Baillie, podcast, Stephen McNeil

Since none of the above is not on the ballot…

During last week’s CTV leaders’ roundtable, Jamie Baillie issued a direct appeal to voters: “For those people who are undecided or leaning to the NDP, I am asking them to take a look at us because we share the same goal.” The same goal, yes… The same values?

May 29, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

Who would you like to see win tomorrow’s provincial general election? Who should win tomorrow’s provincial general election? If you answered none of the above to either — or both — of the above, welcome to the club. And perhaps welcome too to that more select group — the none-of-the-above-but-definitely-not-Stephen-McNeil club — which Progressive Conservative...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Gary Burrill, Jamie Baillie, NS election 2017, Stephen McNeil

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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