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Premier Houston and Dr. Strang make a video

April 7, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

Premier Tim Houston posted a folksy two-minute video Wednesday morning on the provincial government’s official Twitter feed featuring himself and Dr. Robert Strang speaking to Nova Scotians. The message appears to be an attempt to get ahead of bad news expected late Thursday afternoon that will show an increase in the number of positive COVID-19 […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Dr. Shelley Deeks, Gary Burrill, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Premier Tim Houston, Public Health, Question Period, Twitter video

Some Nova Scotians soon to be eligible for fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose

April 5, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Seniors aged 80 and older, nursing home residents, and seniors in other group settings will soon be eligible for a fourth dose of vaccine to help reduce the impact of COVID-19. Nova Scotia Health and Wellness Minister Michelle Thompson said more details will be available in the coming days, adding “we will be be quick […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Health, News, Province House Tagged With: Brendan Maguire, COVID data, COVID-19, Health and wellness, health care, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Michelle Thompson, National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), Nova Scotia Health, Nova Scotia legislature, NSH, Omicron, PCR, Question Period, rapid tests, Tim Houston, Zach Churchill

Missteps, Mistakes, and Miscommunications

Morning File, Monday, April 4, 2022

April 4, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

News 1. How a series of failures likely led to murders on the morning of April 19, 2020 In the days following the murders of April 18 and 19, 2020, we saw people outraged at what seemed like police inaction or incompetence, and those who had no patience for that view, arguing that it was […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: baseball, baseball cards, Brad Balukjian, Brendan Haley, Claudia Chender, Cs. Nathan Forrest, Cst. Adam MacDonald, Cst. Dave Melanson, Cst. Rodney Peterson, Cst. Terry Brown, Efficiency Canada, Fast Food Nation, Iain Rankin, Ikea, Jamie Blair, Jennifer Henderson, John Demont, Kristen Beaton, Mass Casualty Commission, McDonald's, Michaella Scott, murder spree, Nick Beaton, Nova Scotia Power, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Philip Moscovitch, Popeyes, Portapique, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, Richard Ellison, Stephen Kimber, The Wax Pack, Tim Bousquet, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

A cautionary tale for Nova Scotia’s Liberal leadership hopefuls

Now that it's out of power, the Liberal party is imploding. As usual. Those hoping to lead the party today might take a moment to remember how the Liberals fared the last time they lost an election. Anyone remember Francis MacKenzie?

March 6, 2022 By Stephen Kimber

The existential problem for any political party whose primary raison d’êtres are to gain power and then cling to it forever, no matter what happens… is what happens when the voters finally abandon them? As they inevitably do. May I present Exhibit 1: the Nova Scotia Liberal Party of Nova Scotia, circa 2022. The party’s...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Angela Simmonds, Iain Rankin, Liberal AGM 2022, Stephen McNeil, Zach Churchill

Rankin stepping down as Liberal leader

January 5, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

Former premier Iain Rankin has decided to step down as leader of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. “Last year was a rollercoaster for all of us. Personally, my life went through many changes,” Rankin said in a media release Wednesday morning. He also shared the details of the release in a series of tweets. “Given […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Iain Rankin, Liberal leadership, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, rankin stepping down, Tim Houston, Yvette d'Entremont

Marketing Cape Breton as a “refuge” for “clear thinkers”

Two development companies have sold 144 lots in Richmond and Inverness counties to German-speaking non-residents "who want to live with the values of Germany from 1933 to 1945."

November 19, 2021 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Nova Scotia has long been a popular place for settlers, but in the last century it also became a popular place for non-residents — including many well-heeled Americans and Europeans — to purchase properties.[1] For decades, scholars and successive governments have debated the issue of non-resident land ownership in a province with relatively little Crown […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation Tagged With: Adolf Hitler, Alexandra Mashaghati, Andreas Popp, Beaver Lodge Estates, Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Real Solutions, climate change, climate crisis, Condor, conspiracy theories, conspiracy theorists, Crown land, cult, Der Spiegel, Elizaveta Firsova, Eva Herman, Evans Island, George Monbiot, German Politics and Society Journal, German-speaking Europeans, Germany, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Golden Lake Estates, Gottfried Feder, Iain Rankin, immigrants, Inverness County, Juergen Gindner, Leibniz University Hannover, Mehrab Mashaghati, Michael Vogt, Nazism, non-resident landowners, ocean access, Owls Head Park, Patricia Anne Simpson, Querdenker, real estate, refuge, refugees, refugium, Reichsbuerger [Reich Citizens’] Movement, Richmond County, Save Owls Head Provincial Park, Stephen McNeil, Telegram channel, The Guardian, Third Reich, Transparency International Germany, waterfront, Wissensmanufaktur

Residents of Prospect Village got “no warning, and no communication” about upcoming demolition of house

Public Works bought the house in 2020 after saying it was a hazard to motorists and snowplow drivers. But documents from a freedom of information request show the department paid $11,000 over asking for the property deemed "in fair to poor condition at best" and wasn't a serious risk to drivers after all.

November 1, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

A temporary fence went up Monday morning around an old house at the entrance to Prospect Village — a sign that the building’s demolition is imminent. The Halifax Examiner previously reported that the Department of Transportation and Active Transit (since renamed Public Works) had purchased the vacant house, intending to tear it down. A story […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Department of Public Works, District 11, Gary Rafuse, Guy Deveau, Halifax, Heritage, Iain Rankin, John Charles, Patty Cuttell, Planning, Prospect, Prospect Village, Transportation and Active Transit (TAT), Troy Davidson

Cooking eggs is highly skilled labour

Morning File, Tuesday, October 26, 2021

October 26, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Province records 99th death from COVID-19 Tim Bousquet reports: A man in his 70s who lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone has died from COVID-19. He is the 99th person to die from the disease in the province. Additionally, Nova Scotia today announced 57 new cases of COVID-19 over three days (Friday, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bike lanes, Black News File, Eggs, French tacos, Friends of Schmidtville, fulpizza, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Las Vegas, Laura Daye, Law Amendments Committee, Matthew Byard, nicole gnazdowsky, North Atlantic right whales, Philip Moscovitch, Sweden, The New Yorker, Zane Woodford

And the winner is…

Morning File, Wednesday, August 18, 2021

August 18, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1. Progressive Conservatives win surprise majority There was talk yesterday that the election might be so tight we wouldn’t have a clear winner until today. Instead, the magnitude of the Progressive Conservative triumph was such that it was clearly the party would form the next government within a couple of hours of the polls […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ali Duale, Angela Simmonds, Brunswick Street Mission, Brunswick Street United Church, Chalmers Doane, documentary, Drew Moore, empathy, empathy-based approach, eviction, film, Gary Burrill, homeless, homelessness, Horseshoe Park, Iain Rankin, John N. Smith, Kent Nason, Liberal, Matthew Byard, Metro Turning Point, National Film Board (NFB), NDP, PC, Philip Moscovitch, Ready When You Are, Suzy Hansen, tent, Tim Houston, Tony Ianzelo, Tony Ince, Ukulele, United Church, Vote-splitting, Walter Hayward, Zane Woodford

Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives win majority government

August 18, 2021 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Tim Houston’s health care-focused campaign resonated with voters across the province, if the results are any indication, with the the Progressive Conservative Party trouncing the Liberals on the way to a majority government. “We made history in this election. And not just here in Nova Scotia, but in all of Canada. We proved that just […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: ambulance crisis, anti-abortion demonstration, Antigonish, Argyle Cumberland North, Bill Casey, Brendan Maguire, Claudia Chender, Dartmouth South, doctor shortage, election, Greg Morrow, Guysborough-Tracadie, Health caree, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Labi Kousoulis, lizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Lloyd Hines, Michelle Thompson, MLA Susan Leblanc, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, Randy Delorey, Susan Le, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Suzy Hansen, Tim Houston, Zane Woodford

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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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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