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When is a deadline not a deadline?

Morning File, Wednesday, January 22, 2020

January 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Boat Harbour Though the deadline of January 30, 2020 was set five years ago, it’s looking as if the province of Nova Scotia will not be strictly enforcing the Boat Harbour Act until April 1 this year, to allow Paper Excellence to run a power boiler throughout remaining winter months. Joan Baxter and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Bayers Road widening, Bernard Mills, Brynn Budden, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, crosswalk Gottingen, Eskasoni First Nation, Halifax Shipyard, Halifax Transit ridership numbers, Indigenous prisoners, Irving Shipbuilding, Irving Shipyard, Ivan Zinger, Kevin Arjoon, Mel Rusinak, Moving Forward Together (MFT), Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), payroll rebates, Santina Rao, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Shaina Luck, Sherryll Murphy, transgender, Ultra Electronics Maritime Industries, Walmart

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

Morning File, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Degtyarev, Andrew McKelvey, Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Cheryl Gardner, climate emergency, Corey Rogers, crane incident, Daniel Fraser, Don Bowser, Ekatirine Keramaris, Firefly Aerospace, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Irving Shipbuilding, Jack Sorbo, John Ball, John Misenor House, Lead Structural Formwork Ltd, Linda Pannozzo, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Natasha Pace, Pavel Degtyarenko, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Shannon, Roger Eckoldt, Steven Lutes, Ukrainian corruption, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

Are anti-vaxxers meeting with your MLA?

Morning File, Tuesday, November 5, 2019

November 5, 2019 By Erica Butler 11 Comments

November subscription drive It’s getting frosty out there, which means its the time of year when we at the Examiner take a stab at convincing you and yours (those who aren’t already subscribers) to support the continued existence and growth of the Halifax Examiner. From her first Morningfile back in May 2015, El Jones has […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, AirDNA, Alexander Quon, anti-vaxxer, Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM), collapsed crane removal, Dena Churchill, El Jones, Elizabeth May, Emma Smith, Green Party, Irving Shipbuilding, Jo-Ann Roberts, Kim Hart Macneill, Marine Fabricators, MLA Steve Craig, Neil Lovitt, Port of Sydney, short term rentals, subscription drive, Tom Ayers

Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank

Morning File, Wednesday, June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank At its meeting yesterday, Halifax council nearly unanimously (Matt Whitman was the only contrary vote) agreed in principle to $250,000 in assistance to the theatre. The money will be used to help the theatre buy the Gottingen Street building it operates in. There’s something of a […]

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Anthony Leblanc is asking the Trudeau government to pay for his stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 7 Comments

News 1. Alton Gas This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. “There is no evidence to support the occupation of land near Fort Ellis by Dale Poulette, Rachael Greenland-Smith, and others,” said N.S. Supreme Court Justice Gerald Moir in an oral decision granting Alton Natural Gas Storage Inc. a temporary injunction. The injunction is aimed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage protest, Anthony Leblanc, CFL team, Cst. Adam Whynott, Cst. Basso, Dale Poulette, David Patriquin, David Wallace, EcoJustice, Halifax Police, Irving Shipbuilding, James Gunvalsen-Klaassen, James Irving, Justice Gerald Moir, Justice Kevin Coady, Kristin Wilton, Laurence Gary Basso, Linda Pannozzo, lobbying, Marco Vigliotti, Pulp Culture, Rachel Greenland-Smith, Robin MacLachlan, scoreboard, Sgt. Mike Willett, Sgt. Peter Burdock, Sipekne’-katik First Nation, stadium financing, Summa Strategies, Tavia Connolly, Tim Powers

Environment Minister Margaret Miller isn’t talking about Northern Pulp’s much-criticized environmental assessment

Morning File, Friday, March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

News 1. Spill at Moose River gold mine “Atlantic Gold’s manager of environment and permitting, James Millard, calls it a ‘spill’ or a ‘loss of control’ caused by a ‘gasket failure,’” reports Joan Baxter: By whatever name, the event happened on the night of January 3, 2019, at the company’s open pit gold mine at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adele Poirier, Biodiversity Act, Biodiversity Council, Boat Harbour, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Service, Chris Miller, David Pugliese, Dillon Consulting, Duncan Reid, Ecology Action Centre, Extinction Rebellion, George Farmer, Irving Shipbuilding, Joan Baxter, Justice Jamie Campbell, Kevin McCoy, Matthew Halliday, Minister Iain Rankin, Minister Margaret Miller, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, Postmedia, Ray Plourde, Stephen Archibald and the CSTF drill shed, Tim wonders about a thing, violations of privacy laws

Irving Shipbuilding accused of “heavy handed” treatment of subcontractor

Morning File, Friday, February 15, 2019

February 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Court Watch Irving Shipbuilding Maritime Associates International, Inc. (MAII), an American firm with offices in North Carolina, Florida, and British Columbia, is suing Irving Shipbuilding (ISI) for what it says is Irving’s “high handed” refusal to accept MAII’s work product. At issue is the provision of water-tight doors and hatches for the six […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arctic patrol boats, BMO, Cox & Palmer, Credit Union Atlantic, Davie Shipyard, Harry Thurlow, Hebron Hospitality Group, Inc., Inc. (MAII), Irving Shipbuilding, Jagpreet Singh, Jean Laroche, Maritime Associates International, Mike Dull, Minister Lloyd Hines, Murray Brewster, Scott Brison, scud missile, Seyed Abolghasem Sadat Lavasani Bozor, Shelburne School for Boys, Shipset, Smiling Goat claim, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman trial, Wuxi Halian Marine Fittings Ltd., Zane Woodford

Unexplained delay pushes completion of the first ship in the multi-billion dollar Halifax Shipyard contract back at least six months

August 23, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The slogan said, “Ships Start Here,” but it didn’t address the “when.” The first vessel built under the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy program at the Halifax Shipyard will be delivered to the Canadian Navy about six to nine months later than expected — sometime next summer. In response to a question from the Halifax Examiner,...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Irving Shipbuilding, Jennifer Henderson, Kevin McCoy, Sean Lewis, shipbuilding delay, Ships Start Here

We pay Dexter Construction to train its own employees: Morning File, Thursday, June 29, 2017

June 29, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. DIY Government-Funded Training The Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI) is a provincial program that gives Nova Scotian “[b]usinesses, social enterprises and revenue-generating non-for-profit organizations” money to train workers. Thanks to a Freedom of Information request that an unknown business filed, but which is now public, Mary Campbell discovers that the largest recipient (see clarification […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dexter Construction, DIY Government-Funded Training, Irving Shipbuilding, McCluskey-Mason Twitter feud, Municipal Public WiFi initiative, Murray Brewster, navy frigates, Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI)

Joyce Treen offers helpful household hints to avoid starving to death: Morning File, Wednesday, April 5, 2017

April 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Food banks Yesterday, Nick Jennery, executive director of Feed Nova Scotia, talked with the legislature’s Community Services committee. Robert Devet picks it up from there: Meanwhile, the provincial government gives all of $12,000 to Feed Nova Scotia, a fraction of Feed Nova Scotia’s community-funded operating budget of roughly $3.5 million, Jennery told reporters after this […]

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

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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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