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Houston promotes tax break to attract young tradespeople to the province

June 9, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

On Wednesday, Premier Tim Houston officially promoted a tax measure previously announced in the spring budget to encourage recruiting and retaining skilled tradespeople. Starting next April, skilled tradespeople under the age of 30 in a very wide range of occupations, will pay no provincial income tax on the first $50,000 they earn. The list of […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, Politics, Province House Tagged With: Canadian Navy, Halifax Shipyard, Irving, Irving Shipbuilding, Jennifer Henderson, Kevin Mooney, More Opportunity for Skilled Trades (MOST), Nova Scotia Community College, NSCC, Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), Premier Tim Houston, Shea Erskine, skilled tradespeople, trades, tradespeople, William Hall

Electric vehicle infrastructure in Nova Scotia needs a big boost

Confusion over arbitrary costs for a charge and gaps in the network of charging stations is putting the brakes on any momentum to clean up carbon emissions from vehicles.

January 31, 2022 By Jennifer Henderson 8 Comments

Cars, trucks, and buses account for about 25% of emissions fueling climate change. One of the biggest barriers to persuading drivers to dump gas-guzzling cars, pickups, and SUVs for an electric vehicle is what’s called “range anxiety.” That’s a fancy term for the fear that grips a driver afraid you’ll run out of juice on […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: carbon emissions, charging stations, Chevy Bolt, Clean Foundation, electric vehicles, Erin Burbidge, EV Boost, FLO Level 3 stations, Heritage Gas, HRM, Irving, Jennifer Henderson, Level 2 charging station, Level 3 charging station, Measurement Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Nova Scotia Power, range anxiety, Toyota Prius, Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program

“Please don’t sell Nova Scotia”

Additional taxes on non-resident landowners has been discussed since the 1960s. Now the debate is on again as non-residents snap up property in Cape Breton.

November 28, 2021 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

Nova Scotia has long been a popular place not just 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 […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: Access Nova Scotia, Allan MacMaster, American, Anne Murray, Arthur Bull, Assessment Act, Austria, Blaise Theriault, Canadian Pioneer Estates, Cape Breton, Capped Assessment Program (CAP), Coastal Communities Network, Crown land, Dalhousie University, deed transfer tax, Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Department of Service Nova Scotia and Internal Affairs, Der Spiegel, Donna Malone, former Premier John Hamm, Gary Andrea, Germany, Halifax County, Heather Breeze, Inverness County, Irving, Jim Moir, Kell Antoft, Kip Ready, Krista Higdon, land ownership, land titles, Lunenburg County, mandate letter, migrated, Minister of Finance and Treasury Board, Municipal Government Act, neoliberalism, non-Nova Scotian tazpayer, non-resident, non-resident landowners, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Association of Realtors (NSAR), PEI Department of Finance, Peter Pringle, Premier Tim Houston, Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island Land Protection Act, property assessment, property taxes, real estate, Real Property Tax Act and Regulations (PEI), Richmond County, Rolf Bouman, tax credit, Terence Bay, Tim Houston, Voluntary Planning Task Force on Non-Resident Land Ownership, Wagner Forest Management

Stop shaming people for renting

Morning File, Thursday, July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 15 Comments

News 1. Development agreement approved for preschool at Halifax councillor’s house Zane Woodford reports on the approval of a development agreement for councillor Shawn Cleary’s house Wednesday night during a virtual public meeting. Cleary and his wife, Michelle, have been running a preschool, Maple Tree Montessori, from their home at the corner of Quinpool Road […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Budgets are Sexy, co-op housing, Generation Squeeze, Irving, Kent Homes, portable classrooms, real estate, renoviction, rent shaming, rental crisis, rental market, renting, school reopening, We Rent

Halifax, Tatooine, the city with two suns: Morning File, Thursday, October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives yesterday released a report, “Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity,” written by labour economist Jordan Brennan. At 46 pages, the report is a short and easy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Anne Derrick, Arabic language radio station, austerity, carbon tax, George Baker, ghost building, Hal Davidson, Hollis and Bishop Street design proposal, industrial accident, Irving, Jennifer Taplin, Jordan Brennan, McNeil Liberals, Richard Starr, Steve Bruce, Tatooine, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, two suns

Mixed metaphors: Morning File, Friday, September 16, 2016

September 16, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Irving The multi-billion dollar ship construction project has started, so what’s the economic impact? “Watch your mail for a glossy, 16-page magazine brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding later this month. Every homeowner in the Halifax Regional Municipality is supposed to get one, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Curran, Bob Parker, Cape Breton Star, Chronicle Herald, David Phillips, Graham Steele, Halifax Typographical Union, Irving, Linda Mosher, metaphor hell, Russell Walker, Ships Start Here, Yarmouth ferry

Nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion: Morning File, Friday, August 12, 2016

August 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The NDP promised Irving even more than we knew “Nova Scotia’s Liberal government revealed Thursday it refused to honour a $200-million loan guarantee offered to Irving Shipbuilding in a secret 2012 provincial government letter to the company,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: The $200-million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: C. Meisner, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, George Armoyan, Heather Desserud, Ian Brown, Irving, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Melvin Jr., John Demont, Justice Peter Rosinski, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Kevin Lacey, Labi Kousoulis, Michael Gorman, Morning File, Paul Withers, Rachel Ward, Ron Foley Macdonald, Stephen Archibald, Steve Bruce

We’ll not pay you not to work: Examineradio, episode #48

February 12, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

On this week’s episode we speak with striking Chronicle Herald reporter Michael Gorman. When not walking a picket line, Gorman stalks the halls of the Nova Scotia Legislature. We talk about the state of the union at the CH, as well as a recent piece he wrote for the Halifax Examiner on Irving’s unpaid temporary workforce. Gorman […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Dalhousie, Examineradio, Irving, journalism, Michael Gorman, NSCC, podcast, shipbuilding, tuition

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 blonde woman and a white man with a dark beard, both wearing pajama bottoms and either a red or a pink bra, have a pillow fight on a bed.

Episode 84 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

After a year’s worth of singles and videos, the Halifax duo is finally releasing its first recorded project in the form of FLUTTER, a six-song genre-agnostic EP that’s deeply personal and incredibly catchy. Art Ross and Aaron Green return to the show a year later to dish on their music-industry immersion, why Ross’ sapphic lyrics strike all kinds of chords, and where you can see them this summer.

Listen to the episode here.

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