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Peter Kelly is back in the news

Morning File, Thursday, October 25, 2018

October 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

1. OPOR “This is a story about a potential half-billion-dollar health-care services contract, alleged cozy dinners between bidders and bureaucrats, an unusual legal letter and accusations the government’s tender process was unfair,” writes Chronicle Herald reporter Paul Schneidereit: The planned purchase of a new provincewide electronic health record (EHR) system — expected to cost in the hundreds […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allscripts, biomass, Cerner, climate change, crane operators, Dave Stewart, Department of lands and Forestry, Haley Ryan, Jason Hollett, lobbyist registry, Maritime Dufferin Gold, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), OPOR, Paul Schneidereit, Peter Kelly, Peter Ritchie, Theory of Everything podcast, This is That, Wayne Thibodeau

Stephen McNeil announces his complicated carbon plan

October 24, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotians will pay more for electricity, gasoline, and home-heating  over the next four years as part of the province’s plan to reduce its carbon footprint and avoid a carbon tax Ottawa announced it will impose on four other provinces beginning this January. But Premier Stephen McNeil insists Nova Scotia consumers will pay much less...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: carbon tax, climate change, Department of Environment, Ecology Action Centre, Heritage Gas, Irving Oil, Jason Hollett, Jennifer Henderson, LaFarge Canada, Meghan McMorris, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Power, Premier Stephen McNeil

Trying to get straight answers from the provincial government is an exercise in frustration and futility

Morning File, Thursday, October 4, 2018

October 4, 2018 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

Joan Baxter here again, filling in for Tim who is in Toronto for Wrongful Conviction Day, and being recognized by Innocence Canada, a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, advocating for, and exonerating individuals convicted of a crime that they did not commit. He is being awarded the the Tracey Tyler Award for his reporting on the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Allan Smith, Bill No. 57, Bruce Nunn, Chris Schafer, councillor Richard Zurawski, Credit Union Act, credit unions, Douglas Leahey, drive-thrus, Ecology Action Centre, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Geoff Regan, government communications offices, Hubert Horan, Ian Fairclough, Jacob Boon, Jason Hollett, Jean Laroche, Joan Baxter, Kelsey Lane, Mary Campbell, Mary Gorman, micro-loans, Mike Toomey, MLA Susan Leblanc, Motor Vehicle Act, Northern Pulp's mill waste, payday loans, Peter Ritchie, Premier Stephen McNeil, Steve Ferguson, Traffic Safety Act, Uber Canada, Uber in Halifax

McNeil government is moving slow with greenhouse gas reduction plan

Details are wanting, industry is worried, and regional cooperation is sidelined.

April 6, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia continues to resist a sales pitch from Ottawa to sign on to its system for reducing emissions starting in January 2019. That resistance comes despite a warning different carbon pricing regimes within Atlantic Canada could drive up administrative costs for companies such as Irving Oil, Wilson Fuels, Northern Pulp, and Lafarge Cement. Those...

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Filed Under: Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Atlantic Provinces Economic Council, carbon pricing, Dale Beugin, EcoFiscal Commission, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, greenhouse gas emissions, Jason Hollett, Jennifer Henderson, minister for Environment & Climate Change John Moffet

Nova Scotia’s cap-and-trade system to go easy on big corporate polluters

October 13, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Legislation introduced by the McNeil government to enable setting up a cap-and-trade system to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as part of a Trudeau directive to slow climate change was debated briefly in the Legislature this week. What is missing from Bill 15 — “An Act to Amend Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1994-95,...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill 15, Cap and Trade, greenhouse gas emissions, Jamie Baillie, Jason Hollett, Jennifer Henderson, Lenore Zann, Minister Iain Rankin, Stephen Thomas, Wayne Groszko

The McNeil government’s carbon-reduction plan probably won’t work, say experts

March 10, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Honey, get me re-write. Most participants in yesterday’s panel discussion called “Cap-and-Trade 101” at Dalhousie University expressed concerns about the first draft of a policy released by the provincial Environment Department Wednesday. If enacted, that will put a price on carbon next January in compliance with a directive from Ottawa. According to panelist Jason Hollett,...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brendan Haley, Cap-and-Trade 101, Elizabeth Beale, Jason Hollett, Kate Ervine, McNeil government, Murray Coolican

Muzzling the Forest Keepers

A Field Guide to Boreal Felt Lichen and DNR Message Control

November 4, 2016 By Linda Pannozzo 9 Comments

Endangered boreal felt lichen. Photo courtesy Brad Toms. A redacted email exchange recently obtained through a Freedom of Information request revealed that on November 7, 2014, Allan Eddy, the associate deputy minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, was not happy with something he had just seen. Eddy was attending the annual science conference […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Andrew Fedora, Bob Bancroft, boreal felt lichen, Brad Toms, Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, COSEWIC, David Richardson, Deep Cove, DNR, East Coast Environmental Law, Frances Anderson, Global Forest Watch, Irwin Brodo, Jason Hollett, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lloyd Hines, Mark Elderkin, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Michael Pickup, MTRI, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Robert Cameron, SARA, Sherman Boates, Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve, Species at Risk Act, Tom Duck, Wolfgang Maass

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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