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Occupy North Mountain

Kings County residents opposed to aerial herbicide spraying on a Northern Pulp clearcut take action to try to stop it.

September 1, 2020 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Residents who live close to a piece of land on North Mountain in Kings County that was clearcut two years ago and is now slated for aerial spraying of a glyphosate-based herbicide, have “occupied” the site, and they tell the Halifax Examiner that they don’t intend to leave until the spraying is cancelled or the […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Acadian forest, agriculture, Anna Osburn, Bayer, Brian Adams, carcinogenic, Carey Gillam, Century Forestry Consultants, clearcut, Don Osburn, Doug Kemp, Environment Minister Gordon Wilson, Five Islands Forest Development, forestry, genetically engineered crops, Glyphosate, Health Canada, herbicide, JD Irving, June Daley, Kate Adams, Kings County, Leo Glavine, monocropping, Monsanto, North Mountain, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Environment, Pat Kemp, Thierry Vrain, Timberline, VP480, World Health Organization (WHO)

Killam still profiting during pandemic

Morning File, Friday, August 7, 2020

August 7, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 11 Comments

News 1. McNeil stepping down Stephen McNeil is stepping down as premier. Zane Woodford reports on the surprise announcement, which McNeil made Thursday during a post-cabinet news conference. Says McNeil: Seventeen years is a long time, and it’s long enough. Today I’m announcing I will be stepping down and leaving public office. I have informed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: borealization, boulevard garden, COVID-19, Donna Evers, Duff Evers, Electric City, Emile Stehelin, Eric Nielsen, eviction ban, Georges Island, Graham Steele, Hal Theriault, JD Irving, JDI, Joshua Noseworthy, Killam Properties, Kingswood, landlords, meadow garden, moratorium, Niki Jabbour, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, NS coastline, pandemic, Paul H. Stehelin, Premier Stephen McNeil, rent hikes, Sam Langford, snakes, Stacey Doucette, Stephen McNeil stepping down, Steven Laffoley, Tom Beckley, Weymouth

The summer of play

Morning File, Friday, July 3, 2020

July 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Cabinet roundup Jennifer Henderson offers a concise and informative roundup of the day’s news from virtual Province House, following yesterday’s cabinet meeting. The short version: the province and feds are still trying to work out the details of an inquiry into the April 18-19 mass murders, school may or may not be on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, camping, children playing, Churchill statue, Emmet Petersmann, Harbour Watercraft & Adventure Rentals, Ira Glass, JD Irving, Jon Tattrie, Lee Pollock, Ossama Nasrallah, Peter Ziobrowski, Roger Hart, Sara Kirk, Sasha Martin-Maher, Sea-doo, sea-doo crash, Tom Beckley, Walk Against Winston, Winston Churchill

The Borealization of Acadia

Due to climate change, warm weather-friendly trees should be dominating our forests; instead, cold-weather species are taking over. We now understand why — thanks to a phone call from the Irving company to lean on a professor's dean.

July 2, 2020 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

A new study shows that since European settlement, the rich mix of deciduous and conifer trees in the temperate forest — known by settlers as “Acadian” forest — of the Maritimes, New England, and southeastern Quebec has undergone “borealization,” meaning there has been “widespread replacement of temperate tree species by boreal species,” which are common […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation Tagged With: Acadian Forest Region, anthropogenic fire, boreal, borealization, clearcutting, climate change, Donna Crossland, ecological forestry, facebook, Faculty of Forestry and Enviornmental Management, forestry, global warming, Greg Watson, high production forestry, high-grading, industrial forestry, Jason Limongelli, JD Irving, JDI, Joshua Noseworthy, Lahey report, logging, North Nova Forest Owners Co-operative, temperate forest, Tom Beckley, University of New Brunswick, Van Lantz

Who’s hiring during COVID-19?

April 8, 2020 By Suzanne Rent and Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. I (Suzanne Rent) haven’t done a list of terrible-paying jobs in some time. But on the weekend when Tim Bousquet shared a tweet from Stanfield’s saying they were hiring more staff to help them make medical gowns, I thought I’d look into what companies are […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Arctic patrol boats, Atlantic Splash Adventure, Canada Post, Carla Adams, COVID-19, employment in NS, Gillian Costello, Irving Shipyard, Jane's Next Door, JD Irving, job ad, job hunting, Loblaw, Mark Boudreau, Michael Lowe, Nate Martin, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Nursing Homes of Nova Scotia Association (NHNSA), Paladin Security, Shadow Security, Shannex, social distancing, Sproule Lumber, Tom Ormsby, Valérie Chartrand

A Tree Walk will make us all rich!

Morning File, Thursday, August 22, 2019

August 22, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Cod “DFO has issued a stark warning linking the demise of codfish in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to an exploding seal population,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: It’s contained in the most recent stock assessment of Atlantic cod in the southern gulf, which was released earlier this month. “At the current abundance […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Abdilahi Elmi, Anjuli Patil, Atlantic cod, Atlantic Wallboard LP, Cabot Links airport, Cochrane Hill gold mine, George Canyon, grey seals, HMCS Toronto, Infrastructure Canada, Irvings and ACOA, JD Irving, Jeff Hutchings, Joseph Balaz, Kevin Bissett, Mary Campbell, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Paul Withers, Rob Wolf, Sheldon MacLeod, St Barbara, St. Mary’s River Association, Stephanie Levitz, Taryn Grant, Tree Walk, world class

Turning protesters into pets

How Nova Scotia's forestry regulators are already undermining the Lahey Report, and what we can do about it.

December 14, 2018 By Linda Pannozzo 8 Comments

Cover photo: a clearcut adjacent to the Old Annapolis Nature Reserve. The forest to the right of the clearcut is now being proposed as a second clearcut, which would create a total clearcut area of roughly 150 acres. Photo courtesy Mike Lancaster. In her eloquent and thought-provoking 2014 book, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Allan Eddy, Allan Smith, Arundhati Roy, Bernie Miller, Brad Toms, Bruce Nunn, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), clearcutting, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Harry Freeman and Sons, JD Irving, Jonathan Kierstead, Jonathan Porter, Lahey report, Ledwidge Lumber, Louisiana Pacific, Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute, Mike Lancaster, Minister Iain Rankin, Natural Resources Strategy, Nick Horne, Northern Pulp, Premier Stephen McNeil, Resolute Forest Products, Scotia Atlantic Biomass, St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association (SMBSA), Stephen McNeil's Liberals, The Washington Post Company, WestFor, William Lahey

Super Big Money: Lots of federal money is coming to the Ocean Supercluster, but who will benefit?

July 19, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Fog obscured the harbour view on Wednesday as nearly 400 people from business, government, and academia clustered inside Pier 21 for a free update on the “Oceans Supercluster.” In what Shakespeare buffs call “the pathetic fallacy,” the day’s grey weather paralleled the verbal haze that’s blanketed the entity endorsed by Ottawa and some leading Atlantic...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: CFFI Ventures (Clearwater), Cooke Aquaculture, Cuna del Mar, Emera, JD Irving, Jeff White, Jennifer Henderson, Matt Hebb, Oceans Supercluster, Petroleum Resources Newfoundland, Robert Orr, Susan Hunt

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).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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