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New Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act passes despite concerns

Advocates say the bar for involuntary hospitalizations should be high, while psychiatrists worry fewer people will receive necessary treatment.

April 26, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

As the mother of a young man with mental illness, Joanne knows how hard it can be to get much-needed mental health treatment for a family member, especially when that person doesn’t think they need it. Joanne (not her real name) lives in rural Nova Scotia, where there is limited access to crisis teams and […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Province House Tagged With: Anna Mehler Paperny, Anna Quon, Bill 120, Brian Comer, CBC, Dalhousie Universit, Dr. Jason Morrison, Hello, I Want to Die Please Fix Me, involuntary hospitalization, Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act, Jean Laroche, Lisa Lachance, mental health, mental health treatment, mental illness, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program, Nova Scotia Health, Office of Addictions and Mental Health, Patricia Arab, Philip Moscovitch, psychiatric care, psychosis, substitute decision-makers, wellness check

It’s OK to not obsess over every bit of COVID data

Morning File, Tuesday, December 21, 2021

December 21, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. Briefing today, as daily COVID cases hit nearly 500 The number of daily new COVID-19 infections in Nova Scotia has held steady at nearly 500 the last few days, Tim Bousquet reports. Because of the high number of infections, public health is backlogged, and can’t maintain accurate numbers of active and recovered cases. […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured Tagged With: Alec Soucy, Allison Bondar, BBC, Bike Share Toronto, Bike-share, Bixi, Campbell McClintock, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, Cobequid Pass, Covid testing, COVID-19, Encampments, Halifax Mutual Aid, Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market, Hightail, Innovacorp, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Henderson, Kat Felix, Li Renzetti, Nicholas Scott, OpenText, PBSC Urban Solutions, Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia, Philip Moscovitch, Premier Tim Houston, rapid testing, Robert Cuffe, South Shore Public Libraries, The PIER, Tim Bousquet, Toronto, Western Alignment Development Corporation, Yvette d'Entremont, Zak Markan

Natural born quillers

Morning File, Monday, November 22, 2021

November 22, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

We are into the home stretch of the Halifax Examiner annual subscription drive. If you are already a subscriber, thank you. If you are not yet a subscriber, please subscribe. A few weeks ago, Jeremy Klaszus of the Calgary digital news site The Sprawl tweeted that he had been thinking a lot about a quote […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: car crashes, Cheryl Simon, French tacos, Haley Ryan, hemlock, Indigenous art, Jean Laroche, Josie McKinney, Kay Sark, Lyle Howe, Matthew Byard, Montreal, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Philip Croucher, Philip Moscovitch, Quill art, Quilling, Robie Street, Scott Smith, StarMetro Halifax, Stephen Kimber, Steve MacKay, Taryn Grant, The Quill Sisters podcast, The Star Halifax, Tim Covell, Traffic, Traffic calming, Typewriters, Underwood, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Reading, from books to Coffee News

Morning File, Tuesday, October 20, 2020

October 20, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1.  Goldboro LNG plant: no guaranteed loans, no definite source of gas Yesterday, the Examiner published the first installment of Joan Baxter’s new two-part series on the proposed LNG plant near Port Hawkesbury. In the intro to the piece, called “The Goldboro Gamble,” Baxter writes: Not much about the project’s prospective financing and gas […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afro-Indigenous Book Club, Amelia McLeod, Ask Us Anything, Bruce Frisko, Coffee News, Damini Awoyiga, Digitally Lit, Goldboro LNG plant, Jean Daum, Jean Laroche, Jesse Thomas, Katie Shaw, Laura Byrne, legislature, lobster fishery, mass murder inquiry, Oliver Hallet, Richard Amero, Rob Csernyik, Robin Grant, Sarah Sawler, Tobeatic Wilderness Area

Breaking down street barriers for people who are blind and partially sighted

Morning File, Monday, September 14, 2020

September 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. QAnon knows no borders Joan Baxter reports on QAnon, a global movement that promotes conspiracy theories, which has followers here in Nova Scotia. QAnon only started a few years ago with one post on the 4chan internet channel. Baxter took a look around to check out some of the post QAnon and its […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: automated pedestrian signals (APS), Brandi Shaw, COVID-19, Education Minister Zach Churchill, gender reveal parties, Graham Driscoll, Jean Laroche, Jenna Karvunidis, Laurie Graham, Michael Gorman, Milena Khazanavicius, Minister Chuck Porter, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), partially sighted, pedestrian push buttons, pedestrian safety, people who are blind, QAnon, Rene Ross, Suzanne Humphries, Unmask Our Children, Walk and Roll, Yarmouth

Pandemic drinking is no joke

Morning File, Tuesday, July 14, 2020

July 14, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. Where’s the plan? Parents call on province to release back-to-school details A group of Nova Scotia parents have sent an open letter to Premier Stephen McNeil, calling on the province to make “children and their right to education” a priority in the province’s pandemic response plan, Yvette d’Entremont reports. While the other Atlantic […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: alcohol abuse, alcohol consumption, Alex Cooke, Ally Garber, Andy Hakin, Brooklyn Currie, business subsidy, Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), Chief Julia Cecchetto, coronavirus, corporate capitalism, COVID-19, COVID-19 waiver, Dan Kelly, decriminalizing drugs, drinking, Haley Ryan, IRIS, Jean Laroche, Jeremy Keefe, Jordi Morgan, Juliana Khoury, Nova Scotia Chiefs of Police Association, P3 hospital, pandemic, RCMP shooting Eastern Passage, Richard Kenneth Wheeler, school reopening, sobriety, St. Francis University (St FX), Thérèse Forsythe, wine mommy

What will it take to restart film and TV production?

Morning File, Thursday, June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. New class-action lawsuit proposed against RCMP and attorneys general of Canada, NS Families of those killed on April 18 and 19 in Nova Scotia are suing the RCMP, along with the attorneys general of Canada and Nova Scotia, for failings related to the mass murders. The suit is being brought by Patterson Law […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Angry Inuk, Ben Knockwood, blood collection, bloodwork, Chief William Paul, coronavirus, COVID-19, film industry, Freedom of Information request, Halifax Public Libraries, HRP police contract collective agreement, Indigenous History Month, Jean Laroche, John Knockwood, Martin Sack, Maureen Parker, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Nova Scotia Archives, pandemic, Paul Palango, RCMP, RCMP class action lawsuit, Shannon Gormley, Sheila Nevin, social distancing, Stephen Maher, Taylor Samson, William Sandeson

Let’s talk about those damn bus doors again

Morning File, Tuesday, January 21, 2020

January 21, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Santina Rao “The officers involved are still on the job and Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella had little to say publicly on Monday about the violent arrest of a young Black mother at Walmart last week, citing an ongoing court case and a potential investigation,” reports Zane Woodford: Kinsella addressed reporters after […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexandra Skultety, Andrea Jerrett, Ben Bogstie, bus doors, Caitlin Porter, Halifax Transit, J-school, Jean Laroche, Jim Smith, journalism students, King's College, Kristina Pappas, Michael Gorman, Norman doors, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Owls Head Park, Phil Moscovitch, Sarah Khan, syphilis, The Signal

“Bad actors”: a Halifax landlord says a cryptocurrency firm is skipping out on its rent and might hide its assets where no court can find them

Morning File, Monday, December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

1. McNeil government Writes Stephen Kimber: I had been hoping to say something positive about Stephen McNeil’s government — it is, after all, the season of speaking positively — but as soon as I began to put electronic keyboard to computer-screen praise, his government inevitably did one more something that was so bone-headed, so egregious, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, Blockchain Dynamics, blueberries, Brad McGowan, child pornography, Christopher McGarrigle, cryptocurrency, Don Tremaine, Gerald Cotten, GNF, Hal-Con, Hyperblock, Internet Child Exploitation Unit, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Murray, Michael Quigley, National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC), Navid Saberi, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Phillip Travers Milo, Prince Andrew, QuadrigaCX, Richard Starr, sulphur dioxide, Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia

Zombie ideas that won’t die

Morning File, Thursday, December 12, 2019

December 12, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

I’ve said this before, but when I first started writing for the Examiner, a friend asked how much Tim paid. After I’d replied, the person I was speaking with said, “Oh, so it takes [x] monthly subscriptions just to pay for you to do one Morning File.” I’d never thought of it in such bald […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron MacCallum, Amanda Dodsworth, ambulance services, Andre Denny, Andrew Rankin, Anthony Romeo, Aon, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Blair Rhodes, Bobby Seal, CFL stadium, civil asset forfeiture, Constable Emmanuel Aucoin, Councillor Mitchell Tweel, Dave Stewart, Emma Smith, Gareth E. Rees, Government secrecy, income assistance, Jackie Torrens, Jean Laroche, Kate Letterick, Kendall Worth, mental illness, Michael Gorman, Minister Randy Delorey, MLA Susan Leblanc, not criminally responsible, Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program, PC MLA Pat Dunn, Peter Lederman, Phil Tibbo, Premier Doug Ford, QE2 redevelopment, Raymond Taavel, red tape reduction, Robert Devet, Sandy Simpson, Sarah Stillman, Simon Lewsen, Stephen Archibald and parking garages, TrentonWorks

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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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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