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Northwood: when a ‘review’ is just a cover-up

Last week, the McNeil government announced its plans for a "review" of the 53 COVID-19 deaths at Northwood. The problem is that it isn't a review, just another excuse not to be accountable.

July 5, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On Thursday, my colleague Jennifer Henderson ventured where few of us would willingly dare to venture: into a post-cabinet-meeting virtual scrum where reporters got to sort-of ask meaningful questions, and physically distanced, reality-challenging government ministers got to respond with their usual baffling bafflegab. Thankfully, she […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erica Surette, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Jennifer Henderson, Northwood class action lawsuit, pandemic, Patricia West, Premier Stephen McNeil, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Wagners

Maritime Launch Services and its private/public servants

One government bureaucrat sent a nasty email to a CBC reporter. Others had rude things to say about the Halifax Examiner. And Stephen McNeil met with MLS and it Ukrainian "partners" even though they aren't registered as lobbyists.

November 5, 2019 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

It’s not the first time I’ve waded through many hundreds of pages of correspondence released by a government under a FOIPOP (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy) request, but it is the first time that reading the correspondence made me feel slightly queasy, like a voyeur witnessing unhealthy relationships developing between uncritical and subservient […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Action Against the Canso Spaceport (AACS), Alec Bruce, Barry Carroll, Canso Area Development Association (CADA), Canso spaceport, Cyclone 4 rocket, David Jackson, David Walsh, Don Bowser, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Frances Willick, Frank Sander, Gordon MacDonald, Harold Roberts, Harvey Doane, Janet MacMillan, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Geddes, John Kearney, Joseph Hasay, lobbyist registry, Marie Lumsden, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Matthew Dunn, Michael Byers, Minister Lloyd Hines, MP Alaina Lockhart, MP Roger Cuzner, NATIONAL Public Relations, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Steve Matier, Sylvain Laporte, United Paradyne, Yaroslav Pustovyi, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

Here’s your chance to speak on the Cornwallis issue

Morning File, Monday, June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Health care non-crisis “Last week’s ‘mutual’ firing of the province’s deputy health minister shows just how unwilling our premier is to acknowledge our healthcare crisis — let alone do something about it,” writes Stephen Kimber. Click here to read “Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare.” This article is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Perry, Alex Cooke, Atlantic Gold, Biocon conference, Chinas Ambassador to Canada, Erin MacInnis, gold mining, Innovation Hub of Nova Scotia, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Lacewood bus terminal, Last Gamestore, Lu Shaye, Mary Campbell, Premier Stephen McNeil, St. Barbara Limited

How Vaportecture is used to obscure Canada Land’s untendered sale of land for a Shannon Park stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Bay Ferries, biomass, Canada Lands, Catherine Tully, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Joan Jones, Joanne Bernard, Justice Peter Rosinski, Kristen Hare, Lisa Manninger, Neil deMause, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC lawsuit, percent, Rocky Jones, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Scott Campbell, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, stadium rendering, Stephen Archibald and Encounter at Kwacha House, Tim Houston, Vaportecture, Wendie Poitras, Woman Hailing a Cab

Science will determine just how much you people are pissing off your bartenders

Morning File, Tuesday, March 12, 2019

March 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Here’s a tip: Be nice to your servers and bartenders Oh, how I can relate to this story. Vanessa Myers, a psychology graduate student at Saint Mary’s University, is researching how customer interactions affect the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, basic income, Basic Income Nova Scotia, bedsores, bipolar disorder, blood pressure, Chrissy Dunnington, Claire Sethuram, Colin Stevenson, cop’s gun stolen, Dr. Martin Alda, Elizabeth (Mandy) Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth Marshall, Finland basic income pilot project, Friendly Divas, Jennifer Henderson, John Ferguson, Lucy MacLeod, menstrual equity, Mincome, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), period poverty, Richard Woodbury, Sara Spike, servers and bartenders, Small History Nova Scotia, Suzanne Lively, Tom Ayers, Vanessa Myers, Yvette d'Entremont

We’re about to learn just how subservient Nova Scotia is to the forest industry

Morning File, Tuesday, December 4, 2018

December 4, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

1. Clearcutting “The McNeil government is promising less clearcutting on crown lands through new ‘interim’ harvesting guidelines introduced yesterday in response to a comprehensive report on forestry practices prepared by University of King’s College president Bill Lahey last August,” reports Jennifer Henderson: It’s unclear how much the controversial practice will be reduced until after permanent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art Bouman, Austin Hiltz, beg buttons, Brad Fougere, Canada Post protesters, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Cathy Valade, clearcutting, Councillor Lorelei Nichol, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Crosswalk Safety Task Force, Darius Mirshahi, Glen Assoun, Ian Fairclough, Icarus Report Dec 4 2018, Jennifer Henderson, Justin Whitten, Ken Reashor, Lahey report, Linda Pannozzo, North Dartmouth, pedestrian walk signal, Pier 21, Rachelle Valade, Tony Tracy, Vincenz and Kristina Bogatin, YMCA asking for money, YMCA funding, Zane Woodford

YMCA drops plans for daycare from its new building

Daycare was one of the promised “social and community benefits” that convinced Halifax city council to approve the oversize development.

December 3, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

At the earliest, it will be this time next year before the shiny new YMCA rising at the corner of South Park and Sackville Streets can open its doors to members. President and CEO of the Greater Halifax YMCA, Brian Posavad, tells the Halifax Examiner that, “like the rest of the projects in Halifax right...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bette Borg-Watson, Brian Posavad, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Pomeroy, SouthWest Porperties, Y daycare, YMCA

The Lahey report on managing Nova Scotia forests was published three months ago; when is the government going to act on it?

November 23, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

How should Nova Scotia manage one of its key public resources — the forests — to make them healthier and more economically productive? Three months ago, the province received a report with 45 recommendations on how to achieve those goals. The Independent Review of Forest Practices In Nova Scotia was authored by Bill Lahey, a...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Independent Review of Forest Practices In Nova Scotia, Jennifer Henderson, Lahey report, Minister Iain Rankin

John Risley, owner of a private island and a $30 million yacht, lectures us about thrift

Morning File, Thursday, November 15, 2018

November 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

November subscription drive Have you subscribed yet? This would be an excellent time, and if you buy an annual subscription this month, we’ll mail you a Halifax Examiner T-shirt. We’ve got lots of them: Also, any subscription gets you into our subscriber party, to be held Sunday, November 25, 4–7pm at Bearly’s Tavern. The band Museum […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alastair Simpson, Anthony George Sparks, Centre for Comparative Genomic and Evolutionary Bioinformatics (CGEB), city Employee Engagement Survey, ExxonMobil, food insecurity, Heidi Petracek, Hemimastigotes, Houssen Milad, Jennifer Henderson, John Demont, John Risley, Merle MacIsaac, Noble Regina Allen, Nova Scotia Choral Federation, offshore incident, old library, Sadie Toulany, Sobey School of Business, Square Roots, Steve Bruce, subscriber party 2018, subscription party 2018, T-shirt, taxi drivers sexual assault, Tim Callahan-Cross, Yana Eglit

Paradise is lost, but no one much cares

Morning File, Tuesday, November 13, 2018

November 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 14 Comments

Subscription drive If you haven’t yet, please consider subscribing. 1. Press-conference journalism “I’ve never been a fan of press-conference journalism,” writes Stephen Kimber: It may be a marginal improvement on canned-quotes press-release journalism when it comes to public accountability, but most press conferences I’ve attended are little more than carefully staged theatre pieces designed to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside Business Association, California wildfire, cargo plane crash Halifax airport, Chico, Emma Davie, Flight GG 4854, Jennifer Henderson, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Paul Wozney, Philip Hamilton, Provincial Advisory Council on Education (PACE), right whales, St. Patrick's Rectory addition, Val the police horse, Yvette d'Entremont

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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).

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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