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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

Canada, land of the gas guzzler

Morning File, Thursday, January 16, 2020

January 16, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Partners for Care closes up shops Jennifer Henderson reports for the Halifax Examiner: Partners for Care, the non-profit group which ran half a dozen gift shops at the QE2 Health Sciences Centre for 25 years, abruptly closed the doors at its remaining four locations Tuesday. A charity without charitable activities to operate raises […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blake Shaffer, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, child poverty, Communications Nova Scotia, David Burke, forestry workers, free transit, fuel consumption, gas prices, Halifax Transit, HRM free bus passes, International Energy Agency, Jesse Thomas, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Scotia Works, runway overruns, runway safety zones, Service Canada, Shannon Kerr, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, Uber in Halifax

The Transportation Safety Board doesn’t want you to hear the Cockpit Voice Recording of Flight 624

Morning File, Wednesday, January 8, 2020

January 8, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. A lot of schools, businesses, and governments are closed. Everyone will complain about stuff. 2. Taxes “It’s early in the budget season, but Halifax regional councillors are hoping to keep next year’s tax increase well below inflation,” reports Zane Woodford: Council’s budget committee met Tuesday to work toward creating […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Air Canada, Air Canada Flight 624, Air Canada Pilots Association, Airbus S.A.S., Alexander Quon, Asher Hodara, atmospheric carbon dioxide, Attorney General of Canada, Boat Harbour, cannabis, Chief Andrea Paul, climate change, Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), designated smoking areas, Elmsdale Lumber, Georges Liboy, Georgie Fagan, Halifax International Airport Authority, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, hot idle, Jesse Thomas, Justice Patrick Duncan, Kathleen Carroll-Byrne, Lindsay Jones, Nav Canada, Northern Pulp closure, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Richard Starr, Robin Wilber, Smoking ban, Transportation Safety Board (TSB), Zane Woodford

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Morning File, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Yesterday, four days before his announcement was due on the Northern Pulp effluent treatment proposal, and less than 24 hours before the deadline for the provincial environment minister to announce his decision, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a statement saying that he had ‘decided not to designate […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, bedsore death, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Carrie Low, Chrissy Dunnington, Jesse Thomas, Louise Riley, Mi'kmaw Place Names, More Caring Hands, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Pam Berman, Parkstone Enhanced Care, Paul Withers, pedestrian vehicle collisions stats, police budget, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Polly Trottenberg, Rick Salutin, Robert Devet, Shannex, tidal turbine retrieval, Uber, Vision Zero

Stories of the dead at Camp Hill Cemetery

Morning File, Tuesday, October 8, 2019

October 8, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 12 Comments

News 1. Seven councillors voting against Austin’s motion Councillor Sam Austin will put a motion before council today to ditch a staff review into the stadium proposal, but at least seven other councillors won’t support it, reports Anjuli Patil with CBC. Steve Streatch, David Hendsbee, Tony Mancini, Russell Walker, Matt Whitman, Steve Adams and Lisa […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Carter, Access Nova Scotia, Andrew Rankin, Anjuli Patil, Anne Irwin, Barbara Darby and feelings, bridge protest, Camp Hill Cemetery, Canadian Plastics industry Association, city support for stadium, Colleen Cosgrove, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Steve Streatch, Craig Ferguson, David Maher, Dead in Halifax, Eat Pray Love, Ecology Action Centre, Elizabeth Gilbert, Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia, Graeme Benjamin, Jesse Thomas, Joe Hruska, leaders debate, license plate, Maggie-Jane Spray, Make Big Magic Weekend, Mark Butler, plastic bag ban, Shaina Luck, Waye Mason

Why are you running for city council?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 7, 2019

August 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Lower Sackville byelection “Three women have declared as candidates for this fall’s special election in Lower Sackville,” reports Zane Woodford for Star Metro: The election to replace former District 15 councillor Steve Craig, who was elected in June to the Nova Scotia Legislature, is set for Oct. 5. Council set the date at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Argyle Street, Emily Baron Cadloff, entangled right whale, Icarus Report August 7 2019, Jesse Thomas, Lower Sackville byelection, Matt Whitman and Uber, Natasha Bouliane, Objective News Agency, poverty in Nova Scotia, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, Shannon McLellan, Stephen Archibald and Morris Street house, Trysta Doary, Tundè Balogun, Zane Woodford

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 young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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