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Plaintiff in class-action lawsuit against Canadian Armed Forces ‘extremely optimistic’ about outcome

June 1, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

Rubin “Rocky” Coward is “extremely optimistic” about changes he feels are imminent within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Coward ⁠— along with JP Menard, Marc Frenette, and Wallace Fowler ⁠— are the four plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the CAF, and are are suing for systemic racism and institutional discrimination they say they faced […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, African Nova Scotian, Anita Anand, anti-Black racism, Black Nova Scotia, Black Nova Scotians, Canadian Armed Forces, Department of National Defence (DND), Douglas Ruck, Harjit Sajjan, JP Menard, Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau and anti-Black racism, Marc Frenette, Peter MacKay, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Racism, racists in Canadian Armed Forces, Rubin "Rocky" Coward, Stephen Harper, Wally Fowler

“It is historic”: Parents to receive immediate 25% reduction in day care costs, increasing to 50% by the end of the year

January 14, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

Friday’s announcement that eligible parents and caregivers will save 25% on child care fees retroactive from Jan. 1, and 50% by year’s end, was greeted with cautious optimism by advocates. “It is historic. It is hard not to stand back sometimes and go ‘Oh God. They’re doing this. They’re investing and they are investing in […]

Filed Under: Economy, Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: affordable child care, Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), child care, Child Care Now, Christine Saulnier, CUPE, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, early childhood educators, ECEs, Jessie-Lee McIssac, Justin Trudeau, Mount Saint Vincent University, Naomi Stewart, Nova Scotia, NS NDP, Premier Tim Houston, Suzy Hansen, Yvette d'Entremont

Welcome back, Peter

I’ve spent a good chunk of my columnist’s career mocking Peter MacKay without ever having spent time in his company. And then I did. He seemed generous, thoughtful, far more complex than I'd given him credit for. But then he got back into politics. And became 'that' Peter MacKay again.

May 10, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

Is it the person or the persona? The person or the party? The campaign or the campaigner? Does it really even matter? I’ve spent a good chunk of my columnist’s career mocking Peter MacKay without ever actually having spent time in his company. MacKay was always just a dependable target, a talking contradiction, inevitably doing...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alexa McDonough, Andrew Scheer, Conservative leadership campaign, Erin O'Toole, gun control, Justin Trudeau, Peter MacKay

What would Andrew do? Jagmeet?

The SNC-Lavalin affair offered a stark choice for our prime minister. We know which door he chose. But what about the opposition leaders. Shouldn't we know what they would have done with the same choice?

March 9, 2019 By Stephen Kimber 6 Comments

There is an unanswered, barely whispered question at the heart-attack centre of the SNC-Lavalin scandal now dumping buckets of freezing rain on Justin Trudeau’s sunny ways/sunny days parade. And that question is this: what would Andrew Scheer or Jagmeet Singh have done differently? In our system of government, opposition parties are expected to oppose, not […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Jobs, justice, Justin Trudeau, Omnibus legislation, SNC-Lavalin

Bullshitter of the week: Darren Fisher

Morning File, Friday, February 22, 2019

February 22, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “‘We care,’ says Northern Pulp on the website it has created to spread the word that it ‘cares about forestry families of Nova Scotia,’” writes Joan Baxter: The site is a vehicle for the company’s letter-writing campaign to get people in the forestry sector to contact Premier Stephen McNeil, their MLA, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: building roads increases traffic, Bullshitter of the week: Darren Fisher, Burnside Connector, Dartmouth High lockdown, Justin Trudeau, Mipham Mukpo, pedestrian killed Pleasant Street, Shambhala online petition, Shambhala revolt, Shit pay: King's College, Stephen Archibald and the Rocking Stone

Progress isn’t easy. Sometimes it just isn’t.

You know the way progress traditionally happens in politics: slowly, incrementally. And then you wake up one morning to the latest news from the Ontario provincial election campaign trail... or the White House. Progress, as Barack Obama once said, may not always be a straight line or a smooth path. But is there still a line? A path?

April 22, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

“We need to go forward, but progress isn’t always a straight line or a smooth path.” Barack Obama victory speech, November 7, 2012 How to explain our current political whipsaw? You go to sleep one night knowing 6,000 delegates to this weekend’s federal Liberal party convention will debate progressive resolutions to de-criminalize possession of small...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, Progress

We Will Win

A week of collective activism for Abdoul Abdi shows how the community is brought together through struggle, joy, and love.

January 13, 2018 By El Jones 10 Comments

Prologue: December 4 & 5 Desmond Cole says to me, “these people underestimate us.” We are organizing to help Abdoul Abdi, who was brought to Canada from Somalia as a young boy, was taken into the care of the province and bounced between 31 different home placements, including three years of abuse. Through it all, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Ahmed Hussein, Benjamin Perryman, Coralee Smith, Debra Spencer, Desmond Cole, Emma Halpern, Fatuma Alyaan, iZrEAL, Jordan Ward, Julie Chamagne, Justin Trudeau, Premier Stephen McNeil, racist comments on Black Twitter, Rinaldo Walcott, Sandy Hudson, Sheldon MacLeod, Vicky Mochama

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.

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