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Province no longer paying for hotels for Halifax homeless shelter residents

May 7, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The provincial government has stopped paying for hotel rooms for dozens of people who were moved out of a temporary homeless shelter last month following a confirmed case of COVID-19. And while federal funding is now covering the bill, the local association tasked with doling […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS), coronavirus, COVID-19 and vulnerable populations, homeless housing, Jim Graham, Krista Higdon, Out of the Cold Shelter, pandemic, Reaching Home program, social distancing

“Those who are in a shelter or without shelter cannot self-isolate”: Halifax deals with homeless population during COVID crisis

March 26, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Amid a public health emergency that relies on people keeping six feet apart to halt the spread of COVID-19, a team is putting on a full court press to deal with one group of citizens. Housing Nova Scotia, the Halifax Regional Municipality, the YMCA, and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, homelessness, Housing Nova Scotia, Krista Higdon, Linda Wilson, Maggie-Jane Spray, Meghan Laing, Metro Turning Point, Out of the Cold emergency shelter, Salvation Army, Shelter NS, YMCA

Forest Confidential

An investigation into Nova Scotia’s biomass harvest data and how the numbers aren’t adding up

April 13, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

A few months ago I reviewed a film that has been circulating the province about the growing use of forest biomass as a form of so-called renewable energy. The film — Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? — reported on how the biomass industry sells itself as green by making two bogus claims: it uses […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: biomass, Bowarter Mersey mill, Brooklyn Power, Bruce Nunn, Cellufuel, Community Feed-in Tariff (COMFIT) Program, Danny George, David Rodenheiser, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), DRAX power station, Emera, energy wood, Enligna, forest bioenergy, forest harvest data, Forest Sustainability Regulations, Great Northern Timber (GNT), Halifax Port Authority, Hefler Forest Products, Jacques Lapointe, Jessica Gorton, Krista Higdon, Lane Farguson, Lisa Jarrett, Mary Booth, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Renewable Electricity Regulations, Partnership for Policy Integrity, PCC silicon metal production plant, Point Tupper, Port Hawkesbury paper (PHP), Premier Stephen McNeil, Registry of Buyers, Saving Iceland, Scotia Atlantic Biomass, Shaw Eastern Embers, Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), Tony Mee, Utility and Review Board (UARB), WestFor consortium, woodchips

Pulp Culture

How Nova Scotia’s Faustian bargain with the pulp industry may leave the sawmills in ruins 

March 12, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

I wonder if Billy Freeman, a sixth generation saw-miller with 15 years experience, saw this juncture coming. A few weeks ago, Freeman, the process improvement manager at Harry Freeman and Son Ltd. in Greenfield, Nova Scotia wrote an illuminating op-ed in the Chronicle Herald supporting Northern Pulp in its request for an extension of the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Abercrombie Point, Anders Sandberg, B.E. Fernow, Billy Freeman, biomass, Boat Harbour, Bowater Mersey, Bruce Nunn, Canadian Forestry Service, Cassie Ledwidge Turple, Central Wood Suppliers Division, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Dr. Paul Arp, forestry, Glyn Bissix, Harry Freeman and Son Ltd, Honathan Porter, Jeff Bishop, Joe MacDonnell, Josh Noseworthy, Kimberly Clark, Krista Higdon, Laurie Ledwidge, Ledwidge Lumber, lumber recovery, Maritime Lumber Bureau, Murray Anderson, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Primary Forest Products Marketing Board (PFPMB), Nova Scotia Pulpwood Marketing Act, Nova Scotia Pulpwood Marketing Board, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association (NSWOOA), Permanent Sample Plot (PSP), Peter Clancy, Peter Duinker, pulp mills, Resolute Forest Products, Robert Stanfield’s Conservatives, sawmills, Scotsburn Lumber, Scott Paper, Stora, Tom Miller, United States Forest Service Studies, Wade Prest, Widjaja family, William Lahey, wood chips

By Any Other Name: Nova Scotia’s Department of Lands and Forestry just made “Clearcuts” disappear

February 16, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

Nova Scotians who signed up to receive proposed harvest plans on Crown land might have noticed some disturbing changes recently. As of a few days ago the maps no longer specify whether a proposed cut is a “clearcut” or not. The word was removed from the legend and the list of harvest prescription types. This […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Bruce Nunn, Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, clearcut, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Ecological Forestry of Southwest Nova, Ecology Action Centre, Forest Management Guide, Hardwood Hill, Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV), Interim Retention Guide, Jamie Simpson, Krista Higdon, Minister Lloyd Hines, National Forestry Database (NFD), Premier Darrell Dexter, Ray Plourde, William Lahey

The problem with the new Bridgetown School: It’s not just the school

Construction of an access road to the new Bridgetown school is more than $2 million over its original $1.3 million dollar budget. A friend of Stephen McNeil's is the beneficiary of the work, and has been fined for illegally building a boat ramp on nearby public land.

May 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

One of the first orders of business for the newly elected Liberal government in 2013 was to announce the construction of new schools in Bridgetown and Tatamagouche, in the ridings of Premier Stephen McNeil and Education Minister Karen Casey respectively. The two schools jumped from #26 and #28 on the new school construction list to be included among 10 school […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Albert Rice, Annapolis River, Brian Taylor, Bridgetown School, Department of Environment, Faye Road Extension, Gary Burrill, illegal boat ramp, Jamie Baillie, Krista Higdon, Michael Pickup, Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachel Brighton, Stephen McInnis, Tim Houston, TIR

Halifax Explosion 2: Morning File, Thursday, September 8, 2016

September 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Teachers The government has reached a tentative contract agreement with the teachers union. No details have been published, and a new contract is contingent on a vote of approval by union members. The McNeil government would very much like to go into an election with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Federation of Students-Nova Scotia, Charlotte Kiddell, Dave Gunning, Elizabeth Chiu, Environment Department, Francis Campbell, Krista Higdon, Mainline Needle Exchange, Mayor Mike Savage, Mayors for Peace, Northern Pulp, NSGEU, Patricia MacSween, Peter Kelly, Takeshi Araki, teachers union, tuition fee hike

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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