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How the financialization of housing hurts renters and boosts profits

Morning File, Tuesday, June 15, 2021

June 15, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Could cheap repurposed drugs help provide a way out of the pandemic? The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. One phenomenon I was not aware of before the pandemic was people being fans of specific drugs. My attitude towards pharmaceuticals generally involves listening […]

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A potent human carcinogen found in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust is making its way onto Nova Scotia’s farm fields

The Halifax Examiner raised the issue about N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) with the two federal departments with mandates to protect the environment and ensure food safety. Here are their responses.

June 15, 2021 By Linda Pannozzo 4 Comments

For background on this story, here are Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this three-part series.  The Halifax Examiner has received responses from two federal departments involving the presence of a potent human carcinogen in Lafarge Brookfield’s cement kiln dust (CKD) — a product that is being sold as an agricultural soil amendment and is spread […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: Aerotech Park, alternative fuels, ash residuals, Bath plant, biosolids, Brookfield plant, CABOT (Citizens Against the Burning of Tires), Canadian Food Inspection Agency, carcinogens, cement kiln dust, Concrete Capture, dewatered sludge, Douglas Hallett, Environment and Climate Change (ECCC), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), environmental review tribunal, Fred Blois, Gord Downie, Hagersville tire fire, human carcinogen, Lafarge Brookfield, LaFarge Canada, limestone derivative, Linda Pannozzo, Lydia Sorflaten, N-Nitrosodimethylamine, NDMA, Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Robert Cumming, scrap tires, tire burning, tire-derived fuel, tires, toxicological assessment, toxicologist, Tragically Hip, US Environmental Protection Agency, World Health Organization (WHO)

Stephen McNeil announces his complicated carbon plan

October 24, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotians will pay more for electricity, gasoline, and home-heating  over the next four years as part of the province’s plan to reduce its carbon footprint and avoid a carbon tax Ottawa announced it will impose on four other provinces beginning this January. But Premier Stephen McNeil insists Nova Scotia consumers will pay much less...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: carbon tax, climate change, Department of Environment, Ecology Action Centre, Heritage Gas, Irving Oil, Jason Hollett, Jennifer Henderson, LaFarge Canada, Meghan McMorris, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Power, Premier Stephen McNeil

NDP re-introduces same tire-burning ban bill introduced — and passed — by the Liberals in 2008

October 4, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Talk about déjà vu. NDP Environment critic Lenore Zann has resurrected a bill that Liberal MLA Keith Colwell introduced 10 years ago to ban tire-burning in Nova Scotia. All three political parties passed it in 2008 but the law was never proclaimed. Don’t expect the Liberals to pass a carbon copy of their previous bill...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: burning tires, Gary Burrill, Iain Rankin, Jacquelyn Shaw, Jennifer Henderson, Keith Colwell, LaFarge Canada, Lenore Zann, Lydia Sorflaten, Mark Gibson

The “wave your hand” bus exit doors are horrible and someone should be fired for them: Morning File, Friday, July 7, 2017

July 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Bus doors   Last year, 99% Invisible and Vox got together to produce a short podcast on “Norman doors,” seen above. A Norman door is named after Don Norman, who in 1988 wrote a book, The Design of Everyday Things, which among many other things, pointed out a consistent problem with doors: many of them are counterintuitive. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ayahuasca, burning tires, bus doors, Chris Lambie, Corey Rogers, death in police custody, Jeannette Rogers, Kim Davies, LaFarge Canada, Michael Tutton, Mike Chassie, Norman doors, Ricky Goodall, The Icarus Report July 7 2017, Tonya Wimmer, whale carcass off Magdalen Islands, 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

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.

Listen to the episode here.

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