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Feeling the sting of first-past-the-post

Morning File, Tuesday, October 22, 2019

October 22, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Liberals win enough seats to form minority government With national voter turnout clocking in around 65.8% (it will adjust as those who registered on election day are counted) and Nova Scotia’s turnout slightly higher at 68.8%, Canadians re-elected 157 Liberal MPs, enough to form a minority government. In Nova Scotia, Liberals held on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alfred Aucoin, Bernadette Jordan, Brent Kelloway, electoral reform, flu shot, Halifax Transit quarterly report, housing in Cape Breton, influenza, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jaimie Battiste, Jodi Wilson Raybould, Kody Blois, Lenore Zann, Liberal minority government, MacDonald Bridge, Maxime Bernier, Mike Kelloway, Robert Strang, Wendy Martin

Judge rejects motion against Lafarge’s tire-burning plan

January 20, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Denise Boudreau has rejected a motion from a citizens group opposed to burning tires for fuel at the Lafarge cement plant in Brookfield. The motion was that new evidence from a toxicology expert be admitted as part of a judicial review this March of Environment Minister Iain Rankin’s decision to...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Mahody, Citizens Against Burning of Tires group (CABOT), Douglas Hallett, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Lafarge cement plant, Lenore Zann, Lydia Sorflaten, Supreme Court Justice Denise Boudreau

Nova Scotia’s cap-and-trade system to go easy on big corporate polluters

October 13, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Legislation introduced by the McNeil government to enable setting up a cap-and-trade system to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as part of a Trudeau directive to slow climate change was debated briefly in the Legislature this week. What is missing from Bill 15 — “An Act to Amend Chapter 1 of the Acts of 1994-95,...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill 15, Cap and Trade, greenhouse gas emissions, Jamie Baillie, Jason Hollett, Jennifer Henderson, Lenore Zann, Minister Iain Rankin, Stephen Thomas, Wayne Groszko

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

Mayor Mike Savage to shill for Shaw Communications: Morning File, Tuesday, October 3, 2017

October 3, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis panelists to be discussed in secret Halifax council will today appoint the “special advisory committee” to determine what to do with the Cornwallis statue. The panel will comprise: • Co-chairs from indigenous and non-indigenous community with leadership and chairing experience • An even number of members with experience and expertise in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Cornwallis statue advisory committee, council advisory committees, Courtney Jones, Evelyn White, Fireside, Glen Assoun, Gloria McCluskey, Good Robot Brewing Company, Johanna Galipeau, John Young, Kayla Hounsell, Kelly Costello, Lenore Zann, Linda Mosher, Rebecca Moore, Spring Garden Road ad, Spring Garden Road Business Association, Susan Leblanc, Sydney Waterfront redevelopment, Tom Wile, Tom's Little Havana, treaty rights and climate change, Wrongful Conviction Day

Environmental Bill of Rights proposed for Nova Scotia

April 24, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia needs nothing short of an Environmental Bill of Rights if it wants to ensure its citizens can drink clean water, breathe clean air, and hold their governments accountable to make polluters pay. That’s the position of a coalition of Nova Scotia environmental groups which celebrated Earth Day by unveiling an Environmental Bill of...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dorene Bernard, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Jonathan Beadle, Lenore Zann, Lisa Mitchell, Louise Delisle, Marlene Brown, Raymond Sheppard

The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers: Morning File, Tuesday, December 6, 2016

December 6, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 36 Comments

News 1. The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers I almost felt sorry for cabinet minister Michel Samson yesterday. As with the rest of his government, events had overtaken him. He stood before a room full of reporters who were repeatedly calling him out on his contradictions and his uninformed spin. “You say […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Ashcroft Homes, Bill 75, Canadian Martyrs' Church, contract dispute coverage, cyclist struck, David Wheeler, demonstrations, Gary Burrill, inclusion policy, Karen Casey, Kathy Mijatovich, Lenore Zann, Michel Samson, Nancy Rubin, Pam Berman, Parker Donham, Rankin MacSween, Saint Mary's University, Stephen McNeil, vehicle/cyclist collision

Eternity Expires as Eyes Close: Morning File, Saturday, November 12, 2016

November 12, 2016 By El Jones 2 Comments

News 1. Deaths in Custody, Again. This week brought another death in custody in Nova Scotia. …Paul Dauphinee Jr. was found in unresponsive in his cell at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth on Nov. 2. Dauphinee Sr. and family members made the heartbreaking decision to remove life support on Nov. 5, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Clayton Cromwell, Construction Battalion, Dannie Hanson, death in custody, Devin Maxwell, Erika Kulnys, Erin Wunker, Geordie Miller, George Elliott Clarke, Howard Sapers, Julia Wright, Kenny MacKay, Lenore Zann, Leonard Cohen, Matthew Hines, Michael McGuire, Paul Dauphinee Jr., Rhonda Britton, Rich Aucoin, Shannon Webb-Campbell, Sherene Razack, Vanessa Lent

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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