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No, landlords can’t require you to tell them if you have COVID-19

Morning File, Tuesday, March 24, 2020

March 24, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 17 Comments

News 1. Here’s why the liquor stores are open The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. I’ve seen a lot of joking about the liquor stores being open when almost everything else is shut down. Boy, we sure love our liquor in Nova Scotia, eh? If you’re wondering why it’s important to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accessible Canadian Emergency Announcements in SL, coronavirus, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, eviction, homeschooling, Jim Vibert, landlords, Leah Genge, Linda Campbell, Nicole Munro, psychiatric treatment, working from home

Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 1: The making of a toxic mess and the uncalculated costs of previous gold rushes.

March 1, 2020 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

This is Part 1 of a three-part story about the toxic legacy from historic gold mines in Nova Scotia, which its citizens will be paying many millions of dollars to try to clean up, and how the contamination at just one of these sites — Montague Mines in HRM — is still affecting lives today, […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Alexander Heatherington, arsenic from mining, Atlantic Gold, Barry's Run, Canadian Extractive Industries Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA), Clayton Developments, Cochrane Hill gold mine, Damas Touquoy, Department of Energy and Mines (DEM), Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Francis Paul, gold mining, gold mining pollution, Goldenville, James Paul, John Drage, John Hartlen, John Pulsiver, Kerry Rowe, Lake Charles, Lake Loon, Linda Campbell, Lisa Jarrett, mercury, Michael Parsons, mine tailings, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Mitchell Brook, Montague Mines, Moose River gold mine, Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup, Nova Scotia Lands, Paul Paul, Raymond Plourde, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, St. Barbara Limited, Touquoy mine

The province wants your input on six newly proposed wilderness areas

Morning File, Monday, January 13, 2020

January 13, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

1. Council preview “Rules for Uber, a plan for climate change, and a cooling-off period for politicians and staff are all on the agenda for Halifax regional council’s meeting this week,” reports Zane Woodford: The meeting, starting at 10am Tuesday, also includes an appeal hearing for a design review committee decision at 1pm and a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Archibald Lake Wilderness Area, Blandings turtle, Brad Toms, Brandon Alcorn, Brian Baarda, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS), Cochrane Hill gold mine, eastern ribbon snake, Elizabeth McMillan, gold mining pollution, Insulated Panel Structures Inc, Jeff Scott Gooch, Linda Campbell, Mersey Tobeatic Research Insititute, Minister Gordon Wilson, Northern Pulp closure, Pleasant River Wilderness Area, Provincial Wilderness Areas, Ray Plourde, Shingle Lake

Three years on a rusty ship

Morning File, Tuesday, December 31, 2019

December 31, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve! We were going to have a quiet get-together with friends, but because the roads sound like they will be terrible, we’re staying home instead and I’m cooking dinner out of the great new Korean cookbook I got for Christmas. I hadn’t even twigged that it’s the end of the decade until […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: American Sign Language, Andrew Lapham, Brett Bundale, Brian Hayes, Canadarm, CBC, Charles Pullam-Moore, city fathers, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, D&D Maritime, Doug Poulton, Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Emma Davie, free transit, George Lucas, Isaac Olson, Jane Eyre, Jim Balsillie, Jim Rich, John Risley, Linda Campbell, MacDonald Dettweiler and Associates Ltd, MADD Halifax, Maritime Sign language, Maxar Technologies, Minister Steven Guilbeault, MV Ethan, Nicholas Christenfeld, Northern Private Capital, Nova Scotia Advocate, Rachel Emmanuel, Raymond Sheppard, Richard Thompson, spoiler culture, Star Wars, Vyacheslav Borshchevskij

After the gold rush

Nova Scotia is ignoring the toxic legacy of past mining manias while rushing headlong into the next

June 25, 2019 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

If learning from past mistakes were a government tradition in Nova Scotia, the current government would not be exhibiting all the symptoms of gold fever. But it is, and it looks like a raging bout of the affliction. In the past few years, it has amended legislation based on recommendations made by the industry’s cheerleader-in-chief, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: 2012 Geological Survey of Canada, Adele Poirier, arsenic from mining, arsenic in well water, Arsenic Task Force, Atlantic Gold, Bruce Nunn, Christian West, Cooper Quinn, cyanide, Department of Energy and Mines, Donald James, Dustin O’Leary, Enfield, Gary Andrea, George O’Reilly, gold mining, gold rush, Gold Show, grants for mineral exploration, Historic Gold Mines Advisory Committee, historic mines tailings sites, IAMGOLD, Jacob Hanley, James Millard, John Wightman, Linda Campbell, Lisa Jarrett, Lori Blackburn, Magnum Resources, mercury, Mineral Resources Development Fund (MRDF), Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Mining Society of Nova Scotia, Montague Mines, Moose River gold mine, Osprey Gold, Perry MacKinnon, Prospectors and Developers Association Convention (PDAC), Prospectors Association of Nova Scotia, Rick Horne, Sean Kirby, St. Barbara Limited, tailings, tailings dams, Touquoy mine, Waverley

Halifax councillors should tell city staff to stop dithering and adopt a living wage policy already

Morning File, Monday, January 28, 2019

January 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Blackface Last Monday, some Dalhousie students protested at the welcoming reception for incoming interim president Peter MacKinnon. As I noted Tuesday, the students were particularly riled over MacKinnon’s book, University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate & Dissent on Campus, which included a section that downplays and excuses the wearing of blackface while mischaracterizing and sidelining those who object […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: arsenic, Bernie Smith, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Frances Willick, Halifax Port Authority, Halterm, Linda Campbell, living wage, Public Safety Strategy, Robyn Simon, Sebastien Labelle, The Bus Stop Theatre, United Way

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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