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The fight for a living wage policy in Halifax continues… still

It has taken the city three years to come up with a "mealy-mouthed" living wage policy. Now it's our job to make sure this council — or the next — finish the job.

September 6, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

OK, let’s do the math. The latest research report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, released last week, pegs $21.80 an hour as a living wage for workers in Halifax. Before we do the math though, what constitutes a living wage, and why is it an issue now? Let’s start with the why. As...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Councillor Lindell Smith, living wage

Bad bosses and cranky customers

Morning File, Tuesday, June 9, 2020

June 9, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News 1. Report: Canadians plan to avoid restaurants ‘for the foreseeable future’ A recent survey shows 52% of its respondents will be avoiding dining in at restaurants for “the foreseeable future.” Yvette d’Entremont spoke with Sylvain Charlebois, a Dalhousie University professor and the lead author on the survey from Dalhousie University and Angus Reid. Says […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessibility, bad bosses, bad customers, call the manager, childcare, customer service, daycares, domestic violence, Easter Seals Nova Scotia, Equity Watch, Fight for $15, gun control, labour, Lisa Cameron, living wage, Miia Suokonautio, minimum wage, Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities, shopping carts, toxic workplaces, transition houses, women's issues, YWCA

Halifax cops and Black people: the Rodney Small case

Morning File, Thursday, June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Police and Black people in Halifax The police murder of George Floyd is highlighting what Black people have known forever: there is too much policing. On Tuesday, Sarah Dobson drew our attention to the Halifax case of Rodney Small, then a 15-year-old living in Uniacke Square. An appellant court ruling explained the (alleged) […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Mason, anti-Black racism, anti-Black violence, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Constable Donald Stienburg, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Heather Cameron, Judge Corinne Sparks, Justice Gerald B Freeman, Justice John Edward Flinn, Justice Ronald Newton Pugsley, living wage, minimum wage, pandemic, police violence, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robert Lutes, Rocky Jones, Rodney Small, Sarah Dobson, shit wages, street checks

What to do if you’re lost in the woods

Morning File, Thursday, May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 10 Comments

News 1. Healthy Bays Network: Fish farms are not just a rural issue; people in Halifax should be concerned Yvette d’Entremont reports on the newly-created Healthy Bays Network (HBN), a group of several community organizations opposed to open-net finfish farms in Nova Scotia. The group is opposed to New Brunswick-based seafood company Cooke Aquaculture subsidiary […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blair Doyle, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness, Canada job bank, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), Cecilia Khamete, Councillor Michael Gregory, Councillor Tom Taggart, COVID-19, Delores Campbell, essential workers, Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI), Halifax Search and Rescue (HSAR), hero pay, job hunting, living wage, minimum wage, Nenyo, pandemic, Paul Service, PPE, shit pay, work from home

Frontline workers: Grocery store staff

"We’re not heroes; we’re hashtags."

May 28, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. As a grocery store employee, Aaron (we’re not using his real name so he doesn’t face disciplinary action from his employer) is an essential worker, but like many retail employees, he’s not being treated that way. COVID-19 has exposed the importance of frontline workers in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), cashiers, coronavirus, COVID-19, frontline, Graeme Benjamin, grocery workers, hero pay, living wage, Loblaws, masks, pandemic, retail, Sheila Block, Sobeys, social distancing

The pandemic playbook

Morning File, Tuesday, May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. Mass killer’s former neighbour recounts horrifying history of violence and terror Joan Baxter speaks with a former Portapique neighbour of the killer who committed the worst mass murder in Canadian history. Even after his death, and despite the fact she now lives in western Canada, she would only agree to be identified by […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Caitlin Moran, Charles Duhigg, collapse of local media, coronavirus, Councillor Lindell Smith, COVID-19, Dr. Robert Strang, East Coast characters, government communications offices, Hannah Jane Parkinson, journalism, living wage, masks, pandemic briefings, pandemic messaging, pandemic premium, Penny Abernathy, Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachel Miller

Double Exposure

The pandemic has pushed back the curtain on how decades of austerity have left Canadians and the health care system more vulnerable.

May 7, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. By April 13, Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency had been in effect for 23 days, schools were closed, most businesses shuttered, and people were feeling the effects of the “lock down.” At the daily COVID-19 briefing, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Carole Shively, CD Howe Institute, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dennis Raphael, Dr. Robert Strang, economic insecurity, El Jones, ER Closures, essential workers, Fraser Institute, health care, Inez Rudderham, living wage, long term care (LTC), Michael Tutton, neoliberalism, Northwood, NS state of emergency, nursing homes, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), personal support worker (PSW), poverty, Premier Stephen McNeil, public health care spending, Sheldon Cohen, social determinants of health, Stephen Harper, stress, wait times, World Health Organization (WHO)

While everyone is tied up with COVID-19, what skulduggery is government up to?

Morning File, Friday, April 17, 2020

April 17, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. The latest Yesterday, we learned that 30 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 579. Eleven people are currently hospitalized, four of them in ICUs; 176 people have fully recovered. Three have died. A big chunk of the increase in positive cases comes from nursing homes, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, city hall salaries, city janitorial services, coronavirus, councillor Richard Zurawski, COVID-19, firearms charge Hammonds Plains, living wage, Mayor Mike Savage, pandemic, Stephen Archibald and spring, Travis Laing, weapons charges, Zane Woodford

Enhancing the tourist experience by putting parking on protected land

Morning File, Tuesday, December 24, 2019

December 24, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

It’s Christmas Eve and I have no idea if anybody is reading or not. If you’re here, enjoy the Morning File. I usually work only minimally between Christmas and New Year’s, and I hope you get some time off too. News 1. Christmas in prison A prisoner we are calling JC offers a moving piece […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beckwith Gilbert, Bee Morrison, Caitlin Grady, Canadian Ferry Association (CFA), Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Capp Larsen, coastal barrens, councillor Richard Zurawski, David Burke, electric buses, Frances Willick, Francis Campbell, Government secrecy, Halifax Field Naturalists, Jaida Regan, Joan Dawson, John Beale, Kent Martin, Kitty Gilbert, Lighthouse Links Development Company, living wage, Loaded Ladel Co-op, Marine Atlantic ferries, Mayor Mike Savage, Michael Gorman, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Peggy's Cove, Roger Crooks, Serge Buy, Stephen Archibald and Chignecto Ship Railway, Victoria Walton

The Halifax Regional Police have some questions for you

Morning File, Thursday, November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

It’s party time! November is subscription drive month, so we’re  having a party to celebrate. Drop into Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street) on Sunday, December 1 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Subscribers get to party with us for free. If you want to subscribe, you can do so here, or at the door. New Riders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Elizabeth McMillan, Eric Durnford, Fight for $15, Gerald Regan's legacy, Gerald Regan's victims, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Halifax Water, Halifax Workers’ Action Centre, HRP questions, job hunting, Julie Lalonde, lead pipes, living wage, Maggie Rahr, Michael Boudreau, NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan, PR jobs, Robert Cribb, Robert Wright, Sakura Saunders, Shaina Luck, Wendy Krkosek, Zane Woodford

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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