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Black people already struggle to breathe in Canada. Ignoring us during this COVID-19 crisis will only make it worse.

April 3, 2020 By El Jones 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Black women are concentrated in frontline health care work. The agricultural industry employs large numbers of Black migrant workers who are affected by border closures. New State of Emergency declarations raise concerns about the intensification of racial profiling directed at Black communities. Black people make […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Anthony Morgan, anti-Black racism, Beverley Bain, Black community, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 while Black, Desmond Cole, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Ibram X. Kendi, Louise Delisle, pandemic, Police Chief Dan Kinsella

Fifteen years in, Nova Scotia might just fix tax assessment inequities

Morning File, Thursday, January 30, 2020

January 30, 2020 By Erica Butler 14 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp confirms extension to April 30 News 95.7 has reported on a Northern Pulp announcement stating the company has received permission from Nova Scotia’s Minister of the Environment to be able to continue discharging into Boat Harbour until the end of April 2020. New pulp processing waste is still not allowed, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Boat Harbour, Brett Bundale, Capped Assessment Program (CAP), Elizabeth McSheffrey, French River watershed, Laura Fraser, Lionel Desmond, Louise Delisle, Margaret MacQuarrie, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp extension, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM), Pam Berman, Paul Palmeter, property tax assessments, Shelburne well, Sobeys bag, Tatamagouche water supply, Westmount

It’s Living Wage Week!

Morning File, Wednesday, November 6, 2019

November 6, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

November subscription drive Phil Moscovitch and I worked on some of the same publications for years. We only met in person earlier this year, around the time I started regularly contributing to Morning File. Moscovitch is a full-time freelancer and he’s often traveling, meeting and learning about people and telling us all about them. I […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #NoNutNovember, Adsum House, Alex Johnstone, bridge closures, Climate Central, Donut Monster, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Ellen Page, Future Proofing Lockeport, Good Shepherd, Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board, Jack Julian, Jaimie McEvoy, John McPhee, Katherine Kalinowski, lead in drinking water, living wage, Louise Delisle, Lyndsay Armstrong, Mary Lou Tanner, New Westminster, Peter Girard, Philip Moscovitch, Reuben Vanderkwaak, Robert Cribb, Robert Devet, Rural Water Watch, Scotsburn Elementary School, sea level rise, Shelburne, Sheri Lecker, South End Environmental Injustice Society (SEED), Steve Snider, The Mustard Seed Co-op, Tim Webster, Zane Woodford

“There’s something in the water”

Ellen Page speaks to the Halifax Examiner about her forthcoming feature film and what she hopes it will accomplish

August 14, 2019 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a telephone interview about her forthcoming film on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, which will have its world debut this September at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was hammering her […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Alton Gas, Boat Harbour, Dale Poulette, Ellen Page, Environment Minister Iain Rankin, Environmental Noxiousness Racial Inequities and Community Health (ENRICH), Environmental Racism, Gaycation, Ian Daniel, Ingrid Waldron, Julia Anderson, Lil MacPherson, Louise Delisle, Michelle Francis-Denny, Northern Pulp, Pema Chödrön, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Rachael Greenland-Smith, Umbrella Academy, US Vice President Mike Pence

The power of poetry: Morning File, Wednesday, April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis Two weeks ago, Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas read her poem “Not Perfect” before city council: The reading had two effects. The first was that councillor Shawn Cleary was moved to ask that Halifax council revisit the issue of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the statue of Cornwallis in the south end. (Councillor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Not Perfect" poem, Craig Jackson, Dr. Alan Drummond, Edward Cornwallis removal, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Halifax Regional Council, Jack Webb, Lindell Smith, Louise Delisle, Michael Tutton, Mother Canada, Paul Withers, Randy Billings, Rebecca Thomas, Rick Davis, Shawn Cleary, Shelburne dump, softwood lumber tariff, Steve Streatch, Waye Mason, Westlock County Alberta, Yarmouth ferry season extension

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 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.

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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