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Today’s COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil says people should go back to work even if they’d receive more money by staying home

June 3, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The province’s COVID-19 media briefing on Wednesday was heavily focused on Friday’s reopening of services like salons, barber shops, spas and dine-in restaurants shut down since March. “Today’s another good day in terms of cases,” Premier Stephen McNeil said, opening the briefing with the announcement […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), coronavirus, COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, household bubbles, Lyndsay Armstrong, Northwood class action lawsuit, pandemic, physical distancing, Premier Stephen McNeil, Preston Mulligan, school reopening

Drink lead, kid

Morning File, Thursday, November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

November subscription drive Stephen Kimber has been around the Examiner for so long, it’s easy to take his weekly columns for granted. Monday morning: Kimber’s got a new column. I got to know Kimber while doing my MFA at King’s over the last couple of years. He was the cohort leader for my class and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Brett Bundale, Christopher Warren, councillor Waye Mason, Dutch Boy Lead, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Frances Willick, Ian Fairclough, Jennifer Denny, Kara McCurdy, lead in drinking water, Lead Industries Association, Lyndsay Armstrong, Manfred Bowditch, Maureen Googoo, Megan O’Toole, Millbrook First Nation, Millbrook land claim settlement, Nic Meloney, property tax assessments, property taxes, Quinn Roberts, Robert Cribb, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Stephen Kimber, The Stakes podcast, wildfires, Zane Woodford

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

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

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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