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Investors gone wild: gum, weed, and space

Morning File, Monday, June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. $450 million “Three months before Mountain Equipment Co-op went to the British Columbia Supreme Court for creditor protection in 2020, Northern Pulp ⁠— a Paper Excellence company ⁠— together with five affiliates and its immediate owner 1057863 B.C. Ltd, had already done so,” reports Joan Baxter: In June 2020, Northern Pulp et al. […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Canso space port, Cape Breton, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, Ceres, Colin and Justin, Colin Lewis McAllister, COVID-19, Dr. Tara Moriarty, Justin Patrick Ryan, Louisbourg, Maritime Launch Services, Mary Campbell, Michelin, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), Northern Pulp, Parallel, Politico, Richard Woodbury, Saint John, Surterra, Suspicious Packages, Waterville, William “Beau” Wrigley Jr

Project Ploughshares fails to critically interrogate proposed Nova Scotia spaceport

Morning File, Monday, May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Housing Trust “The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia is changing up its strategy, moving to sell its property on Maitland Street and buy hundreds of existing affordable rental units,” reports Zane Woodford: The trust, a nonprofit founded by developer and consultant Ross Cantwell in 2009, used to own two nearby properties between Gottingen […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Dr. Jessica West, Eric Schlosser, Maritime Launch Services, Plowshares, Project Ploughshares, Space Café Canada, Spaceport Nova Scotia, SpaceWatch.Global, Stephen Matier, The Canadian Council of Churches, Tim Bousquet

Anaconda Mining joins the gold rush on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore

Part 1. What do we know about its plans for a new open pit mine in Goldboro (and haven't we been here before)?

February 10, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Gold exploration and mining companies are lining up to get at Nova Scotia’s gold, as the province undergoes a fourth gold rush. In 2017, Atlantic Gold opened the province’s first-ever open pit gold mine in Moose River, with plans to open three more along the Eastern Shore, in what it peddled to investors as its […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: acid rock drainage, Anaconda Mining, arsenic, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Aurelius Minerals, CN Tower, corporate capture, Dartmouth, Department of Energy and Mines, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Eastern Shore Forest Watch, ESTMA, expropriation, Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act (ESTMA), focus report, Fogarty’s Cove, FOIPOP, Geological Survey of Canada, gold, Gold Brook Lake, gold mine, Goldboro, Goldenville, historic tailings, history gold mining districts, Howard Richardson, Joan Kuyek, Joel Bakan, Kevin Bullock, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Lloyd Hines, man camp, Margaret Miller, Maritime Launch Services, Meguma Gold, mercury, Mi’kmaq Grassroots Grandmothers, Mike Parsons, mine tailings, Mineral Resources Act, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), MiningWatch Canada, Montague Mines, Moose River, Morien Resources, Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG), Natural Resources Canada, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, open pit gold mine, Pieridae Energy, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), reclamation plan, regulatory capture, St Barbara Ltd, Stan Rogers, The Corporation, Toronto, Touquoy gold mine, Transport and Infrastructure Renewal, Unearthing Justice, Vernon Pitts, Vulcan Resources, waste rock

Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank

Morning File, Wednesday, June 5, 2019

June 5, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Bus Stop Theatre gets half a tank At its meeting yesterday, Halifax council nearly unanimously (Matt Whitman was the only contrary vote) agreed in principle to $250,000 in assistance to the theatre. The money will be used to help the theatre buy the Gottingen Street building it operates in. There’s something of a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured vehicle, Bailey Rae Fanning, Bob McDonald, Canso spaceport, Const. Kyle Doane, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillorn Sam Austin, Cultural Hub, David Pugliese, dead right whale, Elizabeth Taylor, half a tank, Irving Shipbuilding, Kelly Patrick Pye, Khyber, Kimberley Davies, Maritime Launch Services, Matthew Brian Baker, Postmedia, Procurement Canada, Scotia Green Dispensary, Scotia Green Dispensary robbery, The Bus Stop Theatre

A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The Trudeau government’s tax subsidy for journalism puts the Halifax Examiner in an impossible situation

Morning File, Friday, March 22, 2019

March 22, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Holly Bartlett Last night, I went to a special preview of the first episode of AMI TV’s six-part series on Holly Bartlett (I wrote about the series here). It’s as good as I expected. I like that we can see where Holly lived, and how the police theory of her death makes no sense […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, allnovascotia, Canada population, Canso spaceport, Chronicle Herald, Frances Willick, Holly Bartlett, Maritime Launch Services, Mark Lever, Nova Scotia population, Postmedia, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO), Sarah Dennis, SpaceQ, Stephen Archibald and government wharfs, Steve Matier, subsidy for reporters, Support for Canadian Journalism, tax credit, tax subsidy, Torstar, Trudeau government

What’s a little unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine among friends?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

I’m Philip Moscovitch, filling in for Tim Bousquet this morning. Tim is editing from a diner at an undisclosed location. News 1. Spaceport concerns Last month, Maritime Launch Services — the people who say they want to run a spaceport out of Canso —submitted a 159-page environmental assessment for the project. Federal and provincial government staffers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam MacInnis, Agave in Public Gardens, Canso spaceport, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Don Mills, Elizabeth McMillan, Frances Willick, John Lohr, Maritime Launch Services, Mobility Cup regatta, Peter MacKay, Philip Moscovitch, Sue Goyette, Taryn Grant, Uber, women's baseball

How a mom got caught up in the Ivany Report’s contradictions: Morning File, Wednesday, February 28, 2018

February 28, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. Spaceport I’ve been fascinated by the proposal to launch rockets from Canso. A spaceport is of the ilk of flashy megaprojects that through the decades have been sold to Nova Scotians as the route out of their economic malaise and into riches, but which oh so often have just dragged the province further […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canso spaceport, Claude Thompson's convictions quashed, Emma Smith, jetsetting McNeil, Justice Suzanne Hood, Kelly-Sue O'Connor, Lunenburg and Ivany Report, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Marieke Walsh, Maritime Launch Services, Matt Whitman's punishment, Mayor Mike Savage, Waye Mason's apology, Zane Woodford

Just how safe are those rockets proposed to be launched from Canso?

A fuel called UDMH has a worrisome health record, and some scientists say it presents a danger to Nova Scotia and ocean creatures.

February 27, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Sometime over the next few months, the top two municipal officials with the District of Guysborough will travel to Vandenburg Air Force base in California to watch a rocket launch. Municipal council voted to pay for a fact-finding trip — which includes an equally important visit to rocket fuel company United Paradyne — by CAO...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Barry Carroll, Canadian Space Agency, Canso spaceport, District of Guysborough municipal council, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Henderson, Maritime Launch Services, Michael Byers, rocket launch facility, Steve Matier, UDMH, United Paradyne

Did Stephen McNeil even read the audit he reacted so badly to? Morning File, Tuesday, December 19, 2017

December 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. The Pickup-McNeil war I was supposed to interview Auditor General Michael Pickup yesterday for this week’s Examineradio podcast, but Pickup cancelled for personal reasons. Shit happens, so it goes. We’ll get back to him in the new year. But in preparation for the interview, I read Pickup’s audit of Family Doctor Resourcing, and I came […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: audit of Family Doctor Resourcing, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Barbara Sawatsky, Canso spaceport, Civil service pay, environmental assessment of the Canso Spaceport, environmental effects of the rocket fuel, Halifax's Fire Chief Ken Stuebing apologizes, John Kearney, Kathy Symington, Keith Doucette, Larry Haiven, Liane Tessier, Maritime Launch Services, Stephen Matier, The Pickup-McNeil war

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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2020 mass murders

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All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

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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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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