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Georgie Fagan used to organize with white supremacists. Now he condemns them.

January 7, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

The friendship I can’t remember exactly when I met Georgie Fagan, but for some time we organized together for prisoners. Georgie had been in and out of prison for most of his life, and has years of experience in the prison system. At Prisoner Justice Day a few years ago, he spoke movingly about his […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-immigration, Cindy Blackstock, Georgie Fagan, Maxime Bernier, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Nick Gallant, Norman English, Northern Guard, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Racism, Soldiers of Odin, Wet'suwet'en, white nationalism, white supremacy

The Climate Emergency

Part 3: How to turn off the economic growth engine

October 24, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo Leave a Comment

At about 14 minutes into the recent Federal Leaders’ debate there was a back and forth between Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, and Maxime Bernier, leader and founder of the People’s Party of Canada, in which Bernier — who advocates for free-market policies, liberalized trade and private property rights — called […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Anders Hayden, Anthropocene, Atomic Age, climate emergency, ecological economics, economic growth, Elizabeth May, Federal leaders' debate, free market, GHG emissions, Great Acceleration, greenhouse gas emissions, Income inequality, Jonathan Swarts, Lars Osberg, Maxime Bernier, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Peter Victor, sustainable prosperity

Feeling the sting of first-past-the-post

Morning File, Tuesday, October 22, 2019

October 22, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Liberals win enough seats to form minority government With national voter turnout clocking in around 65.8% (it will adjust as those who registered on election day are counted) and Nova Scotia’s turnout slightly higher at 68.8%, Canadians re-elected 157 Liberal MPs, enough to form a minority government. In Nova Scotia, Liberals held on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alfred Aucoin, Bernadette Jordan, Brent Kelloway, electoral reform, flu shot, Halifax Transit quarterly report, housing in Cape Breton, influenza, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jaimie Battiste, Jodi Wilson Raybould, Kody Blois, Lenore Zann, Liberal minority government, MacDonald Bridge, Maxime Bernier, Mike Kelloway, Robert Strang, Wendy Martin

Electric doohickeys

Morning File, Tuesday, August 27, 2019

August 27, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. What caused the fire at the Barho family’s home? On February 19, 2019, a fire killed the seven children of the Barho family, who had come to Canada as refugees from Syria. The fire department has yet to release any information on what caused the fire or what could have been done to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Against the Rules, Alexa MacLean, Andrew Rankin, Barho fire, Barrington Street, billboard, Christmas tree donations, Crosswalks, Dave Meldrum, e-scooters, elite projection, Frank Smeenk, Jarrett Walker, Joanna Smith, Kaitlyn Swan, Max Rastelli, Maxime Bernier, Mi'kmaw language lessons, Michael Lewis, Mike Holinsky, Oliver Moore, People's Party of Canada, Sarah Brown, scooters, Unama'ki Institute

The “affordable housing” payout for the Willow Tree is a joke

Morning File, Monday, August 26, 2019

August 26, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

1. Tories play whack-a-mole in Northside-Westmount Just when you think you’ve gotten rid of one Tory candidate another pops up from the next hole over, reports Stephen Kimber: So there are now three Tories — one official, two unofficial — running in next week’s provincial byelection in Cape Breton’s Northside-Westmount riding. Could this entire mess […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, billboard, CFL stadium, Dennis Lennox, Frank Smeenk, Graeme Benjamin, Greta Thunberg, Maxime Bernier, nightmares, People's Party of Canada, Stephanie Levitz, True North Strong and Free Advertising Corp, vehicle crash North Kentville, Willow Tree development

Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?

Morning File, Tuesday, July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Power rates “Nova Scotia Power has filed an application that would see power rates rise 1.5% a year for residential customers in each of the next three years, if approved by the Utility and Review Board (UARB),” reports Jennifer Henderson: The increases are related to rising fuel costs and purchases of imported power. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, ACOA grants and loans, Advatek Systems, Andrea Gunn, Ben Cowan-Dewar, BMO, Bruce Phinney, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC), Cabot Links, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Daniel Gallivan, David Deveau, Donkin coal mine rockfall, Edna Restaurant, Frank Anderson, Inverness Airport, Jane Wright, Jenna Mooers, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Just Jane's, lobbying, lobbyist, Maxime Bernier, Michel Jacob, Mike Keiser, MLA Gordon Wilson, MP Colin Fraser, MP Rodger Cuzner, Paul LeBlanc, People's Party of Canada, Peter Moreira, Pierre LeBlanc, Riverside Lobster, Robert Marks, Ronnie LeBlanc, RoyNat Capital, RoyNat Inc, Russel Jacob, Scott Nauss, Tom Ayers, VC International, VistaCare, VistaCare Underground Equipment, VistaCare Underground Services, William Archer

Is Tory leader wannabe John Lohr a Maxime Bernier in waiting?

Andrew Scheer’s federal Tories seem to be in full split-apart mode. The provincial Progressive Conservatives? Much will depend on their upcoming leadership convention.

August 25, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Will Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives pull a federal Conservative Party and stagger out of their October 27 leadership convention hopelessly divided between their regular right-wing whingers and their ultra-right-wing whiners? Could PC leadership hopeful John Lohr — he of the Northern-Pulp-protesters-were-paid, free-speech-for-fanatics, let’s-build-more-statues-to-Edward-Cornwallis, frack-yes(!) wing of the party — emerge as the leader of a...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party of Canada, John Lohr, Maxime Bernier, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

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.

Updated regularly.

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 man wearing a purple jean jacket and sporting a moustache lies on the green grass surrounded by pink plastic flamingos

Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

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