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Even when things are going well, the “nice” Canadian society is a myth

Morning File, Wednesday, February 16, 2022

February 16, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 5 Comments

News 1. Mass murder inquiry This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, the families of the victims of the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 issued a statement through their lawyers, objecting to how the Mass Casualty Commission is proceeding next week. You can read the statement here. The families make an important point: […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Bayers Lake, Black experiences, Blacklantic, Brad Farquhar, Clinton Davis, commercial tax system, Const. Steven Mason, COVID, Dartmouth Crossing, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, Hillary LeBlanc, HRM, Krista Blaikie Hughes, lichen, long COVID, Matthew Byard, Milena Khazanavicius, Nature Conservancy of Canada, nice Canadians, Nova Scotia Health, Olympics, Omicron, Public Health Agency of Canada, Suzanne Rent, taxes, Tim Bousquet, WestFor, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

All the world’s an accessible stage

Milena Khazanavicius has always had a fearless spirit. And with a little help from friends, she can make life's adventures fun for herself and others, too.

February 15, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

This is part 3 of a series on Milena Khazanavicius, a Halifax woman who is blind and is working to make the city more accessible for others who are blind and partially sighted. In this story, we learn how Khazanavicius makes fun and entertainment accessible for herself and others. The day I interviewed Milena Khazanavicius was also […]

Filed Under: Featured, Profiles Tagged With: accessibility, Milena Khazanavicius

10,000 steps and other persistent bullshit

Morning File, Tuesday, February 15, 2022

February 15, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Seven more Nova Scotians have died of COVID-19 Yesterday, Nova Scotia reported seven COVID-19 deaths over three days. More than a third of Nova Scotia’s COVID deaths have occurred since December 3. Welcome to the next phase of our re-opening plan. In his roundup, Tim Bousquet writes: The 68 people now hospitalized because […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Morning File Tagged With: Afghanistan, Albert Mehrabian, Black in the Maritimes, British Medical Journal, Cape Breton Spectator, Charlie Warzel, Community Services Minister Karla MacFarlane, COVID-19, Disability Rights Coalition, Emera, Fidel Franco, Galaxy Brain, health care, Jennifer Henderson, Mary Campbell, Matthew Byard, Matthieu Aikins, Milena Khazanavicius, New York Times, Nova Scotia Power, Philip Moscovitch, refugees, scams, ScripTalk, Supreme Court of Canada, Suzanne Rent, Tim Bousquet, Tim Houston, Vicky Levack, water, Wordle

A prescription for accessibility in health care

Milena Khazanavicius is advocating to make health care more accessible for people who are blind and partially sighted.

February 15, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

This is part 2 of a series about Milena Khazanavicius, a Halifax woman who is blind and advocates to make the city and province more accessible to people who are blind and partially sighted. In this article, we look at Khazanavicius’s work to make health care more accessible. On Sunday, January 16, Milena Khazanavicius celebrated the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Profiles Tagged With: accessibility, Milena Khazanavicius

One woman’s fight to make Halifax accessible

For years, Milena Khazanavicius has been fighting HRM to make sidewalks and construction sites safer and more accessible for people who are blind and partially sighted.

February 13, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

This is part 1 of a series about Milena Khazanavicius, a Halifax woman who is blind and advocates to make the city and province more accessible to people who are blind and partially sighted. In this article, we look at Khazanavicius’s struggle to make sidewalks around construction sites safer for herself and other pedestrians. Milena […]

Filed Under: Featured, Profiles Tagged With: accessibility, Milena Khazanavicius

Breaking down street barriers for people who are blind and partially sighted

Morning File, Monday, September 14, 2020

September 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. QAnon knows no borders Joan Baxter reports on QAnon, a global movement that promotes conspiracy theories, which has followers here in Nova Scotia. QAnon only started a few years ago with one post on the 4chan internet channel. Baxter took a look around to check out some of the post QAnon and its […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: automated pedestrian signals (APS), Brandi Shaw, COVID-19, Education Minister Zach Churchill, gender reveal parties, Graham Driscoll, Jean Laroche, Jenna Karvunidis, Laurie Graham, Michael Gorman, Milena Khazanavicius, Minister Chuck Porter, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), partially sighted, pedestrian push buttons, pedestrian safety, people who are blind, QAnon, Rene Ross, Suzanne Humphries, Unmask Our Children, Walk and Roll, Yarmouth

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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