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Mining for (public) dollars

The Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS) has created a new organization called the Minerals Research Association of Nova Scotia (MRANS) with the aim of leveraging still more provincial grants to further enrich global mining companies — and their local operatives.

November 18, 2019 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

In the beginning, by which I mean 2007, there was the Mining Association of Nova Scotia, also known as MANS, an appropriate acronym for an industry lobby group with a 17-member board of which 15 are men. It should be said, however, that MANS is not registered with the Nova Scotia Registry of Lobbyists, although […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Alex Martell, Department of Energy and Mines (DEM), Gary Andrea, George O’Reilly, gypsum, Jacob Hanley, John Wightman, Kevin Neyedley, lobbyist registry, Michael Power, Mineral Resources Development Fund (MRDF), Minerals Play Fairway, Minerals Research Association of Nova Scotia (MRANS), mining, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Minister Derek Mombourquette, Musquodoboit Valley Gypsum, Rick Horne, Sarah Kirby, Sean Kirby, W. Douglas Roy

Despite government assurances to the contrary, no one knows what the abandoned tidal turbine is doing to the environment

Morning File, Friday, August 9, 2019

August 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

I’m having computer problems, and so this is a short version of Morning File. News 1. Who are we building bike lanes for, anyway? “After the announcement about $25 million in funding towards a minimum bike grid for central Halifax and Dartmouth, there was a lot of talk about who would benefit from such an investment,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Sharpe Tidal, China, China's digital restrictions, Darren Porter, internet in China, Jean Laroche, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), tidal turbine

The Nova Scotia government is giving “generous provincial grants” to gold mining companies

Morning File, Thursday, June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Dylan Corkum tells the true story of his Herald interview To be honest, I felt a little bad yesterday when I called out Dylan Corkum for his vox pox interview with Herald writer Heather Laura Clarke Sara Ericsson*. I mean, Ericsson is fair game (as am I and every other reporter), but Corkum […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CBRM expenses, Centre 200, Cooper Quinn, Dylan Corkum, gold company subsidy, gold mining, Ian Fairclough, Lac Megantic, Leif Spilchen, Mary Campbell, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Nova Centre, Nova Scotia Mineral Resources Development Fund, Osprey Gold Ltd, Richard Starr, Sara Ericsson, Starvation Wages Arena, Wendy Martin

McNeil government: if John Perkins doesn’t like being wrestled to the floor at a public meeting, he can file a complaint

May 31, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

If you aren’t keen on police roughing you up and cuffing you at a pubic meeting, or corporations dialing up the Mounties to act as bouncers, then go file a complaint with one of two watchdogs that investigate actions by RCMP officers. That’s the identical response which Premier Stephen McNeil, Justice Minister Mark Furey, and […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Atlantic Gold and RCMP, Atlantic Gold public meeting, John Perkins, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Minister Derek Mombourquette, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, PC leader Tim Houston, Raymond Plourde, Serious Incident Response Team, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS)

Oil industry-friendly politician objects to proposed strengthened environmental assessment rules

April 25, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

A federal bill to change the way environmental assessments of large projects are handled met with strong and mixed reaction at a Senate Committee hearing held in Halifax yesterday. Environmentalists like the fact assessments of new projects must include “climate change” as one factor. “The Bill is not perfect but it is a balanced and...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrea Paul, Bill C-69, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Ches Crosbie, climate change, Dennis Patterson, Deputy Energy Minister Simon D’Entremont, East Coast Environmental Law, EcoJustice, Ecology Action Centre, Gretchen Fitzgerald, Impact Assessment Agency, Karen Hutt, Mark Butler, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Sarah MacDonald, Yuen Pao Woo

Tidal recall: the province says it will pay the estimated $5 million to remove the tidal turbine abandoned on the floor of the Minas Basin, but doesn’t say when

April 9, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette announced last week the province intends to “eventually retrieve” the abandoned 1,000-tonne, five-storey turbine abandoned at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro. “Eventually” is the key word in that sentence since there is no timeline and no obvious financial means to pay a salvage bill estimated...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cape Sharp Tidal, DP Energy, Emera, FORCE, Jason Hayman, Minas Tidal Limited Partnership, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Naval Energies, OpenHydro, Schottel Hydro, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Canada, tidal turbine

Fixing freedom of information in NS (and jails), pulp mill politics, and plastics – all that, and more.

Morning File, Wednesday, January 16, 2019

January 16, 2019 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

I’m Joan Baxter, filling in for Tim today. News 1. Freedom of Information in Nova Scotia – the failure and the fix As Tim wrote, yesterday Nova Scotia privacy commissioner Catherine Tully and auditor general Michael Pickup released their reports on the FOIPOP website security failure. Both painted damning pictures of how the government handled […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Boat Harbour, Boat Harbour Act, Burnside jail, corporate welfare, forestry, Freedom of Information (FOI) website security failure, Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully, Lahey report, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Northern Pulp, NS Department of Energy and Mines, Pictou Landing First Nation, plastic bags, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Accounts

As reliable as a beer commercial

Morning File, Tuesday, September 18, 2018

September 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Erica Butler here, helping out with Morningfile today. Fear not, Tim’s still all over it. News 1. Burnside jail Tim reports from the hearing for Burnside jail prisoner Maurice Pratt, continuing to shed light on the situation in the facility. Prisoners launched a protest in August asking for better conditions at the jail, including access […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agave in Public Gardens, Blair Rhodes, Cape Sharp Tidal, Chelsea Probert murder trial, clearcutting, dry wells, Emera, Erica Butler, Halifax school numbers, Jennifer Henderson, marijuana labelling, Marina von Stackelberg, Michael Gorman, Minister Derek Mombourquette, OpenHydro, Preston Mulligan, Sean Myles, Shaina Luck, Stacy Pineau, tidal turbine, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Yvette d'Entremont

Ships, Conservatives, turbines, gold, and forests

Morning File, Thursday, August 23, 2018

August 23, 2018 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

Hello, I’m Joan Baxter, Nova Scotian journalist and author, wondering how on earth Tim does this every morning. News 1. Ships start here, but when? Jennifer Henderson investigates the six-month (and counting) delay in the completion of the first ship in the multi-billion dollar Halifax Shipyard contract in a new article for the Examiner: The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Miller, Bruce Nunn, Cape Sharp Tidal, Conservative Party of Canada, corporate welfare, David Patriquin, Eastlink TV, Emily Neil, Emma Davie, extreme weather, Francis Campbell, global warming, Glyphosate, gold exploration, Jeffrey MacLeod, Joan Baxter, John Perkins, John Whalley, Maritime Made, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Natural Resources Strategy, Northern Pulp grants, NSBI, OpenHydro, Premier Stephen McNeil, Stacey Rudderham, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Suzuki Foundation, Taryn Grant, Tatamagouche (French River) Source Water Protection Advisory Committee, tidal turbine retrieval, VisionMax

Kersplash: there goes tidal generation

Morning File, Tuesday, August 14, 2018

August 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 9 Comments

News 1. Emera withdraws from Cape Sharp Tidal This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Emera is out of the tidal power business in the Bay of Fundy, at least for now. The parent company of Nova Scotia Power (and the North American energy conglomerate with $29 billion in assets) announced yesterday it was withdrawing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cassie Williams, Christian Richard, Emera, Fredericton shooting, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Grant Thornton, GreenUnivers, Kevin Bissett, Laurent Schneider-Maunoury, Michael Tutton, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Morgan Lowrie, Naval Energies, Nicole Thompson, Oceans Supercluster, Open Hydro, Patricia Laurent, Rachel Boomer, Renewables Now, reporting ranks in New Brunswick, Samantha Bayard, Stacey Pineau, Steve Hennigar, Tufts Cove oil spill, Vincent Groizeleau

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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 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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