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Nova Scotia cabinet round-up: Mandatory masks, open borders and more

July 31, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Premier Stephen McNeil’s cabinet met Thursday and took questions from reporters afterward. Here’s what they talked about: Masks mandatory as of today Health Minister Randy Delorey was asked how his department intends to enforce a new policy requiring most adults and children over age 2 to wear a non-medical mask when they are inside public […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), Brian Flinn, Business Minister Geoff MacLellan, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 and public schools, COVID-19 waiver, Dr. Robert Strang, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Justice Minister Mark Furey, masks, mass shooting inquiry, Minister Bill Blair, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Leo Glavine, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, school reopening, St. Francis Xavier University (StFX), Tourism, Transportation Minister Lloyd Hines, Yarmouth ferry cancellation, Yarmouth ferry costs

Winter picnic in the park

Morning File, Monday, February 3, 2020

February 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Complicated legacies “Was Lionel Desmond a victim of his war demons?” asks Stephen Kimber. “Or was he a villain, a perpetrator of domestic violence who murdered his own family? Or both? We may never know.” Click here to read “Complicated legacies.” This column is for subscribers only. Subscribe here. 2. The danger of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Against the Rules, Assurant, Bengal Lancers, Brent Kelloway, Cape Breton Cancer Centre, credit card insurance, hospital parking, Jillian Banfield, Michael Lewis, Minister Labi Kousoulis, parking garage Summer Street, Paul Vienneau, RBC, Rene Ross, Sheila MacIsaac, Stephen Archibald and Kempt Road, STIs, syphilis, Victoria Walton, winter picnic, Yvonne Colbert

Minimum wage increase is both too much and not enough

Morning File, Friday, January 31, 2020

January 31, 2020 By Katie Ingram 12 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Joan Baxter reviews the new ministerial orders requiring environmental monitoring of the pumping of wastewater from Northern Pulp Mill into Boat Harbour as the mill winds down operations. Baxter finds that the orders are appropriately stringent, however: As the Halifax Examine reported here, in October 2018, the pipeline sprung a large […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Barbara Darby and Airbnb, Becky Dingwell, car explosion Quinpool, coronavirus, Dalhousie Student Union, Elizabeth McSheffrey, John McPhee, Luc Erjavec, Marcel Tarnogorski, Marie-France LeBlanc, Megan MacBridge, mental health walk in clinic, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Leo Glavine, Museum of Natural History, NDP leader Gary Burrill, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia minimum wage increase, parking garage Summer Street, Premier Stephen McNeil, transit safety, Wanderers Ground

Halifax rental vacancy drops to 1%, below Toronto, Vancouver

January 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford 9 Comments

Halifax’s apartment rental vacancy rate has dropped to a new low of 1% — below that of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its 2019 fall rental market survey on Wednesday. The numbers represent privately-owned apartments in buildings with three or more units, based on an annual survey conducted […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: affordable housing, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), councillor Waye Mason, Halifax rental market, Halifax vacancy rate, Immigration, Minister Labi Kousoulis, MLA Lisa Roberts, Neil Lovitt

Here’s what Nova Scotia’s cabinet ministers had to say today

December 12, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Northern Pulp Environment Minister Gordon Wilson says he has read all 3,000 pages and “about eight binders worth” of submissions related to whether he should approve a new effluent treatment plant proposed by Northern Pulp. The new plant would replace the Boat Harbour facility which by law is scheduled to close January 31, 2020. The...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Boat Harbour Act, Cape Sharp Tidal, CFL stadium, crane incident, EcoGreen Homes, housing for the disabled, Humani-T Cafe, Jen Powley, Minister Darren Mombourquette, Minister Geoff MacLellan, Minister Gordon Wilson, Minister Kelly Regan, Minister Labi Kousoulis, MLA Claudia Chender, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northern Pulp proposal, Nova Innovation, stadium proposal, Stillwell, Thornbloom Boutique, Thumpers, tidal turbines

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Morning File, Tuesday, September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Naturalists go to court “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers will decide whether the Minister of Lands and Forestry has failed to live up to the obligations set out in the Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife in the province,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We seek the Court’s assistance as a last resort,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Anne McLellan, Brett Ruskin, Brian Muldoon, Cermaq, collapsed crane removal, Cooke Aquaculture, Darrell Dexter, Dorothy Grant, EcoJustice, Evan Williams, exposure, fish farms, Glen Cooke, global warming, Graeme Benjamin, Hany El Naggar, Harbourside Engineering Consultants, housing affordability, Howard Ramos, Income inequality, Janice Harvey, Kathleen McNab, Kelly Cove Salmon, left hand turns, lobster fishery, Marla MacInnis, menstrual products in schools, Michigan Lane, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Lloyd Hines, Nicole Munro, period poverty, Peter MacKay, Protect Liverpool Bay (PLB), R&D Crane Operator Ltd, rent control, Robert Devet, Sabino Urciuoli, sinkhole Trans Canada Highway, Spring Garden Road redesign

“Neoliberal bullshit” basic income

Morning File, Thursday, September 19, 2019

September 19, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. No charges in case of woman who died of horrific bed sore Chrissy Dunnington died from complications of a pressure sore (often called a bed sore) in March 2018. She was 40 years old. Dunnington had been living at the Parkstone Enhanced Care home, owned by Shannex, in Clayton Park for 18 months. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan MacMaster, bedsore death, Bill Spurr, Centre Plan, Charles Murray, Chrissy Dunnington, collapsed crane removal, crane incident, density bonusing, Dorothy Dunnington, Elizabeth McMillan, Green Party, Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI), Hurricane Dorian, John Wesley Chisholm, lower Halifax speed limits, Mark Reynolds, Mary-Dan Johnston, Mayor Mike Savage, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Parkstone Enhanced Care, police officer stealing, Shannex, Stuart Peddle, Universal Basic Income (UBI), uranium mining, Zane Woodford

An expert says three Nova Scotian bureaucrats should be fired over the FOI security failure. Also: tragedy barely averted at Stanfield International

Morning File, Monday, April 30, 2018

April 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. The Icarus Report There were two incidents at Stanfield International Airport yesterday. The first involved Air Canada flight 7775 from Halifax to Fredericton, reported CTV: A Fredericton-bound Air Canada flight had to turn around and make an emergency landing in Halifax Sunday after the pilot noticed smoke in the cockpit. Theresa Rath Spicer, spokesperson […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adelina Iftene, Cape Breton Spectator, cruise ship Veendam history part 2, Evan d'Entremont, Freedom of Information (FOI) website security failure, Harold W. Becker, Icarus Report April 30 2018, information security failure, Jeff Conrad, Lama El Azrak, Mary Campbell, Mayor Mike Savage and Global Love Day, Minister Labi Kousoulis, MLA Patricia Arab, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robert Samuel, Sandra Cascadden, The Love Foundation Inc., Theresa Rath Spicer, two incidents at Halifax Stanfield International Airport

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.

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