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Community health centres need stable funding, a seat at the table, advocates tell public accounts committee

May 12, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Community-based health organizations helping keep Nova Scotians out of emergency departments need stable provincial funding and a seat at the table, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts heard Wednesday. “Of course, money is always at the root of it. But what we really want to convey is that we are partners in the fight against […]

Filed Under: Featured, Health, Politics, Province House Tagged With: Abbey Ferguson, Chester, community-based health, Department of Health and Wellness, Deputy Minister Jeannine Lagassé, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, Leigh Heide, Lorraine Burch, Marie-France LeBlanc, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia Association of Community Health Centres, Our Health Centre, Sexual Health Nova Scotia, Standing Committee on Public Accounts

There’s good water news, but mostly there’s bad water news

Morning File, Thursday, August 15, 2019

August 15, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. There’s Something in the Water “It was a Saturday morning and Ellen Page was giving up some of what could have been a bit of down time to do a telephone interview about her forthcoming film on environmental racism in Nova Scotia, which will have its world debut this September at the Toronto […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Active Transportation Trail, algae, Atlantic International Film Festival (FIN), Big Jump, Boat Harbour, Councillor Sam Austin, Cycling Collision Card, cyclist struck Devonshire Avenue, Halifax Harbour Swim, Jodie Fitzgerald, Lake MicMac, Minister Catherine McKenna, MLA Brendan Maguire, Northern Pulp effluent, Stephen Archibald and Spring Garden Road area

More Liberal cowardice

Morning File, Friday, February 1, 2019

February 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Liberal cowards, pt. 2 Yesterday, I castigated as “craven fools” the five Liberals on the Public Accounts Committee — Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — for their spinelessness in limiting debate at the committee in order to (they think) gain a short-term PR advantage of controlling the public message. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Debison, collision Highway 103, Dave Stewart, Health Committee, Jaguar driving wrong way Hwy 101, Jason McLellan, Jim Vibert, Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPI), Michael Gorman, MLA Ben Jessome, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Gordon Wilson, MLA Hugh MacKay, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, pedestrian safety, pedestrian struck Thistle Street, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, Philip Croucher, Public Accounts Committee, Ryan van Horne, Thistle Street intersection, truck driving wrong way Hwy 101

Profiles in cowardice: Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay are craven fools

Morning File, Thursday, January 31, 2019

January 31, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Tuition “A proposal by Dalhousie’s Budget Advisory Committee to raise tuition next fall for the seventh year in a row drew criticism during a budget presentation to the Dalhousie Senate this week,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “You can’t put all the burden on students because we just can’t take it anymore,” said Senator Masuma […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority — Resource Centre for the Hearing Handicapped, Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority — Resource Centre for the Hearing Impaired (APSEA), Atlantic Provinces Special Educational Authority, bus fares, collision Old Sambro Road, Deaf school abuse, Halifax Transit, Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Interprovincial School for the Education of the Deaf, Michael Gorman, MLA Ben Jessome, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Gordon Wilson, MLA Hugh MacKay, MLA Susan Leblanc, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Public Accounts Committee, Richard Martell and Michael Perrier, School for the Deaf, transit fares, Wageners Law Firm, Zane Woodford

Liberals refuse to allow opposition parties to question bureaucrats responsible for the privacy breach

Morning File, Thursday, April 26, 2018

April 26, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

1. Dirty Dealing, Part 4 Reports Linda Pannozzo: Nova Scotia Lands, a provincial crown corporation charged with cleaning up Boat Harbour, played a role in silencing two Dalhousie University researchers whose work studied air pollution coming from the Northern Pulp mill, the Halifax Examiner has learned. The two researchers, Emma Hoffman and Tony Walker, were the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barrington Street bridge ramp, Dirty Dealing Part 4, Emma Hoffman, Erica Butler, Felix Cacchione, Government prevents questioning about the "privacy breach", Jean Laroche, Linda Pannozzo, Michael Gorman, Michael Tutton, MLA Ben Jessome, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Gordon Wilson, MLA Hugh MacKay, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, MLA Tim Houston, Tony Walker

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.

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