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“Pig in a poke”: die-hard proponents want to open Nova Scotia to fracking

September 14, 2018 By Joan Baxter 9 Comments

About 200 people gathered last evening in Pugwash, filling the Northumberland Community Curling Club for a debate framed around the resolution “fracking will be beneficial to Cumberland County.” The audience was, not surprisingly, clearly divided between those in favour and those against. For many, including several members of the Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Cecil Clarke, climate change, Darrel Dexter, David Wheeler, Douglas Leahey, Elizabeth Roscoe, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Fracking, Friends of Science, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Gerard Lucyshyn, Michael Bradfield, MLA John Lohr, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), Scott Armstrong, Tim Houston, Tory Rushton

We spent millions of dollars on the Argyle Street reconstruction project and forgot to put in washrooms and water fountains

Morning File, Friday, July 6, 2018

July 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 12 Comments

News 1. Cabinet shuffle This item is written by Joan Baxter. Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is no more. Yesterday, Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government renamed it the Department of Lands and Forestry (not, however, Lands and Forests, something lamented by the insightful Facebook page devoted to Nova Scotia’s “Woods and Water”). Timberlea-Prospect […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessible washrooms, aquaculture, Argyle Street patios, Cabinet shuffle, Carol McIsaac, David Fraser, Department of lands and Forestry, Department of Natural Resources renamed, Kevin Kindred, marine mammals, Mark Lever, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), MLA Derek Mombourquette, MLA Iain Rankin, MLA John Lohr, MLA Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Health Protection Act, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ralph Surette, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, SaltWire, Sean Kirby, Taryn Grant, water fountains and washrooms, whales, William Lahey

When ‘freedom of speech’ is a code, not a value

Making free speech the raw-meat main dish for the Conservative party’s right-wing base worked well enough for current federal leader Andrew Scheer. Will it do the same for wannabe Nova Scotia Tory leader John Lohr?

March 11, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

What is it about Tories seeking their party’s leadership and their seemingly painful need to gymnast-twist the once liberal value of freedom of speech for their own illiberal purposes? Last spring when he was running to become federal Conservative Party leader, Andrew Scheer threatened to cut off federal funding to any university that didn’t foster...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: MLA John Lohr, PC leadership 2018, political correctness

A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail

Robert T. Schmidt's claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain his dilapidated property, but Schmidt says he wants taxpayers to pay him millions of dollars

February 26, 2018 By Rick Grant

Halifax Regional Municipality, the Nova Scotia government, and an American businessman want to own a discontinued railway that’s more than a century-and-a-half old. The Windsor and Hantsport Railway is 90 kilometers of track running from Windsor Junction through Mount Uniacke, Windsor, and Hantsport to New Minas. The American wants to be in the rail business, but...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, Canadian Government Railways, CN, Dave McCusker, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Jonathan Abecassis, MLA John Lohr, MLA Margaret Miller, Paul Smith, Peter Hackett, Rick Grant, Robert T. Schmidt, Uniacke Trails Association, Windsor and Hantsport Railway

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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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