News 1. The Halifax Examiner Ever since I started the Examiner in 2014 (June 18 is our seventh birthday), well-wishers and other curious folk have continuously asked, “how many subscribers do you have?” There was nothing untoward about these questions, but I demurred. My joke answer was always “it’s either so few that you think […]

News 1. COVID-19 update: two more deaths, 17 new cases Wednesday was the first day of Phase 1 of Nova Scotia’s reopening plan and the number of COVID-19 cases in the province continues to go down. Seventeen new cases were reported on Wednesday, bringing the total of known active cases to 311. Thirty-eight people are […]

News 1. Search of Shubenacadie residential school grounds ongoing and may expand to other sites Zane Woodford reports on ongoing efforts to search the grounds of the former residential school at Shubenacadie, in light of the discovery last week of the remains of 215 children buried on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School […]

News 1. Goldboro 1 Joan Baxter provides two updates on the proposed Goldboro liquified natural gas (LNG) project. First, Baxter filed freedom of information requests to try to learn specific details about Pieridae Energy’s request for nearly $1 billion in federal financing for the project. Pieridae lobbyists have met five times with Central Nova MP […]

News 1. Snoopy “Months after a Halifax-area realtor had her knuckles rapped for stealing a poodle, Snoopy the dog still hasn’t been returned to his rightful owner,” reports Zane Woodford. Even though the Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission ruled that Snoopy, a poodle, was stolen from rightful owner Mike Smaggus by real estate agent Sarah Sullivan, the […]

News 1. COVID-19 update The downward trend continues in the numbers of new cases of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia and you can feel the collective sense of relief. Yesterday, the province announced there were 37 new cases of the virus. Most of those cases (22) are in the Nova Scotia Health Central Zone. And there’s […]

News 1. COVID-19 Update There’s some promising news from Tuesday. First and foremost, we could have population immunity — when 75% of the population has been vaccinated — by early September. That’s seven weeks ahead of the province’s original projection. Tim Bousquet explains why in his regular Covid report from Tuesday: While Moderna is having […]

News 1. Investment fraud Two months after the Halifax Examiner learned that Aurelius does not have “active and valid” environmental or industrial approval for the gold mine site on Eastern Shore, the company continues to say its site is “one of only two permitted gold mines and mills in the province.” Joan Baxter has been […]

News 1. How the Biodiversity Act was killed We’ve taken Joan Baxter’s April 20 article, “How the Biodiversity Act was killed,” out from behind the paywall. In the article, Baxter explains: Forest Nova Scotia, which represents the biggest forestry players, gets an awful lot of public money — including millions of dollars to administer a […]