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“It is historic”: Parents to receive immediate 25% reduction in day care costs, increasing to 50% by the end of the year

January 14, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

Friday’s announcement that eligible parents and caregivers will save 25% on child care fees retroactive from Jan. 1, and 50% by year’s end, was greeted with cautious optimism by advocates. “It is historic. It is hard not to stand back sometimes and go ‘Oh God. They’re doing this. They’re investing and they are investing in […]

Filed Under: Economy, Education, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: affordable child care, Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care Agreement, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), child care, Child Care Now, Christine Saulnier, CUPE, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, early childhood educators, ECEs, Jessie-Lee McIssac, Justin Trudeau, Mount Saint Vincent University, Naomi Stewart, Nova Scotia, NS NDP, Premier Tim Houston, Suzy Hansen, Yvette d'Entremont

A record number of Black MLAs heading to the legislature

Duale, Ince, Simmonds, Hansen win their ridings. What, if any, effect will it have on Black issues moving forward?

August 18, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 2 Comments

A record number of four Black MLAs have been elected to the Nova Scotia legislature. For the Liberals, incumbent Tony Ince and newcomers Angela Simmonds and Ali Duale were elected in the 41st provincial election that saw Tim Houston’s PC’s win a majority government. NDP newcomer Suzy Hansen won in the riding of Halifax Needham. […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia history, Ali Duale, Angela Downey, Angela Simmonds, anti-Black racism, Black candidates, Black educators, Black Lives Matter, Black parents, Cole Harbour, Donalda MacIsaac, election, Halifax Armdale, Halifax Regional School Board, Halifax-Needham, legislature, Liberal Party, Lisa Coates, Matthew Byard, Mayann Francis, NDP, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, NS NDP, Preston, Progressive Conservative, Racism, Sackville-Uniacke, Sipek’natik First Nation, Stephen Kimber, Suzy Hansen, Tamara Tynes Powell, Tim Houston, Tony Ince, Truro-Bible Hill-Millbrook-Salmon River, Universal Mental Health Care

Public engagement, future of the forestry, and the Harvest Plans Map Viewer

Activists says the online tool where Nova Scotians can submit feedback on what happens to the forests on public lands is inaccessible and lacks historical data.

June 10, 2021 By Joan Baxter 11 Comments

In December 2020, Mike Lancaster was invited to attend an online meeting of the Western Region Stakeholder Interaction Committee, which he describes as a venue for those holding forestry licences on Crown land and “other key stakeholders to engage with the Department of Lands and Forestry on forestry and planning issues for the western region […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: accountability, Annapolis Royal & Area Environment & Ecology, Bev Wigney, Bowater, Bowater Mersey, clearcuts, clearcutting, Crown land, Crown land licensee, Darrell Dexter, Deborah Bayer, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Department of Natural Resources (DNR), facebook, forestry, forestry industry, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, Freeman Lumber, Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV), Harvest Plans Map Viewer (HPMV), Healthy Forest Coalition, individal tree selection, internet, internet access, Lahey report, Lahey Report on Forestry, Linda Pannozzo, Marcus Zwicker, Medway Community Forest Cooperative, Mike Lancaster, Natural Resources Strategy, NDP, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry, NS NDP, old growth trees, overstory removal, Port Hawkesbury Paper, Resolute Forest Products, The Path We Share, transparency, variable retention, Washington Post, Western Region Stakeholder Interaction Committee, WestFor

The 1971 plan to destroy Dartmouth: Morning File, Tuesday, November 28, 2017

November 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

We want your money November is almost over. Please subscribe! And if you’re already a subscriber, please consider spreading the word about the Examiner and asking your social media contacts to likewise subscribe. Thanks! News 1. NDP “Nova Scotia NDP president Bill Matheson and vice-president Judy Swift have both stepped down from their positions with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alderney Landing is a piece of junk, Aly Thomson, Amazon HQ competition, barrier on Coburg Road, Bill Matheson steps down, Bob Mussett, Brian Palmeter, Const. Dianne Penfound, Councillor Sam Austin, crosswalks marked vs unmarked, Jacob Boon, Judy Swift steps down, NS NDP, pedestrian struck Coburg Road, Prince Albert Road, Richard Starr, Roger Taylor is wrong, Stephen McNeil vs Michael Pickup, Terry Izzard, Victoria Road expressway 1971

End this unpleasant mixture of austerity and divisiveness: David Wheeler

There is no question that three years of an overly-simplistic, 1980s-style focus on "balancing the books" in the province has failed, with a flatlining economy and stagnating wages.

April 6, 2017 By David Wheeler 4 Comments

This morning, it was announced that I will be standing for the NDP at the forthcoming provincial election. I am standing in the riding of Halifax Armdale close by where I lived when I was Dean of Management at Dalhousie University. Armdale is a beautiful and culturally diverse riding which — like the rest of the province […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: David Wheeler, NS NDP

David Hendsbee, Shadow Chaser: Morning File, Wednesday, March 22, 2017

March 22, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Liberals double-down on IBM deal they criticized four years ago as a “huge clusterfuck” Back in 2012, I reported on the then-NDP government’s decision to outsource the province’s SAP operations to IBM: By handing 73 union jobs to the notoriously anti-union IBM, Nova Scotia’s NDP has turned its back on its core support in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Armco, Bruce Wark, Catherine Turnbull, Centre Plan, clusterfuck, David Hendsbee, Divest Mount Allison, IBM, Lindell Smith, Mohamed Abdinasir Ali, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia client innovation centre, NS Liberals, NS NDP, Peter Kelly, SAP, Stephen Law, Waye Mason

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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