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Canada asked ships to slow down in order to save endangered right whales; most didn’t, and more whales are dying

July 21, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont

Oceana Canada is calling on the federal government to impose a mandatory speed limit for vessels in the Cabot Strait to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The ocean conservation advocacy group’s plea comes following a new report showing very few vessel operators are complying with the request of a voluntary 10-knot speed limit....

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cabot Strait, Cabot Strait speed restriction, Dangerous Passage report, Global Fishing Watch, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kim Elmslie, Marc Garneau, North Atlantic right whale, Oceana Canada, right whale death, ship speed

Secrecy is a feature, not a bug

Morning File, Thursday, November 14, 2019

November 14, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. More fisheries mismanagement The environmental group Oceana Canada, which describes itself as “an independent charity established to restore Canadian oceans to be as rich, healthy, and abundant as they once were” is slamming the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for its management of fish stocks. Aaron Beswick reports for The Chronicle Herald on […]

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Want $65,000? Just write a letter!

Morning File, Thursday, October 17, 2019

October 17, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. You can have the right to strike; just don’t try to use it. Yesterday, the provincial government showed its continued labour relations finesse — this time in its negotiations with crown attorneys. The crowns want a 17% pay increase over four years. The province is offering 7%. Yesterday, while most of the prosecutors […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Aly Thomson, Andrew Rankin, biomass, Blair Rhodes, Brett Bundale, Canadian Labour Congress, Constable Jennifer McPhee, Cory Taylor, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Steve Adams, Craig Kielburger, crown attorneys, drug use on fishing boats, fish fraud, funding for WE Day, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), Josh Laughren, Larry Haiven, Mary Booth, mislabelled fish, Neil Giroux, Oceana Canada, PC leader Tim Houston, union

PRICED OUT

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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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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