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Business case for P3 Outpatient Centre is finally made public

November 4, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

Some new light was shed today on the province’s controversial decision to choose a public-private-partnership (P3) model to build new healthcare facilities to replace the crumbling Victoria and Centennial buildings at the VG site of the QE2 Health Care Centre.  Last July, the former auditor general reported the secret process used to determine if P3...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre, Deloitte, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, EllisDon, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Lisa Roberts, MLA Susan Leblanc, P3, QE2 Redevelopment Project, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), Value For Money analysis

Signs, signs, everywhere a sign

Morning File, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

July 15, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. Change is Brewing: New collective brings queer and BIPOC presence to the brewing industry Evelyn C. White brings us the story of The Change is Brewing Collective, a group of queer and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) workers in the food, beverage, and hospitality industries, who recently launched a new beer […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 1-833-352-0719, abortion access, Angela Quinn, Betsy Morris, Christine Saul, Dalhousie University, Dr. Barry Rubin, heritage property, hospital, Martha Paynter, P3, P3 hospital, ParticipAction, pro choice, Pro-Choice Cape Breton, Sarah Moore, Seven rules of Zoom meeting etiquette, Stairs House, Stairs Street, Summer Wind Holdings, Susan Leblanc, The summer of play, Tim Halman, Victoria General, Wall Street Journal, William Grant Stairs, William James Stairs, working from home, Zoom meetings

Nova Scotia needs to adapt to the new reality of stronger and more frequent hurricanes

Morning File, Thursday, September 12, 2019

September 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Power outages “Three-and-a-half days after Dorian knocked out power for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in the province, Nova Scotia Power issued a news release Tuesday evening, Sept.10, saying it had restored electricity for 75% of these customers,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We have the most crews working in Nova Scotia history,” boasted the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links airport, climate change, crane incident, Hurricane Dorian, In the Dark podcast, Irene d'Entremont, Jean Laroche, Kelly Toughill, Michael Tutton, micropayments, Nova Scotia Power, P3, power outage, Taryn Grant, Tourism Nova Scotia, Yarmouth Ferry terminal upgrades

Do P3 hospitals offer value for money spent? None of your business, says Stephen McNeil

What does Deloitte — the company we paid $500,000 to analyze the wisdom of P3s for new hospital infrastructure — have to say in its report? We don't know. Why not? Because “your Liberal government,” which, since 2013, “has been dedicated to being the most open and transparent government in the country, tirelessly working to improve public trust, increase citizen engagement and enhance government services for you, the taxpayer,” won’t tell us.

October 7, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

The ever-expanding, ongoing plan to drag Nova Scotia’s healthcare infrastructure into the 21st century — by tearing down and replacing three well-past-their-best-before-date buildings in the QEII hospital complex, expanding the Dartmouth General Hospital and constructing new outpatient clinics in the Bayers Lake business park and on the site of the former CBC building on Bell...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: P3, Stephen McNeil

Nova Scotia’s foolhardy use of public-private partnerships continues

Morning File, Friday, October 5, 2018

October 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Jails lose crime investigation evidence “On Tuesday, I attended Dartmouth Provincial Court for the preliminary inquiry into the murder of Nadia Gonzalez,” writes El Jones: Samanda Ritch and Calvin Sparks are charged with first degree murder. But before the inquiry could start, there were two issues. The first was that Sparks’ lawyer, James Giacomantonio, […]

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How the government chose to build two new schools in the “right” place in the right pre-election time

Perhaps they wrote the names of the two schools on sheets of paper and put them in a hat, picking them out one by one. “Oh, look, Karen, you won,” says the premier. “My turn! My turn!”

December 5, 2016 By Stephen Kimber

The very suggestion the Nova Scotia government would cherry-pick new school building projects from the bottom of the priority pile simply because said schools would be built in constituencies held by Education Minister Karen Casey and Premier Stephen McNeil, is — cue the harrumphs — “a ridiculous comment to make.” So says the minister herself....

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor General, education, Karen Casey, P3, Stephen McNeil, teachers strike

When pigs fly in Dartmouth’s blue sky: Morning File, Thursday, November 3, 2016

November 3, 2016 By Katie Toth 20 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Katie Toth. Tim will return tomorrow. November Subscription Drive Tim announced this morning that Stephen Kimber is joining the Examiner. This is fantastic news and is yet another reason to subscribe. Your subscription helps underwrite quality journalism. Click here to purchase a subscription. News 1. Public-private partnership was expensive; […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Federation of Students, Elizabeth Chiu, Erin Brown, Gordon Isnor, Home Crafters, Marian Munro, Matthew Meisner, McNeil government, Nina Corfu, Nova Scotia Hospital, P3, Parker Donham, Preston Mulligan, public-private partnerships, Remembrance Day, Scotia Learning Centres, Susan MacDonald, Sydney

Will the Victoria General be replaced with a P3 hospital? The McNeil government isn’t ruling it out

September 30, 2016 By Jennifer Henderson

“Private Deals, Public Failures” is the slogan of a campaign running on TV and social media this week launched by the Nova Scotia Health Coalition. The non-profit group which defends public health care is worried the McNeil government may choose a private company to handover the financing, building, and ownership of health-care facilities to replace...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bonnie Lysyk, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Chris Parsons, Geoff MacLellan, Leo Glavine, Nova Scotia Health Coalition, P3, VG, Victoria General Hospital

A P3 replacement for the Victoria General is very much on the agenda

After the disastrous P3 school fiasco, why would the province build a hospital through a public-private partnership?

September 9, 2016 By Jennifer Henderson

Seven companies with offices across Canada and a few global companies with offices around the world have submitted their proposals to manage the ambitious, multi-million dollar project to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital. Cannon Design is headquartered in the United States. HOK is an international firm that has built the Rogers Arena in Edmonton and...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bert Clark, Chris Parsons, Common Design, HOK, Nan McFadgen, P3, Plenary Group, Terry Smith-Lamothe, VG Hospital, Victoria General

“$1-Billion spent on P3 schools and nothing to show for it”: Examineradio, episode #67

June 24, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

In the 1990s, the Nova Scotia government entered into a public-private partnership in order to facilitate the construction of 39 schools across the province. Over the intervening years the total cost of those leases has been about a billion dollars. Over the next few years the 20-year leases are expiring and the province is faced […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: CCPA, Christine Saulnier, Examineradio, P3, podcast

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

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.

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