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Northern Pulp has a new set of “friends”

But the “friends” look familiar, and the “new” Northern Pulp sure looks a lot like the same old Northern Pulp.

March 9, 2022 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

This is how the “Friends of a New Northern Pulp” describe themselves on their website: We are Nova Scotians who care deeply about our province, our forests, and our communities. We are the 36,000 Nova Scotians who own small and large woodlots. So, just one line in and the BS begins. The wording of the […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Andy MacGregor, Asia Pulp and Paper, Boat Harbour Act, British Columbia Supreme Court, Bruce Chapman, CBC, Chief Andrea Paul, Claire Simonon, Curmae Limited, Domtar, Earle Miller, ecological forestry, Ecology Action Centre, effluent treatment, Elmsdale Lumber, environmental assessment, Fibre Excellence, Forest Nova Scotia, forestry industry, forestry sector, Forestry Transition Team, France, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, Friends of the Northumberland Strait (FONS), Great Northern TImber, Healthy Forest Coalition, Hervey Investment BV, Iris Communications, John Hamm, Les Flamants Roses du Trébon, Linda Pannozzo, low-grade wood, Mike Lancaster, Northern Pulp, Northumberland Strait, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Paper Excellence, Paper Excellence Canada Holdings, Paul Withers, pellets, Peter Oram, Peter Spicer, Pictou County, Pictou Landing First Nation, PR campaign, pulp effluent, pulp mill, Ray Plourde, Robin Wilbder, Ryan Scott, Sinar Mas, Statistics Canada, Stephen McNeil, Tarascon, tax haven, The Netherlands, Widjaja family, wood chips, woodlot owners

Independent inshore lobster fishers fear the Clearwater purchase could decimate their livelihoods

November 16, 2020 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

At a November 12 press conference, Sipekne’katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack announced that his Band was launching “hundreds” of lawsuits related to the way governments, some commercial fishers, and the RCMP reacted to its launch of its moderate livelihood fishery on September 17, the 21st anniversary of the landmark Marshall decision that affirmed Mi’kmaq […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Acadia First Nation, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Bernd Christmas, Chief Deborah Robinson, Chief Mike Sack, Chief Terry Paul, Clearwater convicted, Clearwater Seafoods Inc, Colin MacDonald, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA), inshore fishery, John Risley, Keith Colwell, lobster, Membertou First Nation, Miawpukek First Nation, moderate livelihood fishery, Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance, owner operator, Paqtnkek First Nation, Paul Withers, Pictou Landing First Nation, Potlotek First Nation, Premium Brands, Ronald Pink, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Solidarity K’jipuktuk Halifax, We’koqma’q First Nation

The housing crisis on the South Shore

Morning File, Wednesday, November 4, 2020

November 4, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

It’s November and that means it’s subscription drive time here at the Halifax Examiner. Your subscriptions are what support the Examiner and its writers. So, I’m writing today’s Morning File because of your support.  I started reading the Examiner in its early days when it was a one-man show with Tim writing Morning Files and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Bridgewater, COVID-19, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), Dr. Robert Strang, Dr. Theresa Tam, Endangered Species Act, Healthy Forest Coalition, homelessness, housing crisis, housing hub, Jacqueline Foster, Lindsay Lee, Lisa Ryan, Mainland Moose, masks, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Paul Withers, racism in justice system, Randy Riley, rural housing, South Shore, Tusket river hydro dam, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

A moderate livelihood

Morning File, Monday, September 21, 2020

September 21, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Northwood review announcement coming today The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage free. What will health minister Randy Delorey announce today? Who knows? Whatever it is, Stephen Kimber is not expecting anything too earth-shattering. In his weekly Halifax Examiner column, Kimber writes: [Delorey] may unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, Labour, Morning File Tagged With: Brandon Young, Caroline Arsenault, Charlotte Gill, Chief Michael Sack, Clearwater convicted, co-operative movement, Colin Low, illegal fishing, Indigenous fishers, Jay Pitter, Jimmy Tompkins, Kay Desjardins, Kent Martin, lobster fishery, Marshall Decision, Mi’kmaw, moderate livelihood fishermen, Moses Coady, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), Natasha Pace, National Film Board (NFB), Nic Meloney, Paul Vienneau, Paul Withers, Silver Donald Cameron, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Trina Roache, Yarmouth & Area Chamber of Commerce

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Morning File, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Yesterday, four days before his announcement was due on the Northern Pulp effluent treatment proposal, and less than 24 hours before the deadline for the provincial environment minister to announce his decision, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a statement saying that he had ‘decided not to designate […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, bedsore death, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Carrie Low, Chrissy Dunnington, Jesse Thomas, Louise Riley, Mi'kmaw Place Names, More Caring Hands, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Pam Berman, Parkstone Enhanced Care, Paul Withers, pedestrian vehicle collisions stats, police budget, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Polly Trottenberg, Rick Salutin, Robert Devet, Shannex, tidal turbine retrieval, Uber, Vision Zero

Literal and metaphorical storms on the way

Morning File, Thursday, September 5, 2019

September 5, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. No known cause for fire at Barho family home Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency say they don’t know what caused the fire that burned down the Barho family home, killing all seven of the family’s children. In the Chronicle Herald, Stuart Peddle reports that three different teams of investigators, plus outside consultants, were […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Dodsworth, Barho fire, Bassam Al-Rawi, cruise ship Veendam history, Exxon Mobil, Giuseppe Valiante, Graeme Benjamin, Hurricane Dorian, Jagmeet Singh, Jessika Hepburn, Jo-Ann Roberts, Jonathan Richardson, Judge Ann Marie Simmons, Lynn Evans, Maine Lobstermen's Association, NDP defection to Greens, Noble Regina Allen, offshore drilling hurricane prep, passing school buses, Paul Withers, Preston Mulligan, right whale death, Stacy O'Rourke, Steven Foster, strategic voting, Thebaud production platform

A Tree Walk will make us all rich!

Morning File, Thursday, August 22, 2019

August 22, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Cod “DFO has issued a stark warning linking the demise of codfish in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence to an exploding seal population,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: It’s contained in the most recent stock assessment of Atlantic cod in the southern gulf, which was released earlier this month. “At the current abundance […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Abdilahi Elmi, Anjuli Patil, Atlantic cod, Atlantic Wallboard LP, Cabot Links airport, Cochrane Hill gold mine, George Canyon, grey seals, HMCS Toronto, Infrastructure Canada, Irvings and ACOA, JD Irving, Jeff Hutchings, Joseph Balaz, Kevin Bissett, Mary Campbell, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Paul Withers, Rob Wolf, Sheldon MacLeod, St Barbara, St. Mary’s River Association, Stephanie Levitz, Taryn Grant, Tree Walk, world class

Pandora’s Box

Morning File, Friday, July 5, 2019

July 5, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. “Conquered people” files to be released The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has ordered the provincial government to release the “conquered people” files. The case centres on an infamous brief written by Justice Department lawyer Alex Cameron in the Alton Gas case. Stephen Kimber recapped the story for the Examiner about six weeks […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Akala Point, Alex Cameron, Aly Thomson, Amy Bennett, Andrew Rankin, Anne Derrick, Asa Kachan, Barbara Jannasch, Barbara M Freeman, Bayview Community School, Bethan Lloyd, Cheryl Tatjaoa Nicol, cocaine, conquered people, Craig Burnett, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Halifax Library, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice James Chipman, Karen Hudson, Lisa Bennett, news story survey, Pandora, Paul Withers, Radical Imagination Film and Discussion Series, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook)

If a tree in the Public Gardens could talk, what would it say? Text it and find out

Morning File, Wednesday, July 3, 2019

July 3, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. Media victory in Assoun case “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice James Chipman has indicated that he will grant a media request to gain access to sealed court documents in the Glen Assoun case,” Tim Bousquet wrote yesterday. Click here for all the details (Tim is updating the story this morning.) Tim’s worked a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, biology and career choices, cyber security, Dave de Jongh, David Rodenhiser, Doctors Nova Scotia, elementary school teachers, equal opportunity, Gary Ernest, Glen Assoun documents, Halifax Public Gardens, Irving Shipyard, Julietta Sorensen Kass, Justice James Chipman, Kelli MacDonald, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Paul Withers, right whales, sick notes, Steve Elder, Text a Tree, Tourism Nova Scotia, Visitor Information Centres (VIC), whale watching, women's work, Yvette d'Entremont

You’re adults now, and this is an actual crisis

Morning File, Wednesday, May 15, 2019

May 15, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Keji braces for impact of invasive chain pickerel Chain pickerel first spotted last year in the water systems of Kejimkujik National Park are now spread throughout the park, reports Paul Withers for the CBC. “It’s kind of like a bad dream and it just keeps getting worse,” said Chris McCarthy, a Parks Canada […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agricola Street, Atlantic Lotto, Bill Nye, Bridgewater, Chris McCarthy, climate hysteria, Energy Poverty Reduction Program, invasive chain pickerel, Keith Doucette, Keji, Kejimkujik National Park, Michael Gorman, P3 hospital, parking meters, Parks Canada, Paul LaFleche, Paul Withers, Perceptions of Change Project, QEII Health Sciences Centre, Quinpool development, Regional Centre developments, Smart Cities Challenge, survey political views and habits, Wellington Street

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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.

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