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Take this volunteer “job” and shove it

Morning File, Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. The casino crapshoot Rob Csernyik has an incredible investigative piece on the casinos in Nova Scotia and how locals, not high-rolling tourists, became the big spenders. Csernyik looks back before the first casino opened by ITT Sheraton in the summer of 1995. A poll from 1993 showed that 57.7 respondents were against the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Black Lives Matter, buxom wenches, Casino, Centre Plan, Chantel Moore, Colchester Historeum, Cork Street, COVID-19, defund the police, Department of Health and Wellness, Don't work for free, Dr. Chris Lata, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Foundry Hil, Gary Burrill, Glen Assoun, Halifax Regional Police, ITT Sheraton, IWK, Jane Wright, Ku Klux Klan, LMNO Properties, Lynn Stevenson, Matt Smith, mental illness, mobile crisis unit, museums, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), PC leader Tim Houston, People Against Casinos in Nova Scotia, pirates, Portland Street, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Randy Delorey, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, shooting, social work, STEM Montessori Academy of Canada, Sydney, T. Chandler Haliburton, T.A. Scott Architecture + Design Limited, Truro, Uncover, volunteering, wellness checks

Hugh MacKay and our I-know-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing premier

Why is it so hard for Stephen McNeil to acknowledge mistakes were made, let alone admit he or anyone in his orbit ever does anything wrong? The latest Hugh MacKay drunk-driving allegations offer a premier case study in Trumpian counterattack, obfuscation, and butt-covering.

March 1, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

Stephen McNeil insists he knew nothing, his chief of staff did nothing wrong, and it’s all the fault of the author of an email or/and the leader of the opposition for failing to go to the police with information Chester-St. Margaret’s MLA Hugh MacKay might have been driving drunk almost a year before he was...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andre Veinotte, Laurie Graham, Michael Lawless, MLA Hugh MacKay, PC leader Tim Houston, Penny Lawless, Premier Stephen McNeil

MLAs grill Forestry Transition Team members

February 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

Sawmill operators whose secondary markets for wood chips have taken a hit as a result of the closure of the pulp mill in Pictou County will not be receiving any financial assistance from the Forestry Transition Fund established by the province. “Everything we do must be seen through the lens of international trade and we...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrea Anderson, Ava Czapalay, biomass, deputy Minister Julie Towers, Forestry Transition Fund, Forestry Transition Team, Kelliann Dean, MLA Lisa Roberts, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), PC leader Tim Houston, PC MLA Tory Rushton

Northern Pulp announces more layoffs

January 23, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson Leave a Comment

Northern Pulp issued a news release earlier this morning to announce 90 salaried employees will receive layoff notices today, in addition to some 180 unionized employees given notice earlier this month. The release says: “The majority of Northern Pulp’s 90 salaried employees will be laid off over the next few months with the earliest being […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Northern Pulp layoffs, PC leader Tim Houston, PC MLA Tory Rushton, Shelley Amyotte, Unifor

Environment Minister Gordon Wilson orders two-year environmental assessment of Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent treatment system

Clear as Sludge: What does the decision mean for the future?

December 17, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Nova Scotia’s Environment Minister is ordering Northern Pulp to produce more information and complete a full environmental assessment before he will approve the mill’s proposed wastewater treatment plant and a pipeline bringing the effluent from the plant to the Northumberland Strait. The project will replace a 50-year-old polluting system that dumps into Boat Harbour that […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Minister Gordon Wilson, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, PC leader Tim Houston, Ray Plourde

Auditor General: $2 billion QEII redevelopment at risk for fraud

December 11, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

The province’s auditor general released a critical report yesterday that looked at the $2 billion project to expand the Halifax Infirmary and build a new Community Outpatient Centre at Bayers Lake to replace the decrepit Victoria General and Centennial buildings. Michael Pickup’s strongest criticism and first recommendation declared: “The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Deloitte, fraud, Halifax Infirmary, Lindsay Construction, MLA Susan Leblanc, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), Nova Scotia Lands, PC leader Tim Houston, QEII New Generation Project, TIR

Physician assistants? It shouldn’t be that hard. Really

The province has announced a pilot program to see if it's safe to let physician assistants into our health care system. They already operate legally in much of the US, Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick and in the Canadian military. So why just a modest pilot project? We're glad you asked.

November 17, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

A September announcement that the province’s health department plans to launch a new pilot project to road-test the use of physician assistants had somehow passed over — or under — my Spidey-sense news radar until it popped up again, almost incidentally, near the end of a news report Friday. The Friday story focused on new...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brittany Belair, collaborative emergency centre (CEC), College of Physicians and Surgeons in Nova Scotia, Fred Wu, healthcare, PC leader Tim Houston, physician assistants

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, antipsychotic drugs, Atlantic cod, Barack Obama, Bay Ferries, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, Ches Haines, Chicken Bones, David and Madonna Clothier, dementia, fisheries, Francis Campbell, gender parity on public boards, Haley Ryan, Huddle, Jenn Thornhill Verma, Jeremiah Clark, John Ralston Saul, Mary Schultz, Meredith Ralston, Michael Gorman, Moonshine Creek, Neptune Theatre, Nova Scotia Co-Operative Council, Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Oceana Canada, PC leader Tim Houston, seniors, Sharon Montgomery-Dupe, Skye Halifax, Tattoo, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., Volta Labs, Yarmouth ferry FOIPOP

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

Cold storage was going to save N.S. in 1926

Morning File, Thursday, October 3, 2019

October 3, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp’s sci-fi future This item is written by Joan Baxter. It’s all supposed to be decided in just 83 days. Yesterday, Nova Scotia Environment announced that it had received the focus report for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment plant, which was required after former environment minister Margaret Miller announced in March that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brandon Walker, bridge protest, Carlos Beals, Ceasefire Halifax, CFL stadium proposal, collapsed crane lawsuit, collapsed crane removal, David T.S. Fraser, Extinction Rebellion, Francis Campbell, Haley Ryan, hfxAlert, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mayor Mike Savage on CFL stadium, Michael Smith, Northern Pulp focus report, Northern Pulp treatment facility, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Patrick Yancey, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Robert Stanfield, Quentrel Provo, Rickey Walker, Rights 4 Vapers, Stephen Archibald and Halifax Seaport, Twiggz Shoes, vaping products ban, WE Day Atlantic

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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