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“Writing is stupid”

Morning File, Friday, April 1, 2022

April 1, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

Before we start, let me assure that I have not embedded any weirdo fake April Fool’s stories in today’s Morning File. News 1.   10 new COVID-19 deaths in Nova Scotia This item is written by Tim Bousquet and Philip Moscovitch. Tim: Ten people died from COVID in the week ending March 29. Additionally, 51 people […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: "low hum of death", Adam Fisher, anxiety, Carole Fisher, cars, Chris Wheatley, Citations Needed, COVID-19, Crystal City, depression, driving, Freedom's Journal, Gary Burrill, Greek War of Independence, Hannah Qu, James Jakob Williams, Jamie Petrone-Codrington, Jeff Pearlman, Jennifer Henderson, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), minimum wage, Montreal, P.E. Moskowitz, panic attacks, Peggy's Cove, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, Philhellenism, polychromy, Portapique, Red Deer, Saahil Desai, Sarah E Bond, SSRIs, statues, Stuart Peddle, Sylvan Lake, The Atlantic, Tim Bousquet, Tourism, transit, West Island, Yale News, Yale University, Yuvi Zalkow

Proposed Wentworth Valley wind farm gets blowback

While local group fears negative effects, Northern Pulp stands to profit from the giant wind project because it’s on Northern Pulp land purchased with a loan from Nova Scotians.

December 6, 2021 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

Let’s start with a quick Nova Scotia quiz. Question #1: What do the following three things have in common? (1) A large new wind farm proposed for Wentworth Valley, (2) an open pit gold mine at Moose River in Halifax Regional Municipality that is owned by Australia’s St Barbara Ltd and operated by its subsidiary […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured Tagged With: 3G Energy, Amherst, Angus Doane, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining Nova Scotia (AMNS), Beaver Dam gold mine, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate crisis, Community LIaison Committee, Dan Eaton, Darrell Dexter, Duff Montgomerie, electricity generation, Elemental Energy, Enercon, fossil fuels, Garfield Moffatt, Germany, government loan, greenhouse gas emissions, Gregor Wilson, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Higgins Mountain, Higgins Mountain Wind Farm, Kejimkujik National Park, Lunenburg, Maryam Baksh, Moose River, Moose River gold mine, Muskrat Falls, NDP government, Neenah Paper, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Northern Timber, Nova Scotia Power Inc. (NSPI), Paul Pynn, Peggy's Cove, Protect Wentworth Valley, renewable energy, Sean Lewis, Shawn Duncan, solar energy, South Canoe, St Barbara Ltd, Stevens Wind Ltd, Strum Consulting, Supreme Court of British Columbia, Wentworth ski hill, Wentworth Valley, wind energy, wind farm, wind turbine

Weekend File

The articles we published from October 16 to 22, 2021.

October 23, 2021 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File. Here are links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday     Sunday, October 17 1. White lawyer Nash Brogan and Black lawyer Lyle Howe are each charged with professional misconduct, but the Barristers Society is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Albert Marshall, Allana Loh, Alton Gas, anti-vaxxer, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area, Bunside, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), CBRM, COVID-19, CPAWS, Devin Maxwell, Disability, Disability Atlantic Arts Symposium, Eastern Front Theatre, Fademasters, fat bikes, Fat Juliet, Halifax, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Transit, Halifax’s License Appeal Committee, Harry Critchley, homelessness, housing crisis, Kayla Borden, Law Amendments Committee, Lionel Desmond, Lyle Howe, Mary Campbell, Nash Brogan, nicole gnazdowsky, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Peggy's Cove, Port Wallace, Raymond Sheppard, Shubenacadie River, Spring Garden Road, Stephen Kimber, Tremanye "Trobiz" Howe, urban legend, Valley Regional Hospital, Weekend File Oct 23 2021, Zane Woodford

Changing views of Peggy’s Cove

Morning File, Tuesday, October 19, 2021

October 19, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. Andrew Gnazdowsky’s family to sue province over his workplace death A year ago, 26-year-old Andrew Gnazdowsky, drowned while trying to fix a piece of equipment at Nova Scotia Power’s Marshall Falls reservoir in Sheet Harbour. Now, his family has served notice it plans to sue the provincial government, Zane Woodford reports: Since his […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: facebook, Jennifer Henderson, John Campbell, Michael Bang Petersen, nicole gnazdowsky, Omar Gandhi, On the Media podcast, Peggy's Cove, Peggy's Cove tourists, Peggy's cove viewing deck, Philip Moscovitch, Research on Online Political Hostility Project, social media, Sou'wester, Zane Woodford

“You are responsible for your own safety”

Morning File, Tuesday, August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Go with the flow: new attempt at tidal power to launch next year Jennifer Henderson reports on a new effort to generate electricity using Bay of Fundy tides: A renewed effort is underway to harness Bay of Fundy tidal power using a floating platform technology with six mounted turbines to capture wave energy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Back to School plan, camping, COVID-19, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, hand dryers, handwashing, Joy A Stevens, lighthouses, neoliberal garbage, Peggy's Cove, physical distancing, public washrooms, school reopening, Shaina Luck, signage, Stanhope

Why people ignore warning signs

Morning File, Tuesday, July 28, 2020

July 28, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. Witness told police that mass murderer “builds fires and burns bodies, is a sexual predator, and supplies drugs in Portapique and Economy” Tim Bousquet is on vacation, but still reported on documents related to the RCMP’s investigation in the mass murders of April 18/19, which a Nova Scotia judge ordered redacted. And there’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID-19, domestic violence, El Jones, feedback loops, gain-frame messages, Jon Ronson, Judy Haiven, loss-frame messages, Mass shooting review, Oxford blueberry, Oxley the blueberry, pandemic, Peggy's Cove, Public Inquiry, Rachel Jones, risk, Sheri Lecker, signage, speed limits, speed signs, Steven Smith, Thomas Goetz, warning signs

Enhancing the tourist experience by putting parking on protected land

Morning File, Tuesday, December 24, 2019

December 24, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

It’s Christmas Eve and I have no idea if anybody is reading or not. If you’re here, enjoy the Morning File. I usually work only minimally between Christmas and New Year’s, and I hope you get some time off too. News 1. Christmas in prison A prisoner we are calling JC offers a moving piece […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beckwith Gilbert, Bee Morrison, Caitlin Grady, Canadian Ferry Association (CFA), Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Capp Larsen, coastal barrens, councillor Richard Zurawski, David Burke, electric buses, Frances Willick, Francis Campbell, Government secrecy, Halifax Field Naturalists, Jaida Regan, Joan Dawson, John Beale, Kent Martin, Kitty Gilbert, Lighthouse Links Development Company, living wage, Loaded Ladel Co-op, Marine Atlantic ferries, Mayor Mike Savage, Michael Gorman, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Peggy's Cove, Roger Crooks, Serge Buy, Stephen Archibald and Chignecto Ship Railway, Victoria Walton

Representation matters. Architectural renderings of the Dalhousie Arts Centre that depict only white people send a message to people of colour: you don’t belong

Morning File, Monday, December 23, 2019

December 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Friday, three Examiner reporters covered the breaking Northern Pulp story. I was at One Government Place for Premier Stephen McNeil’s announcement, then darted over to a nearby hotel for Northern Pulp’s press conference. Joan Baxter spoke with members of Pictou Landing First Nation and PLFN legal council to get their reaction.* […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: architectural drawings, Dalhousie Arts Centre, Deborah Page, Frances Willick, institutional biases, Julia Wright, Margaret Ravenscroft, Noble Regina Allen, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Paul Vienneau, Peggy's Cove, Rana Zaman, representation, Rob Nickel, Robert Devet, Roger Crooks, Suncor Energy, Terra Nova

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

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!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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