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The Northern Pulp saga is a “really, really, really, really difficult time” for Pictou Landing First Nation

Morning File, Friday, December 20, 2019

December 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 7 Comments

News 1. A “really, really, really, really difficult time” Joan Baxter wrote this item. About 300 people gathered yesterday in the school gymnasium at Pictou Landing First Nation for a rally to support the Boat Harbour Act. That legislation, passed in 2015 by Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government with support of the Progressive Conservatives and NDP, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: A’se’K, Boat Harbour Act, Brian Baarda, Chief Andrea Paul, Clean the Mill, convention centre hotel, Derek Ross, Dr. Richard Strauss, Elizabeth McMillan, Forest Nova Scotia, Haley Ryan, Jaddus Joseph Poirier, Linda Little, Lt. Derek de Jong, Michael Patrick McNutt, Murray Prest, Northern Pulp, Nova Centre, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association, Paper Excellence, Philip Croucher, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Ralph Francis, Renee Ross, Scott Maritimes, Star Halifax, Stirling McLean, Sutton Place Hotels, Taryn Grant, Unifor, Utility and Review Board, Wade Prest, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Stephen McNeil’s austerity philosophy: if only everyone were paid less, we’d all be rich

Morning File, Friday, October 25, 2019

October 25, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Prisoners and the vote Reports El Jones: On Monday, Canadians voted in the federal election. Voting is a right for all Canadians, and this includes people who are incarcerated. Despite being able to vote, prisoners report that they experienced barriers to casting their ballot. Prisoners in the Atlantic Institution, a federal men’s maximum […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $15 minimum wage, Cst. Jennifer McPhee, economic growth, GDP, Philip Croucher, Premier Stephen McNeil, shoplifting cop

Government moves slowly, except when it moves lightning fast

Morning File, Friday, October 4, 2019

October 4, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. Twenty years after the Marshall decision, DFO still has no agreement with First Nations communities over fishing management It’s been twenty years since the Marshall decision (in which the Supreme Court of Canada found that Donald Marshall Jr. had a treaty right to fish for eels out of season) and the Department of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-abortion demonstration, Capital District funds, Chief Michael Sack, councillor Matt Whitman, Debbie Buott-Matheson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), discretionary funds, Glen Arbour Homeowners' Association, Indigenous fishermen, Kyle Moore, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp effluent, Philip Croucher, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, racially motivated assault, Singh Brar

A bad day for people on bikes

Morning File, Thursday, July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

News 1.  Two collisions send two cyclists to hospital A pick-up truck driver who hit a cyclist on Waverley Road Wednesday morning has been charged with “Vehicle Passing a Bicycle while Travelling on Right When There is Less than 1 Metre between the Vehicle and Cyclist” according to the RCMP. The cyclist was taken to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bike lanes, bus lanes, Carolyn Ray, Chignecto Isthmus, climate change, cyclist struck John Brackett Drive, cyclist struck Waverley Road, David Burke, drive-by shootings, handguns, Jacob Boon, micromobility lanes, OCEARCH, Philip Croucher, sea level rise, transit fares, Tristan Cleveland, vehicle/cyclist collision

Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window

Morning File, Monday, April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Street checks Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Auld, Anthony Leblanc, APTN, Canada Lands, Canadian Press (CP) layoffs, Christie Blatchford, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Justice Derek Green, Justin Brake, Mary Campbell, Michael Tutton, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Darren Fisher, Northern Pulp, Philip Croucher, public consultation, public engagement, Saltwire Network, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, street checks, The Blatchford Bad Writing Hall of Fame

More Liberal cowardice

Morning File, Friday, February 1, 2019

February 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Liberal cowards, pt. 2 Yesterday, I castigated as “craven fools” the five Liberals on the Public Accounts Committee — Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — for their spinelessness in limiting debate at the committee in order to (they think) gain a short-term PR advantage of controlling the public message. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Debison, collision Highway 103, Dave Stewart, Health Committee, Jaguar driving wrong way Hwy 101, Jason McLellan, Jim Vibert, Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPI), Michael Gorman, MLA Ben Jessome, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Gordon Wilson, MLA Hugh MacKay, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, pedestrian safety, pedestrian struck Thistle Street, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, Philip Croucher, Public Accounts Committee, Ryan van Horne, Thistle Street intersection, truck driving wrong way Hwy 101

All in All It’s Just Another Slick in the Harbour

Morning File, Tuesday, August 28, 2018

August 28, 2018 By Chris Benjamin 5 Comments

Hi, I’m Chris Benjamin, today’s guest writer. I’m a journalist as well as a writer and editor of books — fiction and non-fiction — and the managing editor of Atlantic Books Today Magazine. Environment and social justice are my beats. News 1. Oil spills, past and present The Canadian Coast Guard is investigating what appears to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, books in Mi'kmaw, Chris Benjamin, Conservative convention, Department of Community Services, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, global heat wave, Kaitlyn Swan, Macdonald Bridge repairs, Matt Strickland, oil slick Bishop's landing, opioid addiction treatment, Philip Croucher, Robert Devet, social assistance benefits, Tufts Cove oil spill, Wendy Martin

The world’s top expert on deep sea drilling disasters worries about “the relatively high likelihoods” of a blowout at BP’s Scotian Shelf operation

Morning File, Thursday, May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Blowout Antonia Juhasz, who is an energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil, has taken an interest in Nova Scotia’s offshore, and so asked Robert Bea to have a look at the regulatory approval for BP’s drilling on the Scotian Shelf. Bea was the right person for Juhasz to ask. Bea […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Laughlin, Antonia Juhasz, BP drilling on Scotian Shelf, Bridge Commission, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), cannabis sales, Coastal Cannapy, emergency alert on phones, Gregory and Cynthia Arab, Halifax Harbour Bridges (HHB), Inglis Street fire, licence plate readers, Mark Crawford, Philip Croucher, Robert Bea, Seadrill West Aquarius, uncontrolled blowout risk

Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet

Morning File, Tuesday, April 17, 2018

April 17, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

1. Fifteen cops showed up to arrest a teenager for using the internet CBC reporter Jack Julian interviewed the 19 year old who was arrested in the mischaracterized “data breach” of the province’s Freedom of Information website. Julian’s article is a great piece of reporting; it is well-written, sensitive, informative, and enraging. If police statements about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Freedom of Information website data breach, Jack Julian, malicious comment bots, Philip Croucher, Premier Stephen McNeil and website data breach, stadium poll results, StarMetro Halifax poll results walk back, Taryn Grant, Unisys contract

Now that we’ve taken a bath on the convention centre, let’s do a stadium

Morning File, Monday, April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

1. The Securities windfall “A $77.1 million windfall helps balance the books in this year’s provincial budget,” reports Jennifer Henderson: That’s the amount the federal government is paying Nova Scotia as incentive to disband the provincial Security Commission and join a national securities regulator. But that one-time payment comes at the cost of $15 million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brian Taylor, CFL stadium, defacement, Heywood Sanders, Muskrat Falls new costs, Philip Croucher, provincial web page hacked, Stadium support, StarMetro, the battle for subscriptions, Unisys

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Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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