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Double Exposure

The pandemic has pushed back the curtain on how decades of austerity have left Canadians and the health care system more vulnerable.

May 7, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. By April 13, Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency had been in effect for 23 days, schools were closed, most businesses shuttered, and people were feeling the effects of the “lock down.” At the daily COVID-19 briefing, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Carole Shively, CD Howe Institute, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dennis Raphael, Dr. Robert Strang, economic insecurity, El Jones, ER Closures, essential workers, Fraser Institute, health care, Inez Rudderham, living wage, long term care (LTC), Michael Tutton, neoliberalism, Northwood, NS state of emergency, nursing homes, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), personal support worker (PSW), poverty, Premier Stephen McNeil, public health care spending, Sheldon Cohen, social determinants of health, Stephen Harper, stress, wait times, World Health Organization (WHO)

The heroes on Northwood’s Pandemic Relief Team don’t earn a living wage

Morning File, Tuesday, May 5, 2020

May 5, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. 1. COVID and the class of 2020-ish Jennifer Henderson reports on the situation of graduating health sciences students, who not only lost their spring convocations, but also their mandatory 10-12 weeks of “hands-on” experience they usually complete in hospitals and clinics. Student nurses, physiotherapists, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID-19, Elmridge Farm, food insecurity, food supply, Hannah Tibbet, Henny Penny Farm Market, hunger, Jason Craig, Josh Oulton, Northwood job listing, Northwood Pandemic Relief Team, Patricia Bishop, poverty, Square Roots, Taproot Farms, Yvonne Noel

COVID-19 and vulnerable populations: now is the time for “meaningful social justice change”

April 30, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. How does COVID-19 impact vulnerable populations differently and why is a human rights response to the pandemic necessary? Those were questions explored during a Dalhousie University ‘Open Dialogue Live’ panel discussion on Thursday afternoon. The panelists included Alex Neve, Amnesty International Canada’s secretary general, and […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Alex Neve, COVID-19 and vulnerable populations, COVID-19 Preston Response Team, COVID-19 while Black, human rights, Ingrid Waldron, Judy MacDonald, lex Neve, marginalization, people with disabilities, poverty, social isolation

The problem with meritocracy: it destroys our humanity

Morning File, Wednesday, June 12, 2019

June 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Studenting While Black “On June 2, Black graduate student Shelby McPhee was accused by two white women of stealing a laptop while he was attending the Black Canadian Studies Association session at the 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences held at the University of British Columbia,” writes El Jones: The white […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, college admissions scandal, Daniel Markovits, Develop Nova Scotia, Gangster Capitalism podcast, gold mining, Lesianu Hweld, MegumaGold, meritocracy, NDP climate plan, oil industry and ghg emissions, poverty, racial profiling, Regan Isenor, Richard Butts, Richard Starr, Shelby McPhee, Suzanne Rent, Zane Woodford

Poverty mentality… poverty reality

Morning File, Thursday, February 28, 2019

February 28, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Poor kids On Tuesday, Statistics Canada released its most recent Canadian income survey, covering 2017. The agency uses two tools to calculate poverty, the Low Income Measure (“defines an individual as having low income if their adjusted after-tax income falls below 50% of the median adjusted after-tax income”) and the Market Basket Measure […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Alex Cooke, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Stevens, Blomidon Society of Naturalists, Bob Bancroft, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Canadian income survey, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Copyright Act, Darren Porter, Denise Corey, Endangered Species Act, fair dealing in copyright law, Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists, Four Feet Up, Fresh 21, Halifax Society of Naturalists, John Degen, Michael Gorman, Nance Ackerman, Paula Gallant, poverty, poverty in Nova Scotia, rural library system, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Shaina Luck, Stephen Archibald and a seaside cemetery, Thomas Baekdal, tidal turbine retrieval, Trevor Tombe, Writers' Union of Canada

Government investment and social good: Morning File, Wednesday, August 9, 2017

August 9, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Failed “investments” Yesterday, I noted that Nova Scotia Business Inc. had written off more than $26 million in “investments” it held in businesses that the crown corporation promised were going to bring prosperity forever, amen. There might be a case for government investment in industry. At least, I’m not necessarily against it on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Billdidit, Blue Wave Seafoods, Census data reveals Nova Scotian poverty, MeID Inc, Natal Day not a holiday, Nova Scotia Business Inc. failed investments, NSGEU asks for arbitration, poverty, Pure Energy, Quanta Nova Canada Ltd, River’s Bend Wood Products, Scotian Halibut, Tech Link, Unique Solutions

The stupid, mean violence of North Dartmouth: Morning File, Thursday, June 8, 2017

June 8, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Chelsie Probert, North Dartmouth poverty, and violence A police release from last night: The suspicious death that occurred last night in Dartmouth has been ruled a homicide. At approximately 10 p.m. on June 6, Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of a female in medical distress on a pathway in the 0-100 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Business Cape Breton, Chelsie Probert, cigarette butts, Dartmouth Family Centre, Greg MacDonald, Jerri Southcott, Mary Campbell, Nena's, North Dartmouth, North Dartmouth Community Centre, poverty, The Echo, Tony Mancini, violence, Yvette d'Entremont

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

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.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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