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Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare

Last week's "mutual" firing of the province's deputy health minister shows just how unwilling our premier is to acknowledge our healthcare crisis — let alone do something about it.

June 2, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Last week, when Premier Stephen McNeil “mutually” agreed to fire Denise Perret — the deputy minister of health he’d hired just two-and-a-half years ago — he explained it was because “we’re now re-setting and moving in a new direction.” He did not explain what he was re-setting from or to, or in what new yellow-brick-road...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Denise Perret, deputy health minister, Dr. Peter Vaughan, healthcare, P3 hospital projects, Premier Stephen McNeil, Richard Starr

Stephen McNeil held a scripted PR event and the compliant media played along

Morning File, Friday, May 31, 2019

May 31, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Stephen McNeil to John Perkins: file a complaint “If you aren’t keen on police roughing you up and cuffing you at a pubic meeting, or corporations dialing up the Mounties to act as bouncers, then go file a complaint with one of two watchdogs that investigate actions by RCMP officers,” reports Jennifer Henderson. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, China Canada photo op, Chinas Ambassador to Canada, Communications Nova Scotia, Icarus Report May 31 2019, John Perkins, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Keith Doucette, Lu Shaye, male sexual assault, ManTalk, New Start, Premier Stephen McNeil, Robert Wright, Sherri Borden Colley, Stephen Archibald and herms, Taryn Grant

Treat your brain: get outdoors

May 17, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 11 Comments

News 1. Premier vs teachers, round 27 Premier Stephen McNeil returned from his latest trip to Europe and China yesterday, and pretty much immediately started in on the teachers’ union — this time, accusing them of spreading misinformation about cuts. A CP story in The Star Halifax says McNeil criticized the union Thursday for alleging […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Charnell Brooks, climate change, Julia Murphy, Mainland Moose, Meghan Groff, Memorial Cup, mental health, mental health treatment, mental illness, moral treatment, Nova Scotia Hospital, Nova Scotia Legal Aid, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), Paul Casey, Paul Wozney, Phlis McGregor, Premier Stephen McNeil, psychiatric treatment, school boards, Sherri Borden Colley, support groups, Thomas Millette

Fracking is back on the agenda in Nova Scotia

After years during which nobody seemed to be asking the F-question in the province, suddenly it is being asked again all over the place: To frack or not to frack? Who’s asking and why?

May 6, 2019 By Joan Baxter

To frack, or not to frack Nova Scotia? That seems to be the question. Again. There’s been a de facto moratorium on fracking — more specifically on “high-volume hydraulic fracturing in shale” — in the province since 2014, and oil and gas companies haven’t exactly been beating down our doors to get it lifted, demanding...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: AltaGas, Alton Gas Natural Storage, Andrew Nikiforuk, Andrew Younger, Barb Harris, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Cape Breton Spectator, Councillor Lynne Welton, Cumberland Business Connector, Cumberland Energy Authority, David Wheeler, Department of Energy and Mines, Fracking, global warming, Harry Thurston, Heritage Gas Limited, Jennifer Matthews, John Hawkins, Jonathan McClelland, Ken Summers, lobbyist, Maritime Energy Association, Mark Haslon, Mary Campbell, Minister Lloyd Hines, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), PC MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, PC MLA Pat Dunn, PC MLA Tory Rushton, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ray Hickey, Ray Ritcey, Sandy MacMullin, shale gas development, Shelley Hoeg, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, Wheeler report

A tale of two protests

While officials moved quickly to respond to student protests about the cancellation of high school rugby, they were quick to erect roadblocks when students wanted to protest climate change.

May 5, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

“In my view, kids should be in class.” Premier Stephen McNeil March 2019 “Something is happening here But you don’t know what it is, Do you, Mr. Jones?” Ballad of a Thin Man Bob Dylan (1965) One Friday. Two student protests. Two very different (immediate) results. On Friday at noon — less than 24 hours...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Citadel High School, climate change, Doug Hadley, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia, Fridays for Future, Greta Thunberg, Ivan Andreou, Joe Morrison, Premier Stephen McNeil, rugby, student activism, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Willa Fisher

Health care crisis? What health care crisis?

Listen to Premier McNeil and Health Minister Delorey and you might imagine Inez Rudderham’s problems are specific and anomalous. Fix them and we fix the problem. The problem is McNeil and Delorey are the problem.

April 28, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

“To the premier of Nova Scotia, I dare you to take a meeting with me, and explain to me, and look into my eyes, and tell me that there is no health-care crisis in my province of Nova Scotia.”  Inez Rudderham It was probably too much to expect Premier Stephen McNeil to respond in any...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: health care, Health Minister Randy Delorey, Inez Rudderham, Jason McLean, Premier Stephen McNeil

Inez Rudderham: The face of the healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Friday, April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent  and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Basic income Erica Butler chatted with Evelyn Forget who wrote Basic Income for Canadians. Forget will one of several speakers be at the Basic Income: The Evidence Speaks conference at the Halifax Central Library tomorrow. […]

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Forest Confidential

An investigation into Nova Scotia’s biomass harvest data and how the numbers aren’t adding up

April 13, 2019 By Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

A few months ago I reviewed a film that has been circulating the province about the growing use of forest biomass as a form of so-called renewable energy. The film — Burned: Are Trees the New Coal? — reported on how the biomass industry sells itself as green by making two bogus claims: it uses […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: biomass, Bowarter Mersey mill, Brooklyn Power, Bruce Nunn, Cellufuel, Community Feed-in Tariff (COMFIT) Program, Danny George, David Rodenheiser, Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF), DRAX power station, Emera, energy wood, Enligna, forest bioenergy, forest harvest data, Forest Sustainability Regulations, Great Northern Timber (GNT), Halifax Port Authority, Hefler Forest Products, Jacques Lapointe, Jessica Gorton, Krista Higdon, Lane Farguson, Lisa Jarrett, Mary Booth, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Renewable Electricity Regulations, Partnership for Policy Integrity, PCC silicon metal production plant, Point Tupper, Port Hawkesbury paper (PHP), Premier Stephen McNeil, Registry of Buyers, Saving Iceland, Scotia Atlantic Biomass, Shaw Eastern Embers, Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP), Tony Mee, Utility and Review Board (UARB), WestFor consortium, woodchips

Here’s a tip: Don’t take your staff’s gratuities

Morning File, Friday, April 12, 2019

April 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

I’m  Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim today. You can follow me on  Twitter @Suzanne_Rent. News 1. Two women could be in running for police chief job Halifax will likely get a new police chief in May and rumour has it there are two women in the running for the job, reports Francis […]

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“8 is NOT Enough”: Disabled adults and their supporters demand more action on community housing from McNeil government

April 4, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

A letter signed by dozens of groups on behalf of more than 1,300 disabled adults waiting for housing called on the McNeil government Thursday to back up its earlier promise to find homes in the community for people who are needlessly institutionalized. Premier Stephen McNeil told journalists the “work is ongoing; we continue to work...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: assisted living, Barb Horner, Brian Hennen, Community Homes Action Group, Disability Rights Coalition, Donnie MacLean, Emerald Hall, Jeanne Whidden, Jen Powley, Minister Joanne Bernard, No More Warehousing, Nova Scotia Hospital, People First Nova Scotia, Premier Stephen McNeil, Roadmap for Choice, small option homes, Susan Leblanc, Walter Thompson

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The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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