One day after Federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced $10 million to establish green energy projects in Antigonish County, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau popped up in Hants County to announce $255 million worth of renewable energy projects for Nova Scotia. The Trudeau announcement was made at Hardwood Lands in front of a 6MW wind farm […]
Apology ‘just the start of something more’ for No. 2 Construction Battalion
Russell Grosse, executive director of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia, says the apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday “is a remarkable part of the journey of the No. 2 Construction Battalion.” “It’s been a long period of trying to create awareness, whether it was the start with Senator Ruck, or […]
Plaintiff in class-action lawsuit against Canadian Armed Forces ‘extremely optimistic’ about outcome
Rubin “Rocky” Coward is “extremely optimistic” about changes he feels are imminent within the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Coward — along with JP Menard, Marc Frenette, and Wallace Fowler — are the four plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the CAF, and are are suing for systemic racism and institutional discrimination they say they faced […]
The ‘Freedom’ Convoy’s anti-democratic thugs and insurrectionists have to go, but…
We still need to have a serious conversation about more complicated issues like science and policy and politics, and how they connect and don't.
Will we look back on Friday, February 11, 2022, as Justin Trudeau’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau “Just-watch-me” moment? If so, what might that mean? For him? For us? At 4 o’clock on the morning of October 16, 1970, then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act, suspending habeas corpus, deploying the military and giving police […]
A Calgary company is drilling for oil in the world’s largest protected international wildlife reserve; these Nova Scotians are trying to stop it
The Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) is charged with regulating Canadian companies operating overseas, but it is toothless, say activists.
In 1964, Flai Kalenga Mbwenga went looking for some good grazing land. Mbwenga was a small-scale farmer who lives in northern Namibia, close to the Kavango River that forms part of the border between his country and neighbouring Angola. Like nearly all the rural people in his country, Mbwenga’s family’s livelihood came from small-scale and mixed […]
Pieridae’s pipe dream
Pieridae Energy’s plans for a liquified natural gas plant in Nova Scotia sit in the sweet spot of an elaborate Rube Goldberg financing machine that requires Shell Oil offloading some aging gas wells in Alberta to a cash-strapped energy company living on the hope of sky-high gas costs in Germany years from now.
If the Halifax Examiner inbox is anything to go by, there is no shortage of critics of Pieridae Energy and its plans to pipe natural gas into Nova Scotia, build a $10-billion liquefied natural gas plant in Goldboro on the province’s Eastern Shore, and then ship the LNG to Germany, a project the Halifax Examiner […]
Accountability ain’t what it used to be
Perhaps it never was. But in these days of cascading crises, it's hard not to notice just who's missing in action, or acting without accountability, or playing games with their obligation to accountability.
ac·count·abil·i·ty | \ ə-ˌkau̇n-tə-ˈbi-lə-tē \ Definition of accountability: the quality or state of being accountable, especially : an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions // public officials lacking accountability Merriam-Webster online dictionary Accountability. At 10:19pm Atlantic time last Friday night — after much of the business of the political media world had wrapped for the day,...
QAnon knows no borders
A conspiracy theory that originated in the US has become a global movement and is attracting adherents in Nova Scotia. Anti-hate activists are concerned about where it will lead.
This article contains graphic descriptions of conspiracy theories about child abuse and torture that may not be suitable for all readers. The change in the Nova Scotian woman — I’ll call her Lidia — was dramatic and it happened suddenly. According to a member of her family, Lidia had always been left leaning and progressive […]
300 family members and friends of mass murder victims march and demand public inquiry
About 300 family members and friends of the 22 people killed in April’s mass shooting gathered in Bible Hill on Wednesday morning to draw attention to their united demand for a public inquiry. The crowd gathered at the local Foodland parking lot armed with signs featuring the names and faces of their loved ones. All […]
After resisting, Nova Scotia comes through with “pandemic premium” for frontline health care workers
“We would like to see a living wage every day... If you can do it in a pandemic, you should be able to do it all the time. Make it a meaningful change.”
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Nova Scotians who work in nursing homes, publicly-funded home-care, hospitals, and ambulances will receive a one-time lump sum of $2,000 this July in recognition of their efforts during the pandemic. The news was announced by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday. A news release from the […]