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Northern Pulp’s environmental assessment “is simply not credible” says EAC

Morning File, Wednesday, March 13, 2019

March 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Pulp Culture   We’ve published Linda Pannozzo’s detailed review of how through the decades the province has oriented forest policies — and purposefully subverted science — to favour the pulp industry over the lumber industry. As a result, overcutting has resulted in smaller trees that provide less lumber, and now the sawmills are […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Macdonald, Andrew Scheer, Bay Ferries, Boeing 737 MAX 8, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), Chris Miller, Daphnee Azoulay, David Woodbury, Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Extinction Rebellion PEI, FOIPOP, Icarus Report March 13 2019, Justice Michael Wood, laura Meader, nail gun, Nancy Anningson, Nhlanhla Dlamini, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, Peter Kelly, Progressive Conservative Caucus, Raymond Plourde, Rebecca Lau, Scott Campbell, Simon Ryder-Burbridge, Yarmouth ferry

Hell, Let’s Talk

Morning File, Wednesday, January 30, 2019

January 30, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Mill “A permanent injunction has been granted preventing fishermen from blocking survey vessels from carrying out work for a contentious treated waste pipeline into the Northumberland Strait,” reports the Canadian Press: Justice Josh Arnold approved the injunction Tuesday after Northern Pulp and the fishermen agreed to a consent order last week. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bell's Let's Talk campaign, climate change, contracting out, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, Davie Shipyard, Dexel Developments towers Spring Garden Road, Digby Ferry, Emily Baron Cadloff, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Joint Task Force Atlantic, Justice Josh Arnold, Murray Brewster, Museum Strategy, MV Captain Jim, Northern Pulp injunction, Pam Berman, pedestrian struck Armdale rotary, Rebecca Lau, RMI Marine Limited, Rouvalis towers application, Scott Brison, Uber in Halifax, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Zane Woodford

Racist rallies and invasive species in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Monday, August 20, 2018

August 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

Hi, I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today and tomorrow. News 1. Film industry Writes Stephen Kimber: IATSE Local 849, the union that represents most film technicians in the province, has statistics showing its members worked 40,687 days in 2014, earning $11,120,665 in gross pay and pensions. In 2017, those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Brian Hill, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, child refugees in Canada, Erica Butler, invasive chain pickerel, Jenny Cowley, Kejimkujik National Park, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Paul Withers, Rebecca Lau, Silas Brown, tidal turbine

Yarmouth ferry operator Bay Ferries wants to stop going to Portland and instead go to Bar Harbor

Morning File, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Stop the Cogswell misfire! Today, writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: …city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Pardy, Bar Harbor, Barrett Lumber letter, Bay Ferries, Bruce Evans, ditch tax, drunk Germans on flight to Cuba, Icarus Report June 5 2018, Keith Doucette, Liz Graves, Lynn Connors, Maine Department of Transport (MDT), Maine Port Authority (MPA), Mark MacDonald, Mary Campbell, Mayor Mike Savage going to Zhuhai, Nova Star, Portland, racism at Halifax Transit, Rebecca Lau, Sem Paul Obed, sexual assault Cunard Street, Singapor Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), Tom Murphy, transit racism case, Utility and Review Board (UARB), Yarmouth ferry

“No Reason to Treat Us Like Garbage”: Life and Death in Canadian prisons

February 10, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products.  When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Murray, death in custody, death of Matthew Hines, El Jones, internal investigation in prison, Justice Minister Denis Landry, Karissa Donkin, Rebecca Lau, Sherene Razack, Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, weekend incarceration, women in prison

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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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