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Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

City takes Canna Clinic to court

Morning File, Tuesday, October 30, 2018

October 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

1. Stadium Halifax council takes up the stadium issue at its meeting today, which starts at 1pm. As the representatives of the Maritime Football League Partnership will be present, I hope council moves the stadium discussion to the top of the agenda, or at least early on. But I can’t be certain of that, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biomass, Canna Clinic, cannabis dispensaries, climate change, Cooke Aquaculture, Frances Willick, Inka Milewski, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Justice James Chipman, Richard Starr

Mum’s the word: Stephen McNeil won’t take a position on the Lahey report and won’t provide the details of his cap-and-trade proposal

August 23, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia Cabinet ministers met for 90 minutes today, the first meeting in two weeks. Premier Stephen McNeil said he has not yet read the Lahey Independent Review on Forestry received by his government on Tuesday morning. He refused to take a position on any specific recommendation. However, he did say “my sense is whatever...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cap and Trade, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Lahey Review of Forestry Practices, Richard Starr, Stephen McNeil

Looks like we’re getting a stadium, whether we want it or not

Morning File, Wednesday, June 20, 2018

June 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Stadium Yesterday, I went to Halifax City Hall expecting to hear councillors discuss cannabis legalization; I was preparing for a hilarious debate about the evils of smoking the ganja. But before that conversation could get going, the Maritime Football Ltd. people showed up and council kicked the public out of chambers so they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantica party suspended, Bryden DeAdder, CAO Jacques Dubé, carbon tax, City Hall secret meeting, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, cyclist badly hurt Inspector Court, Maritime Football Limited, Mayor Mike Savage, motor vehicles in Canada, Richard Starr, stadium, Superstar Lounge liquor law violations, Tory Rushton, Willow Tree development approved, Zane Woodford

BP is about to start a deep-water well off Nova Scotia; what could possibly go wrong?

Morning File, Monday, April 9, 2018

April 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Weather There was weather. 2. The new convention centre is already a financial disaster for the city I reported Friday afternoon: The city expected to have a $1.8 million deficit on its Halifax Convention Centre account this year, but that figure has nearly doubled — to $3.5 million. And a revised analysis of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: BP drilling on Scotian Shelf, Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board (CNSOPB), Halifax Convention Centre budget shortfalls, Judge Lenehan and cameras in courtrooms, Law Amendments, North Star Rowing Club history, Nova Centre deficit, Richard Starr, Rural high-speed internet

How to make money “helping” poor people (hint: don’t be poor). Morning File, Monday, March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. The Horne case Writes Stephen Kimber: Neither Capital Health nor the Nova Scotia Health Authority has ever publicly apologized to [Gabrielle] Horne for years of bullying and harassment, while successive provincial governments chose to look the other way, giving carte blanche to the health authority to hire hugely expensive, by-the-hour outside lawyers to bully […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, Carys Barnes, Education Reform Act (Bill 72), fire deaths Lower Sackville, Marven Hart, Poverty solutions, Richard Starr, Rick Mehta, Smart Cities Challenge

The Cornwallis statue and manufactured history: Morning File, Monday, January 29, 2018

January 29, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Baillie resignation “While the Conservative response to the sexual harassment allegations against Jamie Baillie represents progress of a sort, there are still lessons we can learn from what the party did — and didn’t do — in this case,” writes Stephen Kimber. Click here to read “The PC party’s response to the Baillie […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cornwallis statue and manufactured history, David Jones, Dennis Patterson, Evelyn White, Glaze Report, Joan Baxter, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Khyber building, Mayor Mike Savage, Mi'kmaq history, pedestrian struck Queen Street, Richard Starr, Sexual harassment at Province House

Fracking ain’t what it’s cracked up to be: Morning File, Monday, January 15, 2018

January 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Immigration Writes Stephen Kimber: Reading news accounts of last week’s meeting of the legislature’s committee on economic development, you could be forgiven for assuming the much fooforahed Ivany Report’s call to action on immigration had already become a neatly gift-wrapped fait accompli, topped with a pretty government-tied bow. Not so fast… Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blair Rhodes, Calvin Clarke, Constable Gary Basso, constructive dismissal suit against Chronicle Herald, Criminal Investigation Division (CID), Fracking, Jacob Boon, James Kunstler, Judy Haiven, Nova Scotia Department of Energy Onshore Atlas, Paul Withers, police evidence room audit, Richard Starr, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), service industry workers' tips, Steve Parcell, Tristan Cleveland, ugly buildings

Cecil Clarke feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China: Morning File, Thursday, December 14, 2017

December 14, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Of Citizens and Taxpayers “I can’t tell you how many times people have told me they dislike being addressed by governments as ‘taxpayers.’ They’re citizens,” writes Shirley Tillotson: But “citizen” in that sense — the broad thinker who sees taxes as the seed of all good things social — is a newish kind […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adom Patchett, Cape Breton Municipality, cat declawing ban, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, CEDIF program failures, Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF), Delilah Saunders, doctor shortage, Doctors Nova Scotia, Don Mills, Fundy Tidal Inc. cease trade order, HRM free bus passes, Janet Knox, Marieke Walsh, Mary Campbell, Nancy MacCready-Williams, Nic Meloney, Patient's website criticizes East Coast Forensic Hospital, poll on political preferences in Nova Scotia, Rebecca Moore, respect, Richard Starr, secret trips to China, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN)

The 1971 plan to destroy Dartmouth: Morning File, Tuesday, November 28, 2017

November 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

We want your money November is almost over. Please subscribe! And if you’re already a subscriber, please consider spreading the word about the Examiner and asking your social media contacts to likewise subscribe. Thanks! News 1. NDP “Nova Scotia NDP president Bill Matheson and vice-president Judy Swift have both stepped down from their positions with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alderney Landing is a piece of junk, Aly Thomson, Amazon HQ competition, barrier on Coburg Road, Bill Matheson steps down, Bob Mussett, Brian Palmeter, Const. Dianne Penfound, Councillor Sam Austin, crosswalks marked vs unmarked, Jacob Boon, Judy Swift steps down, NS NDP, pedestrian struck Coburg Road, Prince Albert Road, Richard Starr, Roger Taylor is wrong, Stephen McNeil vs Michael Pickup, Terry Izzard, Victoria Road expressway 1971

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