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Momentum grows against possible sale of municipally-owned land next to historic Fort Edward

March 23, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

The organization representing the province’s Acadians says outside momentum against the possible sale of municipally-owned lands adjacent to Fort Edward National Historic Site is growing. “This has attracted lots of attention. We hear that there is a petition starting from France that is going to be sent to West Hants (Regional) Municipality in support of […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: 65 Fort Edward St., Acadian history, Acadian World Congress, Acadians, Alex Dunphy, archaeology, FANE, Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse, Fort Edward National Historic Site, Jonathan Fowler, Marie-Claude Rioux, Mi'kmaq history, Northeast Archaeological Research Inc., Planter's history, Saint Mary's University, Shirley Pineo, West Hants Council, West Hants Historical Society, West Hants Regional Municipality, Yvette d'Entremont

“Nova Scotians need to know that this is a war,” say organizers of peace rally set for today

March 5, 2022 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

Organizers of a peace rally demanding an end to the war in Ukraine are hoping for a large turnout on Saturday as they share their key message — stop the war, stop Putin, and shelter the sky over Ukraine. “Nova Scotians need to know that this is a war,” Lyubov Zhyznomirska said in an interview […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Halifax peace rally, Lyubov Zhyznomirska, Peace and Friendship Park, peace rally, Russia, Saint Mary's University, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Yvette d'Entremont

Music, money, and memories: remembering Halifax’s Misty Moon

February 21, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

Charlene Boyce was a “Moon Girl.” She recalls the first time she went to the Misty Moon at its location on Barrington Street. It was 1988 and Boyce had just arrived in the city as a student. She was living in residence with another young woman named Jenny, who introduced her to the cabaret that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Charlene Boyce, Doobie Brothers, Halifax, nightlife, Saint Mary's University, Sam Moon, The Misty Moon

“Yacobo O’Hanley” and some other old boys have hurt fee-fees about protecting Tatamagouche’s water supply

January 27, 2022 By Joan Baxter 16 Comments

That didn’t take long. On Tuesday, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change granted protected status to the French River watershed that provides the village of Tatamagouche with its water, which means that henceforth mineral exploration and mining will be prohibited in the watershed. The Halifax Examiner covered the decision to protect the watershed almost immediately, and […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: CBC, climate change, Cobequid Hills, Department of Energy and Mines, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, FOIPOP, French River watershed, Garth DeMont, geology, George O’Reilly, Geoscience and Mines Branch, gold, Haley Ryan, Jacob Hanley, mineral exploration, Mineral Resources Development Fund (MRDF), Municipality of the County of Colchester, NIMBY, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, Nova Scotia Registry of Claims (NovaROC), Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Saint Mary's University, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Tatamagouche, Warwick Mountain Project, water supply

“Anything is possible:” Black coach, officials achieve firsts in Nova Scotia high school sports

Auburn Drive High School football team's win at the provincial championship this month, was also a big day for head coach Dion Thomas-Hodges and officials Vince Williams, Andre Williams, and Anthony Williams.

November 19, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

Last Sunday, the provincial high school championship final took place at Husky Stadium at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax between Bay View High School — formerly Sir John A. Macdonald High School — and Auburn Drive High School. The game saw a number of firsts with respect to Black involvement in Nova Scotia sports. Auburn […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: Andre Williams, Anthony Williams, Arland Bruce III, Atlantic University Sport, Auburn Drive High School, Bay View High School, Black sports, Cecil Wright, CFL, Cherrybrook, Citadel High School, Cole Harbour High School, Dartmouth, Dion Thomas-Hodges, East Preston, football, Halifax, Halifax Argos, high school football, Huskies Stadium, Karen Hudson, Mitchell Bowl, North Preston, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Football Officials Association, Saint Mary's University, sports, Thomas, Uteck Bowl, Vince Williams

Black News File

Stories from the Black community in the Maritimes, August 31 to September 6, 2021.

September 7, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

1. It’s all white, so it’s all right! (Part 1) The new provincial PC majority government was sworn in last Tuesday, including the new Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, the Office of Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, as well as Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage — Pat Dunn. Premier Tim Houston faced questions and criticism […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Black MLAs, Black News File, Black News File Sept 7 2021, Black Nova Scotians, Colter Simmonds, culture, Department of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Department ommunities, Diggstown, Dr. Késa Munroe-Anderson, Dr. OmiSoore Dryden, East Preston, Equity and Anti-Racism Initiatives, FIN Atlantic Film Festival, Floyd Kane, George Elliott Clarke, Joan Jones, Justin Huston, Pat Dunn, Percy Paris, Premier Tim Houston, Rocky and Joan, Rocky Jones, Saint Mary's University, Tourism and Heritage

Trigger Warning

The ban on assault style weapons comes in the wake of the Nova Scotia shootings, but it is just one cautious step in a decades-long debate over gun control.

May 8, 2020 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

Ross Faulkner, owner of The Gun Dealer, “Atlantic Canada’s largest firearms dealer,” gets more and more strident the longer the phone interview goes on. He makes his points over and over again, as if not convinced I can understand, and sometimes he speaks as if there were a full stop after each word, which gives […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Angus Reid, AR-15, Bill Blair, Billl C-71, Blake Brown, Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns, Canadian Shooting Sports Association, Canadian Sporting Arms and Ammunition Association, Cliff Seruntine, Conservative Party, Dr. Najma Ahmed, Erin O'Toole, Glen Motz, gun control, gun lobby, hunting, lobbyist, Michelle Rempel, military assault firearms, Mnister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, National Firearms Association, Nova Scotia mass shooting, Peter MacKay, Portapique, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, RCMP, Ross Faulkner, Saint Mary's University, semi-automatic weapons, sporting carbines, The Gun Dealer

The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers: Morning File, Tuesday, December 6, 2016

December 6, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 36 Comments

News 1. The McNeil government’s deceitful, ham-fisted, and mean-spirited attack on teachers I almost felt sorry for cabinet minister Michel Samson yesterday. As with the rest of his government, events had overtaken him. He stood before a room full of reporters who were repeatedly calling him out on his contradictions and his uninformed spin. “You say […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Ashcroft Homes, Bill 75, Canadian Martyrs' Church, contract dispute coverage, cyclist struck, David Wheeler, demonstrations, Gary Burrill, inclusion policy, Karen Casey, Kathy Mijatovich, Lenore Zann, Michel Samson, Nancy Rubin, Pam Berman, Parker Donham, Rankin MacSween, Saint Mary's University, Stephen McNeil, vehicle/cyclist collision

BREAKING NEWS: Saint Mary’s University demolishes Infants Home

June 27, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Saint Mary’s University is today demolishing the historic Infants Home at the corner of Inglis Street and Tower Road. Heritage Trust has this to say about the building: This building is a remarkable testament to the emerging role of women in late nineteenth-century Halifax. The Halifax Infants’ Home was built by a women’s society, founded […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Infants Home, Saint Mary's University

PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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