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What would you build if Halifax council gave you $20 million?

Morning File, Wednesday, December 11, 2019

December 11, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Halifax is getting a stadium Council voted in favour of spending $20 million on a stadium, although the Atlantic Schooners will have to find a new location, Zane Woodford with The Star Halifax reports. A staff report recommended spending the $20 million, but told Schooner Sports and Entertainment (SSE) its preferred spot of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betty MacKenzie, Black man tasered, CFL stadium, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Waye Mason, crane incident Sydney, doctor shortage, Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital, Edith Marshall, Elizabeth Chiu, Elwin LeRoux, ER Closures, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) privacy breach, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jo-Anne Landsburg, Lucy MacDonald, MLA Lloyd Hines, MP Sean Fraser, puppy mill, Quinpool Road, Rob Currie, school closure, Sheet Harbour, Sheet Harbour and Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs, Sheila Martin, stadium financing, traffic stop, Tyler Kennedy, Zane Woodford

Education: the Byzantine, bizarre, and just plain nonsensical

“People talk about Ivany, about attracting young people to rural communities, about growing the economy…” Leif Helmer stops. “We have a great community, a great school. We don’t intend to lose that.”

February 27, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

If you’re looking for a flashing-neon-sign example of how Byzantine, bizarre, and just plain nonsensical our province’s education bureaucracy can be, you might begin by considering last Wednesday’s non-decision by the South Shore Regional School Board to not revisit its carefully nuanced 2013 plan to close two small rural elementary schools in Lunenburg county. First,...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: education, Ivany Report, Karen Casey, Rural development, school closure

Lawyer: McNeil’s bid to force a contract on teachers sits on shaky legal ground

December 5, 2016 By Katie Toth

This Saturday, Nova Scotia Education Minister Karen Casey announced all schools in the province would be pre-emptively closed to students for their safety. The closures are a response to a planned work-to-rule action from teachers — in other words, the teachers had promised to start working to the letter of their contract starting on Monday. That...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Albert Gaudio, Karen Casey, school closure, work-to-rule

Liberals pause in face of “public fury” over closed schools

December 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

The McNeil government is apparently trying to find an escape from the “public fury” over its decision to close the province’s schools to students. The school closure was announced Saturday by Education Minister Karen Casey. The government also called the legislature back into session at 10am today, and said it would table legislation that will force a […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured Tagged With: Gary Burrill, Jamie Baillie, Karen Casey, Michel Samson, school closure

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.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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