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What does the mayor do?

Morning File, Thursday, September 17, 2020

September 17, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 11 Comments

News 1. Mayoral candidates face off for the first time Halifax’s three mayoral candidates debated each other yesterday, at an event hosted by the Downtown Halifax Business Commission. Zane Woodford attended, and reports on the candidates’ replies to questions from moderator Norma Lee MacLeod. While Taylor reiterated his stance that he doesn’t care who you […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Al Poirier, Atlantic Gold, COVID-19 recovery, crossword puzzles, digital news, Dustin O’Leary, gold mining, housing for Indigenous people, Joan Baxter, John Wesley Chisholm, Ken Mallett, limits on gathering, Lita Williams, mayor, mayoral race, Minister Chrystia Freeland, Minister Paul Martin, Natasha Pace, Shaina Luck, social housing, Tass Williams, Tawaak Housing Association, Willy Palov

“You are responsible for your own safety”

Morning File, Tuesday, August 11, 2020

August 11, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Go with the flow: new attempt at tidal power to launch next year Jennifer Henderson reports on a new effort to generate electricity using Bay of Fundy tides: A renewed effort is underway to harness Bay of Fundy tidal power using a floating platform technology with six mounted turbines to capture wave energy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Back to School plan, camping, COVID-19, Halifax Sexual Health Centre, hand dryers, handwashing, Joy A Stevens, lighthouses, neoliberal garbage, Peggy's Cove, physical distancing, public washrooms, school reopening, Shaina Luck, signage, Stanhope

We need to keep talking about racism

Morning File, Tuesday, June 16, 2020

June 16, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 10 Comments

News 1. Board of police commissioners’ meeting cancelled and other tales of non-transparency and lack of accountability El Jones writes about the cancellation of today’s Board of Police Commissioners meeting, ostensibly because — three months into the pandemic — they can’t figure out how to use Microsoft Teams. Jones writes: As the movement to defund […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrian Harewood, anti-racist, Ashley Thompson, body cameras, Capt. Jenn Casey, Catherine Wright, Chief Allan Adam, Christine Genier, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Desmond Cole, ejection seat, Gabbie Douglas, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Kentville Police, Kim Wheeler, long term care (LTC), Magnolia residential care home, Martin-Baker, Mike Harris, non-racist, Northwood, Nova Scotia Policing Policy Working Group, nursing homes, Pam Berman, pandemic, police violence, Racism, racism in journalism, RCMP violent arrest, Rhonda Britton, Shaina Luck, Sharisha Benedict, Sherri Borden Colley, Snowbirds crash, speed bump vs speed hump, Terence McKenna, Waubgeshig Rice

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

It’s not a war, it’s an education

Morning File, Tuesday, April 7, 2020

April 7, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1.  Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia The latest charts are here, and they include the 31 new cases announced yesterday. I really like these charts, showing total and daily breakdowns of new cases, hospitalizations, total tests, and so on. They provide an easy visualization to help understand how things are changing, day-by-day. They also […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 3D printing, Aaron E. Sanchez, Aya Al-Hakim, Brooke Gladstone, Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), coronavirus, COVID-19, domestic violence, Emma Davie, Eula Bliss, exercise, Gerald McCowan, Heather Comeau, masks, Michelle Fortier, Muyu Lyu, Noushin Ziafati, nursing homes, OmiSoore Dryden, pandemic, ParticipAction, Preston Mulligan, racism and pandemics, Shaina Luck, Shiva Nourpanah, Stephen Beckett, Tracey MacKenzie, Tracey Tulloch, war as metaphor

Daily COVID-19 update: Stephen McNeil doesn’t understand why disproportionate policing matters

April 5, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Twenty-six new people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 262. Six people are hospitalized; 53 people have fully recovered. See the Examiner’s graphic representations of the spread of the disease in Nova Scotia, and the response to it, here. […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Daily COVID-19 update, Dr. Robert Strang, exercise, homelessness, pandemic, policing during pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, Shaina Luck, social distancing

When is a deadline not a deadline?

Morning File, Wednesday, January 22, 2020

January 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Boat Harbour Though the deadline of January 30, 2020 was set five years ago, it’s looking as if the province of Nova Scotia will not be strictly enforcing the Boat Harbour Act until April 1 this year, to allow Paper Excellence to run a power boiler throughout remaining winter months. Joan Baxter and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Bayers Road widening, Bernard Mills, Brynn Budden, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, crosswalk Gottingen, Eskasoni First Nation, Halifax Shipyard, Halifax Transit ridership numbers, Indigenous prisoners, Irving Shipbuilding, Irving Shipyard, Ivan Zinger, Kevin Arjoon, Mel Rusinak, Moving Forward Together (MFT), Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), payroll rebates, Santina Rao, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Shaina Luck, Sherryll Murphy, transgender, Ultra Electronics Maritime Industries, Walmart

Halifax’s Come From Away moment

Morning File, Tuesday, January 14, 2020

January 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Owls Head Provincial Park has been deleted from the province’s map of parks and protected areas Tim writes on the disappearance of Owls Head Provincial Park from the map of main protected areas on the province’s website. CBC’s Michael Gorman reported that the province removed Owls Head from a pending protected status list. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Access-A-Bus, accessible taxis, accessible transit, Barry Schechter, Bassie Feldman, Brian Dezagiacomo, Canadian Domestic Violence Conference, Chabad, Chantal Chassé, Chaskel Bennett, Councillor Sam Austin, Dartmouth post office, domestic violence, El Al Flight LY26, Housing Nova Scotia, income assistance, Jodi Brown, Joel Jacobson, Melissa Prosper, Nancy MacLellan, Not Without Us, Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities, Pam Berman, Rabbi Mendy Feldman, Shabbat, Shaina Luck, Tawaak Housing Association, Tim Rissesco, Varda Avram

The Halifax Regional Police have some questions for you

Morning File, Thursday, November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

It’s party time! November is subscription drive month, so we’re  having a party to celebrate. Drop into Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street) on Sunday, December 1 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Subscribers get to party with us for free. If you want to subscribe, you can do so here, or at the door. New Riders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Elizabeth McMillan, Eric Durnford, Fight for $15, Gerald Regan's legacy, Gerald Regan's victims, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Halifax Water, Halifax Workers’ Action Centre, HRP questions, job hunting, Julie Lalonde, lead pipes, living wage, Maggie Rahr, Michael Boudreau, NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan, PR jobs, Robert Cribb, Robert Wright, Sakura Saunders, Shaina Luck, Wendy Krkosek, Zane Woodford

A place with islands to give away

Morning File, Tuesday, November 19, 2019

November 19, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

You can’t be everywhere at once. That’s why I’m thankful for the Halifax Examiner’s Jennifer Henderson. If I’m regretting not being able to go to this public meeting or that important announcement, Henderson has been, and can tell me all about it in the Examiner. Whether it’s the Nova Scotia Health Authority’s pursuit of P3 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Carrie Low, Cassie Williams, Cheryl Maloney, Chief Morley Googoo, Chief Perry Bellegarde, El Jones, homelessness, Hurricane Island, Laura Fraser, Lionel Desmond, Liv Bank, Maureen Googoo, Meg Inwood, Minister Carolyn Bennett, Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association (NSNWA), Out of the Cold Shelter, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Premier Stephen McNeil, rape investigation, Shaina Luck, street checks apology, Tripartite Forum, Zane Woodford

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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