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Small dam, big controversy

How the contentious aboiteau at the Windsor Causeway could generate a national conversation about fish passage.

December 8, 2020 By Joan Baxter 8 Comments

The Mi’kmaq call the Avon River “Tooetunook,” which means “flowing square into the sea,” or more specifically, into the Minas Basin in the upper Bay of Fundy. Since 1970, when the Windsor causeway was constructed across the Avon, the river hasn’t exactly been able to “flow square” at all. That’s because the aboiteau — the […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: aboiteau, Acadian settlers, Annapolis Valley First Nation, Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs, Atlantic salmon, Avon River Causeway, Avon River Heritage Society, Bay of Fundy, Bernadette Jordan, Chief Gerald Toney, Dan Davis, Darren Porter, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, dyke, Ecology Action Centre, fish kills, Fisheries Act, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan, Friends of the Avon River, Gaspereau, herring, Innder Bay of Fundy salmon, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO), Lake Pisiquid, Lake Pisiquid Canoe Club, Mi'kmaq, Mi'kmaw Conservation Group, Minas Basin, ministerial order, moderate livelihood fishery, Nikki-Marie Lloyd, Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Nova Scotia Environment, Nova Scotia Power, Oceans North, Petitcodiac River, Pisiquid, Sheldon Hope, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Ski Martock, Sonja Elizabeth Wood, Species at Risk Act, St. Croix River, St. Mary's Bay, Susanna Fuller, Treaty Truckhouse, Victor Oulton, water keepers, Windsor, Windsor causeway

Independent inshore lobster fishers fear the Clearwater purchase could decimate their livelihoods

November 16, 2020 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

At a November 12 press conference, Sipekne’katik First Nation Chief Mike Sack announced that his Band was launching “hundreds” of lawsuits related to the way governments, some commercial fishers, and the RCMP reacted to its launch of its moderate livelihood fishery on September 17, the 21st anniversary of the landmark Marshall decision that affirmed Mi’kmaq […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Acadia First Nation, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Bernd Christmas, Chief Deborah Robinson, Chief Mike Sack, Chief Terry Paul, Clearwater convicted, Clearwater Seafoods Inc, Colin MacDonald, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA), inshore fishery, John Risley, Keith Colwell, lobster, Membertou First Nation, Miawpukek First Nation, moderate livelihood fishery, Nova Scotia Seafood Alliance, owner operator, Paqtnkek First Nation, Paul Withers, Pictou Landing First Nation, Potlotek First Nation, Premium Brands, Ronald Pink, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Solidarity K’jipuktuk Halifax, We’koqma’q First Nation

In Search of Common Ground: An interview with Arthur Bull about the lobster fishery crisis in St. Mary’s Bay

November 1, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 6 Comments

It’s been more than a month since the Sipekne’katik First Nation launched its own self-regulated lobster fishery off the Saulnierville wharf in Southwest Nova Scotia — 21 years after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the Marshall decision, affirming the 1760-61 Treaty Rights of the Mi’kmaq to fish for a “moderate livelihood.”  For weeks […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Acadia First Nation, Arthur Bull, Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs, Bay of Fundy Inshore Fishermen’s Association, Bear River First Nation, Chief Debbie Robinson, Chief Frank Meuse, Clearwater Seafoods Inc, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Fundy North, hand liner, Indigenous fishers, inshore fishery, lobster fishery, Marshall Decision, Mi’kmaq Confederacy, Sipekne'katik First Nation, St. Mary's Bay, World Forum of Fisher Peoples

Lobster fishery at a crossroads

Part 3: What are the prospects for the Atlantic lobster fishery? 

October 10, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo and Joan Baxter 6 Comments

On September 17, 2020, the Sipekne’katik First Nation finally launched its own self-regulated moderate livelihood lobster fishery off the Saulnierville wharf on the shores of St. Mary’s Bay in Southwest Nova Scotia. It had been 21 years since the Marshall decision, when the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed the 1760-61 Treaty Rights of the Mi’kmaq […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Chad Smith, Chief Michael Sack, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Indigenous fishers, inshore fishery, Northumberland Fishermen’s Association, Ronnie Heighton, Shannon Arnold, Sipekne'katik First Nation

Lobster fishery at a crossroads

Part 2: Tensions over a moderate livelihood fishery are hiding a much bigger threat to the inshore

October 7, 2020 By Joan Baxter and Linda Pannozzo 2 Comments

On October 1, hundreds of Mi’kmaq and their allies held a mawio’mi to celebrate Treaty Day on the wharf in Saulnierville on St. Mary’s Bay in Southwest Nova, where crews from Sipekne’katik First Nation were almost two weeks into their new “moderate livelihood” fishery, affirmed as their Treaty right by the 1999 Supreme Court of […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Chief Michael Sack, Cindy Comeau, Clearwater, De-Anne Sack, Indigenous fishers, inshore fishery, Joel Comeau, Luc Leblanc, Maritime Fisherman's Union, Martin Mallet, moderate livelihood fishery, Ruth Inniss, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Susanna Fuller, Terrance Paul, The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Treaty Day

Lobster fishery at a crossroads

Part 1: It’s been 20 years since the Marshall decision, so why is there still no moderate livelihood fishery?

October 5, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo and Joan Baxter 8 Comments

Ten years after Donald Marshall Jr. was found to be wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he did not commit — in a case that a Royal Commission determined was the result of racist attitudes and incompetence on the part of the police and others in the justice system that had […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Atlantic Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative (AICFI), Chief Terry Paul, Colin Sproul, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), DFO, donald marshall jr, First nations, Guang Da International, Indigenous fishers, inshore fishery, Jeff Purdy, Ken Coates, Kerry Prosper, lobster fishery, MacDonald-Laurier Institute, Marshall Decision, Mi'kmaq, moderate livelihood fishery, Sheng Ren Zheng, Sipekne'katik First Nation, treaty rights

A moderate livelihood

Morning File, Monday, September 21, 2020

September 21, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Northwood review announcement coming today The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage free. What will health minister Randy Delorey announce today? Who knows? Whatever it is, Stephen Kimber is not expecting anything too earth-shattering. In his weekly Halifax Examiner column, Kimber writes: [Delorey] may unveil some part of some pre-selected, non-binding recommendations […]

Filed Under: Featured, Labour, Morning File Tagged With: Brandon Young, Caroline Arsenault, Charlotte Gill, Chief Michael Sack, Clearwater convicted, co-operative movement, Colin Low, illegal fishing, Indigenous fishers, Jay Pitter, Jimmy Tompkins, Kay Desjardins, Kent Martin, lobster fishery, Marshall Decision, Mi’kmaw, moderate livelihood fishermen, Moses Coady, Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), Natasha Pace, National Film Board (NFB), Nic Meloney, Paul Vienneau, Paul Withers, Silver Donald Cameron, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Trina Roache, Yarmouth & Area Chamber of Commerce

Court hears Sipekne’katik appeal of Alton Gas decision

February 19, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

How much consultation is enough when it comes to approving development on land where First Nations claim — but have not received — title to Crown land? That’s one of the thorny questions at the centre of the Sipekne’katik First Nation’s appeal of a decision by the Nova Scotia Minister of Environment which gave the...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Alton Gas, Environment Climate Change Canada, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Mi’kmaq people, Ray Larkin, Sean Foreman, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards

Northern Pulp takes province to court: The saga continues

The unfolding saga of the 53-year-old Pictou County pulp mill operated by Northern Pulp Nova Scotia — a Paper Excellence company that is part of the corporate empire of the billionaire Widjaja family of Indonesia — continues to get “curiouser and curiouser” as Alice in Wonderland once remarked.

January 24, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

Yesterday afternoon, Northern Pulp issued a news release stating it will ask the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to undertake a judicial review of the Nova Scotia Environment Minister Gordon Wilson’s December 17, 2019 decision requiring the company to submit a full environmental assessment report before deciding to approve its proposed effluent treatment facility to […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Andrew Ross MacGregor, Boat Harbour closure, Brian Baarda, Brian Hebert, Chief Andrea Paul, Environment Minister Gordon Wilson, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Francis Wayne Chisholm, Gerald William Battist, Ian Joseph Johnstone, Jeffrey Carmen Black, Local 440, Marshall Stewart Bateman, Matthew Lawrence MacGillivray, Northern Pulp, Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corporation, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Sipekne'katik First Nation, Teal Forest Resources Inc., Unifor, William Andrew West

No federal assessment will be required for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment project

December 17, 2019 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

Yesterday, four days before his announcement was due on the Northern Pulp effluent treatment proposal, and less than 24 hours before the deadline for the provincial environment minister to announce his decision, federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson released a statement saying that he had “decided not to designate the Northern Pulp project […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, Caribou Harbour, Coldwater Lobster Association, Earnscliffe Strategy Group, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Gulf Nova Scotia Fleet Planning Board, Impact Assessment Act, Impact Assessment Agency (IAA), Justice Timothy Gabriel, Maritime Fishermen’s Union, Mi’kmaq Confederacy of Prince Edward Island, Millbrook First Nation, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister Margaret Miller, Northern Pulp effluent, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, Northern Pulp lobbyist, Northumberland Strait Sportfishing Association, Paper Excellence, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Dennis King, Premier Stephen McNeil, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association, Sipekne'katik First Nation, Trevor Floyd, Velma McColl

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PRICED OUT

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

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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

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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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