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Let’s play Pandemic: Then and Now

Remember the time — two months ago! — when businesses were railing on about too high taxes, too much government, too much waste... Well, that was then. Whose hands are out now?

April 19, 2020 By Stephen Kimber 9 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Let’s play a game of This was Then. Let’s start with when then was February 2020, which — as the crow flies and the pandemic super-spread itself into every nook and crevice of our working, waking, walking, living lives — seems like at least a […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Canadian Federation of Independent Business, COVID-19, Fair taxes, Small business

“It’s the terror of knowing what the world is about”: Under Pressure during the pandemic

Morning File, Friday, April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

News 1. The latest “The Nova Scotia government has extended the State of Emergency until April 19 to try and contain the spread of COVID-19,” reports Jennifer Henderson, who sat in on yesterday’s briefing for me: Premier Stephen McNeil announced two new programs: one, to help workers and self-employed people who have lost their jobs […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and Under Pressure, Brendan Elliott, Carlo Borghetti, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 hospitals, Donkin coal mine closure, Dr. Robert Strang, Examiner pandemic coverage, HRM council, Jacques Dubé, Laurie Penny, Mary Campbell, pandemic, property taxes, Small business, Small Business Impact Fund, Worker Emergency Bridge Fund

Without a stronger government response, Main Street businesses will be decimated by the pandemic

April 3, 2020 By Erica Butler 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Small businesses are big business in Nova Scotia. First, there’s plenty of them. According to Statistics Canada’s Canadian Business Counts, in December 2019 there were 31,524 businesses with between one and 99 employees in Nova Scotia. Second, they employ a pretty big chunk of the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: capitalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, Mike Berne, Mimi Faultley, pandemic, retail, Small business, Small Business Impact Grant, small business rent deferral, The Loop, Tim Rissesco

Beware businesses bearing bleats

There is no doubt the Liberal tax reform proposals are only a baby step in the right direction — and there are lots of other ripe targets for reform — but we need to begin somewhere.

October 2, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

What should you think when you suddenly find yourself squarely in the firing-squad crosshairs of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Canadian Medical Association, Doctors Nova Scotia, the Canadian Bar Association, the business-boosting press, retailers, restaurateurs, tax planners, even ad hockeries like the newly minted Nova Scotia Coalition for...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill Morneau, Federal Tax reform, Small business, Tax fairness

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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