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Public importance of private woodlots

Morning File, Wednesday, May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Public importance of private woodlots This item was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang. There’s been a lot of discussion about how we manage our forests in this province; forests that are both disappearing and deteriorating in health. Ask most biologists, environmentalists, and non-industry foresters and they’ll tell you “discussion” is all there’s been when […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Kekacs, bike lane, Claudia Chender, CoVaRR-Net, COVID-19, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Globe and Mail, Karen Gatien, Karla Jessen Williamson, Lahey report, Moira MacDonald, Northern Pulp, Not Just Bikes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners, Patricia Amero, private woodlots, Raymond Plourde, residential schools, Silvicultural Guide for the Ecological Matrix, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Toronto Islands, urban design, vaccine hesitancy, Western Woodlot Services Cooperative, William Lahey, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Fracking is back on the agenda in Nova Scotia

After years during which nobody seemed to be asking the F-question in the province, suddenly it is being asked again all over the place: To frack or not to frack? Who’s asking and why?

May 6, 2019 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

To frack, or not to frack Nova Scotia? That seems to be the question. Again. There’s been a de facto moratorium on fracking — more specifically on “high-volume hydraulic fracturing in shale” — in the province since 2014, and oil and gas companies haven’t exactly been beating down our doors to get it lifted, demanding […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: AltaGas, Alton Gas Natural Storage, Andrew Nikiforuk, Andrew Younger, Barb Harris, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), Cape Breton Spectator, Councillor Lynne Welton, Cumberland Business Connector, Cumberland Energy Authority, David Wheeler, Department of Energy and Mines, Fracking, global warming, Harry Thurston, Heritage Gas Limited, Jennifer Matthews, John Hawkins, Jonathan McClelland, Ken Summers, lobbyist, Maritime Energy Association, Mark Haslon, Mary Campbell, Minister Lloyd Hines, natural gas, Nova Scotia Fracking Resource and Action Coalition (NOFRAC), PC MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, PC MLA Pat Dunn, PC MLA Tory Rushton, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ray Hickey, Ray Ritcey, Sandy MacMullin, shale gas development, Shelley Hoeg, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, Wheeler report

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

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!

Listen to the episode here.

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