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This Cole Harbour council candidate shows why we need a municipal lobbyist registry

Morning File, Friday, September 25, 2020

September 25, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Uber “The provincial government is making it easier to be a taxi or Uber driver, loosening the requirements to obtain the licence needed to be a driver for hire,” reports Zane Woodford: The move comes less than 48 hours after Halifax regional council passed bylaw amendments to legalize and regulate ride-hailing. Those amendments […]

Filed Under: Elections, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) competing designs, Associate Chief Justice Patrick Duncan, Big Moon, Blair Rhodes, Convention centre, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, COVID Alert app, COVID-19, Dan Harrison, EC Petroleum, Events East, Jamie McNeil, jury trial, Justice Patrick Duncan, Liberal Party, living wage, lobbyist registry, m5 consulting, Mike Savage, Mitch McIntyre, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Petroleum Geochemistry Consulting, privacy breach WCAT, Public Health Canada, tidal power, tidal turbine retrieval, Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT), Yvonne Colbert

More police needed to monitor police, and more turbines needed to pay for turbines

Morning File, Tuesday, December 17, 2019

December 17, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, bedsore death, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Carrie Low, Chrissy Dunnington, Jesse Thomas, Louise Riley, Mi'kmaw Place Names, More Caring Hands, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Pam Berman, Parkstone Enhanced Care, Paul Withers, pedestrian vehicle collisions stats, police budget, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Polly Trottenberg, Rick Salutin, Robert Devet, Shannex, tidal turbine retrieval, Uber, Vision Zero

Poverty mentality… poverty reality

Morning File, Thursday, February 28, 2019

February 28, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Poor kids On Tuesday, Statistics Canada released its most recent Canadian income survey, covering 2017. The agency uses two tools to calculate poverty, the Low Income Measure (“defines an individual as having low income if their adjusted after-tax income falls below 50% of the median adjusted after-tax income”) and the Market Basket Measure […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Alex Cooke, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Stevens, Blomidon Society of Naturalists, Bob Bancroft, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Canadian income survey, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Copyright Act, Darren Porter, Denise Corey, Endangered Species Act, fair dealing in copyright law, Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists, Four Feet Up, Fresh 21, Halifax Society of Naturalists, John Degen, Michael Gorman, Nance Ackerman, Paula Gallant, poverty, poverty in Nova Scotia, rural library system, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Shaina Luck, Stephen Archibald and a seaside cemetery, Thomas Baekdal, tidal turbine retrieval, Trevor Tombe, Writers' Union of Canada

Ships, Conservatives, turbines, gold, and forests

Morning File, Thursday, August 23, 2018

August 23, 2018 By Joan Baxter 6 Comments

Hello, I’m Joan Baxter, Nova Scotian journalist and author, wondering how on earth Tim does this every morning. News 1. Ships start here, but when? Jennifer Henderson investigates the six-month (and counting) delay in the completion of the first ship in the multi-billion dollar Halifax Shipyard contract in a new article for the Examiner: The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bernie Miller, Bruce Nunn, Cape Sharp Tidal, Conservative Party of Canada, corporate welfare, David Patriquin, Eastlink TV, Emily Neil, Emma Davie, extreme weather, Francis Campbell, global warming, Glyphosate, gold exploration, Jeffrey MacLeod, Joan Baxter, John Perkins, John Whalley, Maritime Made, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Natural Resources Strategy, Northern Pulp grants, NSBI, OpenHydro, Premier Stephen McNeil, Stacey Rudderham, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), Suzuki Foundation, Taryn Grant, Tatamagouche (French River) Source Water Protection Advisory Committee, tidal turbine retrieval, VisionMax

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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