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Despite government assurances to the contrary, no one knows what the abandoned tidal turbine is doing to the environment

Morning File, Friday, August 9, 2019

August 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

I’m having computer problems, and so this is a short version of Morning File. News 1. Who are we building bike lanes for, anyway? “After the announcement about $25 million in funding towards a minimum bike grid for central Halifax and Dartmouth, there was a lot of talk about who would benefit from such an investment,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Sharpe Tidal, China, China's digital restrictions, Darren Porter, internet in China, Jean Laroche, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), tidal turbine

Tidal recall: the province says it will pay the estimated $5 million to remove the tidal turbine abandoned on the floor of the Minas Basin, but doesn’t say when

April 9, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

Energy and Mines Minister Derek Mombourquette announced last week the province intends to “eventually retrieve” the abandoned 1,000-tonne, five-storey turbine abandoned at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro. “Eventually” is the key word in that sentence since there is no timeline and no obvious financial means to pay a salvage bill estimated...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cape Sharp Tidal, DP Energy, Emera, FORCE, Jason Hayman, Minas Tidal Limited Partnership, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Naval Energies, OpenHydro, Schottel Hydro, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME) Canada, tidal turbine

As reliable as a beer commercial

Morning File, Tuesday, September 18, 2018

September 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Erica Butler here, helping out with Morningfile today. Fear not, Tim’s still all over it. News 1. Burnside jail Tim reports from the hearing for Burnside jail prisoner Maurice Pratt, continuing to shed light on the situation in the facility. Prisoners launched a protest in August asking for better conditions at the jail, including access […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agave in Public Gardens, Blair Rhodes, Cape Sharp Tidal, Chelsea Probert murder trial, clearcutting, dry wells, Emera, Erica Butler, Halifax school numbers, Jennifer Henderson, marijuana labelling, Marina von Stackelberg, Michael Gorman, Minister Derek Mombourquette, OpenHydro, Preston Mulligan, Sean Myles, Shaina Luck, Stacy Pineau, tidal turbine, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Yvette d'Entremont

Poo in the water, and other calamities

Morning File, Friday, August 24, 2018

August 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, beach closures, Brett Bundale, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, Cape Sharp Tidal, cow patty bingo, Energy Minister Derek Mombourqeuette, Erica Butler, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Garron Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Graeme Benjamin, gun lobby, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jagpreet Kit Singh, Jeff Waugh, Justice Joshua Arnold, Louis Reznick, monument to the Maroons, Naval Energies, Neeta Kumar-Britten, OpenHydro, Project Sunshine new report, Sea King helicopters, Smiling Goat written decision, Starfish Properties, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, Tom Ayers

Racist rallies and invasive species in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Monday, August 20, 2018

August 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

Hi, I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today and tomorrow. News 1. Film industry Writes Stephen Kimber: IATSE Local 849, the union that represents most film technicians in the province, has statistics showing its members worked 40,687 days in 2014, earning $11,120,665 in gross pay and pensions. In 2017, those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Brian Hill, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, child refugees in Canada, Erica Butler, invasive chain pickerel, Jenny Cowley, Kejimkujik National Park, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Paul Withers, Rebecca Lau, Silas Brown, tidal turbine

The fuel leak at Tufts Cove is reminiscent of Halifax Transit’s fuel leak

Morning File, Thursday, August 16, 2018

August 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Fuel leaks at Tufts Cove and Halifax Transit “Pressed about the fact it took [Nova Scotia Power (NSP)] 12 days to talk about the almost 20,000 litres spilled on its property, [Environment Minister Margaret] Miller said she wasn’t overly concerned,” reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: “It would have been better if they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anhaga, Auditor General Larry Munroe, Bay Ferries, CEED, Emma Davie, Entrevestor, Halifax Transit oil spill, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Lee, Krista Spurr, Michael Colborne, Minister Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Power, OpenHydro, Paul LaFleche, Peter Moreira, Peter Ziobrowski, startup culture, startup debt and mental health, Stephen Archibald and groomsmen, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, transit tickets size, Tufts Cove oil spill, Yarmouth Ferry passenger counts, Zeedra

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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