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Canada, land of the gas guzzler

Morning File, Thursday, January 16, 2020

January 16, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Partners for Care closes up shops Jennifer Henderson reports for the Halifax Examiner: Partners for Care, the non-profit group which ran half a dozen gift shops at the QE2 Health Sciences Centre for 25 years, abruptly closed the doors at its remaining four locations Tuesday. A charity without charitable activities to operate raises […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blake Shaffer, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, child poverty, Communications Nova Scotia, David Burke, forestry workers, free transit, fuel consumption, gas prices, Halifax Transit, HRM free bus passes, International Energy Agency, Jesse Thomas, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Scotia Works, runway overruns, runway safety zones, Service Canada, Shannon Kerr, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, Uber in Halifax

Deciding Northern Pulp’s future

A tangled mess of dubious science, loans, and liabilities will determine how government officials will act in coming days — and how much it will cost Nova Scotians.

December 8, 2019 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

Nova Scotia’s business minister Geoff MacLellan says it’s not the time to talk about all the money that Northern Pulp owes the province, and it won’t be until after environment minister Gordon Wilson makes his decision on the mill’s new effluent treatment facility on or before December 17. CBC reporter Michael Gorman notes that MacLellan […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Boat Harbour, Brian Hebert, Chief Andrea Paul, Colton Cameron, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), Environment Minister Margaret Miller, Health Canada, Jim Vibert, Kathy Cloutier, Keith Doucette, Michael Gorman, Minister Geoff MacLellan, Minister Gordon Wilson, Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, Northern Pulp closure, Northern Pulp focus report, Northern Pulp loans, Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier G.I. Smith, Premier John Hamm, premier John Savage, Premier Rodney MacDonald, Public Services and Procurement Canada, Rachel Boomer, SaltWire, Transport Canada

Redesigning the Windsor Exchange: if we get it right, it could be great

June 25, 2019 By Erica Butler

Sometimes government makes an announcement, and even though you know it’s ages from reality, and will probably be announced and re-announced many times hence, you simply can’t help but get excited at the possibilities. Such is the case with the announcement by Transport Canada earlier this month that the federal department will help fund a...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: active transportation, Africville, Africville Park and National Historic Site, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, CAO Jacques Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, Eliza Jackson, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Karen Oldfield, MP Andy Fillmore, Port of Halifax, Transport Canada, Windsor Street Exchange

Halifax’s moral panic over the legalization of cannabis

Morning File, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Convention centre Oh, running out of time for this… I’ll write it up today for tomorrow’s Morning File. 2. Smoking ban On Monday, Dartmouth councillor Sam Austin published a blog post saying he was reconsidering his support for the smoking bylaw, weirdly wanting to keep the provisions of the bylaw as they pertain […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bay Ferries, Brett Cantlay, Brett Ruskin, cannabis, Carleton patio, Catherine Tully, Councillor Sam Austin, Downeast Windjammer Cruise Lines, FOIPOP website, groundwater pollution at airport, Gus Reed, Halifax CFL team, Hiroshi Masui, John Demont, John Traves, legalization in Colorado, Makusi language, Nuisance Bylaw, Ron MacDonnell, Smoking ban, Steve Pagels, Terry Jones, Tina Comeau, Transport Canada, Yuki Masui

BREAKING: Transport Canada detains French cable repair ship after suspected oil spill in Halifax Harbour

June 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Responding to an inquiry by the Halifax Examiner, Transport Canada confirms that it has detained the French cable repair ship Ile d’Aix, which has been anchored off McNabs Island since Tuesday. Soon after the ship arrived, the Halifax Examiner learned of a suspected oil spill from the Ile d’Aix. Thursday afternoon, Fisheries & Oceans spokesperson Stephen […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Canadian Coast Guard Environmental Response, Ile d’Aix, Julie Leroux, Mer et Marine, oil spill, Transport Canada

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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