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Archives for January 2020

Northern Pulp, past and future: It ain’t over till it’s over

January 10, 2020ByJoan BaxterLeave a Comment

On December 20, 2019 Premier Stephen McNeil announced that the province would be respecting the Boat Harbour Act, and that Northern Pulp would have to stop pumping its effluent into the Boat Harbour treatment facility on January 31, 2020. Without the use of Boat Harbour, the Northern Pulp mill in Pictou County would have no […]

Filed Under:Commentary,Environment,Featured,News,Province HouseTagged With:Adam McInnis,Atlas Holdings,Blue Wolf Capita,Boat Harbour Act,Brian Baarda,Brian Hebert,Chief Andrea Paul,Elmsdale Lumber,Graham Kissack,hot idle,Kathy Cloutier,Kelliann Dean,Minister Gordon Wilson,MP Peter MacKay,Northern Pulp closure,Northern Pulp loans,Northern Resources Nova Scotia Corporation,Northern Timber,Paper Excellence,Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN),Premier Darrell Dexter,Premier John Hamm,Premier Stephen McNeil,Robin Wilber,Widjaja family

Board recommends council approve Halifax police budget with extra $1 million

January 9, 2020ByZane Woodford

哈利法克斯地区警察局长丹•金塞拉说他needs a budget increase of nearly $1 million for the next year to create eight new sergeant positions “to better serve the community.” The department presented its 2020-2021 budget request to the city’s board of police commissioners on Thursday, asking for an increase of $993,300 over the...

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Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,News,用户onlyTagged With:councillor Tony Mancini,Halifax Police budget,Jane Fraser,Natalie Borden,Police Chief Dan Kinsella,RCMP Chief Superintendent Janis Gray

The Town of Yarmouth is fixing up the ferry terminal in hopes that one day a boat will sail from it

Morning File, Thursday, January 9, 2020

January 9, 2020ByTim Bousquet3 Comments

新闻1。Northern Pulp Yesterday, the Department of Environment sent out a short release: Northern Pulp has informed the Department of Environment that it will continue the environmental assessment process for its proposed effluent treatment plant. “Since the company has chosen to carry on with the environmental assessment process, we are legally required to continue,” […]

Filed Under:FeaturedTagged With:Alexander Quon,Aya Al-Hakim,Fatemeh Mahmoodi,Hotel Barmecide,Iranian plane crash,Jan deRoos,Jeff Gaulin's Job Board,Kayla Hepworth,Mandieh Ghavi,Maryam Malek,Masoumeh Ghavi,Northern Pulp closure,Nova Centre hotel,recycling,Sadra Kord-Jamshidi,Sharieh Faghihi,Star Halifax,Sutton Place Hotels,Torstar,U.S. Consulate security alert,Victoria Walton,Westlock News,Yarmouth Ferry terminal upgrades,Yvette d'Entremont

The Transportation Safety Board doesn’t want you to hear the Cockpit Voice Recording of Flight 624

Morning File, Wednesday, January 8, 2020

January 8, 2020ByTim Bousquet3 Comments

新闻1。今天天气的天气。很多schools, businesses, and governments are closed. Everyone will complain about stuff. 2. Taxes “It’s early in the budget season, but Halifax regional councillors are hoping to keep next year’s tax increase well below inflation,” reports Zane Woodford: Council’s budget committee met Tuesday to work toward creating […]

Filed Under:FeaturedTagged With:affordable housing,Air Canada,Air Canada Flight 624,Air Canada Pilots Association,Airbus S.A.S.,Alexander Quon,Asher Hodara,atmospheric carbon dioxide,Attorney General of Canada,Boat Harbour,cannabis,Chief Andrea Paul,climate change,Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR),designated smoking areas,Elmsdale Lumber,Georges Liboy,Georgie Fagan,Halifax International Airport Authority,Halifax Stanfield International Airport,hot idle,Jesse Thomas,Justice Patrick Duncan,Kathleen Carroll-Byrne,Lindsay Jones,Nav Canada,Northern Pulp closure,Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN),Richard Starr,Robin Wilber,Smoking ban,Transportation Safety Board (TSB),Zane Woodford

Not enough is being done on the affordable housing front, say advocates

January 7, 2020ByJennifer Henderson

Last August, the federal government signed a 10-year-deal with the province of Nova Scotia to cost-share a $400-million-dollar contribution towards affordable housing. The timing couldn’t be better for people trying to find a place to live in Metro Halifax. Not only is the population growing but the vacancy rate is at a historic low —...

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Filed Under:Featured,News,Province House,用户onlyTagged With:affordable housing,Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia (AHANS),Chantal Chassé,housing co-ops,Housing Nova Scotia,Jim Graham,Minister Nancy MacLellan,MLA Lisa Roberts,MLA Steve Craig,public housing,Tawaak Housing Association

Georgie Fagan used to organize with white supremacists. Now he condemns them.

January 7, 2020ByEl Jones2 Comments

The friendship I can’t remember exactly when I met Georgie Fagan, but for some time we organized together for prisoners. Georgie had been in and out of prison for most of his life, and has years of experience in the prison system. At Prisoner Justice Day a few years ago, he spoke movingly about his […]

Filed Under:Commentary,FeaturedTagged With:anti-immigration,Cindy Blackstock,Georgie Fagan,Maxime Bernier,National Citizens' Alliance (NCA),Nick Gallant,Norman English,Northern Guard,Police Chief Dan Kinsella,Racism,Soldiers of Odin,Wet'suwet'en,white nationalism,white supremacy

Halifax council aims for below-inflation tax increase

January 7, 2020ByZane Woodford

It’s early in the budget season, but Halifax regional councillors are hoping to keep next year’s tax increase well below inflation. Council’s budget committee met Tuesday to work toward creating the municipality’s billion-dollar 2020-2021 budget, and unanimously passed a motion to limit property tax increases for the year ahead to 1.5% on the average bill...

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Filed Under:City Hall,Featured,News,用户onlyTagged With:Halifax city operating budget 2020/21,Jane Fraser,property tax increase,taxes

Another loss for local journalism

Morning File, Tuesday, January 7, 2020

January 7, 2020ByPhilip MoscovitchLeave a Comment

新闻1。Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes Tim Bousquet wrote this item. “Environmentalists who celebrated extra cash in last year’s municipal budget for park land protection are worried a reduced budget for next year means the city is again forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes,” reports Zane Woodford: Halifax regional council is working on the capital […]

Filed Under:FeaturedTagged With:Advocate Media,Alex Cooke,André Valotaire,Annapolis Group,Archbishop Anthony Mancini,Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness,Bruce Frisko,Church Point,community paper closure,Councillor Jim Mustard,Église Sainte-Marie,Elmsdale Lumber,Enfield Weekly Press,hot idle,income assistance,Inverness Beach,Jim Vibert,Justice James Chipman,Katy Jean,Michael Gorman,Northern Pulp closure,Owls Head Park,Pat Healey,Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN),Robin Wilbur,Shannon Proudfoot,the Laker,Tom Ayers,Zane Woodford

Budget cut has environmentalists worried Halifax is forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes

January 7, 2020ByZane Woodford

Environmentalists who celebrated extra cash in last year’s municipal budget for park land protection are worried a reduced budget for next year means the city is again forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes. Halifax regional council is working on the capital and operating budgets for the year ahead, meeting weekly over the next few months....

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Filed Under:City Hall,Environment,Featured,News,用户onlyTagged With:Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness,Brendan Elliott,Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Nova Scotia,CFL stadium,Chris Miller,Ecology Action Centre (EAC),Nova Scotia Nature Trust,Raymond Plourde

Slip slidin’ away at the airport

早上文件,星期一,2020年1月6日

January 6, 2020BySuzanne Rent4 Comments

新闻1。Plane skids off runway A Westjet 737 slid off the runway at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport yesterday. No one was injured. Eric Wynne, who’s a photographer for the Chronicle Herald, was on the plane and told reporter Ian Fairclough that if the pilot hadn’t told passengers the plane went off the tarmac, […]

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PRICED OUT

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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 thePRICED 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

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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.

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