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Dirty Dealing

Northern Pulp Mill and the province are set to roll the dice with Boat Harbour’s replacement, but a cleaner alternative exists.

November 22, 2017ByLinda Pannozzo17 Comments

This once pristine tidal estuary, Boat Harbour has been used as an industrial waste lagoon for the Abercrombie pulp mill (now Northern Pulp) near Pictou for fifty years. Photo courtesy Dave Gunning. You could cut the tension in the room with a knife. Earlier this month a delegation of fishers from Nova Scotia, PEI, and […]

Filed Under:Environment,Featured,Investigation,News,Province HouseTagged With:Auditor General Michael Pickup,Boat Harbour,Boat Harbour Act,Boat Harbour Timeline (Water and Air Pollution),Central Nova MP Sean Fraser,Charlie McGeoghegan,Clean the Mill,Daniel Paul,Dave Gunning,Douglas Reeve,Douglas Singbeil,Environment Minister Iain Rankin,Howard Rapson,Joan Baxter,Kathy Cloutier,Linda Pannozzo,Melanie Griffin,Mi’kmaq of Pictou Landing,MLA Karla MacFarlane,Northern Pulp's mill waste,Pictou Landing First Nation,premier John Savage

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.

你可以了解这个项目,包括我们如何re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on thePRICED OUT homepage.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young Black woman wearing sunglasses and a pale orange t-shirt with a cartoon of a Black man's face on it

Episode 72 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Halifax’s reggae queen Jah’Mila is wasting no time getting back on stages around the province. This Friday and Saturday she’ll perform the works of her hero Nina Simone with Symphony Nova Scotia, a progression across the past few years of one-off SNS appearances into her own headlining show. She stops by to talk about her life growing up in Jamaica, how she became part of the Halifax scene, the way the pandemic has pushed her to look at her music career, and what she’ll be wearing on stage at the Cohn.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodeshere.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s agreat instructional article here.Email Suzannefor help.

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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.

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