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5 days ago · In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated. Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.
Is Irving Shipyard double-dipping from public funds for the ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Last month, the federal government announced it will give $463 million to Irving Shipbuilding Inc. (ISI) to prepare to build 15 warships known as Canadian Surface Combatants (CSCs) for the Navy.. Construction on these ships — to replace frigates built in the 1980s — is expected to begin in 2025, five years later than planned when the contract was awarded in 2011.
The Halifax Herald must pay $2.6 million in disputed pension …
Feb 20, 2024 · Atlantic Canada’s largest newspaper chain is facing a financial crisis of enormous proportion. SaltWire — the owner of nearly all newspapers in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland — is seeing the same collapse in advertising revenue experienced by all other traditional media. And as with other large chains, it has been cutting costs […]
New grant to help Nova Scotians switch from oil to heat pump; …
Nov 22, 2022 · The federal price on fuel, known as the carbon tax, will be introduced in Nova Scotia next year. It’s estimated to add between $400 and $1500 a year for households at a time when the price of furnace oil has nearly doubled since last year.
Halifax's emergency system caused confusion, frustration, wildfire ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Halifax Regional Municipality’s emergency management systems have been “underfunded and under-resourced” as the municipality has grown, a new report has found. The new report titled Upper Tantallon Wildfire: Lessons Learned, which will be presented to Halifax regional council on Tuesday, also found a scarcity of evacuation routes and poor ...
The end of SaltWire: What happened and what happens next?
Mar 12, 2024 · What happened. On Monday, a private equity firm called Fiera Private Debt started the legal process to dissolve SaltWire. At stake are the jobs and livelihood of hundreds of reporters, printers, delivery drivers, and related staff across three provinces. SaltWire was created by the owners of the Halifax Herald in 2017 specifically to purchase ...
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About Us. The Halifax Examiner is an independent, adversarial news site devoted to holding the powerful accountable. We pry the lid off Halifax City Hall and offer a fresh look into Province House. We expose grifters, bullshitters, and business interests putting profit over people and the environment. We keep an eye on the police, and amplify ...
People evacuated due to Tantallon fire, now counted at 16,000, to ...
May 29, 2023 · 16,000 out of their homes to receive $500. Meldrum said on Monday morning it was too early to say how the fire started, or how big it was. The Department of Natural Resources was surveying the fire from the sky to estimate its size, and on Monday afternoon, Tingley said the fire was 780 hectares. In terms of the scale of the evacuation, the ...
BREAKING: private equity firm puts SaltWire in receivership
Mar 11, 2024 · The private equity fund that financed SaltWire’s purchase of most newspapers in Atlantic Canada is moving to dissolve the company. In documents filed with the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia Monday, Fiera Private Debt Fund (FPD) says that SaltWire owes it more than $32 million. Moreover, says the filing, SaltWire owes more than $2.6 million […]
COVID deaths and positive cases on the rise in Nova Scotia
Nov 27, 2023 · Numbers released by Public Health at the end of last week show a jump in the number of deaths from COVID-19 as well as an increase in lab-confirmed or PCR positive cases. The respiratory watch session runs from Aug. 27 2023 to Aug. 24, 2024. Since the season began at the end of August, 53 deaths are being reported.