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2 days ago · Trent Vichie criticizes the Halifax Examiner from the comfort of his ill-fitting suit. I’m repeatedly struck that the very people who sell themselves as Alpha Males and Great Men who Make Things Happen are also the most sensitive to critique, to the point of trying to silence us Weak Nothings by buying up social media platforms and filing court motions.
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 most […]
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El Jones is a poet, journalist, professor, community advocate, and activist. Her work focuses on social justice issues such as feminism, prison abolition, anti-racism, and decolonization. A long-time Halifax Examiner contributor, she has also written for The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Huffington Post Canada, and the Breach, among others.
The province substantially increases funding for and eligibility to …
Dec 14, 2022 · The province is substantially increasing funding for and eligibility to the Heating Assistance Rebate Program (HARP). An additional one-time increase of $100 million is being dedicated to the program. And the maximum payment to eligible households is increasing from the present $200 to $1,000. Additionally, the eligibility threshold is …
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.
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 […]
Here’s what we know about the new shelter at the Halifax Forum
Jan 23, 2024 · On Monday, a new shelter opened at the Multi-Purpose Centre at the Halifax Forum. As the Examiner reported, an announcement about the shelter was made on Jan. 8.The shelter provides 50 beds — 35 for men, 15 for women — and offers privacy, storage, and showers, as well as wraparound services that will be provided by 902 Man Up, which runs three other shelters in HRM.
Nova Scotia Wildfires - Halifax Examiner
May 31, 2023 · Articles 50. Halifax councillors hope to make Tantallon wildfire ‘a catalyst for change’ (by Zane Woodford, August 23, 2023) 49. Hammonds Plains residents raise alarm about fire evacuation plans for middle school (by Zane Woodford, August 21, 2023) 48. The helpers in an emergency and crisis communications that aren’t communicating at all (Morning File, July […]
“This is North Preston”: a story that “needs to be heard”
May 12, 2019 · The result is This is North Preston, a fascinating, sometimes disturbing 75-minute documentary that follows Chase as he comes home to North Preston to visit his dad, his mother, his grandmother, and his “boys,” a fluid collection of young men who grew up together and still hang around outside North Preston’s Fire Station 22.. Some of them may be members of North Preston’s Finest.
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