Sam Austin brought a motion to council's environment committee for a staff report on the 'inefficient and noisy' machines.

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When it comes to social media, we are at a moment analogous to the end of network television.

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The Bank of Canada is setting up an even tighter housing crunch in the years ahead.

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Const. Scott Martin said he couldn't remember any specific examples of how racial bias could play out in policing.

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Premier Tim Houston is unhappy with an agreement between Nova Scotia Power and advocates representing consumers, businesses, an environmental group, and low-income people that would see power rates rise almost 14% over the next two years.  Nova Scotia Power has declined a request by the Halifax Examiner to estimate how much the monthly bill will […]

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Teachers tell legislature committee about heavy workloads, burnout, recruitment and retention, student achievement.

The post ‘Schools are in crisis’: more subs, better working conditions needed, union president says appeared first on Halifax Examiner.

Start asking questions about bigger issues like why do we have food banks in the first place?

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Testimony in appeal hearing continues Tuesday.

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Latest reduction is effective Dec. 31 and is in addition to 25% reduction announced earlier this year.

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The 16 districts of Halifax Regional Municipality are shifted in a new proposal.

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Are we to assume that Ralston MacDonell was an upstanding, ethical business person and NSCAD chair in 2005, but then sold his soul to the devil in 2008? Perhaps. More likely, seems to me, is that the flagrant flowering disregard for ethics and the law detailed by Judge Scovil took root much earlier in MacDonnell's life.

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Provincial government expected to apply to Ottawa to recover expenditures tied for storm relief.

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Halifax Police Chief Dan Kinsella was expected to testify at the hearing last December when it was suddenly adjourned.

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If you want to hear the bleating sound a political deer makes when it’s trapped in the onrushing headlights of fact, I suggest a listen to last week’s CBC Information Morning interview between host Portia Clark and Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change (sic) Minister Tim Halman. Before we get into the details of what […]

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Municipal staff recommended hiking the average Halifax property tax bill by 8%.

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Honestly, we deserve some damn respect, including from the former reporter now implementing federal media policy.

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A group of “citizen scientists” recently discovered a wide logging road running through mature forests in Annapolis County, on Crown land they had hoped the government would protect. Instead, they learned the province has approved logging in the old, undisturbed forest in the area, and their pleas to Environment and Climate Change Minister Timothy Halman to have it protected have gone unheeded.

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Power rates in Nova Scotia are now expected to rise 13.8% over the next two years, beginning January 1, 2023.  That’s pending approval by the regulator, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, after a deal was hashed out among the power company and lawyers representing consumers, small business, environmentalists, low-income residents, and large manufacturers. […]

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New study will examine the perinatal period of pregnant people to better understand how a parent's mental health impacts fetal development, infant development.

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MLA Kelly Regan, NDP Leader Claudia Chender suggest downgrading of utility's credit rating will affect ratepayers.

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