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1. Halifax bridge toll collection to stop two weeks earlier than planned 6 Mar 2025 20:34:55
2. Halifax named Tree City of the World while tree planting program may be cut from budget 6 Mar 2025 19:59:53
3. What museums, archives, and cemeteries can tell us about life and death before vaccines 6 Mar 2025 14:25:29
4. Provincial control over HRM housing extended another year 6 Mar 2025 12:51:00
5. ‘Beware Tim Houston, we’re coming’: “Special interests” rally held in Halifax 6 Mar 2025 00:10:30
6. ‘Not just Musk who intends to influence the Canadian election,’ Democracy Watch says 5 Mar 2025 20:24:24
7. N.S. premier urges Americans to pressure Trump to call off tariffs 5 Mar 2025 18:54:35
8. Why the right loves the AI aesthetic, and other essays of note 5 Mar 2025 15:34:53
9. Province House roundup: tariffs, intimate partner violence, universities, Queens General Hospital 4 Mar 2025 22:33:41
10. Dismantling democracy in Nova Scotia: readers respond 4 Mar 2025 22:22:02
11. Mi’kmaw Chiefs send stinging rebuke to N.S. Premier Tim Houston 4 Mar 2025 18:54:22
12. Trump’s tariffs will hit Nova Scotia hard 4 Mar 2025 14:15:40
13. Crime rates in Halifax decreasing as cops want still more money 4 Mar 2025 11:16:40
14. NDP wants pause on lifting of uranium, fracking bans as doctors warn of health risks 3 Mar 2025 20:03:41
15. Police investigating death of Bridgewater woman as case of intimate partner violence 3 Mar 2025 19:00:36
16. Fifty years ago, comedian Don Novello created a super-patriot character with ridiculous ideas: Now, he’d be unremarkable 3 Mar 2025 14:46:23
17. Custodian union suing Halifax, cleaning company over contract for Alderney Gate 3 Mar 2025 12:59:55
18. ‘First-of-its-kind’ marine display centre will showcase Nova Scotia’s biodiversity 3 Mar 2025 11:56:21
19. The Mumford Terminal sucks. Here’s how to make it (somewhat) better right now 28 Feb 2025 13:23:51
20. School-based GuysWork program helps young men explore alternatives to unhealthy masculinity 28 Feb 2025 10:33:55
21. Premier Tim Houston backs down from confrontation with legislative reporters 27 Feb 2025 20:46:53
22. Premier is pushing extractive industries, but is anyone even interested in Nova Scotia’s uranium, lithium, and fracking? 27 Feb 2025 17:51:33
23. Radical, progressive, and not ‘all beer and skittles’: History of Nova Scotia newspapers 27 Feb 2025 13:52:14
24. Nova Scotia nursing regulator pauses fast-track licensing for foreign nurses 27 Feb 2025 12:03:55
25. Premier Tim Houston has a hate on for ‘special interest groups’ but won’t say who they are. Here are the actual special interests in Nova Scotia. 27 Feb 2025 11:40:31
26. Budget committee approves 13.4% increase for Halifax Public Libraries 27 Feb 2025 01:57:59
27. ‘If you have the ability to do something you have a responsibility to do it’: Remembering Harry Critchley 26 Feb 2025 15:24:33
28. Halifax council votes in favour of Windsor Street Exchange plan 26 Feb 2025 13:40:46
29. ‘An assault on democracy’: opposition lambastes PCs’ ‘bypass the media’ fundraising pitch 26 Feb 2025 13:08:49
30. Halifax council votes in favour of staff report on demolition of Bloomfield 26 Feb 2025 11:11:16
31. Alderney Gate cleaners want Halifax to push new contractor to save jobs, pay liveable wage 25 Feb 2025 20:25:21
32. Information and Privacy Commissioner Tricia Ralph asks Premier Tim Houston to withdraw legislation affecting her office 25 Feb 2025 20:05:45
33. Facing Trump tariffs, Houston introduces bill to eliminate interprovincial trade barriers 25 Feb 2025 18:43:17
34. Houston backs down on auditor general changes, but it’s still full steam ahead on other elements of dismantling democracy 25 Feb 2025 14:32:21
35. ‘Issues of transparency and accountability are now in question,’ law prof says of Houston government’s legislative changes 25 Feb 2025 12:44:30
36. Halifax survey asks residents about municipality’s social media use 25 Feb 2025 11:56:53
37. Premier Tim Houston backs down from legislation to take away the independence of the Auditor General’s office 24 Feb 2025 20:32:31
38. Dismantling democracy: this is not business as usual 24 Feb 2025 14:46:37
39. The Halifax Examiner is responding to Tim Houston’s bid to Dismantle Democracy 24 Feb 2025 13:20:17
40. Coun. Virginia Hinch wants staff report on how Halifax can buy back Bloomfield 24 Feb 2025 12:12:37
41. Premier Tim Houston should win the ‘Bald-faced Frontal Assault on Press Freedom’ prize 24 Feb 2025 11:17:42
42. Part 2: Blind Pig 22 Feb 2025 12:03:13
43. Tariffs and Nova Scotia’s energy future: Where will the natural gas come from? 21 Feb 2025 21:26:59
44. Nova Scotia NDP critical of Progressive Conservative ‘silencing’ tactics 21 Feb 2025 21:01:00
45. Halifax Regional Police, Nova Scotia RCMP have no plans to leave X 21 Feb 2025 19:07:42
46. ‘Dangers in demanding alignment’: Dal prof concerned about province’s advanced education and research act 21 Feb 2025 18:34:40
47. Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government 21 Feb 2025 14:37:31
48. Province House: Nova Scotia’s ‘not happening’ file 20 Feb 2025 16:02:15
49. Mediocre white men will be the end of us 20 Feb 2025 14:20:35
50. Committee approves budgets for Halifax police, RCMP 20 Feb 2025 13:25:30