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Taryn Grant

@taryngrant.bsky.social
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CBC reporter covering stories for and about people in Nova Scotia. Longtime gone Calgarian in Halifax. taryngrant.ca Tips and feedback: taryn.grant@cbc.ca

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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🏆Congratulations to Taryn Grant at CBC Atlantic Voice for winning the Silver CAJ Award for Community Broadcast for "On the doorstep." 🏆Félicitations à Taryn Grant de CBC Atlantic Voice pour avoir remporté le Prix ACJ argent pour Journalisme en Radiodiffusion Communautaire pour "On the doorstep."
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
N.S. Premier Tim Houston went on Fox News while in Manhattan this week to make the case against tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tim Houston appears on Fox News to make case against Trump tariffs | CBC News
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston took to American cable TV on Thursday to make the case for resolving the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada.
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Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is backing down on proposed changes to the Auditor General Act that critics — including the auditor general herself — said would weaken the independence of the office. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.S. premier will withdraw changes that would have allowed auditor general to be fired without cause | CBC News
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston is backing down on proposed changes to the Auditor General Act that critics — including the auditor general herself — said would weaken the independence of the office.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A real-life example of why the work of the auditor general matters to everyday Nova Scotians, and why they’re worried about what Premier Tim Houston is proposing to do to her office. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Women who fought for out-of-province care worry about fate of auditor general report | CBC News
Premier Tim Houston asked for an audit of out-of-province care last fall, but now he's proposing major shakeups to the auditor general's office.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Didn’t expect to feel warm fuzzies listening to a true crime podcast, but, delightfully, that’s what this episode gave me. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
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The bogeyman and the hard luck lawyer: From murder trial to redemption
Podcast Episode · Crime Story · 2025-02-17 · 37m
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Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Premier Tim Houston's government is using its supermajority in the legislature to give itself the power to fire the auditor general without cause and make reports from the office private. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nova Scotia government giving itself the power to fire the auditor general | CBC News
Premier Tim Houston’s government is using its supermajority in the legislature to give itself the power to fire the auditor general without cause and make reports from the office private.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Great piece from my colleague Frances Willick on Nova Scotia’s long-standing uranium ban, which the Houston gov has been musing about lifting. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Digging into Nova Scotia's uranium ban — and what may come next | CBC News
Nova Scotia has had a ban on uranium exploration and mining for almost 45 years, but that could end soon. How did we get here? And what's next?
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Nova Scotia government is invoking a rarely used legal provision to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on private woodland without permission from the landowners. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nova Scotia steps over private landowner to allow for lithium exploration | CBC News
The Nova Scotia government is invoking a rarely used legal provision to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on private woodland without permission from the landowners.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Nova Scotia government is invoking a rarely used legal provision to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on private woodland without permission from the landowners. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nova Scotia steps over private landowner to allow for lithium exploration | CBC News
The Nova Scotia government is invoking a rarely used legal provision to allow an Australian company to explore for lithium on private woodland without permission from the landowners.
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Michael Gorman @michaeltgorman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Health Minister Michelle Thompson declined CBC's interview request. #nspoli via @taryngrant.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.S. losing out on health transfers as private medical imaging grows | CBC News
Over the past two years, Ottawa has clawed back more than $3 million from Nova Scotia because some patients are paying out of pocket for MRI and ultrasound. The clawbacks are likely to grow as private...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Nova Scotia sees more than $3-million in clawbacks from federal health transfer as private medical imaging grows and Ottawa clamps down on private health care, by @taryngrant.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca
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N.S. losing out on health transfers as private medical imaging grows | CBC News
Over the past two years, Ottawa has clawed back more than $3 million from Nova Scotia because some patients are paying out of pocket for MRI and ultrasound. The clawbacks are likely to grow as private...
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 15/01/2025
N.S. faces federal clawbacks to health funding as private imaging sector grows www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @taryngrant.bsky.social Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
A man adjusts an MRI machine in this file photo. About half of patients in Nova Scotia get an MRI within 80 days of requesting one, but some wait for more than 14 months. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Great immersive reporting. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
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Shell Game
Technology Podcast · 7 Episodes · Weekly Series
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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A Woman With a Rare Gene Mutation Fights to Avoid Her Mother’s Fate
A mutant gene is coming to steal Linde Jacobs’s mind. Can she find a way to stop it?
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
One more time for the people in the back: “It is not women’s work to change or fix men.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
This was an extraordinary response to unimaginable crimes. Yet true change will only come when men engage with the culture that led us here, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit
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Lyndsay Armstrong @lyndsayarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Got to write a fun little feature on the wonders of FB Marketplace and how it's drawing people back in to the social media platform so many of us ditched. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/entertainmen...
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Not just for your parents: Facebook's buy-and-sell platform drawing back millennials
HALIFAX - A historic 400-kilogram anchor that was dragged up from the ocean floor off Cape St. Mary’s in Newfoundland sits propped up against a tree in front of Tyler
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The sharp grief of this man’s sister is heartbreaking to watch. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Police investigating the death of another homeless Nova Scotian
Police in Kentville say the body of a 52-year-old man was found Wednesday morning in a park. It is the second sudden death of a homeless person within the past two weeks. Jean Laroche has the story.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Woman living in chronic pain says N.S. health care plagued by sexism, ageism and 'dangerous' apathy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Woman living in chronic pain says N.S. health care plagued by sexism, ageism and 'dangerous' apathy | CBC News
Laura O'Byrne has countless fibroids — growths around her uterus, which itself is three times larger than normal — and a large ovarian cyst. But she's met a number of roadblocks in treating her issues, including being dismissed by a Nova Scotia gynecologist and denied an out-of-province claim to MSI for an urgent hysterectomy in her home province of Manitoba.
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Taryn Grant @taryngrant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Worst ever voter turnout, strongest ever majority government. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nova Scotia election had lowest voter turnout ever | CBC News
The historic win by the Progressive Conservatives comes with a record low voter turnout as only 45 per cent of the electorate cast a ballot, according to unofficial results from Elections Nova Scotia.
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