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Archives for September 2017

Examineradio, episode #131: You’ve got the right to know

September 29, 2017 By Terra Tailleur Leave a Comment

Tim spoke with Justin Ling, Canadian features editor at VICE News, a couple of weeks ago while he was visiting Toronto. Justin was part of the team that looked at the water crisis in Indigenous communities around Canada. “The more we looked into it, the more we realized this is not just a matter of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Examineradio 131, Ikea, Justin Ling, naming rights, podcast, Preston land titles, Sidney Crosby, Terra Tailleur

Bus ridership numbers are tanking and city council should do something about it: Morning File, Friday, September 29, 2017

September 29, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News 1. Downeast Beer is kaput It appears the Down East Beer Factory on windmill has closeddoors locked for days, no note, not answering phonenot sure about brewery part pic.twitter.com/cG4Fm1eJv1 — HalifaxReTales (@HalifaxReTales) September 28, 2017 This explains O.H. Armstrong’s Small Claims Court action against Downeast — O.H. Armstrong must have been delivering goods, only to find […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amazon HQ competition, Cheryl Burchell, doctors, Downeast Beer Factory kaput, Halifax Transit's Performance Measures Report, Marieke Walsh, Mayor Mike Savage and Amazon, transit ridership numbers

Adventures in journalmalism: Morning File, Thursday, September 28, 2017

September 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. The best next thing in naming rights: The Rogers Grafton Street Glory Hole “Rogers Communications announced Wednesday it acquired naming rights to an outdoor plaza at the Nova Centre, a million-square-foot complex that includes the new Halifax Convention Centre, office space and a hotel,” reports Brett Bundale for the Canadian Press. You’ll recall […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Erin Moore, free advertising in local papers, Grafton Street lot, Halifax Convention Centre, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, journalmalism awards, Lorne Yeo, naming rights, Nova Centre, NSCC journalism class, Paul Withers, Preston land titles, Rogers Communications, Rogers Grafton Street Glory Hole, Sherri Borden Colley, Wooden Monkey

Just OK beer and crappy food: Morning File, Wednesday, September 27, 2017

September 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Here’s what we need for a great new Mumford Terminal “It’s finally happening,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “The city has started planning its redo of the ghastly, despised Mumford Terminal.” First, Butler explains, the city must make big decisions on commuter rail and transit lanes in order to get the bus terminal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Constable Derek Fish, Downeast Beer Company owes creditors, Halifax Regional Police, Harold MacKay, Heather Bruce, Henry M. Bradford, Jeremy Durno, Judge Warren Zimmer, Marieke Walsh, Michele MacKay, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, O.H. Armstrong Ltd., Paul Harris, provincial budget, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Steve Bruce, Wendy Martin

Here’s what we need for a great new Mumford Terminal

The city must first make big decisions on commuter rail and transit lanes in order to get the bus terminal right.

September 26, 2017 By Erica Butler

It’s finally happening. The city has started planning its redo of the ghastly, despised Mumford Terminal. The city has hired Dillon Consulting for phase one: figuring out where the heck to put the thing, designing how it will work, and giving a rough guess at how much it will cost to build. Dillon needs to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Erica Butler, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan, new Mumford Terminal, Nick Ritcey, Paul Dec, Tristan Cleveland

You can’t wash that Trump shit off, Sid: Morning File, Tuesday, September 26, 2017

September 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. What’s going on with LED Roadway Lighting? “Sometimes, chasing a story that runs into a brick wall can be revealing,” writes Jennifer Henderson for the Examiner. LED Roadway Lighting has received at least $22 million in public money — “$11 million in equity (converted to common shares in 2014 so LED could borrow money […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Boy Scouts sexual abuse, Brittany Wentzell, Carter's beach trash, Christopher Clarke, IWK CEO Tracy Kitch, IWK CFO Stephen D'Arcy, Jason Mackey, Jim Arsenault, Michael Gorman, Mike Dull, Minister Lloyd Hines, Minister Margaret Miller, restaurant sales, Sidney Crosby

What’s going on with LED Roadway Lighting?

The company has received at least $22 million in public money, but no one will tell the public what the status of the company is.

September 26, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Sometimes, chasing a story that runs into a brick wall can be revealing. Two weeks ago, I decided to do an update on LED Roadway Lighting, the Nova Scotian company completing the changeover of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s 37,000 street lights into fixtures that consume sixty per cent less energy and are supposed to deliver...

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Business Minister Mark Furey, Chuck Cartmill, GJ Cahill Inc, Hector Jacques, Holophane Canada, Jennifer Henderson, Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway Lighting, Lisa Bragg, Marly Somers, Mike Baker, NSBI, Peter Conlon, Solar Global Solutions

Show us you’re a true hero, Sid: refuse to attend the White House. Morning File, Monday, September 25, 2017

September 25, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 27 Comments

1. The future on the Port of Halifax Former CTV reporter Rick Grant writes: If the Port of Halifax is going to compete in a post-Panamex world, it will need a new, larger container terminal. But a Port Master Plan is delayed, and myriad difficulties are posed by potential new sites for a terminal. That […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Black Lives Matter, Bruce Kidd, cocaine smuggling, Colin Kaepernick, international shipping, Jacques Grenier, Luc Chevrefils, Mario Lemieux, naming rights, Port of Halifax, RCMP Constable Michael David Morrison, RCMP Constable Michael Turco, Ronald Burkle, Sean Foster, Sidney Crosby, Steve Bruce

Stephen McNeil could learn a thing or two from Fidel Castro

How is it that Cuba, which is such a poor country, can afford such a comprehensive health care system and so many Nova Scotians don't have a family doctor? We're glad you asked.

September 25, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

My wife and I recently spent a week in Washington, D.C., advocating for an end to the failed, 56-years-and-counting U.S. blockade of Cuba. We were with a group that included American, Canadian, and European activists, a renowned Cuban pediatric oncologist, a North American representative of Cuba’s main people-to-people friendship organization, the head of a Cuban...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cuba, Cuba health outcomes, Cuban priorities, health care, Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), Premier Stephen McNeil, Stephen Kimber

Major League Ambition

If the Port of Halifax is going to compete in a post-Panamex world, it will need a new, larger container terminal. But a Port Master Plan is delayed, and myriad difficulties are posed by potential new sites for a terminal. That leaves a massive expansion of the existing HalTerm in the South End.

September 23, 2017 By Rick Grant

Halifax has been a player and leader in the container terminal business for nearly half a century, having opened one of the first container terminals on North America’s east coast back in 1969 — Halterm in the city’s South End. Thirteen years later, in 1982, a second was opened in Fairview Cove in the North...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Calvin Whidden, Ceres terminal, Evan Koronewski, Halifax Port Authority, Halterm, Harold Kenny, Hector Jaques, Jean Jacques Ruest, Karen Oldfield, Merle MacIsaac, Port of Halifax, Rick Grant, Wolfgang Schoch

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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