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Strang: “We may well have had the peak”

Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving Tim Bousquet provides an update on what we know about the mass murder which started in Portapique, Nova Scotia on April 18, based on new information released yesterday by RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell. New information includes: • 435 witnesses have been identified, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brad Anguish, Brendan Elliott, coronavirus, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, Dr. Brendan Carr, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, hospitals, household bubbles, intensive care, Jacques Dubé, Jennifer Russell, Larry Haiven, Lean Healthcare, Mayor Bill de Blasio, murder shooting spree timeline, New Brunswick, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, pedestrian safety, reopening hospitals, Saskatchewan, social distancing, Sue Goyette

13 hours of terror: tracking a mass murderer’s rampage through Nova Scotia

April 25, 2020 By Erica Butler, Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter and Yvette d'Entremont 11 Comments

People have a right to be angry with the RCMP for not activating Nova Scotia’s emergency alert system during last weekend’s mass murder spree, said RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell at a news briefing Friday. “I can certainly understand and I empathize and I hear the families of those victims,” said Campbell in response […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Const. Chad Morrison, Const. Heidi Stevenson, Darren Campbell, Enfield, Hunter Road, mass shooting, mock police cruiser, murder spree, Nova Scotia, Portapique, rampage, RCMP, timeline, Wentworth

These are the 22 people murdered in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020

April 22, 2020 By Erica Butler, Joan Baxter, Jennifer Henderson, Tim Bousquet, Philip Moscovitch, Yvette d'Entremont, Linda Pannozzo and El Jones 1 Comment

Lisa McCully Lisa was a school teacher who was instrumental in keeping the Debert Elementary School open; Gina Goulet Gina was a denturist in Shubenacadie, a two-time cancer survivor, avid sport fisher and Cuban salsa dancer. “She really loved life,” her daughter Amelia Butler told the Globe and Mail. “She was a fighter.” Gina had two […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: mass shooting victims Nova Scotia

People are finding small ways to show their sorrow

Morning File, Wednesday, April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Mass murder victims believed to number 22 Tim Bousquet reports from yesterday’s RCMP press briefing, and outlines a “vague and misleading” statement issued by the RCMP regarding the mass murder spree on the weekend in which 22 people were murdered by a single perpetrator, over almost 14 hours, in a series of Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: active transportation, basic income, beg buttons, Brynn Budden, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, covid-19 violation tickets, Dr. Robert Strang, Earth Day, exceptional white male syndrome, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Sullivan, Ira Reinhart-Smith, Joy McCabe, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, murder spree Nova Scotia, Northwood, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Pamela Palmater, pandemic, parks, pedestrians, Portapique, Rachel McLay, RCMP Nova Scotia, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, Senator Frances Lankin, Senator Kim Pate, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), shooting rampage, sidewalks, social distancing

You can walk the Halifax Common, but other active transportation paths still closed, says city

Morning File, Wednesday, April 15, 2020

April 15, 2020 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 update: provincial projections released The province has released projections for the spread of COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, reports Jennifer Henderson from the daily provincial briefing: Nova Scotia now has over 500 people who have tested positive for COVID-19. The province released estimates today based on models that show that if compliance with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abolition Coalition, active transportation, Advocates for the Care of the Elderly (ACE), Bill Blair, Brynn Budden, Const. John MacLeod, coronavirus, COVID-19, El Jones, Halifax Common, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Long Term Care, nursing homes, pandemic, Parole Board of Canada (PBC), property tax deferral, Zane Woodford

Amidst the pandemic, parkade plans soldier on

Morning File, Wednesday, April 8, 2020

April 8, 2020 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

News 1.  COVID-19 numbers As of Tuesday’s Nova Scotia government update, we know that for the first time in Nova Scotia, someone has died from COVID-19. A woman in her 70s passed away in hospital in the health authority’s Eastern Zone. We also learned there are: 17 new known positive cases in Nova Scotia (4.05% […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autoport, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 while Black, Dr. Robert Strang, hospital parking, Martyn Williams, North Preston, pandemic, parkade, parking garage Summer Street, parks vs paths, pedestrians, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Premier Stephen McNeil, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sign language, social distancing, Stanfield's, Terry McKimm

Without a stronger government response, Main Street businesses will be decimated by the pandemic

April 3, 2020 By Erica Butler 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Small businesses are big business in Nova Scotia. First, there’s plenty of them. According to Statistics Canada’s Canadian Business Counts, in December 2019 there were 31,524 businesses with between one and 99 employees in Nova Scotia. Second, they employ a pretty big chunk of the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: capitalism, coronavirus, COVID-19, Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, Mike Berne, Mimi Faultley, pandemic, retail, Small business, Small Business Impact Grant, small business rent deferral, The Loop, Tim Rissesco

Are Nova Scotian tenants being left behind?

Morning File, Wednesday, April 1, 2020

April 1, 2020 By Erica Butler 14 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 numbers Yesterday, Nova Scotia announced results of 738 new tests for COVID-19. Those tests showed 20 new people testing positive, bringing the total number of people who have contracted the disease in Nova Scotia to 147, with four people in hospital, and 10 fully recovered. Check out the rest of Tim’s graphs […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACORN Canada, Alexis Dudden, Andrew Marks, bear hunting, co-parenting, coronavirus, COVID-19, cumpulsory drug licensing, drug shortage, eviction ban, Halifax Council virtual meeting, homeless housing, information data sharing, Joel Lexchin, Michael Rosen, Northwood, pandemic, pedestrian struck Portland Street, pharmaceutical industry, rent freeze, South Korea, split parenting, Sydnee Blum, Tricia Mansfield

Just when we need local reporting the most, local media outlets are scaling down operations

Morning File, Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 25, 2020 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. News 1. Draconian cuts at SaltWire This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Mark Lever, president of SaltWire, announced that in response to the economic fallout from COVID-19, the company is making huge, draconian cuts: Please know these decisions deeply impact our SaltWire family. This is not […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adsum House, AltaGas, Alton Gas, Alton Natural Gas Storage Project, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), COVID-19, Halifax Transit, Kwilmu’kw Maw-klusuaqn Negotiation Office (KMKNO), Minister Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), prisoners and coronavirus, Saltwire layoffs, self-isolation, Shubenacadie River, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards, Twila Gaudet, virtual doctors

False information in the time of corona

March 24, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. These trying times of the novel coronavirus have made us susceptible to more than just social isolation and economic uncertainty: false stories and information are running rampant. When the truth sometimes seems unreal, it’s easy to believe a lie. The Examiner will take a look […]

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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