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About Tim Bousquet

Tim Bousquet is the editor and publisher of the Halifax Examiner. email: [email protected]; Twitter

For the first time this year, Nova Scotia has gone a week without any reported COVID deaths

Morning File, Friday, August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. COVID For the first time in 2022, the province is reporting zero new deaths from COVID for the most recent reporting period, July 25-August 1. During the same reporting period, 54 people were hospitalized because of COVID. Nova Scotia Health provided the status of COVID hospitalizations as of yesterday: • in hospital for […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Liam Daly, LIL (Labrador Island Link), Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Muskrat Falls, NLH (Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro), Nova Scotia Power (NSP), NSP Maritime Link Inc. (NSPML)

A history of arbourcide

Morning File, Tuesday, August 2, 2022

August 2, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

A history of arbourcide One night last week, someone broke into the Halifax Public Gardens and “cut rings of bark off of at least a dozen trees — some 100 years old or more,” reported Zane Woodford: “The Public Gardens are closed today due to an ongoing police investigation,” the institution tweeted. “It appears an […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Alan Kemp, arbourcide, Charles Hurwitz, clearcutting, forestry, girdling, golden spruce, Grant Hadwin, Humboldt Headwaters, Julia Butterfly Hill, Nanaimo, old growth redwood forest, Pacific Lumber, Port Clements, Public Gardens, Saint John, St. Catherines, trees

Remember when Premier Stephen McNeil gave $5 million of our money to Sandpiper Ventures to help women-led businesses in Atlantic Canada? A lot of that money went to Vancouver and Winnipeg

Morning File, Friday, July 29, 2022

July 29, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Brian Johnston “The municipality denies that a former Halifax Regional Police officer sexually assaulted a teenaged girl in the early 1990s, but admits the same person later complained to police about the officer fathering her child,” reports Zane Woodford: As the Halifax Examiner reported in January, a plaintiff using the pseudonym X.Y. is […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Amy Risley, BDC Capital Women in Technology Venture Fund, Begin AI, Bodidata, Brightspark Ventures, Bruce Terry, Build Nova Scotia, Build Ventures, Callia, Canadian Business Growth Fund, Cathy Bennett, Chère Chapman, Coloursmith Labs Inc, Conexus Venture Capital, DeNova, Fable, Golden Ventures, Innovatia Inc, Karen Hutt, Killick Capital, Mavan Capital, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Nicole LeBlanc, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Ocean Supercluster Program, Pelorus Capital, Peter MacNeil, Pluto Investments, ProcedureFlow, Sandpiper Ventures, Sarah Young, Swiftsure Innovations, Tanya Shaw, Threshold Impact, Tuoc Lyong, Unique CEDC, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Wayne Crawley

Irving Shipyard wants to fill in a 13-acre chunk of the Halifax Harbour

Morning File, Monday, July 25, 2022

July 25, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Deal with the devil Writes Joan Baxter: Through its subsidiary Paper Excellence, the giant Asia Pulp & Paper conglomerate already controls much of Canada’s pulp industry. The company is now suing Nova Scotia for $450 million, and the new deal will expose Canadians to even more corporate litigation before judges who are not […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File

Letting loose on ‘live, laugh, love’

Morning File, Friday, July 22, 2022

July 22, 2022 By Suzanne Rent, Jennifer Henderson and Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Cops at the Superstore I’ve noticed a lot of changes at local Superstores lately. There are more gates to go through at the entrances and there are barriers around the self-checkout area. All of the bins of food and product displays that used to be in the main entrances are gone. And as […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Dept. of Health and Wellness, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dr. Kevin Orell, Dr. Lesiha Hawker, Khalehla Perrault, live laugh love, no one wants to work anymore, Office of Professional Healthcare Recruitment, Paul Fairie, University of Calgary, work harder

What’s the point of the Mass Casualty Commission?

Morning File, Thursday, July 21, 2022

July 21, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission What’s the point? That’s the question I keep asking myself about the Mass Casualty Commission, as the commissioners, the many lawyers (so many, I’ve lost count), the relatives of the victims, the police, the academic experts, the reporters, and the public participate in the months-long inquiry. For sure, the inquiry […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Mass Casualty Commission (MCC)

The mass murderer was a thief, a drug runner, and a corrupt tax cheat

July 19, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

The mass murderer was a thief, a drug runner, and a corrupt tax cheat. The financial “misdealings” of the man who murdered 22 people in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19, 2022, who the Halifax Examiner refers to as GW, are detailed in the latest document published by the Mass Casualty Commission. The findings […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), cocaine smuggling, Colombia, Fernando Augusto Mendoza-Jaramillo, Joe Cartwright, Jose Ali Galindo-Escobar, Juan Carlo Hernandez, Julio Eulojio Manzano-Bustamente, Kevin Von Bargen, Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), mass murder shooting spree, Medellin Cartel, Operation Overstep, Portapique, Tito Sanchez Ruiz, Tom Evans, William Jose Rodriguez, Wilmer Raymon Zanabria

Elizabeth May: the consolidation of the Canadian pulp industry is ‘a remarkable and ominous story’ covered only by Joan Baxter and the Halifax Examiner

Morning File, Monday, July 18, 2022

July 18, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission Lisa Banfield testified in person at the Mass Casualty Commission on Friday. I was in the room and followed the testimony on my Twitter feed, but needed to think about it before writing an article. In the meanwhile, Stephen Kimber stepped in and asked “What was it that lawyers for […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File

The witchification of Lisa Banfield

July 17, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

There is a campaign of lies, innuendo, misogyny, and hatred directed against Lisa Banfield. The goal, apparently, is to destroy her. After the murders, Banfield completely cooperated with investigators. Banfield gave multiple interviews to the RCMP — two on April 19, 2020 (as she was being treated in the ambulance and again in her hospital […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Women Tagged With: Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission, Portapique

Hidden plastics: get your butts off the ground

Morning File, Friday, July 15, 2022

July 15, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. The RCMP says Brenda Forbes never reported the Portapique mass murderer for domestic abuse, but that story doesn’t add up The most recent documents from the Mass Casualty Commission look at the Portapique gunman’s history of violence toward his common-law spouse, Lisa Banfield (the Examiner refers to the killer as GW). This week, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: African Nova Scotian Justice Institute, COVID, Heritage, homelessness, housing, litter, People's Park, plastic, pollution, Pride, tent encampments, whooping cough

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Episode 90 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.
Gus the Tortoise, looking not a day over 90

What is there to say that hasn’t been said 100 times (probably more) about Halifax’s most famous animal? Gus — the de facto mascot of the Museum of Natural History — has been with the museum at its two locations since 1942, after being purchased in Florida for five American dollars. This weekend there are six chances to celebrate his life and sing happy hatch day to the oldest known living gopher tortoise in the world — Tara burrows into her love for him and his enduring place in the city’s tapestry.

Listen to the episode here.

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