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smooth gravel square surrounded by scrubby cleared fields with a new, white square of concrete laid on the gravel, with what look like three pipes sticking out of the concrete, all under a blue sky with ocean and islands in the distance
Posted inMorning File

Rockets Start Here: a student rocket that recently careened to Earth is to be launched from the Moms Out of Control Spaceport today

by Tim Bousquet July 5, 2023July 6, 2023

I’m concerned that a rocket might blast through the Canso hospital later today.

Against a dark blue background of outer space and about a quarter of planet earth on the right, with Canada and its provinces outlined in what looks like gold light, the words, in white print, "The Globe and Mail presents THE SPACE ECONOMY. What could the commercial space age mean for Canada. Underneath the slide is a note that the presenting sponsor is Maritime Launch.
Posted inCommentary

Maritime Launch Services buys itself an hour of PR from The Globe and Mail

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Posted inMorning File

Maritime Launch is great for the economy says study paid for by Maritime Launch

by Tim Bousquet May 17, 2023May 17, 2023
A woman wearing a mustard coloured bulky sweater and a rust coloured wool scarf wraps her arms around another person who is behind her giving her a hug.
Posted inMorning File

Lovin’ the one you’re with: Getting up close with a snuggle event in Halifax

A woman with fair skin, chin length auburn hair, and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater.A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Suzanne Rent and Yvette d'Entremont May 11, 2023May 11, 2023
A big ball of fire coming from a zeppelin.
Posted inMorning File

Nova Scotia’s looming hydrogen disaster

by Tim Bousquet April 26, 2023April 26, 2023
A fiery red flare from a rocket after it was launched into a blue sky
Posted inMorning File

When rockets go Boom! A new possibility for Nova Scotia’s dystopian tourism circuit

by Tim Bousquet April 21, 2023April 21, 2023
Posted inMorning File

Nova Scotia’s next dystopian tourist destination: The Moms Gone Wild Memorial Spaceport

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson April 12, 2023April 12, 2023
Two Amazon delivery boxes against a dark background.
Posted inMorning File

Amazon HQ2 and always wishing for the big thing that will save us

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch March 7, 2023March 7, 2023
A man looks at an ad.
Posted inMorning File

Advertising is bad

by Tim Bousquet February 15, 2023November 9, 2023
four men and one woman lined up at a podium, all smiling. Premier TIm Houston (right), EverWind CEO and founder Trent Vichie (centre), Membertou First Nation Chief Terrance Paul (2nd from left), and other dignitaries at the signing of the MOU with Uniper and E.On. Photo contributed by EverWind
Posted inMorning File

Is ‘green hydrogen’ the next Crypto?

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson February 8, 2023November 9, 2023

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Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.


Tractors bulldoze trees as American money rains from the sky.
Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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by Yvette d'Entremont December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

‘Tis the season: grocers brown bag generosity while bringing in big profits

by Suzanne Rent December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

School boards won’t be re-created. Instead, the province issues a tepid consultant’s report for increasing parental engagement

by Jennifer Henderson December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

Nova Scotia government limiting use of travel nurses

by Jennifer Henderson December 5, 2023December 5, 2023

Nova Scotia COVID deaths math: 59+2=53

by Tim Bousquet December 4, 2023December 4, 2023
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