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Home » World Class Bullshitters, Grifters, and Scams » Grifters

Category: Grifters

a bird walking on a beach
Posted inMorning File

Sandpiper Ventures is backing a firm that purports to teach children to read by playing a game on their smart phones

by Tim Bousquet December 23, 2022December 29, 2022

If the game actually works, shouldn’t it be made freely available to everyone? Why insert a profit motive?

A pink notebook that says "today I am grateful" on its cover sits on a table next to a gold writing pen and a branch of dark green leaves.
Posted inMorning File

Attitude of gratitude? No thank you

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent December 13, 2022December 16, 2022
Peter Kelly at a Charlottetown city council meeting, sitting at a large desk with a small sign reading "CAO" in front of him. Photo: Halifax Examiner
Posted inGrifters, Uncategorized

Peter Kelly, the mendacious grifter, Chapter 27

by Tim Bousquet April 25, 2022November 30, 2022
A calendar with red thumb tacks on a few dates. The 30th of the month is circled.
Posted inMorning File

Periods, productivity, and posting on social media

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent December 23, 2021November 29, 2022
A selection of old paper packages of Munyon's dubious cures.
Posted inMorning File

Grifters past and present

A white woman with chin length auburn hair and blue eyes, wearing a bright blue sweater by Suzanne Rent September 21, 2021November 29, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Kipple and bots

A smiling man with a dark short beard, dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt by Philip Moscovitch September 23, 2020January 16, 2023
Posted inMorning File

The economic development grift, Cape Breton edition

by Tim Bousquet May 23, 2019November 25, 2022
a rocket flying above the Earth
Posted inMorning File

Rockets, cats, construction workers, and Venn diagram jokes: Morning File, Wednesday, October 18, 2017

by Tim Bousquet October 18, 2017November 30, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Bullshitter of the day: Martha Crago. Morning File, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

by Tim Bousquet March 15, 2017November 25, 2022
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.


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 Suzanne Rent March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

RCMP failed victims’ families: MCC Report

by Yvette d'Entremont March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

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by Tim Bousquet March 30, 2023March 30, 2023
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