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Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria! Morning File, Wednesday, December 27, 2017

December 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Yarmouth ferry “The [U.S.] federal border protection agency has offered a reprieve that may allow the Portland-Nova Scotia ferry to return to Maine next year, if the city can find up to $2 million for upgrades to its ferry terminal,” reports Jake Bleiberg for the Bangor Daily News: The Cat ferry’s 2018 season appeared […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Andrew Rankin, bicyclist struck Portland Street, coyote pelt bounty, Delilah Saunders, Direction 180, Elizabeth Chiu, Jake Blieberg, Kate Allen, Kim Watson, Methadone and Gottingen Street, Mike O’Brien, moose population Cape Breton, MV Asterix, Rose Courage, Steven McGrath, whale deaths 2017, Yarmouth ferry reprieve, Zach Churchill

Halifax has too many fireworks displays: Morning File, Monday, October 23, 2017

October 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. An expert explains why there’s no hotel at the Nova Centre Why hasn’t an operator been named for the hotel being constructed above Halifax’s new convention centre? That’s the question I asked last week of Jan deRoos, a professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. A […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Amazon HQ, Brett Bundale, councillor Tony Mancini, Darren Fisher, fireworks, Haley Ryan, Peter McGuire, right whales, Shannon Park, Yarmouth Ferry numbers

Hey man am I drivin OK? Morning File, Wednesday, July 5, 2017

July 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

1. Wankers “Canada’s top general has condemned the actions of a group of Armed Forces members who disrupted a spiritual event on Canada Day marking the suffering of Indigenous Peoples at a statue of Halifax’s controversial founder, Edward Cornwallis,” report Adina Bresge and Michael MacDonald for the Canadian Press: Gen. Jonathan Vance, chief of the defence staff, called the incident “deplorable” and said […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Bearly's, Charlottetown sewage plant, Cornwallis Park redevelopment, dinks, drug impaired driving (DID), FOIPOP: Queen's Marque, Gen. Jonathan Vance, Halifax sewage catastrophic failure, Justin Ling, legalization of weed, Michael MacDonald, Nova Centre, outdoor concerts on Halifax Common, Paul Palmeter, Peter Kelly, Rollin Bishop, Sewage plant disaster redux, Thom Fitzgerald, wankers, Western Chauvinists, Yarmouth ferry slowdown

Wankers disrupt indigenous ceremony: Morning File, Tuesday, July 4, 2017

July 4, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Wankers disrupt indigenous ceremony On Canada Day, some indigenous people and supporters held a ceremony at Cornwallis Park, where, as Adina Bresge reports for the Canadian Press: Organizer Rebecca Moore said dozens of people were gathered around the statue of Edward Cornwallis as British Columbia-native Chief Grizzly Mamma shaved her head in a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Brett Bundale, Chief Grizzly Mamma, Halifax boomtown, Halifax Examiner Cape Breton Spectator collaboration, journalist subsidy, News Media Canada, Rebecca Moore, repeal Administrative Order #35, Steve Craig, wankers, Western Chauvinists

Magically ridiculous: Morning File, Friday, March 17, 2017

March 17, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News 1. Police checks Several people have told me that last night’s meeting at the North Memorial Library about police checks was an absolute mess. Here’s Maggie Rahr reporting for The Coast: “Do you deny institutional racism exists!?” shouts a man, rising to his feet, to cheers and rumblings in a crowd of more than […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Anissa Aldridge, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Dianne Penfound, Durty Nelly's Irish Pub Halifax, Farset Mohammad, Jon Tattrie, Justin Brake, MADD Canada, Maggie Rahr, Muskrat Falls, police checks, prefab Irish pubs, Seyed Mirsaeid-Ghazi, St. Patrick's Day, taxi drivers sexual assault, Tony Gilbert, Zane Woodford

It’s a hard world for little things: Morning File, Tuesday, November 8, 2016

November 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

November Subscription Drive Philip Slayton is the author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession; Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life; Bay Street: A Novel; and Mayors Gone Bad. He splits his time between the south shore and Toronto. He writes: The Halifax Examiner is delivered six mornings […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Alteregos, Aly Thomson, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Loyd Murray, Michelle Strum, North End, PEI, Philip Slayton, planes hitting animals

Dalhousie president Tom Traves retired in 2013, but he’s still the highest paid public employee in Nova Scotia: Morning File, Wednesday, August 10, 2016

August 9, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Public Accounts The province yesterday published the public accounts for the 2015-16 fiscal year, which ended March 31. I’ve been slowly going through the documents, and as I find interesting items I’ll report on them. For now, I’ve just scanned for the big salaries. […]

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The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

Click here to go to the DEAD WRONG home page.

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