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Northern Pulp owes the province $85 million

Morning File, Monday, November 18, 2019

November 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

Philip Moscovitch told me yesterday that I buried the lede when I announced a couple of weeks ago that I’ve been hired by the CBC to write and host a podcast series about the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. So here it is right in the lead (let the lede v lead wars begin): I’ve […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville, Alakai, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Captain Skip Strong, Eddie Carvery, Elizabeth Chiu, Emma Smith, Glen Assoun podcast, North Atlantic landslides, Northern Pulp loans, Paul Merrill, Yarmouth ferry

It won’t be loading passengers any time soon, but the Alakai ferry has returned to Yarmouth

Morning File, Monday, June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Steve Craig “It is way too early to read anything of significance from a single constituency byelection in the muddling middle of any government’s mandate,” writes Stephen Kimber. “But let’s give it a shot…” Click here to read “The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless.” This article is for subscribers. Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Air Canada, Alakai, Allie Jehle, BDS movement, Boycott Divestment and Sanctions, Craig Kennedy, Dalhousie Student Union, Erin Moore, Greg Wright, Halifax Against Hate, Icarus Report June 24 2019, Jo Castillo, land title initiative, MLA Alana Paon, national citizens alliance, Nazis, Office of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Sandra Hannebohm, Sherri Borden Colley, Tiffani Adams, Yarmouth ferry

Yarmouth ferry may not sail this year

June 21, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

Nova Scotia Business Minister Geoff MacLellan admitted under questioning from reporters following a Cabinet meeting Thursday that the province has no idea if or when the Yarmouth ferry will operate this summer. “Certainly we are worried about this season and our tourism operators,” said Minister MacLellan. “All we can say is we have done everything […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Alakai, Bay Ferries, David Wilkins, Minister Geoff MacLellan, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Stephen McNeil, U.S. Customs Border Protection, Yarmouth ferry, Yarmouth ferry delay

The collapse of legacy newspapers: don’t blame the internet; blame deregulation of finance and the corporate raiders of the 1980s and 1990s

Morning File, Monday, June 10, 2019

June 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. A loss for energy efficiency “EfficiencyOne has lost a battle with Nova Scotia Power to spend more of ratepayers’ money on energy conservation programs,” reports Jennifer Henderson: Today was supposed to be the day E1 made its case before the Utility and Review Board seeking a budgetary increase from $105 million to $129 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA loan, Alakai, Alexander Quon, Bay Ferries, call centres and ambulances, CBRM travel expenses, Conrad Black, Convergys Call Centre, Deborah Campbell, Desmond Cole, Editors Canada, Imagining Black Justice, legacy newspapers, Mary Campbell, MLA Lenore Zann, newspaper industry collapse, Paul Godfrey, Sydney Call Centre, The New Reality: Online news, Yarmouth ferry, Yarmouth ferry delay

Halifax police try to intervene in the Glen Assoun document case

Morning File, Thursday, June 6, 2019

June 6, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Update on the Assoun documents As I’ve reported, the Halifax Examiner, the CBC, and the Canadian Press are taking legal action to un-seal the court documents related to Glen Assoun’s exoneration. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for July 2. We initiated this legal action back in April, and since then there’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alakai, Glen Assoun documents, gold mining, Highland Gold, Icarus Report June 6 2019, Jerome Kennedy, Mary Campbell, Phil Campbell, Pond Centre RV Park, Transition Metals Corp., Yarmouth ferry

People are secretly plotting to lie to you about the stadium

Morning File, Wednesday, January 9, 2018

January 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Stadium Reportedly, last week the Maritime Football people delivered a “business case” for a stadium to City Hall. I’m presuming that councillors have seen that business case. I don’t know why the rest of us can’t see it, but that’s how this town rolls. It’s like that report […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alakai, Alexander Quon, Bar Harbor, Barry Ritholtz, Bay Ferries, Brendan Elliott, CFL economics, Diane Saurette, Maritime Football, MLA Tim Houston, Nova Star, old convention centre redesign, Paul LaFleche, stadium business case, taxi driver sexual assault, Waye Mason and CFL stadium, winter work for ferries

The Yarmouth ferry: a review

August 27, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

I took the ferry from Yarmouth to Portland Wednesday. The boat departs at 8:30am, but you’re required to be there by 7:30am, so realistically that means overnighting in Yarmouth. I had hoped to explore Yarmouth a bit Tuesday, but didn’t arrive until 7:30pm, so after checking in at the Lakelawn Hotel, I only had time […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Alakai, Tourism, Yarmouth ferry

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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