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Examineradio, episode #143: ‘Tears and standup comedy’ for Willow Tree Tower

January 19, 2018 By Terra Tailleur Leave a Comment

Maybe you’re for the latest version of the Willow Tree development; maybe you’re not. Well, a lot has happened regarding this proposal for the corner of Robie Street and Quinpool Road, so we brought in reporters Jayde Tynes and Jacob Boon to walk us through it. Check out Erica Butler’s piece from earlier this week for more […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Amazon HQ, Cobequid Pass, Examineradio, Jacob Boon, Jayde Tynes, podcast, Terra Tailleur, willow tree

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

Examineradio, episode 130: Bruce Kidd, The Champion We Need

September 22, 2017 By Terra Tailleur 1 Comment

Bruce Kidd will speak in Halifax next week, so in preparation, Tim Bousquet interviewed Kidd in Toronto last week. Kidd was a teenage distance running sensation, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist and Olympian. He went on to become an athletes’ rights advocate, a leading historian of sport, and a social activist working to end South […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Amazon HQ, Bruce Kidd, Examineradio 130, IWK CEO, podcast, Terra Tailleur

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.

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