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Euphemism watch: Jails are now “prisoner care facilities”

Morning File, Tuesday, December 3, 2019

December 3, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. Health care funding Canadian premiers met Monday and issued a call for a 5.2% annual bump in the Canada Health Transfer, among other demands. Andrea Gunn reported on the meeting for the Chronicle Herald: Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said he wasn’t sure whether a 5.2 per cent increase would be sufficient to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AIDS, Andrea Gunn, Canada Health Transfer, Carolyn Ray, councillor Steve Adams, Dartmouth General Hospital, David Burke, David Fleming, DeRico Symonds, Dino Capital Ltd, Donna Hatt, Jim Vibert, John McPhee, Judy Saunders, lobbyist registry, Lyme disease, Mark Numer, MassBiologics, MLA Susan Leblanc, Northern Pulp, police misconduct, pre-exposure prophylaxis, Premier Stephen McNeil, Prisoner Care Facility (jail), Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Tsimkilis family

The Halifax Regional Police have some questions for you

Morning File, Thursday, November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

It’s party time! November is subscription drive month, so we’re  having a party to celebrate. Drop into Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street) on Sunday, December 1 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Subscribers get to party with us for free. If you want to subscribe, you can do so here, or at the door. New Riders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Elizabeth McMillan, Eric Durnford, Fight for $15, Gerald Regan's legacy, Gerald Regan's victims, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Halifax Water, Halifax Workers’ Action Centre, HRP questions, job hunting, Julie Lalonde, lead pipes, living wage, Maggie Rahr, Michael Boudreau, NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan, PR jobs, Robert Cribb, Robert Wright, Sakura Saunders, Shaina Luck, Wendy Krkosek, Zane Woodford

“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”

Morning File, Thursday, August 1, 2019

August 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. “No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk” Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer Michael McGray, and not Glen Assoun, murdered Brenda Way, even though Assoun was convicted of the murder in 1999. Moore repeatedly tried to get his colleagues interested in his investigation, but they were […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Autoport, Brenda Way, cyclist struck John Bracket Drive, Dan Tanner, Dave Moore, Glen Assoun documents, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Michael McGray, Olga Milosevich, RCMP Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Victoria Walton

Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?

Morning File, Tuesday, July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Power rates “Nova Scotia Power has filed an application that would see power rates rise 1.5% a year for residential customers in each of the next three years, if approved by the Utility and Review Board (UARB),” reports Jennifer Henderson: The increases are related to rising fuel costs and purchases of imported power. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, ACOA grants and loans, Advatek Systems, Andrea Gunn, Ben Cowan-Dewar, BMO, Bruce Phinney, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC), Cabot Links, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Daniel Gallivan, David Deveau, Donkin coal mine rockfall, Edna Restaurant, Frank Anderson, Inverness Airport, Jane Wright, Jenna Mooers, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Just Jane's, lobbying, lobbyist, Maxime Bernier, Michel Jacob, Mike Keiser, MLA Gordon Wilson, MP Colin Fraser, MP Rodger Cuzner, Paul LeBlanc, People's Party of Canada, Peter Moreira, Pierre LeBlanc, Riverside Lobster, Robert Marks, Ronnie LeBlanc, RoyNat Capital, RoyNat Inc, Russel Jacob, Scott Nauss, Tom Ayers, VC International, VistaCare, VistaCare Underground Equipment, VistaCare Underground Services, William Archer

Water, water everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, April 11, 2019

April 11, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

News 1. Feds announce environmental assessment for Boat Harbour plan Jennifer Henderson has the latest on the Boat Harbour cleanup plan. Yesterday, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced it would be undertaking an environmental assessment. Henderson explains the lagoons are where tens of million of litres of daily effluent from the kraft pulp mill at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Alton Gas protest, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Smith, Atlantic mackerel, Boat Harbour, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), cannabis, Clara Dennis, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Archives, Paul Withers, Ryan Ross, SaltWire, StatsCannabis, Stephen Archibald and crenellations, Transcontinental, weed prices

Poverty mentality… poverty reality

Morning File, Thursday, February 28, 2019

February 28, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Poor kids On Tuesday, Statistics Canada released its most recent Canadian income survey, covering 2017. The agency uses two tools to calculate poverty, the Low Income Measure (“defines an individual as having low income if their adjusted after-tax income falls below 50% of the median adjusted after-tax income”) and the Market Basket Measure […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Alex Cooke, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Stevens, Blomidon Society of Naturalists, Bob Bancroft, Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), Canadian income survey, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Copyright Act, Darren Porter, Denise Corey, Endangered Species Act, fair dealing in copyright law, Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists, Four Feet Up, Fresh 21, Halifax Society of Naturalists, John Degen, Michael Gorman, Nance Ackerman, Paula Gallant, poverty, poverty in Nova Scotia, rural library system, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Shaina Luck, Stephen Archibald and a seaside cemetery, Thomas Baekdal, tidal turbine retrieval, Trevor Tombe, Writers' Union of Canada

All in All It’s Just Another Slick in the Harbour

Morning File, Tuesday, August 28, 2018

August 28, 2018 By Chris Benjamin 5 Comments

Hi, I’m Chris Benjamin, today’s guest writer. I’m a journalist as well as a writer and editor of books — fiction and non-fiction — and the managing editor of Atlantic Books Today Magazine. Environment and social justice are my beats. News 1. Oil spills, past and present The Canadian Coast Guard is investigating what appears to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, books in Mi'kmaw, Chris Benjamin, Conservative convention, Department of Community Services, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, global heat wave, Kaitlyn Swan, Macdonald Bridge repairs, Matt Strickland, oil slick Bishop's landing, opioid addiction treatment, Philip Croucher, Robert Devet, social assistance benefits, Tufts Cove oil spill, Wendy Martin

Ben Cowan-Dewar has got the government financing mojo

Morning File, Tuesday, May 15, 2018

May 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Cabot Links Cabot Links has received a $2 million loan to “expand resort operations” from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA). There are no further details, and neither ACOA nor Cabot Links are talking, reports Nancy King for the Cape Breton Post. I’d like to see an honest economic impact study of Cabot Links, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Ben Cowan-Dewar, biometric information, Cabot Links loan, Chignecto Isthmus, Chronicle Herald, David Paddon, DHX Media Ltd., facial recognition software, Gottingen and Bloomfield development, Jennifer Lee, Peanuts, Peter Moreira, RetailDeep

I’ve been breached!

Morning File, Friday, April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

1. Privacy “breach” I got the letter. I hadn’t checked my PO box for a few days, but yesterday I finally got the registered letter telling me my personal information was “breached” via the province’s Freedom of Information webpage screw-up. It was pouring down rain, like cats and dogs and goats and other small animals, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, David Fraser, David Patriquin, East Coast Forensic Hospital, FOIPOP security failure, Freedom of Information webpage screw-up, Liv Colley, Maritime Beer Accord, Michael Tutton, Northern Pulp Mill's "sponsored content" in the Chronicle Herald, NSGEU president Jason MacLean, pregnant nurse attacked, privacy "breach", Stephen Archibald went to Washington

You’re already getting a tax increase because of the convention centre

Morning File, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

April 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. City budget “They flirted with the idea of dipping into the savings account to lower the number, but in the end Halifax regional councillors approved the municipality’s budget for the year ahead with an increase of nearly 2 per cent to the average property tax bill,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: Councillor Tim Outhit […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Andrew Fenton, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Brittany Bernard, CAO Jacques Dubé, CAO Richard Butts, Councillor Tim Outhit, Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, drugged at Toothy Moose, Finance Director Cathie O'Toole, Julie Gelfand, Laura Brown, Letitia Meynell, MP Francis Drouin, Nova Centre projected tax revenue, Paige Fitzpatrick, personhood of chimpanzees, Police resource review, property tax increase, provincial aquaculture industry, salmon farming, Stuart Peddle, Zane Woodford

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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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