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When a “climate emergency” means more roads

The nine-kilometre long Burnside Connector highway will cost at least $196 million, more than the entire Integrated Mobility Plan for active transportation and transit projects across the city. No one said the highway was too expensive, but leaders cry poverty when it comes to actually addressing the climate emergency.

May 1, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

On Friday, school kids will walk out of their classes and head out for another march around Halifax, visiting the various levels of government along the way, pleading for someone, anyone in a position of power to take seriously the realities of climate change. Their timing is great. Sometime this coming month, Halifax City Council […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Burnside Connector, climate change, councillor Bill Karsten, Halifax Regional Plan, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Macdonald Bridge repairs, schoolstrike4climatehfx

The allegations of sexual violence against Shambhala leader

Morning File, Tuesday, July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Shambhala The Shambhala community is embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal, but no one seems to want to talk about it. On Tuesday, I asked Erica Butler to link to the Project Sunshine report, “a 3-month Initiative To Bring Healing Light To Sexualized Violence At The Core Of The Shambhala Buddhist Community,” hoping […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Argyle Street pedestrian paradise, Arthur Gaudreau, Atlantic Lottery district office, Catherine Tawil, Cornerstone Developments, CSBA convention, Halifax ReTales, HRM By Design, Jack Lawen will and estate, Jacob Boon, Katy Butler, Leah Perrin, Levi Asher, Mary Lawen, Michael Lawen, Nova Centre retail prospects, physical disturbance Alderney Landing, Project Sunshine report, Regent Tendzin, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Samia Khoury, Shambhala sex abuse scandal, Supreme Court Justice Robert Wright, Trungpa Rinpoche

Understand how Andy Fillmore derailed a plan to demolish the Cogswell Interchange and you’ll understand how we got the Nova Centre

Morning File, Wednesday, May 9, 2018

May 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator’s exposé on the security failure Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator went to court to ask Justice Gregory Lenehan to unseal a search warrant Halifax police executed on the house of a 19-year-old Halifax man suspected of illegally downloading information from the FOIPOP website. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Andy Fillmore's secret council meeting, CAO Jacques Dubé, Cape Breton Spectator, Cogswell Interchange demolition, cop stabbed, Cst. Andrew Gordon, Employment Systems Review, Hardman Group, HRM By Design, Ian Fairclough, Inglis Street fire, Jennifer Keesmaat, Joe Ramia, Nova Centre, Racism at City Hall, Raymond Sheppard, search warrant exposé, Tim Krochak, Zane Woodford

No news is bad news: Examineradio, episode #94

December 30, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

  This week we speak with author Ian Gill. An ex-pat Australian, Gill cut his teeth as a journalist with the Vancouver Sun in the 1980s before moving on to produce documentaries for the CBC. In his 2016 book, No News is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – and What Comes Next, Gill explores the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Chronicle Herald, Examineradio, Nova Centre, podcast

No swear words or profanity: Morning File, Tuesday, August 9, 2016

August 9, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Energy East “Anti-pipeline protestors outside a Liberal fundraiser in Halifax got some face time with the event’s guest of honour on Monday night,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: More than 30 people joined the demonstration in front of Seven Bays Café on Gottingen […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Catherine McKenna, George Armoyan, George Baker, Labi Kousoulis, Manning MacDonald, Mark Jardine, Morning File, People First Nova Scotia, Peter Noakes, Preston Mulligan, Rachel Ward, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, Zane Woodford

Tim meets the Mayor: Examineradio, episode #56

April 8, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

This week we’re pleased to welcome Halifax Mayor Mike Savage as our special guest. This marks the first time we’ve recorded Examineradio in front of a live audience, and our thanks to the Company House for hosting the event and Erin Costelo for providing a great musical interlude. The live taping was part of CKDU’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: amalgamation, Andy Fillmore, Chairman Mao, Examineradio, innovation, Mike Savage, podcast, Scott Ferguson

The politics of failure have failed; new NDP leader promises a change in direction: Examineradio, episode #51

March 4, 2016 By Russell Gragg 6 Comments

We’re pleased to welcome newly-elected provincial NDP leader Gary Burrill to the Examineradio studios. He speaks about how his years as an ordained minister helped to inform his political platform, what the provincial Liberal government’s policies are doing to its most vulnerable citizens, and what the previous NDP regime got right — and where they missed the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Chronicle Herald, DEAD WRONG, Examineradio, Gary Burrill, labour, MacDonald Bridge, NDP, podcast

On race and journalism: Examineradio, episode #50

February 26, 2016 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

This week we’re excited to welcome noted journalist and author (and semi-regular Halifax Examiner contributor) Evelyn White. She talks about a career that includes a stretch at the San Francisco Chronicle and her time as Alice Walker’s biographer. We also speak with NSCC journalism instructor Erin Moore and student Kristen Brown about the program’s groundbreaking investigation into […]

Filed Under: Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Alice Walker, Andy Fillmore, Chronicle Herald, Dan Arsenault, David Jackson, Erin Moore, Evelyn White, Examineradio, Gloria McCluskey, North Preston, NSCC, podcast

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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