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The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters

Morning File, Friday, November 15, 2019

November 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

November subscription drive Once again, I’m running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris insists that I remind readers that if you buy an annual subscription this month, we will give you an Examiner T-shirt. Here’s one modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: Also, I’ll have more details Monday, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Airbnb, Andy Filmore, Bay Ferries, David Wachsmuth, Design Review Committee, Don Cherry, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, HRM By Design, Joel Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice Joel Fichaud, Justice Peter Bryson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Lisa Manninger, Mary Campbell, Nadia Gonzalez, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Nova Centre hotel, Paul Sampson, PC caucus, peak poppy, Peter Clewes, Remembrance Day, Samanda Ritch, Scott Campbell, Skye Halifax, Smitty's restaurant, Stephen Archibald and brooms, Sutton Place Hotel, Tim's dad, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., war, Zane Woodford

The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today

Morning File, Tuesday, June 18, 2019

June 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Five years The Halifax Examiner turns five years old today. On June 18, 2014, I made this site live and posted this video: Look how young I was! [cries] I had a pretty good idea where I wanted to take the Examiner, and I think it holds up: Much of the content on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Centre Plan history, Develop Nova Scotia, Dexel Development, Examiner 5th birthday, GDP, Heritage Trust, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, John MacKenzie, Nova Centre, Obama, Richard Woodbury, Rouvalis project, Stubborn Goat Beer Garden, Tim’s PEN Canada interview, WM Fares Architects

Fox Hill Market & Deli is accused of “extortion” of immigrant workers

April 29, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Fox Hill Market & Deli on Robie Street in Halifax is accused of being in violation of immigration laws. The allegations are made by Eric Topping, an officer with the Criminal Investigations Section of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), and are contained in court documents obtained by the Halifax Examiner. The Fox Hill Market […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Angel Ricardo de Campo Tome, Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program (AIPP), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Daniela Aguilera, El Gallo Authentic Mexican Cuisine, Eric Topping, extortion, Fox Hill Cheese House Limited, Fox Hill Farm store, Fox Hill Market and Deli, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, Ivonne Rand, Ivonne Rios-Quintana, Jason Cannon, Jesus Rodriguez, Maria Fernanda Medina Leon, Mexican nationals, Richard Rand

Telling the story of Glen Assoun’s wrongful conviction: we need your help

Morning File, Wednesday, April 17, 2019

April 17, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

1. Armoured vehicle This is a short Morning File today because I was busy at court most of the day yesterday (see below) and because I’m kind of riled up about the city’s purchase of an armoured vehicle for the police. I wrote a little Twitter rant about the latter while I was eating dinner […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Andy Filmore, armoured vehicle, Blair Rhodes, Chris Brooks, Glen Assoun, heritage destruction, HRM By Design, Lake Banook weeds, legal fund, Michael Tutton, NSBI, Phil Campbell, SolarTron, unregistered heritage buildings

A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

The people lobbying the province for a stadium aren’t registered as lobbyists

Morning File, Friday, June 15, 2018

June 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stadium lobbyists aren’t registered as lobbyists Canadian Press reporter Judy Owen caught up with CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie at the Winnipeg–Edmonton game last night (Edmonton prevailed, 33-30), and Ambrosie went on about the possibility of a Halifax team: “The conversations between ourselves and the Maritime Football group continue,” Ambrosie said. “We’re doing work on their business […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, CFL team, Cogswell Interchange plan, Dalhousie’s bunghole, Gardiner Expressway, Judy Owen, Keith Doucette, Lobbyists Registration Act, Maritime Football Limited, Mayor Mike Savage, modernist landscape, Natalie Wong, Premier Stephen McNeil, Randy Ambrosie, Stadium lobbyists, Stephen Archibald and Post Office trees

Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Kowalski, Armour Group, Ben McCrea, Bill Davies, Brenden Sommerhalder, children's graveyard, Chris Poole, David Irish, Design Review Committee, Graham Steele, Hangman's Beach, HRM By Design, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, living wage ordinance, Marty Leger, Michael Lightstone, Patrick Murphy, Queen’s Marque, Rachel Ward, Todd McCallum, Tom Traves, Waterfront Development Corporation, WDC

Your name here: Which company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating the Morse’s Teas sign?

July 14, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

  What company will jump at the opportunity to be associated with obliterating a piece of Halifax history? We’ll soon find out: A banner atop of what was once the Morse’s Teas sign announces that a lucky tenant of the building can put its company name on the historic site. Readers will recall that on […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Morse's Teas, Starfish Properties

The Convention Centre Tower Play

May 4, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Did Halifax’s dream of being a world financial capital help Joe Ramia’s proposal, with an office tower on top, beat a higher-rated plan for the Cogswell Interchange? by Tim Bousquet This article first appeared in The Coast, on November 25, 2010. On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, Nova Scotia conquered Wall Street. That morning a chartered […]

Filed Under: Investigation Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Convention centre, Financial Centre, Joe Ramia, Peter Kelly, Rodney MacDonald, Trade Centre Limited, Wall Street

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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