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Thank you, we love you, never stop: Morning File, Thursday, November 23, 2017

November 23, 2017 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, one of the people paid through your subscriptions, to research and write in hopes of helping you better understand what the heck is going on around here. It’s November, and so time to remind subscribers how important your support is. (Seriously, there’s no Examiner without your monthly contributions. Thank you. We love […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, dwellings needing repairs census, Erica Butler, Halifax worst collision rate, Jake McKenna, Mylene Belanger, PEI goes to the Feds over Northern Pulp, Spencer Osberg, Stephen Thomas, Teresa Wright, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, Tracy Kitch off list, vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Halifax, VIA Rail regional service

Dalhousie Senate in uproar over disciplinary action taken against student: Morning File, Tuesday, October 24, 2017

October 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Dalhousie Senate takes up Masuma Khan issue After news media reported that Dalhousie student Masuma Khan is facing disciplinary action, many members of the Dalhousie Senate demanded that the issue be discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the Senate. To back up, as explained by the Globe & Mail last Thursday: A student at Dalhousie University is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Power, Anjuli Patil, Arig al Shaibah, Constance Backhouse, Dalhousie Senate, Desmond Cole, hypnotized chickens, Janice Graham, Laura Martin, Masuma Khan, methadone, Michael Smith, MLA Tim Houston, Pamela Cameron, right whale death Nashawena Island, Theresa Babb, tommy gun stolen

The leaders of tomorrow: Morning File, Monday, October 16, 2017

October 16, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Cap-and-trade Jennifer Henderson reports: Legislation introduced by the McNeil government to enable setting up a cap-and-trade system to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as part of a Trudeau directive to slow climate change was debated briefly in the Legislature this week. What is missing from Bill 15 — “An Act to Amend Chapter […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Annie Liebovitz photos collection, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), cult of inequality, Dalhousie drunken students, Diane Paquette, Ian Munroe, Lisa Bugden, partyocracy, pedestrian struck Halifax Waterfront boardwalk, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, pitfalls of entrepreneurship, Richard Florizone, Stephen Kimber, tax reform, Teresa Wright, unsanctioned Homecoming celebration

Creatures in the ocean are trying to kill us: Morning File, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

July 25, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stop the Johannesburgization of Halifax’s north end Yesterday, I should’ve been working on two large research projects, or finishing up a crime story that seems to have been missed by the rest of the media, but instead I walked around the north end taking photos and sitting in Julien’s writing. The result is a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Anjuli Patil, Bluenose II, Chris Lambie, crime rate, Crystal Crescent Beach, Darren Porter, Johannesburgization of Halifax's North End, Justin's pink shirt, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, Portuguese man-of-war, Pumpkin the great white shark, Sycara V superyacht

Court Watch: the lies we tell ourselves

April 5, 2017 By Christina Macdonald

In Court Christopher Garnier appears for bail revocation hearing On Tuesday, Justice Peter Rosinski began a two-day bail revocation hearing for Christopher Calvin Garnier, 29. Garnier is charged with the second degree murder of Truro police officer Catherine Campbell and with interfering with her remains. In December he was granted bail, but he was taken...

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The “elites” justify themselves: Morning File, Tuesday, September 27, 2016

September 27, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The “elites” justify themselves I attended the Dalhousie Senate meeting yesterday so I could hear president Richard Florizone justify the $300,000 trip by self-styled “elites” to MIT. In a response to questions by Senator Françoise Baylis, Florizone said the “REAP” trip was justified […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Anna Metaxas, bomb threat, Canal Greenway Park, Chris Lambie, coral, Francoise Baylis, George Armoyan, interview, Ivany Report, Joe Ramia, Letitia Meynell, Manny Tobin, MHPM, MIT, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Centre, Richard Florizone, World Trade and Convention Centre

The Ministry of Thought: Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2016

September 15, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Engage, or else Halifax council’s Community Planning & Economic Development Committee meets this morning. I have in the past given this committee a bit of grief, but I take it all back; to its great credit, the committee demanded some accounting from the provincial […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bob Richards, Dartmouth Sportsplex, Engage Nova Scotia, Haley Ryan, Matt Brand, Ministry of Thought, Peter Kelly, Peter MacKay, Robert Devet, Tristan Cleveland, Westlock

Making Halifax Home: Morning File, Tuesday, August 30, 2016

August 30, 2016 By Lewis Rendell 2 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Lewis Rendell. I’m one of a handful of guest writers filling in for Tim as he’s on vacation. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Dalhousie’s sexual assault helpline scaled back after funding dispute As Heidi Pearson reports for Global, Dalhousie University’s volunteer-driven helpline for […]

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Medieval maps and Kazakhstani Cows: Morning File, Friday, July 4, 2014

July 4, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Convention Centre war escalates There appears to be worry in mucky muckdom over the Nova Centre. Reportedly, the Stonecutters met Saturday and agreed to buy a full-page ad in the Chronicle Herald. The ad denigrates Heritage Trust for impeding all progress and erasing Halifax from the map by asking the court to review the Nova Centre approval. […]

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