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Portrait of slavery in Canada

Morning File, Thursday, June 11, 2020

June 11, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. McNutt pleads guilty to sexual assault offences This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Yesterday, Michael McNutt pleaded guilty to offences related to the sexual abuse (and one assault) of 34 boys over the course of 20 years. McNutt was facing 90 charges; the remainder of the charges will be dismissed at sentencing […]

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Halifax council wants a park plan for Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes

June 10, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Nearly four years after directing city staff to start buying the land to make it happen, Halifax regional council wants to see a plan for the long-promised park at Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes. The picturesque area between Bayers Lake and Hammonds Plains — 1,700 hectares, or 4,200 acres, of which is a provincially-protected wilderness area...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Annapolis Group, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-NS), Chris Miller, councillor Richard Zurawski

Another loss for local journalism

Morning File, Tuesday, January 7, 2020

January 7, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

News 1. Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes Tim Bousquet wrote this item. “Environmentalists who celebrated extra cash in last year’s municipal budget for park land protection are worried a reduced budget for next year means the city is again forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes,” reports Zane Woodford: Halifax regional council is working on the capital […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Advocate Media, Alex Cooke, André Valotaire, Annapolis Group, Archbishop Anthony Mancini, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness, Bruce Frisko, Church Point, community paper closure, Councillor Jim Mustard, Église Sainte-Marie, Elmsdale Lumber, Enfield Weekly Press, hot idle, income assistance, Inverness Beach, Jim Vibert, Justice James Chipman, Katy Jean, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp closure, Owls Head Park, Pat Healey, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Robin Wilbur, Shannon Proudfoot, the Laker, Tom Ayers, Zane Woodford

Here are the Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain land purchases the government will announce later today

Morning File, Wednesday, April 24, 2019

April 24, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain land purchases The federal government is holding a big press conference at 12:30pm today to “announce protection of more nature in Nova Scotia.” In order to learn the details of this announcement, you could register with Media Relations at Environment and Climate Change Canada and then show […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Annapolis Group, Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain, El Jones, Jodrey family, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Scott Stevens, Stevens Group, Writers’ Trust of Canada

Me and the Buddhists: Morning File, Wednesday, November 29, 2017

November 29, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

How local news survives Earlier this week, Torstar and Postmedia announced a deal that will result in the closure of more than 30 community newspapers and the firing of 290 people, mostly journalists. Reports H.G. Watson for J-Source: Postmedia is acquiring 24 newspapers, among them Metro Ottawa and Metro Winnipeg. Of them, only one — […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Annapolis Group, Atlantic Immigration Pilot Project, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, Christopher Garnier murder trial, Dianne Penfound, fake taxis, H.G. Watson, How local news survives, Ian Whytock, Jacob Boon, James Vincent Walsh, Jeff Samsonow, Mary Campbell, reader-supported online sites, St. Andrews Community Centre, Stephen Archibald and Halifax Explosion, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, Torstar and Postmedia, Zane Woodford

Arrest the Bankers: Morning File, Saturday, April 8, 2017

April 8, 2017 By El Jones 13 Comments

1. All Histories Matter Last week, I wrote about the white outcry about the exclusion of Annapolis Royal from CBC’s first episode of The Story of Us. I pointed out that while white Nova Scotians furiously protested their claims to be recognized as the first settlers, they were not so anxious to receive credit, for example, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Annapolis Group, Annapolis Royal, Anne of Green Gables, Canada 150, Central Nova construction, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Clare Bradford, Daniel Paul, genocidal acts, Hawthorne Capital, Marieke Walsh, Membertou, Mi'kmaq peoples, Nicole Dupuis, No On Prison Expansion, NOPE, Pam Palmater', Phillip Dwight Morgan, prison industrial complex, prison renovations, white outcry

What’s an un-built McMansion really worth?

Is $119 million for an undeveloped chunk of un-serviced land in the middle of an area already designated to become a public wilderness park really fair market value?

January 23, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

So… $119 million. That’s how much the Annapolis Group says the city owes it for refusing to bow down to its dream to pave over parts of the Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Wilderness area for what critics have described as “McMansions and McCondos.” Last week, the company gave notice it will file a lawsuit...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Annapolis Group, Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lake Wilderness, Halifax Regional Plan, Heather Robertson

Selfie-level politics: Examineradio, episode #97

January 20, 2017 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

On this week’s episode we speak with editor and former provincial NDP candidate Abad Khan about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Halifax this week. Why was the municipal government involved – and how much did it cost City Hall? Would there have been this level of involvement if Mayor Mike Savage wasn’t a former Liberal MP? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Annapolis Group, Examineradio, podcast

ACOA should fund news like it funds beer: Morning File, Wednesday, January 18, 2017

January 18, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News 1. Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain wilderness Yesterday, the Annapolis Group issued a press release threatening to sue the city for a bazillion dollars over city council’s refusal to allow the company to develop land it owns within the proposed Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain Wilderness Park boundaries. The press release is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA beer funding, ACOA grants, Annapolis Group, Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain wilderness, CH strike, Erin Moore, Ezra Levant, Hammond River Brewing Company Inc., Lloyd Kerry, Maritime microbrew industry, Preston Mulligan, Red Cross building for sale

Richard Butts, Clayton Developments, and the Purcells Cove backlands: Morning File: Wednesday, August 17, 2016

August 17, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Richard Butts, Clayton Developments, and the Purcells Cove backlands Let’s have a quick refresher on the Purcells Cove backlands, which is that stretch of undeveloped land roughly between Spryfield and Purcells Cove. The backlands are the site of two large lakes — Colpitt and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan Shaw, Annapolis Group, Anton Selkowitz, Barry Dalrymple, Bob Bjerke, Clayton Developments, Craig Smith, Jodrey, John Risley, Linda Mosher, Morning File, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Purcells Cove backlands, Reg Rankin, Richard Butts, Stephen Adams, Stephen Kimber, Yarmouth ferry

PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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