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Watch Mayor Mike Savage and HRM councillors’ chucklefest with Atlantic Gold

Morning File, Monday, September 23, 2019

September 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Climate change action This week people around the world are stepping up activism around the climate emergency during the UN climate action summit in New York. A list of local events can be found here. 2. What to do about Justin? Writes Stephen Kimber: Last week’s Blackface/Brownface controversy raises the complicated question of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Gillian, Anjuli Patil, Atlantic Gold video, Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Bill Trotter, Cesar Lalo, Chief Bob Gloade, Chris Fischer, Chris MacAulay, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Steve Adams, Eagle Beach Contractors Limited, gas leak, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Glenn Stevens, gold mine video, Halifax Partnership gold video, Heritage Gas, Indian Brook land claim, John McKiggan, Lesianu Hweld, Lisa Cameron, Lloyd Currie, Mike Savage gold video, Millbrook land claim settlement, OCEARCH, Queen's Marque construction, Shannon Power, sharks, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), St. Barbara gold video, Susan Bradley, taxi driver sexual assault, The Nook, white sharks around Nova Scotia, Yarmouth ferry

Nova Scotia needs to adapt to the new reality of stronger and more frequent hurricanes

Morning File, Thursday, September 12, 2019

September 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Power outages “Three-and-a-half days after Dorian knocked out power for more than 400,000 homes and businesses in the province, Nova Scotia Power issued a news release Tuesday evening, Sept.10, saying it had restored electricity for 75% of these customers,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We have the most crews working in Nova Scotia history,” boasted the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links airport, climate change, crane incident, Hurricane Dorian, In the Dark podcast, Irene d'Entremont, Jean Laroche, Kelly Toughill, Michael Tutton, micropayments, Nova Scotia Power, P3, power outage, Taryn Grant, Tourism Nova Scotia, Yarmouth Ferry terminal upgrades

Provincial budget update: increased surplus and debt reduction, but also large bills for cleaning up historic toxic mines and the Yarmouth ferry

July 25, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

“You’re richer than you think” Scotiabank used to say in its marketing campaign to prospective customers. Today we learned the Province is in better financial shape than we were led to believe a year ago. Audited financial statements for the year March 2018–March 2019 show the province had a surplus of $120 million, four times...

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Filed Under: Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: abandoned gold mines, arsenic, Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Boat Harbour, Finance Minister Karen Casey, Goldenville mine, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, mercury, Minister Lloyd Hines, Montague Mines, NDP leader Gary Burrill, provincial budget, Yarmouth ferry

Court documents detail repeated police raids on the same cannabis dispensary

Morning File, Friday, July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Glen Assoun “Elizabeth May is calling for a federal inquiry zeroing in on the RCMP’s role in both wrongfully convicting Glen Assoun of murder and keeping the now 63-year-old in prison for 17 years,” reports Andrew Rankin for the Chronicle Herald: The Green party of Canada leader said maintaining public trust in the […]

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We’ve spent $15 million a year on the Yarmouth ferry; here’s a better and lots more fun idea for spending the money

Morning File, Thursday, March 21, 2019

March 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Ferry funding The province announced funding for the Yarmouth ferry yesterday: The province is helping to renovate the Bar Harbor ferry terminal to accommodate the Nova Scotia-Maine ferry service. The expected cost is $8.5 million. … The renovation costs will be included in the province’s 2018-19 spending. The work is currently underway with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Bay Ferries, Blair Rhodes, Chad Smith, Glen Assoun, Jack Julian, Justice James Chipman, Marla MacInnis, Nathan Johnson, Randy Riley, Suzanne Rent, Yarmouth ferry expenditures, Yarmouth helicopter drop

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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