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Missteps, Mistakes, and Miscommunications

Morning File, Monday, April 4, 2022

April 4, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

News 1. How a series of failures likely led to murders on the morning of April 19, 2020 In the days following the murders of April 18 and 19, 2020, we saw people outraged at what seemed like police inaction or incompetence, and those who had no patience for that view, arguing that it was […]

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A look back at Halifax’s old streets

Morning File, Wednesday, October 27, 2021

October 27, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

News 1. Pandemic update: 100th Nova Scotian dies from COVID-19 A woman in her 70s has become the 100th person to die from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The woman lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone where a recent outbreak of the disease occurred at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, but the Department of Health […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, baseball, Centre Plan, COVID-19, Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Fart Proudly, Granville Street, Hollis Street, infilling, Joseph S. Rogers, L.B. Benson, Liberal leader Iain Rankin, Livery Stables, Major League Baseball, Melville island, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwest Arm, Nova Scotia Salmon Association (NSSA), protests banned at hospitals, right-side brain thinking, St Barbara, YMCA

Who thinks Cornwallis would still be standing?

Morning File, Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. When it comes to regulating police use of force, are council’s hands really tied? We’re leading this morning not with a straight news story, but an important commentary from Harry Critchley of the East Coast Prison Justice Society, and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia. Critchley recaps some key background on police […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured vehicle, baseball, Baseball Nova Scotia, Bob Carter, Byron Boucher, Cornwallis statue, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Edward Colston, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, FOIPOP, James Culic, Karissa Donkin, Mary Campbell, Matt Whitman bike lanes, Michael Kempa, Michael Spratt, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Paul Palmeter, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, tank

On the beach

Morning File, Tuesday, August 13, 2019

August 13, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Military ban on some tattoos Lee Berthiaume reports for the Canadian Press that the military has issued new guidelines on acceptable tattoos. This after photos of a Halifax-based sailor with an “Infidel” tattoo spread online and in the media. The new rules, which apply whether a tattoo is visible or not, lay out […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: baseball, Brackley Beach, Chester Race Week, climate change, Coast Guard vessel, Councillor David Hendsbee, Dave Hebert, Gail Harding, Glenn MacDonald, Josh Healey, Kevin Richardson, Nevil Shute's On the Beach, Nova Scotia U17, ocean temperatures, PEI, right whales, Shaina Luck, Stephen Archibald and envelopes, tattoos

New top cop Dan Kinsella: no racial profiling, just “some inequalities, some negative experiences”

Morning File, Wednesday, July 10, 2019

July 10, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1. New police chief won’t say “racial bias” Dan Kinsella, the new Halifax police chief was a guest on CBC Radio’s Information Morning today. Host Portia Clark, in her polite and persistent way, pressed him a couple of times on the question of street checks and racial profiling. Asked about street checks, Kinsella replied: […]

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PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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