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Northern Pulp owes the province $85 million

Morning File, Monday, November 18, 2019

November 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

Philip Moscovitch told me yesterday that I buried the lede when I announced a couple of weeks ago that I’ve been hired by the CBC to write and host a podcast series about the wrongful conviction of Glen Assoun. So here it is right in the lead (let the lede v lead wars begin): I’ve […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville, Alakai, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Captain Skip Strong, Eddie Carvery, Elizabeth Chiu, Emma Smith, Glen Assoun podcast, North Atlantic landslides, Northern Pulp loans, Paul Merrill, 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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amzi Arnaout, Atlantic Compassion Club Society, Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, bees, cannabis, Constable Seebold, Cornell Knight, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, Detective Constable Brad Jardine, Detective Constable Greg Stevens, Detective Constable Pat O'Neill, Detective D'Arcy Hueston, dispensary raids, Elizabeth May, Glen Assoun, John M J MacKeigan, Lloyd Robbins, police inspector Richard Lane, Reformar Inc, right whales, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Yarmouth ferry

The cost of the Yarmouth ferry keeps increasing

Morning File, Friday, February 8, 2019

February 8, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Jackson trial This item refers to sexual assault. Yesterday was the fourth day of the sexual assault trial of Blake Jackson. Jackson, a student support worker at Citadel High School, is accused of sexually assaulting a then-student on December 15, 2015. At the time, the student was 18 years old; a publication ban protects […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allen Campbell, Annette Higgins, Atlantic Fleet Services, Bar Harbor, Bar Harbor ferry terminus, Bay Ferries, Bay Ferries CEO Mark MacDonald, Becky Pritchard, Blake Jackson trial, Cora Plourd Nicholson, Cornell Knight, Ed Morin, former premier Robert Ghiz, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Justice Christa Brothers, Michael Mayne, Michael Tutton, PEI Liberals lawsuit, Peter McGuire, Robert Devet, Sean McCarroll, slavery in Nova Scotia, Spencer Campbell, Stephen Archibald and building faces, Stephen Lewis, Susan Holmes, Svetlana Tenetko, Theresa Wright, Tom Singleton, United Nations (UN), Yarmouth ferry, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

Stephen McNeil would never abuse his position, honest

Morning File, Friday, January 11, 2019

January 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Bar Harbor ferry terminal “The question of Nova Scotia taxpayers footing the bill for the salaries of a handful of U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in Bar Harbour, Maine was raised by reporters following today’s meeting of Cabinet ministers, the first since the holiday break,” reports Jennifer Henderson: Bay Ferries, which operates the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexandra Witze, Bar Harbor, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Clearwater convicted, Clearwater lobster monopoly, earthquake, Economic Development, Mike Smit, NDP leader Gary Burrill, north magnetic pole, Paul Withers, seniors discount, Shambhala fundraising, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, US border protection officers, Yantian Express fire

What’s going to happen to all those crows when the Motherhouse Lands get developed?

Morning File, Thursday, December 27, 2018

December 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Zinc “ScoZinc Mining Ltd. said Monday December 24 that it is poised to be one of Canada’s next base metal producers after releasing a project update and improved economic study for its wholly-owned ScoZinc zinc-lead mine in Nova Scotia,” reports Resource World Magazine: The forecast came after the company said it has completed additional […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, an escort's night, Becky Pritchard, beluga whale Nepi, Brandon Fraser, Constable Cassandra Teed, Constable Cole Hawes, Constable Joseph Boutilier, Constable Phil Apa, Duncan Street grow-op, Frances Willick, Francis Campbell, JP Krista Young, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, MSVU crows, MSVU Motherhouse Lands development, pedestrian struck Ingonish, pedestrian struck Mumford terminal, pedestrian struck Robie Street, Richard Woodbury, Robert Michaud, Robert Myer, Roger Stein, Santa's runways Lower Sackville, ScoZinc Mining Ltd., Sheldon Bisson, Southwest Properties, Tim likes crows, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Yarmouth ferry, zinc

Power outages are costing Nova Scotia businesses millions of dollars, but Stephen McNeil, Mike Savage, Ray Ivany, and the economic development agencies are silent

Morning File, Friday, November 30, 2018

November 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November Subscription drive The last day! Tomorrow we’ll go back to less intrusive measures to extract your money from you. But seriously, this operation doesn’t work without your subscriptions. We’re trying to do something important here: produce journalism without relying on advertising, advertorial, government money, selling your data, Jeff Bezo’s money, or any other hare-brained […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Hart, Bar Harbor, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Carl Yates, Dennis Patterson, Donald Patterson, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Water, Hayden Hart, Jamie MacGillivray, Jeffrey Theriault, Matt Delorme, Nova Scotia Power outages, Premier Stephen McNeil, Quinpool Road bridge, Ray Ivany, Wray Hart, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

Davie and Irving shipyards are in the midst of a lobbying blitz in Ottawa

Morning File, Thursday, October 18, 2018

October 18, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Davie v Irving In recent days, Unifor Marine Workers Federation Local 1, which represents Irving Shipyard workers, has been conducting a “Ships Stay Here” campaign that included getting Halifax council to support its efforts. The union fears that some of the shipbuilding work contracted to Irving will be shifted to Davie Shipyard in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Ashley Lemire, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Blair Rhodes, Bruce Webb, cannabis, Dalhousie University, Davie Shipyard, Fred Boisvert, Irving Shipyard, Jacob Boon, James Irving, lobbying, Naresh Raghubeer, R. Peter MacKinnon, shipbuilding, Ships Stay Here, shipyard lobbying, Tantallon asphalt plant, William Sandeson, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Zane Woodford

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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