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All hail the queen bees

Morning File, Thursday, May 7, 2020

May 7, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. Search continues for missing boy Searchers in Truro are still looking for a three-year-old boy who went missing Wednesday afternoon. Dylan, who is described as having brown hair, rosy cheeks and a green left eye and blue right eye, was visiting his grandmother when he disappeared. CBC reports that Dylan’s grandfather, Norman Brown, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Crouse, blueberries, Canada Honey Council, community garden, COVID-19, Immigrant Settlement Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS), Jennifer Watts, missing boy Truro, Norman Brown, Nova Scotia Beekeeper Association, queen bees, Wood N Hive Honey

“Bad actors”: a Halifax landlord says a cryptocurrency firm is skipping out on its rent and might hide its assets where no court can find them

Morning File, Monday, December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

1. McNeil government Writes Stephen Kimber: I had been hoping to say something positive about Stephen McNeil’s government — it is, after all, the season of speaking positively — but as soon as I began to put electronic keyboard to computer-screen praise, his government inevitably did one more something that was so bone-headed, so egregious, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, Blockchain Dynamics, blueberries, Brad McGowan, child pornography, Christopher McGarrigle, cryptocurrency, Don Tremaine, Gerald Cotten, GNF, Hal-Con, Hyperblock, Internet Child Exploitation Unit, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Murray, Michael Quigley, National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC), Navid Saberi, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Phillip Travers Milo, Prince Andrew, QuadrigaCX, Richard Starr, sulphur dioxide, Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia

A group of geniuses and their friend Matt: Morning File, Thursday, March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Our disappearing forests “Despite what the Nova Scotia government has said in response to concerns raised over clearcutting, the most recent figures released from the National Forestry Database (NFD) indicate that in 2015, both the overall harvest and the proportion of trees removed by clearcutting continued to increase,” reports Jennifer Henderson: And ironically, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Annapolis Royal, bees, Bill MacDonald, blueberries, David Burke, European settlement, Lawrence Powell, Matt Whitman, ombudsman vs ombudsperson, pedestrian struck Dutch Village Road, Port Royal, Suzanne Belson

Harbour-hoppin’ to Yarmouth: Examineradio, episode #47

February 5, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

Today, we speak with interim NDP Leader Maureen MacDonald, Deputy Minister for the Department of Seniors, Simon d’Entremont, and Judy McPhee, the Executive Director of Pharmaceutical Services for Nova Scotia. The question for each of them: Is the McNeil government attempting to line the province’s coffers with money from seniors’ drug plans? Also, Liberal-connected billionaires […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: blueberries, Examineradio, ferry, Judy McPhee, Le Glavine, Maureen MacDonald, Oxford, Pharmacare, podcast, seniors, Simon d'Entremont, Yarmouth

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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