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A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

893 city employees make more than $100,000 annually and yet janitors cleaning city buildings are paid poverty wages

Morning File, Tuesday, August 7, 2018

August 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Oil spill Friday morning, I criticized Nova Scotia Power (NSP) for its press release related to the oil spill from the Tufts Cove Generating Plant. The press release called it a “limited” spill; I wrote: “Limited” is PR spin. Every oil spill is “limited” in some sense — the Deepwater Horizon spill that destroyed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Amanda Whitewood, Andrew Rankin, Anthony Spinelli, Bob Bjerke, Brian Ward, CAO Jacques Dubé, City Hall’s Sunshine List, civil servants salaries, Dan MacDonald, data collection creep, Highway 104 racing, John Traves, Leitches Creek death, No. 6 fuel oil, Parker Donham, privacy, stunting, Susan Bradley, Tufts Cove oil spill, warm weather, Yvonne Colbert

Growing a city where transit works

January 23, 2018 By Erica Butler

In August 2016, shortly after Halifax Transit’s Moving Forward Together plan was revealed to all, I interviewed transit planning consultant Jarrett Walker about the route re-design process. Walker makes a living helping cities rethink their bus networks, and has visited Halifax in the past at the invite of local advocacy group It’s More Than Buses....

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bob Bjerke, CAO Jacques Dubé, Community Planning and Economic Development, councillor Steve Adams, Erica Butler, Halifax Region Mainstreets Plan, Integrated Mobility Plan, It's More Than Buses, Jarrett Walker, Jenny Lugar, Kate Greene, Pam Berman, public transit

Examineradio 127: Stephen Kimber on Lyle Howe

September 1, 2017 By Terra Tailleur 1 Comment

This week, Halifax Examiner contributor Stephen Kimber explains the latest development in the Lyle Howe saga. Also, Tim and Terra talk Proud Boys, Bob Bjerke and Peter Kelly. (direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes)

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bob Bjerke, Examineradio, Lyle Howe, Peter Kelly, podcast, proud boys wankers, Stephen Kimber, Terra Tailleur

The Nova Centre: A Love Story. Morning File, Thursday, August 24, 2017

August 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Bill 148 The McNeil government proclaimed Bill 148 Tuesday morning, and then Tuesday afternoon invoked Section 3 of the Constitutional Questions Act: The Governor in Council may refer to the Court for hearing or consideration, any matter which he thinks fit to refer, and the Court shall thereupon hear and consider the same. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abandoned Mine Openings (AMO) Database, Bill 148 proclaimed, Bob Bjerke, body scanners in prisons, Commercial Cable Building, rotten service at the Argyle, The Argyle is closing, The Nova Centre: a Love Story caption contest

The parking violation death sentence: Morning File, Friday, January 27, 2017

January 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. HST hit to Nova Scotia Yesterday, I linked to Charlottetown Guardian reporter Teresa Wright’s bombshell that Atlantic provinces are being told to return “hundreds of millions” of dollars of miscalculated HST payments back to Ottawa. I wrote: Wright doesn’t put a dollar figure on the amount Nova Scotia owes, but assuming that the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: automated stop announcements, Bob Bjerke, Halifax Transit, Kyle McCracken, NS owes HST, Randy Delorey, Susan Bradley, Teresa Wright, The parking violation death sentence

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

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

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.

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