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The ABCs and Maybes of school reopening

August 10, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Some sense of normalcy.  That’s what most children, parents, and teachers yearn for — a better learning environment than what was cobbled together when COVID-19 erupted this winter.  Top paediatricians and child psychologists at the Toronto Sick Kids Hospital and IWK agree that kids need […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Back to School plan, Brendan Elliott, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dr. Theresa Tam, Education Minister Zach Churchill, Heather Fairbairn, masks, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), pandemic, Paul Wozny, Public Health, school reopening

Strang: “We may well have had the peak”

Morning File, Wednesday, April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Murderer escaped Portapique within 10 minutes of police arriving Tim Bousquet provides an update on what we know about the mass murder which started in Portapique, Nova Scotia on April 18, based on new information released yesterday by RCMP Support Services Officer Darren Campbell. New information includes: • 435 witnesses have been identified, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brad Anguish, Brendan Elliott, coronavirus, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, COVID-19, Dr. Brendan Carr, Dr. Robert Strang, easing restrictions, hospitals, household bubbles, intensive care, Jacques Dubé, Jennifer Russell, Larry Haiven, Lean Healthcare, Mayor Bill de Blasio, murder shooting spree timeline, New Brunswick, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, pedestrian safety, reopening hospitals, Saskatchewan, social distancing, Sue Goyette

“It’s the terror of knowing what the world is about”: Under Pressure during the pandemic

Morning File, Friday, April 3, 2020

April 3, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

News 1. The latest “The Nova Scotia government has extended the State of Emergency until April 19 to try and contain the spread of COVID-19,” reports Jennifer Henderson, who sat in on yesterday’s briefing for me: Premier Stephen McNeil announced two new programs: one, to help workers and self-employed people who have lost their jobs […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and Under Pressure, Brendan Elliott, Carlo Borghetti, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 hospitals, Donkin coal mine closure, Dr. Robert Strang, Examiner pandemic coverage, HRM council, Jacques Dubé, Laurie Penny, Mary Campbell, pandemic, property taxes, Small business, Small Business Impact Fund, Worker Emergency Bridge Fund

Budget cut has environmentalists worried Halifax is forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes

January 7, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Environmentalists who celebrated extra cash in last year’s municipal budget for park land protection are worried a reduced budget for next year means the city is again forgetting about Blue Mountain–Birch Cove Lakes. Halifax regional council is working on the capital and operating budgets for the year ahead, meeting weekly over the next few months....

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness, Brendan Elliott, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Nova Scotia, CFL stadium, Chris Miller, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Raymond Plourde

New police chief Dan Kinsella holds a degree from WalMart U.

Morning File, Tuesday, May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Ramadan in jail “Malik is calling from the jail asking for the numbers of any Muslims he can contact just to talk to, maybe hear some Quran from,” writes El Jones: The last time he prayed with community was during Ramadan last year, and since then, his requests for spiritual services have been […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 12 Wing Shearwater, Acting Halifax Regional Police Chief Robin McNeil, American Military University (AMU), American Public University (APU), American Public University System (APUS), armoured vehicle, Attorney General Maura Healey, AuraData, Blair Rhodes, Brendan Elliott, Bry’n Ross, Chief Dan Kinsella, Cop Light Bling, David Fraser, DND, El Jones, Forest Confidential, Harold Dawson, Keith Doucette, Linda Pannozzo, mary Ellen Doucet, Melanie Booth, mission creep, Paul Fain, RCMP Insp. Robert Doyle, street checks, tendering fraud, WalMart U, Zane Woodford

How and why electric buses will (probably) come to Halifax

January 24, 2019 By Erica Butler 17 Comments

Halifax’s first electric buses won’t hit the road as soon as planned, but don’t blame your local city councillor or the leadership at Halifax Transit for the delay. Blame Doug Ford. Among Ford’s many post-election climate change policy reversals was the cancellation of two funding contributions to electric bus pilot projects in York Region and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: ABB, Brendan Elliott, Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), Dave Reage, electric buses, Halifax Transit, Josipa Petrunic, New Flyer, Nova Bus, Nova Scotia Power, Premier Doug Ford, Proterra, Shawn Connell, Siemens

People are secretly plotting to lie to you about the stadium

Morning File, Wednesday, January 9, 2018

January 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Stadium Reportedly, last week the Maritime Football people delivered a “business case” for a stadium to City Hall. I’m presuming that councillors have seen that business case. I don’t know why the rest of us can’t see it, but that’s how this town rolls. It’s like that report […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alakai, Alexander Quon, Bar Harbor, Barry Ritholtz, Bay Ferries, Brendan Elliott, CFL economics, Diane Saurette, Maritime Football, MLA Tim Houston, Nova Star, old convention centre redesign, Paul LaFleche, stadium business case, taxi driver sexual assault, Waye Mason and CFL stadium, winter work for ferries

Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

Former Halifax cop Chris Mosher has received a cash payout and a new job from the city

October 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

After he was charged with sexual assault and then for repeatedly violating the conditions of his release, Halifax cop Chris Mosher was fired last year by the Halifax police department. But Mosher has successfully appealed his firing, and has received a cash payout from the city and a new job working with either the city’s […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Chris Mosher, Colleen Kelly, cop disciplined, CUPE, Dan Arsenault, Halifax Regional Police Association, Jason Edwards, Jean-Michel Blais, Judge Flora Buchan, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sexual assault

There is nothing self-deprecating or ironic or even remotely funny about this boring headline

Morning File, Thursday, September 20, 2018

September 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Maurice Pratt Yesterday, Justice James Chipman dismissed Maurice Pratt’s habeas corpus application. Pratt was the first of at least eight prisoners at the Burnside jail to have their habeas applications heard by Chipman. (The others are scheduled for Monday, but I’m hearing there may be a delay.) The prisoners filed their applications in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Hallett, Angie Hebb, Bill Kowalski, Brad Ross, Brendan Elliott, Burnside jail, Burnside jail death, Burnside Jail lockdown, Chronicle Herald advertorial, great white shark lobby, habeas corpus applications, Headlines, Jeff Weatherhead, Joshua Evans, Justice James Chipman, Lake Banook, Lunenburg Electric Utility, Lunenburg power outages, Mairin Prentiss, Maurice Pratt, Nancy Selig, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Parker Donham, Sarah Gillis, Shelah Allen, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and Hal Forbes

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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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