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Council candidates answer two questions

October 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

I’ve asked two questions of candidates: 1. Will you support a living wage ordinance? (background here and here) 2. If elected, what single thing would you want to accomplish as councillor (or mayor)? The candidates’ unedited responses follow. I’ll update this page as I receive more responses Use these links to jump ahead to specific […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured Tagged With: Alison McNair, Anthony Kawalski, Brenden Sommerhalder, Bruce Smith, Carlos Beals, Colin Castle, Dawn E. Penney, Dominick Desjardins, Gabriel Enxuga, Iona Stoddard, Irvine Carvery, John Bignell, Kate Watson, Kevin Copley, Kyle Woodbury, Linda Mosher, Lisa Blackburn, living wage ordinance, Mike Savage, municipal election, Pamela Lovelace, Richard Zurawski, Sam Austin, Shawn Cleary, Shelley Fashan, Steve Streatch, Sue Uteck, Tim Rissesco, Trevor Lawson, two questions, Warren Wesson, Waye Mason

Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Kowalski, Armour Group, Ben McCrea, Bill Davies, Brenden Sommerhalder, children's graveyard, Chris Poole, David Irish, Design Review Committee, Graham Steele, Hangman's Beach, HRM By Design, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, living wage ordinance, Marty Leger, Michael Lightstone, Patrick Murphy, Queen’s Marque, Rachel Ward, Todd McCallum, Tom Traves, Waterfront Development Corporation, WDC

The District 8 roundtable: Examineradio, episode #81

September 30, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week, Examineradio played host to an open forum for the candidates vying to replace Jennifer Watts in District 8. On hand were Anthony Kowalski, Brenden Sommerhalder, Patrick Murphy, Lindell Smith, Chris Poole and Irvine Carvery. The seventh candidate, Martin Farrell, was not in attendance. The candidates fielded questions from Dalhousie professor Todd McCallum, our […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Anthony Kowalski, Brenden Sommerhalder, Chris Poole, Examineradio, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, Patrick Murphy, podcast

Term limits for dolphins: Morning File, Wednesday, September 14, 2016

September 14, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Forest tragedy Linda Pannozzo continues her look at the Department of Natural Resources and the development of forest policy in Nova Scotia. Pannozzo documents how over the last eight years the public demand for a sustainable forest policy has been hijacked for short-term […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: advertising, Brenden Sommerhalder, Confederation Bridge, Francis Campbell, Helen Horne, Lawrence MacAuley, Linda Mosher, Linda Pannozzo, Lisa Blackburn, Parker Donham, paywall, Percy Downe, Peter MacKay, Richard Colvin, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, Shawn Cleary, term limits, Vyacheslav A. Ryabov

Put that in your pipe and smoke it: Examineradio, episode 64

June 3, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week, in our ongoing series profiling the ever-more-crowded slate of candidates for the municipal election, we speak with District 8 contender Brenden Sommerhalder. We also chat with Halifax Typographical Union veep Frank Campbell about the breakdown in talks between the Chronicle Herald and the striking workers. Plus, city council debates innovative disruptions to the transit system, a […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Brenden Sommerhalder, Chronicle Herald, Examineradio, podcast, transit

Introducing… the Halifax Examiner

June 18, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Well, here’s the new site, the Halifax Examiner. I can not adequately express my deep appreciation to Natalie Chavarie, El Jones, Robyn McNeil, Brenden Sommerhalder, Graham Steele, Kate Watson, and Jeff White for their very kind words and the time they committed in creating the above video. Please watch! Also, I must thank my family, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Brenden Sommerhalder, El Jones, Graham Steele, Halifax Examiner, introducing, Jeff White, Kate Watson, Natalie Chavarie, Robyn McNeil, video

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 man wearing a purple jean jacket and sporting a moustache lies on the green grass surrounded by pink plastic flamingos

Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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