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Tales of toxic workplaces

Morning File, Wednesday, September 30, 2020

September 30, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. The biomass power shuffle Jennifer Henderson learns that not one sawmill in Nova Scotia has shut down since Northern Pulp closed in January. But large biomass boilers in the province are “running flat-out” to provide replacement markets for bark, woodchips, and sawmill waste. Henderson went to Tuesday’s meeting of the legislature’s standing committee […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Wark, Conyer Clayton, Coun. Dan Keenan, Councillor Lindell Smith, Frank McKenna, Fredericton, Jacob MacIsaac, Jamie Brownlee, Jean-Paul Boudreau, Jenna Lyn Albert, Jennifer Llewellyn, Laura Dillman, Maritime Noon, McKenna donation, Mount Allison University, Mt. A, poem, Premier Stephen McNeil, racism in justice system, toxic workplaces, working from home

If you’re going to play in the sandbox, you should at least know what the sandbox is for

Morning File, Monday, January 7, 2019

January 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Why was Lamar Eason suspended? Writes Stephen Kimber: “People don’t like to talk about race, culture, bias,” Bayview Community School principal Lamar Eason explains, adding elliptically: “Doing your job can lead to questioning the people employing you. Understandably, people get defensive. But [race relations officers] are not there just to support schools; we’re […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alice Aiken, Atlantic cod, Bob McDonald, Bruce Wark, container ship fire, Corbett Lake, Frances Willick, Fred Harrington, grey seals, Hailey Desormeaux, Healthy Forest Coalition, icy trails Point Pleasant Park, Jeff Hutchings, Lamar Eason, Linda Pannozzo, MSVU crows, MSVU Motherhouse Lands development, Paul Withers, sandbox, seal cull, seal kill, SURGE, timeclocks, tree harvesting on Crown Land, Yantian Express

Great white sharks are killing people and they’re coming to Nova Scotia

Morning File, Wednesday, September 19, 2018

September 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Deaths in custody Yesterday morning, I reported that an official at the Burnside jail had testified in court that “several” prisoners at the jail have died over the past week. I knew about the death of Joshua Evans, a man with a mental disability who took his own life, but no other deaths […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: advertorial in Chronicle Herald, Aly Thomson, Bruce Rainnie, Bruce Wark, Burnside jail death, Chris Benjamin, Chronicle Herald, Colleen Cosgrove, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Darren Porter, deaths in custody, Duggers Menswear, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, innovation, Jamie McNeil, Jean Laroche, John McCracken, Jon Tattrie, Jordan Parker, Joshua Evans, Lake Management Services, Lindsay Bennett, lobbyist registry, M5 Public Affairs, Mike Labrecque, Premier Stephen McNeil, Sarah Gillis, Sarah Mervosh, shark attacks, sharks, Sharktivity app, tidal turbine gear

Three men say they were sexually abused as teenagers at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre

Morning File, Friday, September 7, 2018

September 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Child sex abuse Three men allege that they were sexually abused as teenagers when they were housed at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre in Bible Hill. The Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre was an institution for young people with mental disabilities. I’m withholding the men’s full names until and unless they want to be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A.L. MacDonald Building, accessibility, Alumitech Architectural Glass & Metal, Avondale Construction, beg buttons, Ben Marston, Bruce Wark, Building D, Burnside jail, Cape Sharp Tidal Turbine Update, child sex abuse, Dalhousie University, David Lombardi, David Patriquin, Doug Doucet, Fred MacKinnon, Gail Gatchalian, Gordon B. Isnor Manor, Gus Reed, Jack Julian, Jeremy MacDonald, Kelly McKenna, lockdown, Michael Dull, Norsat Eblaghi, Nova Scotia Human Rights Act, Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre, OpenHydro, Patricia Brooks Arenburg, Paul Vienneau, pedestrian walk signal, private woodlot owners, RCS Construction, Reynobond PE, Seaforth Energy Inc, Sherri Borden Colley, sidewalk rebuilt Citadel Hill, sidewalk renovation, Solitary confinement, Stacy Pineau, Stephen Ellis, Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards, Warren Reed

Racist rallies and invasive species in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Monday, August 20, 2018

August 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

Hi, I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today and tomorrow. News 1. Film industry Writes Stephen Kimber: IATSE Local 849, the union that represents most film technicians in the province, has statistics showing its members worked 40,687 days in 2014, earning $11,120,665 in gross pay and pensions. In 2017, those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Brian Hill, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, child refugees in Canada, Erica Butler, invasive chain pickerel, Jenny Cowley, Kejimkujik National Park, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Paul Withers, Rebecca Lau, Silas Brown, tidal turbine

Harvard Street residents go to court over bikeway plan

Morning File, Friday, August 10, 2018

August 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Class action lawsuit filed against Archdiocese Last week, Halifax lawyer John McKiggan and the Toronto law firm of Koskie Minsky announced they were filing a class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth on behalf of children they allege were sexually abused by priests from 1960 to the present. After the lawyers issued […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Albert LeBlanc, Alex M. Cameron, Angus McRae, Archdiocese lawsuit, Bruce Wark, Canadian Martyrs' Church, Cape Sharp Tidal, councillor Steve Streatch, Donna Rammo, Douglas Champagne, Edouard Joseph Theriault, Father George Epoch, Gary MacLellan, Geraldine O'Shea, Glen Ginther, Harvard Street bikeway plan, Jack Julian, Jamac painting and Sandblasting Ltd, Janet Stevenson, John McKiggan, Jolyn Swain, Joseph Dominix, Justice John D. Murphy, Justice Minister Diana Whalen, Kelsey MacAulay, Kim Plaxton, Kristin Tweel, Kylie Cooper, Lance Barney, Manuel Cierra, Marlene Cooper, Michael Teehan, Nancy Murphy, Open Hydro collapse, Pat Thompson, Peter Munro, Premier Stephen McNeil, roadside memorial Fall River, Robert MacDougall, Ross Thompson, Scott Hodgson, Stacey Pineau, Sue Goyette, Trevor Brumwell, unconquered peoples, Wendy Brookhouse

Why is the city paying for Fred MacGillivray’s superpension?

Morning File, Friday, July 27, 2018

July 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Retired firefighter sues city, claiming racial discrimination A Black man who is a retired firefighter has filed a lawsuit against the Halifax fire department, alleging that he has been discriminated against because of his race. George Cromwell’s detailed Statement of Claim references incidents that date back to soon after amalgamation of the predecessor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, Events East, Fred MacGillivray, Gottingen Street bus lane, Stephen Archibald and chairs, Trade Centre Limited debt, Zane Woodford

One small step for tidal power, one giant leap for BP

Morning File, Tuesday, July 24, 2018

July 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I’m Erica Butler,  filling in for Tim while Tim keeps right on working. We both bring you today’s Morningfile. News 1. BP approved to resume drilling The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board has given the green light for BP to resume drilling the exploratory well which was the site of an accidental spill of thousands […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Halpern, Amazon, BP drilling Scotian Shelf, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, Erica Butler, Gayle Colicutt, Gottingen bus lane, Houssam Elokda, King of Donairs, Knowledge House sentencing, librarians, lost fishing gear, Lynn Sawyer, Mairin Prentiss, Mayor Mike Savage in the Big Apple, Michael Bloomberg, MLA Hugh MacKay, Offshore Alliance, Panos Mourdoukoutas, Paul LaFleche, Shane Ross, social determinants of health, tidal power, Yarmouth Ferry totals

Eleven more security failures… are we going to arrest Google?

Morning File, Tuesday, May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Eleven more security failures Yesterday, the provincial Department of Internal Services announced that it has discovered 11 more potential security failures related to the Freedom of Information website: Work is progressing on addressing the privacy breach of government’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website. To date the province has: — […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Lahey, Bruce Wark, Cape Breton doctor Eugene Ignacio, Cape Sharp Tidal Inc., criminal doctors, Darren Porter, David Patriquin, Department of Environment, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website, Freedom of Information website security failures, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Haley Ryan, Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully, Long Beach berm breach, Natural Resources Minister Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup, Pattie Lacroix, provincial Department of Internal Services, Richard Bell, sea level rise, tidal turbines, unnecessary and redundant forestry review

Facing a budget shortfall for its new building, the YMCA is asking the city for $1.5 million: Morning File, Tuesday, February 20, 2018

February 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. A jury of whose peers? Discussing the case of Gerald Stanley, charged and then found not guilty of the murder of Colten Boushie, Stephen Kimber writes: In his instructions to the jury, Chief Justice Martel Popescul said jurors had three choices: agree with the Crown and convict Stanley of second-degree murder; conclude that Stanley should have known […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Needlessly institutionalized report, Bill Turpin, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, doctor shortage, electronic voting, Gerald Stanley, Gottingen Street renaming, Gottingen/Novalea issue, Halifax City Council minutes from 1981, Michael Tutton, Minas Basin tidal project, Robert Devet, Robert Mueller indictment against Russians, Stacey Pineau, YMCA asking for money

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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