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Cannabis is still legal

And the story is still news. Sorry, it will be for more time than you might like. It's what happens when you become one of the first countries in the world to admit it's OK to smoke pot. Just sit back, relax and...

October 21, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Cannabis is still legal. In the months, weeks, days, hours, minutes and, yes, seconds ­— “5-4-3-2-1! … Light up! It’s legal!”— counting down to the legalization of cannabis in Canada last week, you could be forgiven for imagining there was no other news worth noting in this country, or the world. Or you might assume...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: cannabis legalization

Why the pre-legalization crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries?

Why have our police forces suddenly become the Hell’s Angels of medical cannabis, badge-toting, tough-guy enforcers of the government’s price-fixing monopoly on the pot business?

October 14, 2018 By Stephen Kimber 2 Comments

On Wednesday, Oct. 17, recreational-but-fun-free cannabis finally becomes legal in Canada. Before we go there — and we should — let us first take a step back and ask how and why our police forces have suddenly become the Hell’s Angels of medical cannabis, badge-toting, tough-guy enforcers of the government’s price-fixing monopoly on the pot […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: cannabis legalization, Medical marijuana

How to profit in cannabis gold rush: sell picks and shovels

October 4, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

“During a gold rush, there’s a lot of money to be made supplying the picks and shovels,” said Paul Pedersen. The 2006 Saint Mary’s University business graduate is talking about the stampede to produce and sell cannabis when it becomes legal two weeks from now. In just the last six months, $2.4 billion has been...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: cannabis legalization, Highlanders Cannabis, Jennifer Henderson, Paul Pedersen, Tiffany Walsh

We’re pretty sure it will soon be legal to smoke dope with that murderous imperialist Boer War dude outside Province House

Morning File, Monday, October 1, 2018

October 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. The 1% “Did you know Canadian taxpayers earning more than $250,000 annually — them’s the “one per cent” to me and thee — paid $6.8-billion less in federal taxes in 2016 than they did in 2015?” asks Stephen Kimber: But… uh… wait a minute. Didn’t Canada’s shiny new Liberal government create a whole […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #MeToo, Alanna Rizza, Andrew Preeper, Anna Duckworth, Audrey Champagne, Bruce MacKinnon, cannabis legalization, drinking and smoking in parks, earthquake, fatality Highway 102, Fenwick MacIntosh, Halifax council campaign finance rules, Heather Cabot, Kate Miller, Kavanaugh hearing, Lezlie Lowe, Miss Grass, naming policy, naming shit for people, Nicole Thompson, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and cheese

Halifax cops raided the Church of Cannabis yesterday

Morning File, Wednesday, August 8, 2018

August 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

1. FOIPOP “An assessment of the software that was used to operate the province’s troubled freedom of information [FOIPOP] website notes high risks,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: The report looks at AMANDA 7, which was used to operate the website where people could file freedom of information requests online, receive their documents and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AMANDA 7, cannabis legalization, Chris Enns, Erin McCulloch, FOIPOP website, Heidi Chartrand, Heidi Dierickse, Higher Living Church of Cannabis, Higher Living dispensary, Ian Campbell, Jonathan Jacquard, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre lighting, NSLC and cannabis, Ralph Philips

PRICED OUT

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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

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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.

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