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The Transportation Safety Board doesn’t want you to hear the Cockpit Voice Recording of Flight 624

Morning File, Wednesday, January 8, 2020

January 8, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. A lot of schools, businesses, and governments are closed. Everyone will complain about stuff. 2. Taxes “It’s early in the budget season, but Halifax regional councillors are hoping to keep next year’s tax increase well below inflation,” reports Zane Woodford: Council’s budget committee met Tuesday to work toward creating […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Air Canada, Air Canada Flight 624, Air Canada Pilots Association, Airbus S.A.S., Alexander Quon, Asher Hodara, atmospheric carbon dioxide, Attorney General of Canada, Boat Harbour, cannabis, Chief Andrea Paul, climate change, Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), designated smoking areas, Elmsdale Lumber, Georges Liboy, Georgie Fagan, Halifax International Airport Authority, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, hot idle, Jesse Thomas, Justice Patrick Duncan, Kathleen Carroll-Byrne, Lindsay Jones, Nav Canada, Northern Pulp closure, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Richard Starr, Robin Wilber, Smoking ban, Transportation Safety Board (TSB), Zane Woodford

Court documents detail repeated police raids on the same cannabis dispensary

Morning File, Friday, July 19, 2019

July 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Glen Assoun “Elizabeth May is calling for a federal inquiry zeroing in on the RCMP’s role in both wrongfully convicting Glen Assoun of murder and keeping the now 63-year-old in prison for 17 years,” reports Andrew Rankin for the Chronicle Herald: The Green party of Canada leader said maintaining public trust in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amzi Arnaout, Atlantic Compassion Club Society, Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, bees, cannabis, Constable Seebold, Cornell Knight, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, Detective Constable Brad Jardine, Detective Constable Greg Stevens, Detective Constable Pat O'Neill, Detective D'Arcy Hueston, dispensary raids, Elizabeth May, Glen Assoun, John M J MacKeigan, Lloyd Robbins, police inspector Richard Lane, Reformar Inc, right whales, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Yarmouth ferry

Alex Cameron’s “conquered people” brief is odious, but he’s got a good case against the McNeil government

Morning File, Thursday, July 18, 2019

July 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. “Conquered people” secrecy “The Nova Scotia government has won another temporary victory in its attempts to keep court documents sealed relating to a controversial brief that suggested the Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia were a conquered people,” reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: On Wednesday, Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown sided with the province […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Andre Hemlin, Atlantic Compassion Club Society, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links airport, cannabis, Colton Bordage, conquered people, Corbett Lake, Corez Williams, David Patriquin, Icarus Report July 18 2019, Indigenous rights, James Donald Gore, Jean Laroche, John MJ MacKeigan, Mi'kmaq, Tarra Comeau, Tom Ayers, Travis Dwyer, William Matovu

The Cabot Links airport uses a “social enterprise” designation created for farmers’ markets

Morning File, Thursday, July 11, 2019

July 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Halifax Transit turns down electric buses “City staff are ‘mothballing’ an electric bus pilot project for which council had already approved $1 million in funding, in the process turning down another $2.25 million in federal funding secured to help fund the project, according to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information request,” reports […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Compassion Club Society, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Bruce Phinney, Cabot Cliffs, Cabot Links, cannabis, Cape Breton Island Airport, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Cathie O'Toole, Chisholm Avenue sinkhole, Glenora Distillery, Halifax Water, Mary Campbell, Sewage Plant Estates, sinkholes, social enterprise, swatting, Utility and Review Board (UARB), VistaCare, Wayne Gillian

Water, water everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, April 11, 2019

April 11, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

News 1. Feds announce environmental assessment for Boat Harbour plan Jennifer Henderson has the latest on the Boat Harbour cleanup plan. Yesterday, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced it would be undertaking an environmental assessment. Henderson explains the lagoons are where tens of million of litres of daily effluent from the kraft pulp mill at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Alton Gas protest, Andrea Gunn, Andrew Smith, Atlantic mackerel, Boat Harbour, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), cannabis, Clara Dennis, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Archives, Paul Withers, Ryan Ross, SaltWire, StatsCannabis, Stephen Archibald and crenellations, Transcontinental, weed prices

Horse community rallies to find stolen animal in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Tuesday, February 5, 2019

February 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 7 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent, a freelance writer in Halifax. I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Derogatory comments ignited brawl, St. FX says Global News reports a brawl between hockey teams from Acadia University and St. FX on Saturday night started after a derogatory comment about a survivor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acadia Axemen hockey brawl, ageism, Alex Cooke, Anthony Marlowe, cannabis, Communications Nova Scotia bursary, David A. Wimsett, Jean Laroche, job hunting in NS, John Demont, Kevin Dickie, LGBTQ, Lower Sackville intersection lights, Marlowe Companies Inc, MLA Brad Johns, Nicole Munro, Pamela Lovelace, payroll rebates, Phil Currie, Sam Studnicka, ServiCom Call Centre, Shaina Luck, shopping for pot, St. FX hockey brawl, stolen horse, The Halifax Mail, Valor SR

Udderly ridiculous: Adventures in bovine boudoir

Morning File, Monday, October 22, 2018

October 22, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

1. Cannabis is still legal “And the story is still news,” writes Stephen Kimber: 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… Click here to read […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angel Moore, Anjuli Patil, Black and Indigenous, Bloyce Thompson, cannabis, collision Highway 104, cow photo shoot, for-profit prison, Geoffrey Rubin, John Demont, Kathy Cloutier, Kent Monkman, Liz Feltham, Lynn Patterson, Mary Campbell, Northern Pulp effluent leak, pedestrian struck Albacore Place, Tanya Nicolle MacCallum

Davie and Irving shipyards are in the midst of a lobbying blitz in Ottawa

Morning File, Thursday, October 18, 2018

October 18, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Davie v Irving In recent days, Unifor Marine Workers Federation Local 1, which represents Irving Shipyard workers, has been conducting a “Ships Stay Here” campaign that included getting Halifax council to support its efforts. The union fears that some of the shipbuilding work contracted to Irving will be shifted to Davie Shipyard in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Ashley Lemire, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Blair Rhodes, Bruce Webb, cannabis, Dalhousie University, Davie Shipyard, Fred Boisvert, Irving Shipyard, Jacob Boon, James Irving, lobbying, Naresh Raghubeer, R. Peter MacKinnon, shipbuilding, Ships Stay Here, shipyard lobbying, Tantallon asphalt plant, William Sandeson, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Zane Woodford

Nova Scotia’s foolhardy use of public-private partnerships continues

Morning File, Friday, October 5, 2018

October 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Jails lose crime investigation evidence “On Tuesday, I attended Dartmouth Provincial Court for the preliminary inquiry into the murder of Nadia Gonzalez,” writes El Jones: Samanda Ritch and Calvin Sparks are charged with first degree murder. But before the inquiry could start, there were two issues. The first was that Sparks’ lawyer, James Giacomantonio, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Calvin Sparks, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, cannabis, Chris Parsons, cruise ship berths, Dartmouth Provincial Court, Glen Assoun, Innocence Canada, James Giacomantonio, Jean Laroche, Kirk Makin, Lane Farguson, Mairin Prentiss, Michael Gorman, Nadine Gonzalez murder, nail gun, Nhlanhla Dlamini, Nova Scotia Health Coalition, O’Neil Blackett, Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk, P.Q. Properties Ltd., P3, Premier Stephen McNeil, QE2 redevelopment, Ron Dalton, Samanda Ritch, Stacey Dlamini, Steve Silva, Taryn Grant, Tim's Innocence Canada Award, Tracey Tyler Award, weed prices, Wrongful Conviction Day

Halifax’s moral panic over the legalization of cannabis

Morning File, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Convention centre Oh, running out of time for this… I’ll write it up today for tomorrow’s Morning File. 2. Smoking ban On Monday, Dartmouth councillor Sam Austin published a blog post saying he was reconsidering his support for the smoking bylaw, weirdly wanting to keep the provisions of the bylaw as they pertain […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bay Ferries, Brett Cantlay, Brett Ruskin, cannabis, Carleton patio, Catherine Tully, Councillor Sam Austin, Downeast Windjammer Cruise Lines, FOIPOP website, groundwater pollution at airport, Gus Reed, Halifax CFL team, Hiroshi Masui, John Demont, John Traves, legalization in Colorado, Makusi language, Nuisance Bylaw, Ron MacDonnell, Smoking ban, Steve Pagels, Terry Jones, Tina Comeau, Transport Canada, Yuki Masui

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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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