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Waiting for the train

The government of Nova Scotia is paying $60,000 a month to keep Genesee & Wyoming from scrapping its Cape Breton rail line. That's not money to fix the line, but merely to keep it from being sold. The cost of repairs? A whopping $101 million.

January 31, 2018 By Rick Grant

Upgrading the Sydney to Truro rail line to the point where it can handle double-stacked containers won’t come cheap, according to a study just completed for the Port of Sydney Development Corporation, but the fix is needed if Sydney’s dreams of becoming a major container terminal are ever to be realized. Port CEO Marlene Usher told...

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andre Lapalme, ATN Consulting, Canarail report, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia (CBNS), Cape Breton Regional Mayor Cecil Clarke, Fairmont Street Bridge, Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), Grand Narrows Bridge, Hatch, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, Parsons 2014 Bridge Inspection report, Port CEO Marlene Usher, Port of Sydney Development Corporation, Public Affairs officer Marla MacInnis, Rick Grant, Stantec report, Upgrading the Sydney to Truro rail line

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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