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We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport

Morning File, Friday, June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. SIRT is not equipped to investigate rape by cops The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized training in dealing with victims of sexual assault. Reporter Maggie Rahr brings us the case of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Andrew Allenbrack, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links airport, Carol Moreira, Chebucto School, Councillor John Dowling, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Entrevestor, Grant McDaniel, Lesiany Hweld, Lillian Piercey Concert Hall, London taxis, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Megha Paul, Ocean Sonics, Port Hawkesbury Airport, Quinpool Road bridge closure, Robert Isbister, taxi driver, Tourism Nova Scotia, Wendy Martin, WestJet, Westwood Developments Ltd, Zane Woodford

Is privatization of Nova Scotia Power responsible for an increase in power outages or does Nova Scotia Power just suck? Morning File, Friday, January 5, 2018

January 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Weather and power outages Everything is opening late, or should be. It’s a mess out there. As of 7:30am, across the province there were 1,918 power outages affecting 113,849 customers. Here’s the power outage map for the Halifax area: Those big brown splotches are larger, area-wide outages. My power in Central Dartmouth was out […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CAO Richard Butts, Carol Moreira, Dave Stewart, Nina Corfu, Nova Scotia Power outages, Otter Lake dump, Ozge Yeloglu, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, PEI surrounded by ice, Peter Moreira, recyclables in a landfill, Stephen Archibald collage, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Waste management

The Herald steps on journalism ethics by publishing government propagandist Peter Moreira: Morning File, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

September 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Nova Scotia’s Environment Department has begun an investigation into Northern Pulp operations after the Pictou County mill exceeded air contaminant emissions limits by nearly 50 per cent in June,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: This is the third year in a row emissions from the power boiler at the Northern Pulp mill exceeded the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carol Moreira, Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, Entrevestor, ethical standards in journalism, government-financed propaganda, Ian Thompson, Jesse Rodgers, paid propaganda, Peter Kelly in Westlock County, Peter Moreira, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Westlock News

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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