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Erica Butler’s deep dive into the transportation beat

Morning File, Thursday, November 8, 2018

November 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Erica Butler As the Examiner’s transportation columnist, Erica Butler gets into the nitty gritty of, yep, transportation: she attends the planning meetings, pesters the bureaucrats for more information, and interviews the experts and advocates. The resulting columns are incredibly detailed and thorough. For some readers, this holds little interest. But for others, Butler’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Boston Christmas tree, cargo plane crash Halifax airport, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald, Entrevestor, Erica Butler, James Drage, journalism, Orpheus, Peter Moreira, Quentin Casey, T-shirt

Sydney port backers use bogus arguments and bullshit numbers: Morning File, Thursday, January 11, 2018

January 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. The megaport delusion An article published yesterday in the Cape Breton Spectator is a must-read for anyone who thinks Sydney or Melford or Halifax for that matter can become a significant transshipment port operation. Because international shipping is such a gigantic industry, there is much research, reporting, and academic work looking at and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: advertorial in Chronicle Herald, Barbara Darby, Brian Slack, CFL economics, CFL franchise in Halifax, Colin Chisholm, free advertising, Freedom of Information, marketing bullshit, Mary Campbell, MV Asterix, Nova Scotia Textiles building, Stephen Archibald New York, The megaport delusion, Wolf in sheep's clothing, Zane Woodford

Anthony LeBlanc’s history of playing stadium hardball: Morning File, Monday, January 8, 2018

January 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Poor parenting “Consider the case Mr. S and Ms. C, and their toddler, D,” writes Stephen Kimber: And the question of how much of what gets referred to as poor parenting is simply the result of being parents who are poor. And what that means — or should mean — for public policy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patel, Anthony Leblanc, Arizona Coyotes, Bruce Browser, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald series about CFL franchise, Dave Stewart, Financing a new stadium, fish farms, Francis Campbell, Gary Drummond, Neil deMause, Peter Kelly's little helper, Scott Messervey

Here come the public subsidies for a CFL team: Morning File, Thursday, December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Sexual history and anonymity Yesterday, the courts published Judge Anne Derrick’s decision on whether testimony on Catherine Campbell’s sexual history would be allowed in the preliminary inquiry of the murder charge against Christopher Garnier. Derrick’s ruling is complicated, but the gist of it is she ruled that Campbell’s sexual history […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Wark, CFL franchise in Halifax, CFL stadium proposal, Christopher Garnier, Francis Campbell, Judge Anne Derrick, Justice Joshua Arnold, Saint John garbage transfer to Nova Scotia, sexual history and anonymity

Two-thousand dead, and we’ve learned no lessons from the Explosion: Morning File, Monday, December 4, 2017

December 4, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. The Mulroney Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, and the honorary arms dealers Writes Stephen Kimber: The former prime minister has had many “good” friends, many of whom pop up in leaks of information about tax havens. Many of those same names — surprise — also figure prominently in helping underwrite the soon-to-be Mulroney Institute. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black in Halifax, Brett Bundale, Carlos Beals, CFL franchise in Halifax, Councillor Lindell Smith, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, Human remains found East Uniacke, Irving workers give strike mandate, Janice Borden, Judy Haiven, Mary Alice Powell, Moshe Lander, Order of the Good Time, Perry King, Philip Croucher, Quentrel Provo, Samuel de Champlain, Sexual assault allegations against St. F.X. football players, war memorials, Was the Halifax Explosion a war crime, weapons of mass destruction, What tourists say about us

Chasing the stadium dream, part Nth: Morning File, Monday, November 27, 2017

November 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax “Glen Assoun is moving to Halifax,” I reported Friday: In 1999, Assoun was convicted of the 1996 murder of his former girlfriend, Brenda Way. Assoun always maintained his innocence, but spent 16 years in prison for the murder. Assoun is the subject of the first three parts […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, CFL franchise in Halifax, CFL stadium skepticism, Cory Funk, Devin Heroux, Glen Assoun moving to Halifax, stadium studies

A man in a lobster suit will make us rich, rich, rich: Morning File, Friday, November 24, 2017

November 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Another SHIP Show at the Civic Centre “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do,” writes Mary Campbell: you’re going to give me your cell phones and I’m going to lock you in this room and let you read this article. You can take notes, but I’m going to take them away from you when […]

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The most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on: Morning File, Monday, November 20, 2017

November 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

Give us all your money! Or, you know, ten bucks a month. I’m no good at this “beg for subscriptions” thing, but I think I’m supposed to tell you that this is about the cost of a latte a week. Or about 33 cents a day — 32 cents on the long months; we’re really […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Boston Christmas tree myth, Brett Bundale, CBRM secrecy, CFL franchise in Halifax, Don't trust a Tim, Graham Steele, Jeremy Fraser, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Mary Campbell, Micheline Leclerc, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Lisa Roberts, Moshe Lander, smoke bomb in Wal-Mart, street checks, subscription drive, Tim Houston, Zane Woodford

Channelling Kimberly McAndrew: Morning File, Friday, November 17, 2017

November 17, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

“The parole board has again refused to release a Nova Scotia man jailed in British Columbia for sex crimes who is a suspect in cold case murders,” reports Chris Lambie for the Chronicle Herald: Andrew Paul Johnson, 58, is deemed a dangerous offender. […] In 1998, sources told The Chronicle Herald that Johnson was a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Paul Johnson, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chris Lambie, Emera, Frederick Smith, Grand Bahama Power Company, Highfield Park sold, Joseph Gabriel, Kimberly McAndrew, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, Stephen Kimber, Steve McLean, Wendy Jones, Westdale

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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