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Policing the pandemic

Morning File, Tuesday, March 31, 2020

March 31, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 10 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update: Community transmission has arrived The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. We all knew community transmission of COVID-19 was coming. Dr. Strang has said so repeatedly in his daily briefings. But I’ll admit I still felt a chill when I saw the news yesterday. Tim has the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander McClelland, apocalypse, Brendan Elliot, Charles Heinstein, Chris Lambie, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, Donkin coal mine, Dr. Robert Strang, East Coast Forensic Hospital (ECFH), food supply, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Howard Hyde, Imam Ibrahim Alshanti, Imam Wael Haridy, internet access, Kameron Coal, Laurie Penny, Lythel Miller, mental illness, Michael Gorman, mosques online, non-violent crisis intervention, Noushin Ziafati, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, policing during pandemic, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Sheree Fitch, taser, Tom Ayers, Zoom

Saltwire finds one scientist who thinks Northern Pulp’s effluent isn’t toxic

Morning File, Monday, December 9, 2019

December 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 3 Comments

News 1. Stadium David Fleming is an economist who has worked with the Greater Halifax Partnership and the North End Business Association, and is now working on PEI. He reviewed the case for public financing of a stadium, and found it wanting. Click here to read “There’s not a good financial case for a publicly […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anaconda Mining, Anthony Leblanc, Atlantic Schooners, Bathurst Police Force, Boat Harbour, Brian Baarda, CFL funding, Chief Andrea Paul, Chris Lambie, Chronicle Herald, David Fleming, Donald Gordon, Elkhorn, Frances Willick, Insp. Richard Haye, Jim Williams, Karissa Donkin, Lori Marino, Lynn Hammond, Michael Dadswell, Michael MacDonald, Michel Vienneau, Mike Rainone, Northern Pulp effluent, Pedro Chang, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), power rates, RCMP, RCMP Sgt. Ron DeSilva, SaltWire, Sharphead First Nations Reserve, Terri Fraser, Whale Sanctuary Project

Losses from the failed tidal generation project continue to mount

Morning File, Wednesday, September 4, 2019

September 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Tidal generation failure costs mount Losses continue to mount related to the failed tidal generation project in the Minas Basin. The Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy Inc. (FORCE), the company established to provide test sites for other companies to try out instream turbines in the Minas Basin, is suing five companies for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barho fire, Bridgewater interchange, byelections, Cape Sharp Tidal, Chris Lambie, Fundy Ocean Research Centre (FORCE), HRP discharge firearm, Irving Beaver barge, Olivia Blackmore, right whales, tidal turbine lawsuit

Retired firefighter George Cromwell is suing the Halifax fire department, claiming racial discrimination

July 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

A Black man who is a retired firefighter has filed a lawsuit against the Halifax fire department, alleging that he has been discriminated against because of his race. George Cromwell’s detailed Statement of Claim references incidents that date back to soon after amalgamation of the predecessor governments into the Halifax Regional Munipality in 1996, and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Allan Carmichael, Association of Black Firefighters, Barry Greer, Bill Williams', Blair Cromwell, Chris Lambie, Const. Gary Martin, Dave Laybolt, Doug Pierce, Doug Trussler, George Cromwell, George MacLellan, Gordie Skinner, Janet Myers, Jim Gillis, Joe Ryan, Marty Ward, Mary Ellen Donovan, Mayor Peter Kelly, Mike Eddy, racism in Halifax Fire Department, Richard Butts, Ron Cooper, Steve Thurber, Terry Bourgeois, Wayne Swinamer

Outlines of the stadium proposal emerge

Morning File, Wednesday, July 11, 2018

July 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and El Jones 3 Comments

News 1. Stadium details Yesterday, Bedford councillor Tim Outhit posted details of the stadium proposal on his Facebook page: Next Tuesday Regional Council will be asked to give direction to the CAO to officially enter into investigations and preliminary negotiations with the private group looking to bring a regional CFL team to Halifax. They will […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Alaina Lockhart, Alexander Quon, Andrew Younger, BeyondTrust, body recovered McKay Bridge, Brett James, Chris Lambie, Councillor Tim Outhit, Darren Fisher, Frances Willick, infill project, Jean-Frédéric Lafaille, John Hearn, Jopsh Bragg, Katherine O'Halloran, Liam Daly, Marc Boucher, Maritime Football, Maritime launch, Northern Pulp, Peter Moreira, rocket propellant, Rodger Cuzner, Sarah Ritchie, Scotiascapes landscaping, Stadium details, UARB website down, workplace fatality Africville Road

Feeling the heat: proud boys, old-fashioned attitudes, and yes, the weather

Morning File, Thursday, June 28, 2018

June 27, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

This is freelance writer Philip Moscovitch filling in for Tim. After living here for 20 years, I almost referred to myself as a Nova Scotian the other day. On Twitter I am @PhilMoscovitch. News 1. Shots in Dartmouth Halifax Regional Police arrested two men in north Dartmouth last night after they heard shots. From the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Autism Nova Scotia, CEED, Chris Lambie, Colin Duggan, Cynthia Carroll, Dr. John Gillis, Hubbards Waterfront Movies, Hugh Lownds, humidex critique, Jill Maetea, John McCracken, Kiersten Holden, Maggie Rahr, Miguel Tremblay, military’s investigation into proud boys, Nancy Spina, Philip Moscovitch, Rick Howe Show, shots fired Lahey Road Dartmouth, Tidal Salt

Bill Spurr has a terrible boss, so a puppy had to die

Morning File, Friday, June 1, 2018

June 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Discrimination A firefighter who says her 18-year career was plagued by sexual harassment is demanding that Halifax Regional Municipality step up to resolve discrimination cases like hers that drag on for years,” reports the CBC: Kathy Symington has collected 1,400 pages documenting her sexual harassment case against Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency. She said […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Bill Spurr rages, Chris Lambie, Chris Shannon, copper thefts, Democracy Watch, Duff Conacher, Hayley Clarke, Jean Chrétien lobbying Stephen McNeil, Jeremy Fraser, John McCracken, Kathy Symington, Lori Marino, Michael Tutton, Minister Geoff MacLellan, sexual harassment Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency, sexual harassment in HRM, Sydney Harbour Investment Partners (SHIP), Theodore Thugboat, Whale Sanctuary Project

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

Creatures in the ocean are trying to kill us: Morning File, Tuesday, July 25, 2017

July 25, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stop the Johannesburgization of Halifax’s north end Yesterday, I should’ve been working on two large research projects, or finishing up a crime story that seems to have been missed by the rest of the media, but instead I walked around the north end taking photos and sitting in Julien’s writing. The result is a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Anjuli Patil, Bluenose II, Chris Lambie, crime rate, Crystal Crescent Beach, Darren Porter, Johannesburgization of Halifax's North End, Justin's pink shirt, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, Portuguese man-of-war, Pumpkin the great white shark, Sycara V superyacht

The “wave your hand” bus exit doors are horrible and someone should be fired for them: Morning File, Friday, July 7, 2017

July 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Bus doors   Last year, 99% Invisible and Vox got together to produce a short podcast on “Norman doors,” seen above. A Norman door is named after Don Norman, who in 1988 wrote a book, The Design of Everyday Things, which among many other things, pointed out a consistent problem with doors: many of them are counterintuitive. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ayahuasca, burning tires, bus doors, Chris Lambie, Corey Rogers, death in police custody, Jeannette Rogers, Kim Davies, LaFarge Canada, Michael Tutton, Mike Chassie, Norman doors, Ricky Goodall, The Icarus Report July 7 2017, Tonya Wimmer, whale carcass off Magdalen Islands, Zane Woodford

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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.

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