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Point, Click, Evict

Morning File, Thursday, October 24, 2019

October 24, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

News 1. Crowns strike The province’s crown attorneys have gone on strike. The government says the action is illegal and is seeking an injunction to get them back to work. Writing in The Star Halifax, Taryn Grant explains: About 80 per cent of members of the Nova Scotia Crown Attorneys’ Association (NSCAA) voted in favour […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Anjuli Patil, Aron Spidle, bad tenants, bicycle licensing, bike licenses, biking in Winnipeg, Bill 203, Brooke Gladstone, Chris Parsons, climate change, crown attorneys, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Emma Norton, eviction, greenhouse gas emissions, Jack Julian, Jason Selby, Jeff Karabanow, John Collyer, Karissa Donkin, Kevin Russell, MLA Patricia Arab, Nadav Even-Har, On the Media podcast, Out of the Cold emergency shelter, Paul Schneidereit, pedestrian struck Robie and Coburg, Residential Tenancies Act, Stephen Thomas, Taryn Grant, Trevor Adams, violence in school

Living with crabs

Morning File, Wednesday, March 27, 2019

March 27, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Street checks The Street Checks report is being released this morning, just as I’m writing this. 2. Provincial budget The Liberals released the 2019/20 budget yesterday and immediately spun it with a deluge of press releases. See if you can catch the bullshit word: If you guessed “invests” you win a pony! No […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander MacKay, Andy Long, Chesapeake Bay blue crab, Chris Parsons, climate change, Icarus Report March 7 2019, John Keith, Laura Farro, Madison Paoli, Nova Scotia Health Care Coalition, NS provincial budget day, Shaina Luck, Tim loves crabbing

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

Okay, you have five minutes: Morning File, Thursday, October 26, 2017

October 26, 2017 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, your friendly neighbourhood transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today while he’s on assignment.  News 1. Dal drops disciplinary action against Masuma Khan In a statement Wednesday,Vice-Provost Student Affairs Arig al-Shaibah announced she would be dropping the disciplinary action against Dal Student Union VP Masuma Khan over her now famous #whitefragilitycankissmyass Facebook […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arig al Shaibah, Chris Parsons, Erica Butler, Jennifer Keesmaat, Masuma Khan, pedestrian vehicle collisions up, Sobey Art Award, Ursula Johnson

Trains, planes, and automobiles (and a hilarious horse): Morning File, Wednesday, March 29, 2017

March 29, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. I Like Trains Really, I do! But that thing they’re talking about running around downtown ain’t no train. The Disneyfication of downtown continues apace. I don’t have the heart to write about it… read Jacob Boon in The Coast. 2. 40 kph speed limits “Halifax city council may be asking the province to lower speed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Blair Rhodes, Cathy Baker, Chris Parsons, death in police custody, Don Murray, I Like Trains, Lyle Howe, Marieke Walsh, Matt Whitman does something stupid, Preston Mulligan, Ron MacDonald, Serious Incident Response Team, Stephen Archibald, Tim's fear of flying

Universal health coverage at risk: Canadian Health Coalition

February 10, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Could Canadians lose universal access to health services over the next decade? That’s what the Canadian Health Coalition fears if the Trudeau government doesn’t honour an election promise to negotiate a National Health Accord with the provinces and territories. Adrienne Silnicki, coordinator of the national coalition, which includes the Nova Scotia Health Coalition, says its...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Adrienne Silnicki, Canadian Health Coalition, Chris Parsons, federal transfers, Kevin Page, Marla MacInnis, Natalie Mehra, Nova Scotia Health Coalition, Ontario Health Coalition, Stephen McNeil, Universal health coverage

Russell Walker needs a new catchphrase: Morning File, Wednesday, November 2, 2016

November 2, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November Subscription Drive The following is written by Selena Ross. When she was working as a reporter for the Chronicle Herald, Ross was co-author of the award-winning article on the death of Rehteah Parsons. Since leaving the Herald, Ross has worked for the CBC and the Globe & Mail. She now lives in New York City. When I […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Curran, Chris Parsons, clearcuts, death candy, Fazal Malik, Halloween, Liberal Party, Linda Pannozzo, Michel Samson, Richmond County, Robert Devet, Russell Walker, Selena Ross, Stephen Kimber, Steve Sampson, Trade Centre Ltd., World Trade and Convention Centre, Yvette d'Entremont

Will the Victoria General be replaced with a P3 hospital? The McNeil government isn’t ruling it out

September 30, 2016 By Jennifer Henderson

“Private Deals, Public Failures” is the slogan of a campaign running on TV and social media this week launched by the Nova Scotia Health Coalition. The non-profit group which defends public health care is worried the McNeil government may choose a private company to handover the financing, building, and ownership of health-care facilities to replace...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bonnie Lysyk, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Chris Parsons, Geoff MacLellan, Leo Glavine, Nova Scotia Health Coalition, P3, VG, Victoria General Hospital

A P3 replacement for the Victoria General is very much on the agenda

After the disastrous P3 school fiasco, why would the province build a hospital through a public-private partnership?

September 9, 2016 By Jennifer Henderson

Seven companies with offices across Canada and a few global companies with offices around the world have submitted their proposals to manage the ambitious, multi-million dollar project to replace the crumbling Victoria General Hospital. Cannon Design is headquartered in the United States. HOK is an international firm that has built the Rogers Arena in Edmonton and...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bert Clark, Chris Parsons, Common Design, HOK, Nan McFadgen, P3, Plenary Group, Terry Smith-Lamothe, VG Hospital, Victoria General

Justin Trudeau and Sidney Crosby’s stolen dignity: Morning File, Wednesday, August 24, 2016

August 24, 2016 By Selena Ross 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Selena Ross. I used to be a reporter at the Chronicle Herald, and sometimes (often) get Nova Scotia news nostalgia, so here I am helping Tim take time off. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Northwood serves prison food, but worse — supposedly. […]

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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.

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