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The strange history of Halifax’s streetlight selection and the apparent demise of LED Roadway Lighting

Morning File, Monday, July 30, 2018

July 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Yarmouth ferry “I could say I told them so — and I did, way back when ‘them’ was still Rodney Macdonald and his Tories, and from then on forward through Darrell Dexter and Stephen McNeil to whatever same-old-same-old will come next — but I’d have to stand in a too-long line behind all […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alltrade Industrial Contractors, Chuck Cartmill, Cree, CUPE 4764, Denise Russell, El Jones, G.J. Cahill and Company, Holophane, LED bulbs, LED Roadway Lighting, Phillips, restorative justice workers job action, Shila LeBlanc, Spring Garden Road streetscape RFP, streetlights, Tiffany Chase, Windsor and Young Street development

Quackery and dog whistles: all in a day’s work for the Halifax Examiner

Morning File, Wednesday June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Cogswell Halifax council yesterday gave its OK to the process for the Cogswell interchange redevelopment project, but insisted that there be more public input as it proceeds. 2. Quack “medicines” “If you’re looking for a “natural” remedy for your cough or earache, you can cross Stone’s Drug Store in Baddeck off your list,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA grants and loans, Alentic Microscience, Beyond Food, BlueLight Analytics, Cape Breton Municipality, Chuck Cartmill, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Cribcut, David Howe, Equalization, former Business Minister Mark Furey, Golf PEI, Graham MacKenzie, Guild Software, John Lohr supports Doug Ford, John McPhee, Julie Chiasson supports Doug Ford, LED Roadway Lighting Ltd, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Origin BioMed, Parker Donham, Peter Conlon, Peter Moreira, Quack medicines, Stone’s Drug Store

What’s going on with LED Roadway Lighting?

The company has received at least $22 million in public money, but no one will tell the public what the status of the company is.

September 26, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Sometimes, chasing a story that runs into a brick wall can be revealing. Two weeks ago, I decided to do an update on LED Roadway Lighting, the Nova Scotian company completing the changeover of the Halifax Regional Municipality’s 37,000 street lights into fixtures that consume sixty per cent less energy and are supposed to deliver...

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Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Business Minister Mark Furey, Chuck Cartmill, GJ Cahill Inc, Hector Jacques, Holophane Canada, Jennifer Henderson, Ken Cartmill, LED Roadway Lighting, Lisa Bragg, Marly Somers, Mike Baker, NSBI, Peter Conlon, Solar Global Solutions

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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