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Opposition critics react to AG’s P3 report

July 14, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

“The auditor general has said today that governments pay a premium when they bring in private companies to build and maintain public infrastructure,” said Susan Leblanc, the NDP’s Transportation and Infrastructure critic. “Without the Public Accounts Committee or the Legislature meeting, the public doesn’t have access to the information necessary about whether this is a...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Christine Saulnier, Community Outpatient Centre, coronavirus, COVID-19, Deborah Bayer, Halifax Infirmary, hospital parkade, Kasian Architecture, MLA Susan Leblanc, MLA Tim Halman, Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), P3 hospital, pandemic, PPP Canada, SaskBuilds

The McNeil government is going for the secrecy gold medal

Is Nova Scotia Canada’s most secretive jurisdiction? Or does it just act that way? Consider a few especially egregious, not-at-all-transparent episodes from just the last week.

July 21, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Is Nova Scotia Canada’s most secretive jurisdiction? Or does it just act that way? Consider a few especially egregious, not-at-all-transparent episodes from just the last week. Let’s start with the latest on plans to build a new 126,000-sq. ft. community outpatient healthcare facility in Bayers Lake Business Park. Though the facility is ostensibly going to...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Alton Gas, Community Health Partners, Community Outpatient Centre, conquered people, Devin Stevens, Government secrecy, healthcare, Indigenous rights, Justice Duncan Beveridge, P3 hospital projects, Stephen McNeil, Yarmouth ferry

How the Washmill underpass fiasco led to the Community Outpatient Centre fiasco: Morning File, Friday, May 5, 2017

May 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Queen’s Marque Queen’s Marque construction is hitting nearby businesses hard. And, recognizing the problem, Waterfront Development is spending big money to help out the Murphy’s businesses, and the city is being asked to pitch in with even more financial help. Meanwhile, however, the crown corporation is ignoring the plight of a business right […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger update, Chronicle Herald talks resume, Community Outpatient Centre, Community Outpatient Centre opinion, Dan English, Katia Younger email, testing and training for taxi drivers, Washmill underpass cost overrun, Wayne Anstey

The Spoon in the Coffee Cup Conspiracy: Morning File, Friday, April 21, 2017

April 21, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Community Outpatient Centre “The province’s purchase of 15 acres in the Bayers Lake Business Park to build a new Community Outpatient Centre was supposed to be a good news announcement for the McNeil government,” reports Jennifer Henderson for the Examiner: [Premier Stephen] McNeil was quick to point out that the Centre’s Bayers Lake location — behind Home […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-urban sentiment, Bayers Lake Business Park, Big Agro on campus, Bruce Livesey, Community Outpatient Centre, Cooper the puppy, Gary MacLeod, Glyphosate, Irvings, John Demont, Premier Stephen McNeil, Spoon in Coffee Cup Conspiracy

PRICED OUT

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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.

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