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An expert explains why there’s no hotel at the Nova Centre

October 22, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Why hasn’t an operator been named for the hotel being constructed above Halifax’s new convention centre? That’s the question I asked last week of Jan deRoos, a professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. A specialist in hotel management and franchising, deRoos has created a software program for […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Convention Centre delay, Jan deRoos, Nova Centre hotel

The government paid for Steve Murphy’s news coverage: Friday, November 18, 2016

November 18, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

November Subscription Drive Several readers have pointed me to Dan Rather’s recent Facebook post. Although written in response to the American election results, the same issues hold in Canada: A lot of you have asked me on this page, what can you do in the wake of this election. It’s a question that seems to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Christmas tree, Cindy Day, conquered people, Convention Centre delay, CTV, Dan Rather, Evelyn C. White, Experient, Francis Campbell, Gaetan Dugas, Hilary Moors-Murphy, Joe Ramia, Margaret’s Justice, Rand Gaynor, Randy Shilts, Stan Matwin, Stephen McNeil, Steve Murphy, teachers strike, Trade Centre Limited

Cutting off your nose to spite your face: Morning File, Tuesday, October 11, 2016

October 11, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Glyphosate and the Politics of Safety A few weeks ago, I asked Linda Pannozzo if she could turn her attention to the glyphosate issue. On Friday, she returned with an astoundingly thorough piece of research. There’s much information in her article, but I think it’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: American election, bryozoan colony, Convention Centre delay, Eric Bourque, Fenwick Tower, Grant Frost, Joe Metlege, Marla MacInnis, nasothek, nose museum, Premier Stephen McNeil, provincial surplus, Stephen Archibald, teachers

Wait a minute… you clowns are on dope! Morning File, Thursday, October 6, 2016

October 6, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Fish collapse “A new federal audit report warns another fish species collapse could happen again under the watch of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: “From my perspective, we are still at risk of having another stock […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, carbon tax, Charles LeFort, clowns, Convention Centre delay, Cordell Stephen Weare, DFO, fish species collapse, Halifax Pride, Joe Ramia, Julie Gelfand, Marty Leger, Paul Withers, Roger Taylor, Spider Lake, Stephen McNeil

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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