• Black Nova Scotia
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transit
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

Halifax Transit moving forward together, but without some Beaver Bankers

Morning File, Thursday, December 5, 2019

December 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. 198 workers out of a job as Web.com closes Yarmouth location Almost 200 employees at Web.com in Yarmouth were told yesterday that their location is shutting down next year. The company offers internet services to businesses and has locations in New Glasgow and Halifax. The Yarmouth location has been operating for 18 years. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beaver Bank bus route, Bryony House, bus route plan, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Debert Court, Dion Mouland, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dominique Amit, Erin DiCarlo, Fadila Chater, Halifax Transit, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Jenna Young, Katherine VanBuskirk, Ken Wilson, Kevin Chapman, Kristin Gardiner, logging scars, Lyle Mailman, Maria MacIntosh, Matt Dagley, Mayor Pam Mood, Melissa Walton, Moving Forward Together (MFT), National Housing Co-Investment Fund, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Ocean View, Sandy Ross, Shannex, Small History Nova Scotia, Special Care Act, taser, Tina Comeau, Web.com, Wildlands League

Council votes in favour of report on taxi appeals committee

Morning File, Wednesday, September 25, 2019

September 25, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Uranium “After yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Nova Scotia’s Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act seems to be safe,” reports Joan Baxter. “At least for now.” Baxter recounts the testimony of not one, not two, but three different representatives of the Mining Association of Nova Scotia […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blair Rhodes, Cassidy Bernard, collapsed crane removal, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Darren Smalley, Judy Haiven, Mark Reynolds, Matt Whitman and appeals committee, Michael Bowen, Mona Bernard, Morning File photos of men vs women, Premier Stephen McNeil, secondary labour market, Simon Radford, Susan Bradley, taxi appeals committee, UK British sailors sexual assault trial, women in the workforce, Zane Woodford

Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey was paid $5 million in 2018, but says his company is so broke it needs public subsidies

Morning File, Wednesday, November 28, 2018

November 28, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Legacy media: CEO compensation and public subsidies Yesterday, Postmedia released its Management Information Circular in preparation of January’s shareholder meeting; the circular shows that CEO Paul Godfrey was awarded a $1.2 million bonus on top of his $1.2 million dollar salary in 2018, and with stock options brought in over $5 million in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Fisher, Cliff Le Jeune, Convention centre, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, councillor Waye Mason, criminal background checks, George Armoyan, legacy media bailouts, Link Performing Arts Centre, Marc Almon, Mark Lever, Paul Godfrey, Postmedia, Rob Power, SaltWire, Sarah Riley, Scott Long, tax increases, Zane Woodford

Halifax council and the Martha Mitchell effect

Morning File, Wednesday, October 17, 2018

October 17, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Pardons “The federal government will announce on Wednesday morning that it intends to proceed with a plan to grant pardons to Canadians who have past simple possession charges,” reports CTV: Sources have confirmed to CTV News that the government intends to issue pardons, and not record expungements or amnesty, for cases of possession […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Lisa Blackburn, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Detective Constable Josh McNeil, Detective Constable Pat O'Neill, Detective Sergeant William Morris, dispensary complaint, dispensary raids, Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Ian Fairclough, Leon Neyfakh, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Maritime Vapors dispensary bust, Martha Mitchell, offshore drilling, pardons, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke

What’s a little unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine among friends?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

I’m Philip Moscovitch, filling in for Tim Bousquet this morning. Tim is editing from a diner at an undisclosed location. News 1. Spaceport concerns Last month, Maritime Launch Services — the people who say they want to run a spaceport out of Canso —submitted a 159-page environmental assessment for the project. Federal and provincial government staffers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam MacInnis, Agave in Public Gardens, Canso spaceport, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Don Mills, Elizabeth McMillan, Frances Willick, John Lohr, Maritime Launch Services, Mobility Cup regatta, Peter MacKay, Philip Moscovitch, Sue Goyette, Taryn Grant, Uber, women's baseball

Where The Emails Have No Names: Morning File, Saturday, December 16, 2017

December 16, 2017 By El Jones 13 Comments

News 1. Lucasville On Wednesday, Tim reported on the re-establishment of the boundaries of Lucasville, a historic community settled by Black Refugees. As noted in this CBC story: According to the report, the proposed boundary would mean about 500 homes would need to change their address from the community of Hammonds Plains to Lucasville. Those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Catherine Campbell, councillor Lisa Blackburn, documented historical responses to Black settlement, El Jones, George Elliott Clarke, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Jacob Boon, Lucasville boundaries, racist emails, report on sexual violence on university campuses, Vicky Mochama, Waterstone Subdivision, white residents' backlash

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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • RCMP Chief Supt. Chris Leather is being investigated concerning decision to not alert the public about the mass murderer’s fake police car May 17, 2022
  • City camping: Toronto teaches Halifax another lesson about tents, parks, and homelessness May 17, 2022
  • Halifax police board moving slowly on defunding report recommendations May 16, 2022
  • There’s no meaning in mass murder May 16, 2022
  • Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020 May 16, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022