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Atlantic Gold is waging a propaganda blitz in Nova Scotia

March 25, 2020 By Joan Baxter 4 Comments

By now, many people in Nova Scotia will have seen the Atlantic Gold ads on television, read words of self-praise from the company in newspaper opinion pieces, or received Atlantic Gold flyers in their mailboxes. For the past month or so, Atlantic Gold has been blanketing the province with its propaganda. As the Halifax Examiner […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Bruce Hudgins, Darrell Dexter, Dustin O’Leary, Historic Mine Tailings Management Plan, historic mines tailings sites, John Perkins, John Wightman, Maryse Belanger, Michael Parsons, mine tailings, Moose River gold mine, Rachel Boomer, Ronald Hawkes, Spur Resources, St. Barbara Limited, Steven Dean, Teck Resources, Touquoy mine, Wally Bucknell

Imagine Spring Garden Road where everyone looks the same

Morning File, Tuesday, September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Naturalists go to court “Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Christa Brothers will decide whether the Minister of Lands and Forestry has failed to live up to the obligations set out in the Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife in the province,” reports Jennifer Henderson: “We seek the Court’s assistance as a last resort,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Anne McLellan, Brett Ruskin, Brian Muldoon, Cermaq, collapsed crane removal, Cooke Aquaculture, Darrell Dexter, Dorothy Grant, EcoJustice, Evan Williams, exposure, fish farms, Glen Cooke, global warming, Graeme Benjamin, Hany El Naggar, Harbourside Engineering Consultants, housing affordability, Howard Ramos, Income inequality, Janice Harvey, Kathleen McNab, Kelly Cove Salmon, left hand turns, lobster fishery, Marla MacInnis, menstrual products in schools, Michigan Lane, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Lloyd Hines, Nicole Munro, period poverty, Peter MacKay, Protect Liverpool Bay (PLB), R&D Crane Operator Ltd, rent control, Robert Devet, Sabino Urciuoli, sinkhole Trans Canada Highway, Spring Garden Road redesign

“Hands off our protected areas, and lay off our Crown land”

The proposed Inverness airport will either encroach on or be very near to the Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, a protected nature reserve. It's not the kind of place one wants to have commercial jets “screaming in and out," says the Raymond Plourde, the Ecology Action Centre's wilderness coordinator.

July 21, 2019 By Joan Baxter Leave a Comment

In the past month or so, an awful lot of people — especially people with nothing to gain from a new airport that would serve a couple of luxury golf resorts in Inverness — have put forward more than enough good reasons for both the federal and provincial governments to tell Cabot Links and Cabot […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Andrew Macdonald, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Ben Cowan-Dewar, Build Cape Breton, Cabot Links airport, Cabot Links financing, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Carlyle Group, Daniel Gallivan, Darlene Grant Fiander, Darrell Dexter, Francis Campbell, Frank McKenna, Inverness Airport, Inverness Beach, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Margaree Environmental Association, Mary Campbell, Masons Mountain Nature Reserve, Mike Keiser, Minister Bernadette Jordan, MP Rodger Cuzner, Neal Livingston, Raymond Plourde, Rodney MacDonald, Steven Joyce, Tom Ayers

Examineradio, episode #134: Darrell Dexter on drugs

October 20, 2017 By Terra Tailleur Leave a Comment

In episode 134 of Examineradio, we talk about Dalhousie students partying hard, that blasted launchpad gets a mention, and Darrell Dexter gets blunt on weed. All that and special guest host Sandra Hannebohm makes her Examineradio debut. (direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes)

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dalhousie students, Darrell Dexter, Examineradio, Examineradio 134, launchpad, podcast, Sandra Hannebohm, weed

The politics of economics

What price is too much to pay for the Yarmouth ferry, asks Tim? How much is the cost of a vote, responds Stephen...

September 17, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

In last Wednesday’s “Morning File,” Tim Bousquet walked us through the most recent disappointing passenger counts from the still ongoing, seemingly never-ending bottomless money pit we call the Yarmouth-to-Portland ferry service. (It’s worth noting that Tim got his numbers from that’s-public-information-you’re-entitled-to-know-so-here-you-go Portland, Maine officials and not from our own who-are-you-and-what-right-do-you-have-to-ask-how-your-tax-dollars-are-being-spent buttoned-up Nova Scotia government bureaucrats....

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Darrell Dexter, Premier Stephen McNeil, Yarmouth ferry

What do you gotta do to get a conviction around these parts?: Examineradio, episode #101

March 3, 2017 By Russell Gragg 1 Comment

Haligonians are outraged at this week’s decision by a Nova Scotia judge to acquit a cab driver of sexual assault. Judge Gregory Lenehan determined that the Crown hadn’t provided sufficient  proof of lack of consent, despite the testimony of an expert witness and the fact that the alleged victim was unconscious at the time of the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, Darrell Dexter, Examineradio, NSTU, podcast

Thousands of people are complaining about Judge Gregory Lenehan: Morning File, Friday, March 3, 2017

March 3, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

Tonight, Jesse Brown brings his Canadaland to Halifax for a live taping. Brown will be talking with me and King’s College journalism prof Terra Tailleur. The show at the Marquee starts at 7pm, but doors open at 6pm. Entry cost is $10, with all proceeds going to CKDU. Iris and Tempa will be hawking Examiner swag, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Accessibility bill, Bad judges of the past, Bassam Al-Rawi, Darrell Dexter, Donald Marshall Inquiry, Helena Katz, Joanne Bernard, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Judicial Council, Keith Doucette, Lewis Matheson, Lillis Bartlett, marijuana, marijuana legislation, Michael Gorman, Mike Savage, pot, Raymond Bartlett, Robert Richards, Robyn Doolittle, sexual assaults by cab drivers, Wayne MacKay, Zane Woodford

All teachers (and a couple of ships): Morning File, Monday, December 5, 2016

December 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Schools closed If you’ve been in a cave or solitary confinement or on a three-day acid trip, you’ve missed that on Saturday the Liberal government ordered all provincial schools closed starting today. What happens now? On their respective Facebook pages, Graham Steele and Andrew Younger have been posting their informed knowledge of house […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Darrell Dexter, daycare, Department of Education and Early Years Branch, John Risley, Karen Casey, Kenzi Donnelly, Law Amendments Committee, Liette Doucet, Lisa Rondeau, neoliberalism, Nova Scotia Parents for Teachers, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, schools closed, self-serving political agenda, Stephen McNeil, Tina Roberts-Jeffers

Putting the ‘No” back in Va Scotia: Morning File, Tuesday, September 13, 2016

September 13, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Gloria McCluskey could not be more wrong Last week Halifax council rejected a proposal to begin the planning process for developing the privately held land in the proposed Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes wilderness park boundaries, agreeing instead to direct staff to find […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bluenose II, Chignecto Ship Railway, Christopher Gooding, Cutlass Fury photos, Darrell Dexter, Henry Ketchum, Jean Laroche, Mike Savage, Nova Centre, Pam Berman, Peter MacKay, Samuel Cunard Prize, Stephen Kimber, white courtesy phone

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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