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Puppygate: After being arrested for animal cruelty and threatened with jail, a Dartmouth man wants his dogs back from the SPCA

Morning File, Wednesday, September 11, 2019

September 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Glen Assoun compensation “One of the most recognizable wrongfully convicted Canadians is adding his voice to the chorus calling for early compensation for Glen Assoun, the Nova Scotia man who spent 17 years in prison for a murder he did not commit,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: Few people can understand what […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: animal cruelty, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Bernard Canning, Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum (CGVD), crane incident, Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, David Milgaard, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Glen Assoun compensation, Harbour Cities Veterinary Hospital, Kendall Worth, Kleinschmidt Associates Canada, Lunenburg Harbour sewage, Michael Gorman, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Puppygate, SPCA, Tufts Cove oil leak

You’re already getting a tax increase because of the convention centre

Morning File, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

April 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. City budget “They flirted with the idea of dipping into the savings account to lower the number, but in the end Halifax regional councillors approved the municipality’s budget for the year ahead with an increase of nearly 2 per cent to the average property tax bill,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: Councillor Tim Outhit […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Andrew Fenton, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Brittany Bernard, CAO Jacques Dubé, CAO Richard Butts, Councillor Tim Outhit, Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, drugged at Toothy Moose, Finance Director Cathie O'Toole, Julie Gelfand, Laura Brown, Letitia Meynell, MP Francis Drouin, Nova Centre projected tax revenue, Paige Fitzpatrick, personhood of chimpanzees, Police resource review, property tax increase, provincial aquaculture industry, salmon farming, Stuart Peddle, Zane Woodford

The city sells naming rights to dog-awful corporations so you can save… two dollars

Morning File, Tuesday, April 24, 2018

April 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

1. “Privacy breaches” continue

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Privacy breaches" continue, Afua Cooper, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, Halifax City vs living wage, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) privacy breach, Jamaican Cultural Association, Jean Laroche, Northern Pulp Mill's "sponsored content" in the Herald, Olive Phillips, Patrick Casey, Robert Samuel, Sherri Borden Colley

Bring out your dead: the Liberal convention comes to Halifax, some dude with a LinkedIn account is mad, and jokes about death

Morning File, Monday, April 23, 2018

April 23, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Axelrod to Liberals: “Know who you are” Reporter Jennifer Henderson attended the Liberal convention in Halifax Friday night, when Obama advisor David Axelrod appeared on stage with Trudeau advisor Gerry Butts: Both advisors discussed the importance of making and sticking with long-term goals, and not being distracted by problems that emerge and then […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Andy Pinsent, BP approved to drill, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, David Axelrod, Gerry Butts, laughing at death, Liberal convention, MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin and Jamaicans, MP Francis Drouin allegations, province's information security screw-up, Robert Samuel, Scott Walsh, Tim's thoughts on cannabis and productivity

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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