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Zombie ideas that won’t die

Morning File, Thursday, December 12, 2019

December 12, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

I’ve said this before, but when I first started writing for the Examiner, a friend asked how much Tim paid. After I’d replied, the person I was speaking with said, “Oh, so it takes [x] monthly subscriptions just to pay for you to do one Morning File.” I’d never thought of it in such bald […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron MacCallum, Amanda Dodsworth, ambulance services, Andre Denny, Andrew Rankin, Anthony Romeo, Aon, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Blair Rhodes, Bobby Seal, CFL stadium, civil asset forfeiture, Constable Emmanuel Aucoin, Councillor Mitchell Tweel, Dave Stewart, Emma Smith, Gareth E. Rees, Government secrecy, income assistance, Jackie Torrens, Jean Laroche, Kate Letterick, Kendall Worth, mental illness, Michael Gorman, Minister Randy Delorey, MLA Susan Leblanc, not criminally responsible, Nova Scotia Early Psychosis Program, PC MLA Pat Dunn, Peter Lederman, Phil Tibbo, Premier Doug Ford, QE2 redevelopment, Raymond Taavel, red tape reduction, Robert Devet, Sandy Simpson, Sarah Stillman, Simon Lewsen, Stephen Archibald and parking garages, TrentonWorks

The never-ending search for enlightenment and murderous Icelandic models

Morning File, Tuesday, September 10, 2019

September 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Crane A fire department release from yesterday: Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency (HRFE) Chief Ken Stuebing this evening exercised his authority to execute an evacuation order on several properties in the vicinity of South Park Street. The evacuation order is necessary to protect the safety of residents living near a construction crane that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Breezes, Brooklyn Currie, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Councillor Bob Doiron, crane incident, Dave Stewart, Dennis Donald James Patterson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), Elizabeth McShefrey, Hilary Beaumont, Hurricane Dorian, Nicole Williams, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Osprey's Nest Public House, Ozen Rajneesh, Peter MacNeil, Petit Riviere General Store, shellfish, Steve Bruce, Tanya Shaw, Unique Solutions, Wadih Fares, Wray Hart, Zane Woodford

Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly accused of exceeding authority and awarding untendered contracts

August 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Peter Kelly, the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the city of Charlottetown, is accused of improperly, and possibly illegally, exceeding his authority with the awarding of contracts. The allegations were made by councillor Bob Doiron at the monthly meeting of Charlottetown council Monday night. Reached by phone at his home Tuesday evening, Doiron said that […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Auditor General Larry Munroe, Bob Doiron, CAO Wayne Anstey, Cathie O'Toole, Charlottetown, Dave Stewart, Harold MacKay, Kelsey L. Becker Brookes, Mary Thibeault, Mayor Philip Brown, Peter Kelly, Power Promotional Events, Scott Messervey, Sue Osberg, Westlock County Alberta

Report on Shambhala sexual misconduct released

Morning File, Monday, February 4, 2019

February 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. QuadrigaCX The biggest tech story of the year so far happened right here in Nova Scotia, and it’s amazing. When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him. Writer Andrew Wright tells us: A 25-year-old Gerald Cotten and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A.J. Liebling, Aaron Matthews, Acadia Axemen hockey brawl, bike bridge, Bill Burr, Blair Rhodes, Canada Games Centre, Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic Society, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Dave Stewart, Extinction Rebellion, Gerald Cotten, Jacob Boon, Lee Anna Osei, Leo MacPherson, Macdonald Bridge bike ramp, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Mary Campbell, Michael McNutt, QuadrigaCX, Scott Messervey, Selina Bath, Shambhala sex abuse scandal, St. Francis Xavier University women’s basketball, St. FX hockey brawl

More Liberal cowardice

Morning File, Friday, February 1, 2019

February 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Liberal cowards, pt. 2 Yesterday, I castigated as “craven fools” the five Liberals on the Public Accounts Committee — Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — for their spinelessness in limiting debate at the committee in order to (they think) gain a short-term PR advantage of controlling the public message. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Debison, collision Highway 103, Dave Stewart, Health Committee, Jaguar driving wrong way Hwy 101, Jason McLellan, Jim Vibert, Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPI), Michael Gorman, MLA Ben Jessome, MLA Brendan Maguire, MLA Gordon Wilson, MLA Hugh MacKay, MLA Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, pedestrian safety, pedestrian struck Thistle Street, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, Philip Croucher, Public Accounts Committee, Ryan van Horne, Thistle Street intersection, truck driving wrong way Hwy 101

Peter Kelly is back in the news

Morning File, Thursday, October 25, 2018

October 25, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

1. OPOR “This is a story about a potential half-billion-dollar health-care services contract, alleged cozy dinners between bidders and bureaucrats, an unusual legal letter and accusations the government’s tender process was unfair,” writes Chronicle Herald reporter Paul Schneidereit: The planned purchase of a new provincewide electronic health record (EHR) system — expected to cost in the hundreds […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allscripts, biomass, Cerner, climate change, crane operators, Dave Stewart, Department of lands and Forestry, Haley Ryan, Jason Hollett, lobbyist registry, Maritime Dufferin Gold, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), OPOR, Paul Schneidereit, Peter Kelly, Peter Ritchie, Theory of Everything podcast, This is That, Wayne Thibodeau

Anthony LeBlanc’s history of playing stadium hardball: Morning File, Monday, January 8, 2018

January 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Poor parenting “Consider the case Mr. S and Ms. C, and their toddler, D,” writes Stephen Kimber: And the question of how much of what gets referred to as poor parenting is simply the result of being parents who are poor. And what that means — or should mean — for public policy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patel, Anthony Leblanc, Arizona Coyotes, Bruce Browser, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald series about CFL franchise, Dave Stewart, Financing a new stadium, fish farms, Francis Campbell, Gary Drummond, Neil deMause, Peter Kelly's little helper, Scott Messervey

Is privatization of Nova Scotia Power responsible for an increase in power outages or does Nova Scotia Power just suck? Morning File, Friday, January 5, 2018

January 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Weather and power outages Everything is opening late, or should be. It’s a mess out there. As of 7:30am, across the province there were 1,918 power outages affecting 113,849 customers. Here’s the power outage map for the Halifax area: Those big brown splotches are larger, area-wide outages. My power in Central Dartmouth was out […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CAO Richard Butts, Carol Moreira, Dave Stewart, Nina Corfu, Nova Scotia Power outages, Otter Lake dump, Ozge Yeloglu, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, PEI surrounded by ice, Peter Moreira, recyclables in a landfill, Stephen Archibald collage, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Waste management

No negativity allowed: Morning File, Thursday, December 29, 2016

December 29, 2016 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Ombudsman “The Nova Scotia Office of the Ombudsman hasn’t necessarily launched an investigation into council activities in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, an official said Wednesday,” reports Tom Ayers for Local Xpress: Christine Brennan, executive director of the ombudsman’s office, told Local Xpress on Wednesday an email from her office to a citizen last […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allison Devereaux, B-film industry, Canadaland Imposter podcast, Canuxploitation, Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Christine Brennan, Dave Stewart, David Shannon, Linda Coolen, ombudsman, Paul Corupe, Peter Kelly, Shivers, Tom Ayers, Vic Foster

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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