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Canada, land of the gas guzzler

Morning File, Thursday, January 16, 2020

January 16, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Partners for Care closes up shops Jennifer Henderson reports for the Halifax Examiner: Partners for Care, the non-profit group which ran half a dozen gift shops at the QE2 Health Sciences Centre for 25 years, abruptly closed the doors at its remaining four locations Tuesday. A charity without charitable activities to operate raises […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blake Shaffer, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, child poverty, Communications Nova Scotia, David Burke, forestry workers, free transit, fuel consumption, gas prices, Halifax Transit, HRM free bus passes, International Energy Agency, Jesse Thomas, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Scotia Works, runway overruns, runway safety zones, Service Canada, Shannon Kerr, Transport Canada, Transportation Safety Board, Uber in Halifax

Enhancing the tourist experience by putting parking on protected land

Morning File, Tuesday, December 24, 2019

December 24, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

It’s Christmas Eve and I have no idea if anybody is reading or not. If you’re here, enjoy the Morning File. I usually work only minimally between Christmas and New Year’s, and I hope you get some time off too. News 1. Christmas in prison A prisoner we are calling JC offers a moving piece […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beckwith Gilbert, Bee Morrison, Caitlin Grady, Canadian Ferry Association (CFA), Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Capp Larsen, coastal barrens, councillor Richard Zurawski, David Burke, electric buses, Frances Willick, Francis Campbell, Government secrecy, Halifax Field Naturalists, Jaida Regan, Joan Dawson, John Beale, Kent Martin, Kitty Gilbert, Lighthouse Links Development Company, living wage, Loaded Ladel Co-op, Marine Atlantic ferries, Mayor Mike Savage, Michael Gorman, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Peggy's Cove, Roger Crooks, Serge Buy, Stephen Archibald and Chignecto Ship Railway, Victoria Walton

Euphemism watch: Jails are now “prisoner care facilities”

Morning File, Tuesday, December 3, 2019

December 3, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. Health care funding Canadian premiers met Monday and issued a call for a 5.2% annual bump in the Canada Health Transfer, among other demands. Andrea Gunn reported on the meeting for the Chronicle Herald: Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said he wasn’t sure whether a 5.2 per cent increase would be sufficient to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AIDS, Andrea Gunn, Canada Health Transfer, Carolyn Ray, councillor Steve Adams, Dartmouth General Hospital, David Burke, David Fleming, DeRico Symonds, Dino Capital Ltd, Donna Hatt, Jim Vibert, John McPhee, Judy Saunders, lobbyist registry, Lyme disease, Mark Numer, MassBiologics, MLA Susan Leblanc, Northern Pulp, police misconduct, pre-exposure prophylaxis, Premier Stephen McNeil, Prisoner Care Facility (jail), Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Tsimkilis family

A bad day for people on bikes

Morning File, Thursday, July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

News 1.  Two collisions send two cyclists to hospital A pick-up truck driver who hit a cyclist on Waverley Road Wednesday morning has been charged with “Vehicle Passing a Bicycle while Travelling on Right When There is Less than 1 Metre between the Vehicle and Cyclist” according to the RCMP. The cyclist was taken to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bike lanes, bus lanes, Carolyn Ray, Chignecto Isthmus, climate change, cyclist struck John Brackett Drive, cyclist struck Waverley Road, David Burke, drive-by shootings, handguns, Jacob Boon, micromobility lanes, OCEARCH, Philip Croucher, sea level rise, transit fares, Tristan Cleveland, vehicle/cyclist collision

Misconduct, prejudice, laments and lies

Morning File, Monday, July 15, 2019

July 15, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1.  Halifax police, RCMP, and Crown misconduct Tim dives into the court documents released Friday regarding the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction and finds two sets of police misconduct. The first set of misconduct was when Halifax police working on the investigation into the Way murder improperly threatened and cajoled witnesses to provide false testimony […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anglican church, bad drivers, CFB Halifax, CFB Shearwater, Christian Reeves, crosswalks marked vs unmarked, David Burke, Francis Campbell, Gail Lethbridge, guns, handguns, Jim Hoskins, Kyle Wagner, Lee Wilson, Mi'kma'ki, Michael de Adder, North American Indigenous Games, pedestrian safety, racial discrimination, same sex marriage, Shaina Luck, Sherri Borden Colley, tree inventory

Hopelessness and drug abuse go hand-in-hand in rural North America

Morning File, Monday, January 21, 2019

January 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Mary Campbell 3 Comments

This is Tim again; I’m back in the Morning File saddle. I’d very much like to thank Joan Baxter, Philip Moscovitch, and Erica Butler for filling in for me last week. I enjoy the fresh voices and perspectives, and they bring attention to issues that I lack the skill to properly address or that have […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Backstory NS, Cape Breton Spectator, CBRM sister city, Dalian, David Burke, Greg MacVicar, Mary Campbell, Mary Janet MacDonald, Mayor Cecil Clarke, meth in NS, Robert Lloyd Schellenberg

The Burnside powder keg: Broken promises, dehumanizing body scans, unfair solitary confinement, non-working toilets, lockdowns, and more

"We have 40 guys living together in the same room, without any physical equipment, no physical outlets. It’s very hard, and it’s gonna lead to violence."

August 25, 2018 By El Jones 9 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is covering the prisoner protest at the Burnside jail: • The statement released by the prisoners can be read here. • An interview with Jason MacLean, NSGEU President and correctional officer is here. • A prisoner account about the staffing shortage, the lockdown, and the problems with the change to a direct supervision […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Asaf Rashid, Burnside jail, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, David Burke, prisoners protest, X-ray body scanners

Don’t Smile Be Happy

Morning File, Monday, May 14, 2018

May 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. From who me to #metoo Writes Stephen Kimber: In which Stephen McNeil continues to be Stephen McNeil, dismissing calls to apologize to a young man for the province’s own security failure. But there is also some small hint of change in the #metoo air. We take our good news where we find it. Click […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Assumption Fund, Cape Breton Spectator, data collection, David Burke, facial recognition technology, imminent terrorist attack, Joseph Crook, Kevin Mitchell, Kyle Duggan, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia drivers' licences, Public Service Commission, Registry of Motor Vehicles, Sydney Novaporte, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, U.S. Consulate security alert, Unisys

Now there’s a reason to go to the community mailbox: Morning File, Wednesday, October 11, 2017

October 11, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Women in prison “The number of women in federal prisons has jumped significantly in Canada in the last decade, and advocates say that’s evidence of what happens when community support programs are cut,” reports David Burke for the CBC: There are 37 per cent more women behind bars than there were 10 years ago, according […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: David Burke, Driver's licences, Energy East Pipeline dead, Keith Doucette, Northern Pulp, Peter McCurdy, Richard Starr, Sidney Crosby, women in prison

Lily the duck toller and Cooper the mutt: a love story. Morning File, Tuesday, August 1, 2017

August 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Burnside Connector I’ve been opposed to the Burnside–Sackville Connector from the start. As I wrote in April: Yes, traffic in Burnside is horrible. The place was badly designed from the get-go, and none of the repeated expansions of the business park came with sensible improvements in transportation systems. But adding more highways into the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abandoned mines, Anderson Lake, axe-throwing, Bob Burchell, Burnside Connector, David Burke, Dexter Construction, Digger Dan, Eric K. Slone, Jack Khoury, Laurie Osmond, Lily the Duck Toller, Marc Chisholm, Nabil Toulany, Sally Kemp, Sia Van Wyck, Small Claims Court decisions, The Great Donair War, Timber Lounge, Tristan Cleveland, Urban Reserve land

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Moe 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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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