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True love: KFC, a bottle of Vodka, Sun Chips, and a copy of the Uranus Examiner

Morning File, Friday, September 14, 2018

September 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. South Shore bus service “Starting this week,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler, “Maritime Bus now offers three trips  day, seven days a week, from Halifax to south shore destinations like Chester, Bridgewater, and Lunenburg.” And hopefully, the provincial and municipal governments involved will get on board with promoting the heck out of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and chickens, death in custody, Don Evans, Frances Willick, Healthy Forest Coalition, Joshua Evans, Lahey report, Michael McGowan, subscriber supported journalism, Uranus

Welcome to the new Halifax Convention Centre! Here’s your $100 fine for smoking on the sidewalk

Morning File, Wednesday, September 12, 2018

September 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Burnside jail update The prisoners at the Burnside jail have ended their 20-day strike and have issued a statement, which reads in part: Dear supporters, You are commended for your work on our behalf. None of us thought that we would gain so much support by sharing our conditions with the public. The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside jail death, Burnside jail strike, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Koch Foundation, Councillor Sam Austin, death in custody, DeSmog Blog, dry communities, Events East, Grafton Street glory Hole, habeas corpus applications, HalifaxToday website, Liquor Control Act, Matthew Lambert, Minister Karen Casey, Peter Ziobrowski, Randy Riley, Robert Sanford, Smoking ban, storm cheat sheet, Supreme Court Justice James Chipman

“No Reason to Treat Us Like Garbage”: Life and Death in Canadian prisons

February 10, 2018 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. The Weekenders Recently, news stories circulated about incarcerated women in Arizona being denied access to menstrual products.  When we hear stories about prison conditions in the United States, people in Canada often believe that these injustices do not happen in our prisons and jails. This is a mistake. I have been hearing for a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Murray, death in custody, death of Matthew Hines, El Jones, internal investigation in prison, Justice Minister Denis Landry, Karissa Donkin, Rebecca Lau, Sherene Razack, Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, weekend incarceration, women in prison

Bearing Witness and Paying Tribute: Morning File, Saturday, November 18

November 18, 2017 By El Jones 8 Comments

1. What it’s like when someone dies in custody. An original report from prisoners Background. November 22nd will be 10 years since the death of Howard Hyde in custody. Hyde was tasered by correctional officers during a mental health crisis. His death also marks the last time there was a public inquiry in the province into […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betty Peterson, Charlotte Guy-Jeffies, Const. Greg McCormack, Corey Rogers, death in custody, El Jones, Howard Hyde, Judge Anne Derrick, Lynn Jones, Matthew Hines, Muriel Duckworth, New Waterford Power Plant Riot, police murder of a striking miner, Scot Wortley, the first statue of women in Halifax, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, Viola Desmond, William Davis

The Summer of Hate: Morning File, Tuesday, June 20, 2017

June 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Street checks “All Halifax Regional Police officers — from the chief through to new recruits — will receive training in 2018 on fair and impartial policing in order to improve street check practices that disproportionately target black people,” reports Sherri Borden Colley for the CBC: It’s one of several measures the police force is taking, Halifax Regional […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Bruce Wark, Calvin Joel Maynard Sparks, Chris Hansen, Chris Lambie, Constable Cole Hayes, Constable Phil Aptt, death in custody, Devin Davenport-Cook, Fall River quarry, Frances Willick, John Patterson, Julie McKnight, Michael Gorman, Nadia Gonzales murder, North Brother Island, Robert Devet, Roseate terns, Samanda Rose Rich, Sherri Borden Colley, Stacey Pineau, Steve Bruce, street checks, stupid violence, tidal turbine removed

A wretch like me: Morning File, Tuesday, May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Bill McEwen Last night, Dartmouth East NDP candidate Bill McEwen abruptly dropped out of the race, issuing this statement: Effective immediately, I have resigned from my position as the NDP candidate for Dartmouth East. I apologize for my past actions and believe that I must be accountable to my community and the residents […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill McEwen, Bill Turpin, death in custody, deficit spending, Gary Burrill, Halifax Explosion time capsule, Joseph Isnor, Marieke Walsh, Michael Tutton, NDP platform, Steve Bruce, stunting, The Bullpen, time traveller

“Salacious details”: the Halifax connection. Morning File, Thursday, January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. “Salacious details”: the Halifax connection Don’t think about an elephant. Now don’t think about Donald Trump and golden showers. OK, well, now that you can’t stop thinking about either, you might as well know there’s a Halifax connection to the latter story. Reports the Guardian: In mid-November, the documents took another route into Washington […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turbin, Chinese tourists, Crystal City, DDI Conspiracy, death in custody, DongDu International Group, Greater Halifax Partnership, Halifax International Security Forum, Human Source Management Solution, Jacques Dubé, Justice Nick Scaravelli, replica city, Salacious details, Stephen Archibald Saint John ironwork, Stephen Dempsey, Stephen McNeil, street checks, The St. Mary's Chinese conspiracy

Eternity Expires as Eyes Close: Morning File, Saturday, November 12, 2016

November 12, 2016 By El Jones 2 Comments

News 1. Deaths in Custody, Again. This week brought another death in custody in Nova Scotia. …Paul Dauphinee Jr. was found in unresponsive in his cell at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth on Nov. 2. Dauphinee Sr. and family members made the heartbreaking decision to remove life support on Nov. 5, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Clayton Cromwell, Construction Battalion, Dannie Hanson, death in custody, Devin Maxwell, Erika Kulnys, Erin Wunker, Geordie Miller, George Elliott Clarke, Howard Sapers, Julia Wright, Kenny MacKay, Lenore Zann, Leonard Cohen, Matthew Hines, Michael McGuire, Paul Dauphinee Jr., Rhonda Britton, Rich Aucoin, Shannon Webb-Campbell, Sherene Razack, Vanessa Lent

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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