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Get out into the country, city slickers!

Morning File, Tuesday, March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim today. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Budget day in Nova Scotia It’s budget day in Nova Scotia and as expected healthcare will be one of the key spending areas. In an interview with Keith Doucette from Canadian Press, Finance Minister Karen Casey […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Amber Lee Neil, budget day, Chief Jean-Michel Blais, Councillor Steve Craig, Don Mills, Eldon Turner, Eldon’s Soup and Sandwiches, Grabher, Halifax Transit, Jack Julian, Jean Laroche, living wage, Matt Whitman complains about trees, Michelle Stewart, Phil Moscovitch, rural Nova Scotia adventures, rural transit, Scot Wortley, street check report, vanity licence plates, volunteering, work for free

Nova Scotia doesn’t have a demographic problem; it has a wage problem

Morning File, Friday, December 28, 2018

December 28, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Population I’ve long felt that concerns about Nova Scotia’s “demographic problem” are overblown. In the first place, if we require younger people and professionals to do important and needed work (and we do!), then we could, you know, pay them more, and we’d find people lining up for those important and needed jobs. It’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Central Library sign, Don Mills, Immigration, living wage, Lunenburg Trail, Michael Gorman, Michael MacDonald, minimum wage, Nova Scotia's demographic problem

What’s a little unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine among friends?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

I’m Philip Moscovitch, filling in for Tim Bousquet this morning. Tim is editing from a diner at an undisclosed location. News 1. Spaceport concerns Last month, Maritime Launch Services — the people who say they want to run a spaceport out of Canso —submitted a 159-page environmental assessment for the project. Federal and provincial government staffers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam MacInnis, Agave in Public Gardens, Canso spaceport, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Don Mills, Elizabeth McMillan, Frances Willick, John Lohr, Maritime Launch Services, Mobility Cup regatta, Peter MacKay, Philip Moscovitch, Sue Goyette, Taryn Grant, Uber, women's baseball

Cecil Clarke feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China: Morning File, Thursday, December 14, 2017

December 14, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Of Citizens and Taxpayers “I can’t tell you how many times people have told me they dislike being addressed by governments as ‘taxpayers.’ They’re citizens,” writes Shirley Tillotson: But “citizen” in that sense — the broad thinker who sees taxes as the seed of all good things social — is a newish kind […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adom Patchett, Cape Breton Municipality, cat declawing ban, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, CEDIF program failures, Community Economic Development Investment Fund (CEDIF), Delilah Saunders, doctor shortage, Doctors Nova Scotia, Don Mills, Fundy Tidal Inc. cease trade order, HRM free bus passes, Janet Knox, Marieke Walsh, Mary Campbell, Nancy MacCready-Williams, Nic Meloney, Patient's website criticizes East Coast Forensic Hospital, poll on political preferences in Nova Scotia, Rebecca Moore, respect, Richard Starr, secret trips to China, Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN)

Blue Skies Forever: Morning File, Wednesday, December 7, 2016

December 7, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 31 Comments

News 1. More on the education battle • The work-to-rule job action is resulting in cancelled school bookings for artistic productions around the province, reports Katy Parsons for the CBC, resulting in financial difficulties for arts organizations: The contract dispute has meant cancellations and empty seats for other school theatrical performances, such as Eastern Front Theatre’s Dickens’ A […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Pinsent, Benjamin Wier House, Department of Labour, Design Review Committee, Diana Whalen, Don Mills, Don Savage, Halkirk Properties, Hilary Prince, Iain Rankin, John McCracken, Katy Parsons, Michel Samson, Olivia Bako, Peter Kelly, Steve Streatch, wage increases chart, work-to-rule, Zane Woodford

Commonwealth Games investigation part two: where the money went

May 5, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Public money, private players: The Coast uncovers the paper trail of where $8.5 million in public money was spent by the Halifax 2014 bid committee. by Tim Bousquet This article first appeared in The Coast, on March 13, 2008. A year ago last Saturday, Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed in acrimony. Politicians pointed fingers at […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Don Mills, Fred MacGillivray, Jim Mills, Office Interiors

Commonwealth Games Investigation part one: Halifax 2014 big plans

May 5, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Game over: An air of secrecy surrounded Halifax’s bid to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games, even after the bid’s very public collapse in March. For the first time, we reveal a complete picture of what was happening behind the scenes. by Tim Bousquet Seven months after Halifax’s Commonwealth Games bid collapsed, there still hasn’t been […]

Filed Under: Investigation, Province House Tagged With: ACOA, Andrew Younger, Bobby McMahon, Bruce DeVenne, Commonwealth Games, Dale MacLennan, Don Mills, Fred MacGillivray, Gloria McCluskey, Peter MacKay, Scott Logan

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.

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