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The Assoun wrongful conviction: How Halifax police, RCMP, and prosecutorial misconduct sent an innocent man to prison and kept him there for nearly 17 years

July 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

For background on this story, see my 2016 series, “Dead Wrong.” Court documents released on Friday reveal how Glen Assoun was wrongfully convicted of the 1995 murder of his former girlfriend Brenda Way. The documents detail two sets of police misconduct. The first set of misconduct was when Halifax police working on the investigation into […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Brenda Way, Carla Jenkinson, Corey Tuma, Cst. Paul Melon, Dan MacRury, David Carvery, Detective Wayne Hurst, Don Murray, Glen Assoun, Jane Downey, Karla Jinkerson, Mark Green, Michael McGray, police investigator David MacDonald, Ray Mitchell, RCMP Cpl. Dave Roper, Robin Hartrick, Wayne Wise

The Chronicle Herald is terrible

Morning File, Tuesday, June 12, 2018

June 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Cruise ship “smoke and mirrors” “Cruise tourism has grown rapidly in Maine over the past decade, with ship visits to Portland more than tripling,” reports Colin Woodard for the Portland Press-Herald: Industry promoters and city officials have long touted the primary purported economic benefit: each passenger, on average, spending over $100 ashore every […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andre Lyle Boudreau, Bay Ferries, Blair Rhodes, Chronicle Herald is terrible, Colin Woodard, cruise industry, cruise tourism, Don Murray, Dugger McNeil, Duggers Magazine, Fall River development, J.L.Hochman, James Risdon, Jeff Blair, Jim Walker, Judge Frank P. Hoskins, Larry Gibson, legalizing cannabis, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia ferry, Ocean Gateway passenger terminal, Patricia Gibson, Perry lakes Developments, Portland, residential marihuana operation, Ross Klein, Todd Gabe, two-vehicle collision Wellington

Everybody wants a spaceport: Morning File, Thursday, November 30, 2017

November 30, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

Last day of the subscription drive You’ve heard it all before, so I won’t repeat myself beyond asking you to please subscribe. It’s appreciated. News 1. Lyle Howe Lyle Howe has asked the Supreme Court to overturn his disbarment by the Barristers Society. In a statement filed with the court, Howe alleges charges the Barristers Society […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bluefrog Business Campus, Burc Kayahan, Canso Spaceport fantasy, commuters to halifax, cruise ship numbers, Don Murray, Francis Campbell, John LeBlanc sure likes to file lawsuits, Judge Elizabeth Buckle, Kimberley Mundie, Larry Evans, Loren Grush, Lyle Howe disbarment, Mary Campbell, racism and Halifax Explosion, rents in NS, Robert Devet, Ronald MacDonald, Sherri Borden Colley, Spaceport Camden, Victoria Rees, Zane Woodford

Trains, planes, and automobiles (and a hilarious horse): Morning File, Wednesday, March 29, 2017

March 29, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. I Like Trains Really, I do! But that thing they’re talking about running around downtown ain’t no train. The Disneyfication of downtown continues apace. I don’t have the heart to write about it… read Jacob Boon in The Coast. 2. 40 kph speed limits “Halifax city council may be asking the province to lower speed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Blair Rhodes, Cathy Baker, Chris Parsons, death in police custody, Don Murray, I Like Trains, Lyle Howe, Marieke Walsh, Matt Whitman does something stupid, Preston Mulligan, Ron MacDonald, Serious Incident Response Team, Stephen Archibald, Tim's fear of flying

DEAD WRONG

A BOTCHED POLICE INVESTIGATION AND A PROBABLE WRONGFUL CONVICTION SHED LIGHT ON THE MURDERS OF DOZENS OF WOMEN IN NOVA SCOTIA.

January 30, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Editor’s note: the DEAD WRONG homepage has links to previous articles, the cast of characters, extras, and commentary. Part 2: Trial and Error This article contains graphic accounts of violence and sexual violence that will disturb some readers. Robin Hartrick was found by a group of young schoolchildren walking along a path through the woods behind […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Brenda Way, Dan MacRury, David Carvery, DEAD WRONG, Don Murray, Glen Assoun, Robin Hartrick, Ron Fetterly, Suzanne Hood

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

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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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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