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Rescued whale, stoned dogs, and mere busybodies: Morning File, Tuesday, January 2, 2018

January 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. The Desmond file “One year ago tomorrow, on January 3, 2017, 33-year-old Lionel Desmond parked his car on a logging road in Upper Big Tracadie, NS, just as the sun was setting,” writes Stephen Kimber: Armed with two rifles, including an SKS semi-automatic Soviet military weapon he’d bought a few days earlier at […]

Thank you for bringing back my wheelbarrow: Morning File, Wednesday, August 2, 2017

August 2, 2017 By Tim Bousquet and Erica Butler 3 Comments

Today’s Morning File is co-written by Tim Bousquet and Erica Butler. Tim is writing and will be publishing a news article later today. News 1. Another dead whale found in the Gulf of St Lawrence The body count for right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is now 10, reports the CBC. That means in […]

A person in Indigenous ceremonial dress and a boy dance on the red sand of a beach on the Minas Basin.

Episode 46 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Bretten Hannam has been working on Wildhood, in one way or another, for the past decade, pausing to make multiple short films and their debut feature, North Mountain (2015), an experience that took years itself to recover from. Wildhood is the story of a Two-Spirit Mi’kmaq teen who sets off to find the mother he thought was dead, a gorgeously rendered, gentle journey of self-discovery. In 2020 it became the first feature film to shoot in Nova Scotia in a post-COVID world. Brett stopped in on their way to the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to chat challenges, considerations of community, and opening FIN tonight.

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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.

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