Education Reform Act (Bill 72)

How to make money “helping” poor people (hint: don’t be poor). Morning File, Monday, March 5, 2018

March 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. The Horne case Writes Stephen Kimber: Neither Capital Health nor the Nova Scotia Health Authority has ever publicly apologized to [Gabrielle] Horne for years of bullying and harassment, while successive provincial governments chose to look the other way, giving carte blanche to the health authority to hire hugely expensive, by-the-hour outside lawyers to bully […]

Teachers won’t strike: Morning File, Friday, March 2, 2018

March 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Teachers The government tabled its Education Reform Act (Bill 72) yesterday. You can read the text of the bill here, and the government’s press release about it here. The Nova Scotia Teachers Union then issued the following release: NSTU suspends job action Following numerous compromises by the McNeil government, the NSTU will not […]

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Episode 47 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

The Canadian television multi-hyphenate Sheri Elwood has spent the past two summers down in Hubbards making Moonshine, a semi-autobiographical drama about the family that runs a summer resort and its adjacent venue (aka The Shore Club). In a spare 15 minutes from creating, co-writing, and directing the second season, she phones in from the shore to talk about being “repatriated” from American TV (and the differences of working in it versus here), and why now felt like the time for a show like this. Listen to the full episode here.

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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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