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Selling your credibility is a bad idea

Morning File, Tuesday, November 3, 2020

November 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 11 Comments

Every November, the Halifax Examiner holds its annual subscription drive. Your subscriptions are what keep this enterprise going. The breaking stories, the opinion pieces, the first-person essays, the sharp commentary, the Morning Files — none of this would happen without your subscriptions. There are no ads, there is no branded content, there are no grants. […]

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Can we have a fuller conversation about racism?

Morning File, Monday, October 19, 2020

October 19, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Arrests in violent attacks The RCMP announced two arrests over the weekend related to the violence in Southwest Nova Scotia. The first arrest was related to the attack on Chief Michael Sack: RCMP charge man with assault of Chief Sack  October 17, 2020, New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia…Meteghan RCMP have laid charges in relation […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam LeRue, anti-Indigenous racism, archaeology, Chief Michael Sack, Chris Gerald Melanson, Const. Kenneth O’Brien, COVID-19, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, Elizabeth McSheffrey, exposure advisory, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan, Great Lakes, Indigenous fishers, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, Keith Matheny, lobster fishery, Meteghan, Mi'kmaq fishers, Michael Burton Nickerson, moderate livelihood fishermen, Patty Cuttell, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Racism, Saulnierville, Straits of Mackinac, women on Halifax council

Minimum wage increase is both too much and not enough

Morning File, Friday, January 31, 2020

January 31, 2020 By Katie Ingram 12 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Joan Baxter reviews the new ministerial orders requiring environmental monitoring of the pumping of wastewater from Northern Pulp Mill into Boat Harbour as the mill winds down operations. Baxter finds that the orders are appropriately stringent, however: As the Halifax Examine reported here, in October 2018, the pipeline sprung a large […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Barbara Darby and Airbnb, Becky Dingwell, car explosion Quinpool, coronavirus, Dalhousie Student Union, Elizabeth McSheffrey, John McPhee, Luc Erjavec, Marcel Tarnogorski, Marie-France LeBlanc, Megan MacBridge, mental health walk in clinic, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Minister Leo Glavine, Museum of Natural History, NDP leader Gary Burrill, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Scotia minimum wage increase, parking garage Summer Street, Premier Stephen McNeil, transit safety, Wanderers Ground

Fifteen years in, Nova Scotia might just fix tax assessment inequities

Morning File, Thursday, January 30, 2020

January 30, 2020 By Erica Butler 14 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp confirms extension to April 30 News 95.7 has reported on a Northern Pulp announcement stating the company has received permission from Nova Scotia’s Minister of the Environment to be able to continue discharging into Boat Harbour until the end of April 2020. New pulp processing waste is still not allowed, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Road bus lanes, Boat Harbour, Brett Bundale, Capped Assessment Program (CAP), Elizabeth McSheffrey, French River watershed, Laura Fraser, Lionel Desmond, Louise Delisle, Margaret MacQuarrie, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp extension, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM), Pam Berman, Paul Palmeter, property tax assessments, Shelburne well, Sobeys bag, Tatamagouche water supply, Westmount

A non-existent service is Nova Scotia’s top attraction

Morning File, Wednesday, December 4, 2019

December 4, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1. Cassidy Bernard’s ex-boyfriend arrested for her murder Yesterday, RCMP announced second-degree murder charges against 20-year-old Austin Isadore. He is accused of killing Bernard last year. Isadore was her ex-boyfriend and is the father of Bernard’s twin daughters. An unbylined CBC story says: Janey Michael, who is president of the We’koqma’q Native Women’s Association, said she’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Austin Isadore, bicycle tourism, Cassidy Bernard, Cat ferry service, Chris Surette, Christopher Garnier appeal, cycling tourism, development, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Erynn Ahern, fishermen's strike, helen Craig, Homer Stevens, Janey Michael, Jim Haggerty, Judy Saunders, land-use regulations, Mark Scott, Mayann Francis, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Patsy MacKay, Robert Devet, Roger Burrill, Sea King Drive development, Sharon Davis-Murdoch, Silver Donald Cameron, The Education of Everett Richardson: The story of the Nova Scotia fishermen's strike 1970-71, unionism, William Craig, Yarmouth ferry, zoning laws

Drink lead, kid

Morning File, Thursday, November 7, 2019

November 7, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

November subscription drive Stephen Kimber has been around the Examiner for so long, it’s easy to take his weekly columns for granted. Monday morning: Kimber’s got a new column. I got to know Kimber while doing my MFA at King’s over the last couple of years. He was the cohort leader for my class and […]

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Puppygate: After being arrested for animal cruelty and threatened with jail, a Dartmouth man wants his dogs back from the SPCA

Morning File, Wednesday, September 11, 2019

September 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Glen Assoun compensation “One of the most recognizable wrongfully convicted Canadians is adding his voice to the chorus calling for early compensation for Glen Assoun, the Nova Scotia man who spent 17 years in prison for a murder he did not commit,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: Few people can understand what […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: animal cruelty, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Bernard Canning, Canadian Geodetic Vertical Datum (CGVD), crane incident, Dartmouth Sportsplex naming rights, David Milgaard, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Glen Assoun compensation, Harbour Cities Veterinary Hospital, Kendall Worth, Kleinschmidt Associates Canada, Lunenburg Harbour sewage, Michael Gorman, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Puppygate, SPCA, Tufts Cove oil leak

A look at who’s paying less than a living wage

Morning File, Friday, August 16, 2019

August 16, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. Indigenous employee talks about harassment at CFB Halifax Ashley Burke with CBC talks with Steve Morrisey who’s now on sick leave from his job at DND from the harassment he says he suffered from a superior on the job. Morrisey tells Burke “it was hell.” It’s been just one complete disaster. The harassment […]

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Panglossian vox pop at the Herald: not a contrary word to be heard

Morning File, Wednesday, June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Steve Craig Steve Craig won the byelection for MLA in Sackville-Cobequid. (Preliminary results are above.) The district has long been solidly NDP, so a PC victory is notable, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. The NDP candidate, Lara Fawthrop, didn’t have Craig’s name recognition, and Craig is more on the “progressive” […]

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We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport

Morning File, Friday, June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. SIRT is not equipped to investigate rape by cops The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized training in dealing with victims of sexual assault. Reporter Maggie Rahr brings us the case of […]

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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