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Let’s daylight the other buried streams: Morning File, Tuesday, February 6, 2018

February 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Needlessly institutionalized People have been locked into a psychiatric ward at the Nova Scotia Hospital for “no medical or legal reason,” says lawyer Vince Calderhead. Jennifer Henderson reports: The complainants in this four-year-old human rights complaint are two intellectually disabled adults (a third complainant died) who spent most of their adult lives locked […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, Daylighting streams, Elmwood Hotel, Irving and NAFTA, Peter Ziobrowski

One Great City! Morning File, Monday, January 22, 2018

January 22, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

1. Willow Tree “Can we trust the Armoyans to act in the public interest?” asks Stephen Kimber: No. That’s not their job. But it is councillors’ job. Their eagerness last week to say yes to the Armoyan scheme to trade approval of a 25-storey tower for a few affordable housing baubles tells you more than […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blake William Jackson, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park, Const. Carol McIsaac, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Elmwood Hotel, Examineradio 143, homicide in Dartmouth, Jack Julian, Jacob Boon, John Robert "Jack" Buckley, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Keith Corcoran, sexual assault of a student, Willow Tree Tower

Five Saturday morning updates: Lafarge, Examineradio, wilderness park purchase, Elmwood, and Mr. Big

January 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

I’m not sure if El Jones is writing today or not. Honestly, I don’t know how she does all she does and pumps out a weekly column — it’s perfectly understandable that she needs to take a week off every now and then. But yesterday’s Morning File was on the short side, and a few […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness, Elmwood Hotel, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Mr. Big

Matt Whitman does something stupid: Morning File, Friday, October 27, 2017

October 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Sexual assaults Stats Canada yesterday released an analysis of police-reported sexual assaults in Canada. A synopsis of those findings leads the report: Over a six-year period between 2009 and 2014, police reported 117,238 sexual assaults in Canada where sexual assault was the most serious violation in the incident. Almost all (98%) police-reported sexual […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: councillor Matt Whitman understands Mexicans, councillor Shawn Cleary, Elmwood Hotel, Irving Oil, Jacob Boon, Lac Megantic, marijuana is racist, Michael Gorman, sexual assault statistics, Yarmouth ferry

Halifax financial advisor John LeBlanc wants Google to turn over the names of people who complained about him: Morning File, Friday, July 14, 2017

July 14, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Chronicle Herald strike “The Nova Scotia government has called for an inquiry into the 18-month-old labour dispute between the Chronicle Herald, Canada’s largest independently owned daily newspaper, and the union that represents the paper’s editorial staff,” reports the Canadian Press: Ingrid Bulmer, president of the Halifax Typographical Union, said the government’s move was in response to the union’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CFW Group demands commenters' names, Chronicle Herald strike, Daewoo, Elmwood Hotel, Ingrid Bulmer, John LeBlanc, Michael Gorman, Ryan Cameron, South Barrington Historic District, Stephen Archibald weeping willow gravestones, The Icarus Report July 14 2017

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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