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Lesser-known Nova Scotia histories

Morning File, Wednesday, September 16, 2020

September 16, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 7 Comments

News 1. Dartmouth development to include affordable and accessible housing, but it needs help from government Zane Woodford reports on the plans for new affordable and accessible housing development in Dartmouth that’s facing some hurdles. The project by Affirmative Ventures, which released the design this week, will be located on Main Street, across from the McDonalds. Half of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 811 backlog, Canadian Institute of Food Safety, Charles Saunders, COVID-19, Emma Davie, end of the buffet, feminist analysis of mass shooting, Historic Nova Scotia, Jeanne Sarson, Joanne Watts, Jon Tattrie, Linda MacDonald, Maggie Chickness, Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, restaurant buffet, Roger Gillis, Sharon Murray, Stephanie Taylor, Troy Wiggins

It’s not a war, it’s an education

Morning File, Tuesday, April 7, 2020

April 7, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1.  Graphed: COVID-19 in Nova Scotia The latest charts are here, and they include the 31 new cases announced yesterday. I really like these charts, showing total and daily breakdowns of new cases, hospitalizations, total tests, and so on. They provide an easy visualization to help understand how things are changing, day-by-day. They also […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 3D printing, Aaron E. Sanchez, Aya Al-Hakim, Brooke Gladstone, Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), coronavirus, COVID-19, domestic violence, Emma Davie, Eula Bliss, exercise, Gerald McCowan, Heather Comeau, masks, Michelle Fortier, Muyu Lyu, Noushin Ziafati, nursing homes, OmiSoore Dryden, pandemic, ParticipAction, Preston Mulligan, racism and pandemics, Shaina Luck, Shiva Nourpanah, Stephen Beckett, Tracey MacKenzie, Tracey Tulloch, war as metaphor

Puzzling developments with Cape Breton’s non-existent container terminal

Morning File, Monday, January 20, 2020

January 20, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Walmart incident “When a young black woman accused the Halifax police of racially profiling and abusing her in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at Walmart last week, officials did what officials do,” writes Stephen Kimber. “They obfuscated, they passed the buck, they pretended to take it seriously.” Click here to read “Can […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brookfield Asset Management, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), Desmond Cole, Egyptian artifacts, Emma Davie, facebook, Frank McKenna, Genesee & Wyoming, Geoff MacLelllan, Jack Julian, Jim Pomeroy, King's Co-op Bookstore, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, mummies, Museum of Natural History, new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) RFP, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Paul MacKay, Peter Bigelow, racial profiling, Russian Internet Research Agency, Santina Rao, Sydney container terminal, YMCA

Three years on a rusty ship

Morning File, Tuesday, December 31, 2019

December 31, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve! We were going to have a quiet get-together with friends, but because the roads sound like they will be terrible, we’re staying home instead and I’m cooking dinner out of the great new Korean cookbook I got for Christmas. I hadn’t even twigged that it’s the end of the decade until […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: American Sign Language, Andrew Lapham, Brett Bundale, Brian Hayes, Canadarm, CBC, Charles Pullam-Moore, city fathers, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, D&D Maritime, Doug Poulton, Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Emma Davie, free transit, George Lucas, Isaac Olson, Jane Eyre, Jim Balsillie, Jim Rich, John Risley, Linda Campbell, MacDonald Dettweiler and Associates Ltd, MADD Halifax, Maritime Sign language, Maxar Technologies, Minister Steven Guilbeault, MV Ethan, Nicholas Christenfeld, Northern Private Capital, Nova Scotia Advocate, Rachel Emmanuel, Raymond Sheppard, Richard Thompson, spoiler culture, Star Wars, Vyacheslav Borshchevskij

The Cory Taylor case: Nova Scotia’s racist context and cops investigating cops

Morning File, Wednesday, October 2, 2019

October 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Cory Taylor decision Yesterday, Justice Gerald Moir issued a decision in Cory Taylor’s appeal of the Police Complaints Commissioner’s dismissal of his complaint that Halifax police “arrested him without cause, used unnecessary force to do so, and caused him serious injury.” Taylor is Black. At the time of the August 2017 incident, Taylor was […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ahsan Habib, Alicia Draus, Chad Hudson, Cory Taylor, Emma Davie, Fred Sanford, John Wesley Chisholm, Justice Gerald Moir, Michael Gorman, Minas Tidal, Pempa'q In-stream Tidal Energy Project, People's Party of Canada, Police Complaints Commission, Spicer Marine Energy Inc., stadium traffic, Sustainable Marine Energy (SME), tidal power, Yarmouth ferry delay, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Yvette d'Entremont

Child care workers go round and round with bus complaints

Morning File, Friday, September 20, 2019

September 20, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Blackface Writes El Jones: When the furor over Trudeau’s Blackface photos dies down, to be referred to as an “embarrassing incident” or “controversial,” Black people like Abdilahi Elmi will still be facing deportation. Muslim Canadians will still be on the no-fly list. White nationalist editorials will still be commissioned by major newspapers under […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Africville, anti-Black racism, Boat Harbour, bus drivers refusing service, Chad Lindsay, charity, charity and social media, Count Me In, Emma Davie, Erin DiCarlo, food banks, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, International Decade for People of African Descent, Joseph Farrow, Julianne Harnish, Kate Gilmore, Lisa Cameron, Minister Tony Ince, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, piano lessons, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), political speed dating, Premier Stephen McNeil, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sexual assault, The Nook

Diminishing Dissent

Morning File, Tuesday, July 2, 2019

July 2, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is by Philip Moscovitch, while Tim is in court for the Assoun hearing (see Item #2). News 1. Shelburne School for Boys Writes Stephen Kimber: Was the government’s compensation program [in response to sexual abuse at the Shelburne School for Boys] crafted out of a well-intentioned desire to allow victims to tell […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Alex Khasnabish, Brunswick News, Central Nova Correctional Facility book club, Chelsea Murray, Emma Davie, entangled right whale, Gaby d'Entremont, Glen Assoun documents, Halifax Public Library, Hilary Skov-Nielsen, Joe Howlett, John Howard Society, Michael Cosgrove, Michael de Adder, Moira Brown, Nicole Munro, Page Turners Book Club, Phil Moscovitch on Libraries, Radical Imagination Film and Discussion Series, right whales, Shawn Gregory, Trump cartoon

Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

Paradise is lost, but no one much cares

Morning File, Tuesday, November 13, 2018

November 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 14 Comments

Subscription drive If you haven’t yet, please consider subscribing. 1. Press-conference journalism “I’ve never been a fan of press-conference journalism,” writes Stephen Kimber: It may be a marginal improvement on canned-quotes press-release journalism when it comes to public accountability, but most press conferences I’ve attended are little more than carefully staged theatre pieces designed to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside Business Association, California wildfire, cargo plane crash Halifax airport, Chico, Emma Davie, Flight GG 4854, Jennifer Henderson, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Paul Wozney, Philip Hamilton, Provincial Advisory Council on Education (PACE), right whales, St. Patrick's Rectory addition, Val the police horse, Yvette d'Entremont

The convention centre is running a $4 million operating deficit this year… and that’s just the beginning of the costs

Morning File, Monday, September 10, 2018

September 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Mehta Stephen Kimber writes: Last winter, Acadia University said it was investigating [Rick] Mehta “for the manner in which you are expressing views that you are alleged to be advancing or supporting and, in some instances, time that you are spending on these issues in the classroom.” We need to parse that sentence. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Argyle Developments, Burnside jail demonstration, Convention centre operating loss 2018, Councillor Sam Austin, Emma Davie, Events East, Haley Ryan, HLT, Hurricane Florence, Ian Fairclough, Joe Ramia, Katy Jean, Michael Gorman, Michael Tutton, Minister of Justice Mark Furey, Mother Canada, Norma Jean MacPhee, Norwegian Dawn, Nova Centre tax assessment, racist graffiti, restaurants vs young children, Rick Mehta, Trade Centre Limited

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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