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The cost of removing contaminated fill from the Queen’s Marque site has increased by $1 million

Originally budgeted at about $1 million, removing heavy metal-laden fill now is expected to cost $2 million, and the province is covering the bill.

July 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet

Site remediation at the Queen’s Marque site is expected to cost $2 million — more than twice the $950,000 budgeted for it. The entire cost will covered by the provincial government. In 2010, the Waterfront Development Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with the Armour Group for development of the Queen’s Landing site....

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Episode 38 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Dana Beeler leads the rock band Hello Delaware, has her hands in all facets of the music industry—just last week she returned to Music Nova Scotia after a year at CKDU—and hates the patriarchy. She and Tara are from the same town (Lantz, it’s the worst) so after some rage-tinged nostalgia about adolescence they’ll get into post-pandemic perspectives about music, old attitudes—that would be the many all-male music festivals on the docket this summer—and what Nova Scotia Music Week could look like in November. 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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