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Let’s play The Game of Halifax!

Morning File, Thursday, February 27, 2020

February 27, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 7 Comments

News 1. Indigenous students at Hants East high school say they face tougher suspensions Aly Thompson at CBC reports on Indigenous students at Hants East Rural High School who say they are being discriminated against when it comes to punishments from staff. Thompson spoke with several students, including 16-year-old Xavier Sack from the Sipekneꞌkatik First […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, Aly Thompson, anti-Indigenous racism, bullying, Caora McKenna, Councillor James Goyetche, councillor Shawn Cleary, David Shepherd, East Hants Rural High School, Erin MacInnis, Fairbnb Coalition, Game of Halifax, Gary Adam, Kelly Cameron, Laurie Graham, Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Metro X commuter service, Michael Zwaagstra, Miguel Greer, MLA Hugh MacKay, Pink Shirt Day, Premier Stephen McNeil, PREVNet, Richmond County Council, short term rentals, Stuart Peddle, Susan McClure, Suzette Belliveau, Thorben Wieditz, Tom Ayers, Tourism Accommodations Registration Act, Travis Price, Warden Brian Marchand, Wendy Craig, Xavier Sack

Fawning over robots

Morning File, Wednesday, January 15, 2020

January 15, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

News 1. City keeps policing report secret The city is keeping a $200,000 consultants’ report into police services private. Councillor Lorelei Nicoll requested the report in 2018 as a way to identify service gaps and ways to save money. The report has been completed, but you can’t read it. Zane Woodford writes about the report’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AI, Andrew Rankin, Astra Taylor, automation, booting cars, councillor Matt Whitman, drunk tanks, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Emma Smith, Enginuity, Erin MacInnis, fake news, fauxtomation, Finland, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, fires South End, four-day work week, Harry Critchley, Joshua Bernas, Leah Genge, Mary-Dan Johnston, Matt Whitman and Uber, One-Shot Parking Solutions, Paul Palmeter, propaganda, Ramsey McGlazer, robots, Uber in Halifax, Victoria Walton

A bunch of uninspired glass schlock may soon clutter up Wyse Road in Dartmouth

Morning File, Wednesday, August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Compensation for Glen Assoun “Nova Scotia’s justice minister says officials in his department and at the federal level are working on ‘early’ compensation for Glen Assoun,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: In an interview Tuesday, Justice Minister Mark Furey said no decision has been made yet about an inquiry or an apology […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdilahi Elmi, Angel Moore, before the courts, Carnival Corp. & PLC, cruise ship discharge, Erin MacInnis, Ghosns, Glen Assoun compensation, Icarus Report August 21 2019, Indigenous journalist, Jan deRoos, Jody Wilson-Raybould, John MacLeod, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Kayla Hepworth, Mariah Baker, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre hotel, Pam Berman, Peter Ziobrowski, Princess Cruises, Robert Devet, Wyse Road development, Yvette d'Entremont

Here’s your chance to speak on the Cornwallis issue

Morning File, Monday, June 3, 2019

June 3, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Health care non-crisis “Last week’s ‘mutual’ firing of the province’s deputy health minister shows just how unwilling our premier is to acknowledge our healthcare crisis — let alone do something about it,” writes Stephen Kimber. Click here to read “Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare.” This article is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Perry, Alex Cooke, Atlantic Gold, Biocon conference, Chinas Ambassador to Canada, Erin MacInnis, gold mining, Innovation Hub of Nova Scotia, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Lacewood bus terminal, Last Gamestore, Lu Shaye, Mary Campbell, Premier Stephen McNeil, St. Barbara Limited

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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