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This Cole Harbour council candidate shows why we need a municipal lobbyist registry

Morning File, Friday, September 25, 2020

September 25, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Uber “The provincial government is making it easier to be a taxi or Uber driver, loosening the requirements to obtain the licence needed to be a driver for hire,” reports Zane Woodford: The move comes less than 48 hours after Halifax regional council passed bylaw amendments to legalize and regulate ride-hailing. Those amendments […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) competing designs, Associate Chief Justice Patrick Duncan, Big Moon, Blair Rhodes, Convention centre, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, COVID Alert app, COVID-19, Dan Harrison, EC Petroleum, Events East, Jamie McNeil, jury trial, Justice Patrick Duncan, Liberal Party, living wage, lobbyist registry, m5 consulting, Mike Savage, Mitch McIntyre, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Petroleum Geochemistry Consulting, privacy breach WCAT, Public Health Canada, tidal power, tidal turbine retrieval, Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal (WCAT), Yvonne Colbert

A virtual disaster: the Halifax Convention Centre

Morning File, Monday, July 13, 2020

July 13, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

1. McNeil and workers Writes Stephen Kimber: Our premier prefers to attack those who dare to question him. Just ask the unarmed, unionized compliance officer recovering from an assault at our border, or the Crown attorneys reprimanded for trying to protect their collective rights. Click here to read “Does Stephen McNeil believe in workers’ rights? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Employee Benefits Conference, Canadian Medical Association Annual Meeting, convention centre hotel, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dawn Baldwin, Events East, Hal-Con, Halifax Convention Centre, Hotel Barmecide, Laura Penny, Nova Centre, pandemic, Rogers, Sutton Place Hotel, Suzanne Fougere, virtual conventions, virtual meetings, Zoom meetings

Halifax expects the convention centre to lose $5.6 million this year — and that doesn’t include the impact of COVID-19

June 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Halifax already expects to be on the hook for $2.8 million in losses from the convention centre this fiscal year, but with more than half of the centre’s events already cancelled due to COVID-19 and the long-term convention outlook even bleaker than before, the real […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Convention centre, convention centre losses, coronavirus, COVID-19, Events East, Heywood Sanders, pandemic

The public company that runs the convention centre will soon be held even less accountable

Morning File, Monday, September 24, 2018

September 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Right to “no” week “Happy Right to Know Week!’” writes Stephen Kimber. “It starts today in case you hadn’t noticed. Why would you?” Here in Stephen McNeil’s Nova Scotia — where it is always Their Right Not to Tell Us Day/Week/Month/Year/Mandate/Ever — we should mark the occasion by lowering the flag to half-mast […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ben Eoin, Bill 51, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Danny Chedrawe, Design Review Committee, Doyle Block, Eddie Rouvalis, Events East, Halifax Convention Centre competitiveness, John Leland, Mary Campbell, McMansion Hell, Morden Schmidt, Robie and College towers, Robie Street construction map, Steve Parcell, The Village Voice, view of Citadel Hill, Westwood Construction

Welcome to the new Halifax Convention Centre! Here’s your $100 fine for smoking on the sidewalk

Morning File, Wednesday, September 12, 2018

September 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Burnside jail update The prisoners at the Burnside jail have ended their 20-day strike and have issued a statement, which reads in part: Dear supporters, You are commended for your work on our behalf. None of us thought that we would gain so much support by sharing our conditions with the public. The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside jail death, Burnside jail strike, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Koch Foundation, Councillor Sam Austin, death in custody, DeSmog Blog, dry communities, Events East, Grafton Street glory Hole, habeas corpus applications, HalifaxToday website, Liquor Control Act, Matthew Lambert, Minister Karen Casey, Peter Ziobrowski, Randy Riley, Robert Sanford, Smoking ban, storm cheat sheet, Supreme Court Justice James Chipman

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

Bad behaviour everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, August 2, 2018

August 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. An apology The Halifax Examiner acknowledges that the Armour Group Limited neither hired, nor fired, the janitors previously employed to clean Founder’s Square. Further, The Halifax Examiner retracts, and apologizes for the allegation that Armour Group engaged in racial discrimination in determining to no longer engage with GDI Integrated Facility Services. The original article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Winn, Andrew Rankin, architectural drawings, Armour Group Limited, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, Bill Turpin, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park, Cassie Williams, Catherine Tully, Chronic Relief, Convention centre, councillor Waye Mason, development proposal Robie and Pepperell, dispensary fire, Drug Information System (DIS), Events East, Founders Square, Fred MacGillivray, Harold MacKay, Icarus Report August 2, Jacque Dubé, Joe Ramia, Leitches Creek, Nova Centre appeal, Parker Donham, Robyn Keddy, Shambhala community, Sobeys pharmacist privacy breach, Stephanie Domet, Sunshine Report, Ticket Atlantic, Trade Centre Limited

Why is the city paying for Fred MacGillivray’s superpension?

Morning File, Friday, July 27, 2018

July 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Retired firefighter sues city, claiming racial discrimination A Black man who is a retired firefighter has filed a lawsuit against the Halifax fire department, alleging that he has been discriminated against because of his race. George Cromwell’s detailed Statement of Claim references incidents that date back to soon after amalgamation of the predecessor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, Events East, Fred MacGillivray, Gottingen Street bus lane, Stephen Archibald and chairs, Trade Centre Limited debt, Zane Woodford

Birds of prey and the meaning of life, Shearwater edition

Morning File, Friday, April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

1. St. Margaret’s Bay development Last week, Philip Moscovitch reviewed the largest residential development ever proposed for St. Margaret’s Bay — and the divisions in the community it has caused. Moscovitch now follows that up with a report on a meeting held Wednesday night to take public input on the proposal. Click here to read “Talking […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angel Moore, Biomass explained in four tweets, DND falconer needed, Don Bauder, Events East, Halifax Convention Centre, Hartlen's Point golf course, Heywood Sanders, incentive payments to conventions, Jean Laroche, Liberals and the convention centre, new Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Pam Glode-Desrochers, Philip Moscovitch, Rambo the raccoon, Raymond Plourde, sensitivity training for MLAs, Shearwater air base, St. Margaret’s Bay development

Polishing a turd: Mayor Mike Savage says the fiscal disaster of the convention centre is a “good news story”

Morning File, Wednesday, April 11, 2018

April 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News 1. Densely calculated density In a Herculean reporting effort, Jennifer Henderson dives deep into the Centre Plan and what it means in terms of the dollar values in the deals the city makes with developers. In particular: In return for “public benefits” — affordable housing units, public art, and the like — the city […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: advertorials, Alex Quon, BP drilling on Scotian Shelf part 2, Cabot Links and Inverness Beach Park, Convention Centre fiscal disaster, councillor Waye Mason, Erica Butler, Events East, Freedom of Information website down, Keith Doucette, Mary Campbell, Mayor Mike Savage, Neal Livingston, pedestrian struck by bus Spring Garden Road, Scotia Green Dispensary employee busted, Scotia Green Dispensary robbed

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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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