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Dead murderers don’t murder again: Morning File, Monday, August 29, 2016

August 29, 2016 By Russell Gragg 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Russell Gragg. I’m the producer of Examineradio, the Halifax Examiner’s weekly podcast. I also handle the syndication for Canadaland, Canada’s only media criticism program. I’m the Station Director at CKDU Radio, and co-host of The Commute, the station’s Friday afternoon drive-time show. I don’t really sleep anymore. News Views Noticed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, assault, boycott, ferry, Graham Steele, Halifax-Needham, Lisa Roberts, racial profiling, Sobeys, taxi, Yarmouth

Harbour-hoppin’ to Yarmouth: Examineradio, episode #47

February 5, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

Today, we speak with interim NDP Leader Maureen MacDonald, Deputy Minister for the Department of Seniors, Simon d’Entremont, and Judy McPhee, the Executive Director of Pharmaceutical Services for Nova Scotia. The question for each of them: Is the McNeil government attempting to line the province’s coffers with money from seniors’ drug plans? Also, Liberal-connected billionaires […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: blueberries, Examineradio, ferry, Judy McPhee, Le Glavine, Maureen MacDonald, Oxford, Pharmacare, podcast, seniors, Simon d'Entremont, Yarmouth

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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