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Atlantic Gold meeting fallout continues

Morning File, Thursday, May 30, 2019

May 30, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Straight Outta Spryfield “After a month of waiting with boat ready to go, a new ferry service across the Northwest Arm is set to begin service sometime this week, or early next,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: David Backman will be running his new 22-foot saltwater pontoon boat from the dock near […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allscripts, armoured vehicle, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Gold and RCMP, Atlantic Gold public meeting, Ava Czapalay, Brian Krebs, Cape Breton Regional Police Services (CBRPS), Catherine Berliner, Chuck Porter, David Backman, Denise Perret, Deputy Minister shakeup, Donna Macdonald, First American Financial Corp., FOIPOP security failure, Jeff Conrad, Joanne Munro, John Perkins, Justin Huston, Kelliann Dean, Lindsay Souvannarath, Mary Campbell, Melissa MacKinnon, Minister Mark Furey, Minister Ralph Goodale, Mobile Command Center, Nancy MacLellan, Natasha Clarke, Northwest Arm ferry, One Patient One Record, Patricia Arab, Paul Schneidereit, Paul Sobey, Peter Ziobrowski, Sandra Cascadden, Staff Sgt Jodie Wilson, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), tech startups, Tom Marrie, Tracey Barbrick, Tracey Taweel, Unisys Canada

SageCrowd, Ogden Pond, and alleged corporate crime

Morning File, Tuesday, January 15, 2019

January 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. FOIPOP security failure This morning both the privacy commissioner and the auditor general released their reports on the FOIPOP website security failure. I don’t have time right now to give a thorough review of each document, but my quick scan reveals a couple of things of note. First, privacy commissioner Catherine Tully tells us […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abridean International Inc, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), BeneFACT Consulting Group, Catherine Tully, corporate crime, David Gough, First Angel Network, FOIPOP security failure, Gerard Wadden, Gloria Feldt, Jim Smith Jr, Justin Gittelman, Marshall Goldsmith, Ogden pond, Peter Bidgood, Peter Moreira, SageCrowd, Scientific Research and Experimental Development Program (SR&ED), Sean Sears, Ying Tam

I missed out on Inspiration Village, so all I have is this wintery mix of despair and art jokes

Morning File, Thursday, November 29, 2018

November 29, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive Only one more day of these annoying reminders! And only one more day to take advantage of the free T-shirt offer with each annual subscription. Click here to subscribe. 1. Oil spill “Nearly two weeks after the largest-ever oil spill in Newfoundland history, the parties involved remain tight-lipped about the incident and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Cape Breton Spectator, Destination Cape Breton Association (DCBA), Elizabeth Westersund, Evangeline Colman-Sadd, FOIPOP security failure, Guy Laflamme, Halifax Transit bus maintenance, Husky Energy, Inspiration Village, Lee Berthiaume, Mary Campbell, Mary Tulle, Michael Gorman, oil spill Newfoundland, pedestrian struck Arklow Drive, pedestrian struck Canso Causeway, pedestrian struck Main St. Wolfville, Sandra Cascadden, SeaRose, Stephen Archibald and Sandford Drawbridge, stunting Bedford Highway, stunting Highway 111, tourism stats, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman

Now that the Leibovitz collection tax scam has failed, the Nova Scotia government is going to pay Leibovitz $2.3 million

Morning File, Thursday, May 24, 2018

May 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Fool’s Gold, Part 2 The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator have co-published the second instalment of Joan Baxter’s investigation into mining in Nova Scotia. Click here to read Part 2 of “Fool’s Gold: Nova Scotia’s Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals,” which looks at gold mining operations on the Eastern Shore. This article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Annie Leibovitz photographs, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board (CCPERB), David Baines, FOIPOP security failure, Mary Campbell, Minister Leo Glavine, Mintz family, Nancy Noble, Preston Mulligan, Sydney Harbour dredge money, tax scam

How Loblaw is using Instacart to screw workers

Morning File, Thursday, May 17, 2018

May 17, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Fool’s Gold Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator published the first instalment of “Fool’s Gold: Nova Scotia’s Myopic Pursuit of Metals & Minerals,” a four-part series by author Joan Baxter on the province’s ill-conceived search for wealth through mining. Part 1 of the series, “Welcome to the Gold Rush,” focuses on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bar Harbor, Chronicle Herald Instacart press release, FOIPOP security failure, gig economy, Henry Aldridge, Instacart, Loblaw, Loblaw grocery delivery, Mary Campbell

From who me to #metoo

In which Stephen McNeil continues to be Stephen McNeil, dismissing calls to apologize to a young man for the province's own security failure. But there is also some small hint of change in the #metoo air. We take our good news where we find it.

May 13, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Why am I not surprised? Last Monday, Halifax police dropped all charges against the 19-year-old they’d arrested less than a month before for “unauthorized use of a computer with fraudulent intent.” The fact is this case has been a cock-up from the beginning. Even before the beginning. Perhaps especially before the beginning. Let’s review. On...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: FOIPOP security failure, Gerald Regan, Stephen McNeil

Examineradio 157: unionizing the people who do the necessary work

May 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

This week we interview Darious Mirshahi, an organizer with the Service Employees International Union, about his organization’s efforts to unionize Halifax janitors, baristas, and other front line workers. Also, we discuss the Halifax Examiner’s successful court action to unseal the search warrant that led to the arrest of a 19-year-old man in the FOIPOP security […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Darious Mirshahi, Examineradio 157, FOIPOP security failure, podcast, Service Employees International Union

What we know about the security failure

Morning File, Friday, May 11, 2018

May 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

I’m a panelist at the Media and the Law Conference this morning, and as usual I’m having to spend the last hours before the conference to prep. So this is a short Morning File. News 1. We’ve published the search warrant documents On Tuesday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator obtained court documents related to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: David Coles, FOIPOP security failure, FOIPOP web portal data breach, ITO unsealed, Jack Julian, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Judge Judith Gass, Marty Ward, Michael Tutton, Nova Scotia's privacy breach, search warrant

Documents show how provincial employees misled Halifax police in the FOIPOP security failure

May 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Mary Campbell 3 Comments

Highlights of this article: • Provincial government employees who were made aware of the security failure with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website told Halifax police that the site had been “hacked” and that nearly 10,000 files “were taken” — which clearly overstated the nature of the case. • The 19-year-old […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, News, Province House Tagged With: FOIPOP security failure, FOIPOP web portal data breach, Nova Scotia's privacy breach, search warrant

I’ve been breached!

Morning File, Friday, April 27, 2018

April 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

1. Privacy “breach” I got the letter. I hadn’t checked my PO box for a few days, but yesterday I finally got the registered letter telling me my personal information was “breached” via the province’s Freedom of Information webpage screw-up. It was pouring down rain, like cats and dogs and goats and other small animals, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, David Fraser, David Patriquin, East Coast Forensic Hospital, FOIPOP security failure, Freedom of Information webpage screw-up, Liv Colley, Maritime Beer Accord, Michael Tutton, Northern Pulp Mill's "sponsored content" in the Chronicle Herald, NSGEU president Jason MacLean, pregnant nurse attacked, privacy "breach", Stephen Archibald went to Washington

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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