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Province to abandon computer system at heart of Freedom of Information security failure

October 12, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The Halifax Examiner has learned the province will replace the Amanda 7 computer system used to access and process requests for government information. A tender will go out within the next five months, almost a half-year since the online portal used by journalists and the public to file Freedom of Information requests shut down. Online...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: AMANDA 7, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Department of Internal Services, FOIPOP web portal data breach, Jennifer Henderson, Office of Information and Privacy, Sandra Cascadden, Unisys

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

How we obtained the search warrant documents

May 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Mary Campbell Leave a Comment

Here’s how we obtained the documents. First, a quick primer on search warrants. To get a search warrant, police have to go to a judge or Justice of the Peace and submit a document called an “Information To Obtain a Search Warrant,” or ITO. The ITO lays out the police investigation, what police know, and […]

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

Examineradio 154: Convention centre problems? Halifax, you were warned!

April 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Urban studies prof Heywood Sanders, an expert on convention centres, weighs in on ours. Sanders came to Halifax in November 2010 to warn city councillors against approving the deal for the convention centre: In response to a question of clarification by Councillor Rankin, Dr. Sanders explained that if the base assumption of number of events […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Province House Tagged With: Convention centre, Examineradio 154, FOIPOP web portal data breach, Heywood Sanders

PRICED OUT

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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

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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.

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