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“COVID cluster” info misleads health care providers — and the public

April 29, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The Nova Scotia Health Authority has mapped out “COVID clusters” by postal code, and that information is being mistakenly used such that people within those postal codes are being denied medical attention. I’ve obtained the list of 10 postal codes, which are described by the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: COVID-19 clusters, Dr. Robert Strang, Francoise Baylis, health care, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), triage protocol

Françoise Baylis: What kind of world will we have when we come out of this crisis?

March 27, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. It might seem counterintuitive to be thinking about what the world is going to look like after the current pandemic has passed, but it’s actually the ideal time. That’s the firm belief of ethicist and Dalhousie University research professor Françoise Baylis. “We are only starting […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Francoise Baylis, Salvatore Mangione

“Yes, I am a Negro!”

Gloria Baylis won the first court challenge to employment discrimination based on race in Canada. So why doesn't anyone know about her story?

July 14, 2018 By El Jones 4 Comments

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed in the United States. In the same year, in Montreal, a woman named Gloria Baylis was taking the Queen Elizabeth Hotel to court in the first case ever in Canada to allege employment discrimination based on race. She won. There are few Canadians who don’t know about […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Discrimination Act, El Jones, Francoise Baylis, Frantz Fanon, Gerald N. Charness, Gloria Baylis, MP Frank Baylis, Negro Citizenship Association, Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Proposed university gift policy draws ire from Dalhousie profs

The policy was initiated in the wake of criticism of the university's deal with Shell Oil, but the Dal administration refused to let university senators have a say in drafting the policy, and now refuses to make that draft public (but we got it anyway).

April 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Two years ago, a Dalhousie engineering student named Stephen Thomas started noticing the Shell Oil logo popping up all over campus, and so submitted a Freedom of Information request seeking the details of a $600,000 grant from the oil company to university. Thomas sent me a copy of the 2011 agreement; you can read it here. Some […]

Filed Under: Education, Featured Tagged With: academic integrity, Dalhousie draft gift policy, Dalhousie University, Dalhousie University Senate, Francoise Baylis, Kevin Hewitt, Leonard Diepeveen, Peter Fardy, Shell Oil logo, Stephen Thomas, Tarah Wright, university gift policy

The “elites” justify themselves: Morning File, Tuesday, September 27, 2016

September 27, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The “elites” justify themselves I attended the Dalhousie Senate meeting yesterday so I could hear president Richard Florizone justify the $300,000 trip by self-styled “elites” to MIT. In a response to questions by Senator Françoise Baylis, Florizone said the “REAP” trip was justified […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Anna Metaxas, bomb threat, Canal Greenway Park, Chris Lambie, coral, Francoise Baylis, George Armoyan, interview, Ivany Report, Joe Ramia, Letitia Meynell, Manny Tobin, MHPM, MIT, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Centre, Richard Florizone, World Trade and Convention Centre

Academic Freedom Under Threat from Bill 100

May 1, 2015 By Moira Donovan

On Thursday, a steady stream of students and academics presented to the Law Amendments Committee on the ways in which Bill 100 would strip them of constitutional rights while undermining academic freedom and the integrity of universities. Bill 100 would allow university administrators anticipating financial difficulties to trigger a ‘revitalization period’. Presenting to the committee,...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bill 100, Francoise Baylis, Matthew Herder, Universities Accountability and Sustainability Act

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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