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Double Exposure

The pandemic has pushed back the curtain on how decades of austerity have left Canadians and the health care system more vulnerable.

May 7, 2020 By Linda Pannozzo 7 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. By April 13, Nova Scotia’s State of Emergency had been in effect for 23 days, schools were closed, most businesses shuttered, and people were feeling the effects of the “lock down.” At the daily COVID-19 briefing, Premier Stephen McNeil and Dr. Robert Strang, the province’s […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), Carole Shively, CD Howe Institute, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dennis Raphael, Dr. Robert Strang, economic insecurity, El Jones, ER Closures, essential workers, Fraser Institute, health care, Inez Rudderham, living wage, long term care (LTC), Michael Tutton, neoliberalism, Northwood, NS state of emergency, nursing homes, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), personal support worker (PSW), poverty, Premier Stephen McNeil, public health care spending, Sheldon Cohen, social determinants of health, Stephen Harper, stress, wait times, World Health Organization (WHO)

Why open adoption records matter

Morning File, Thursday, November 21, 2019

November 21, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

Party! This item is written by Tim Bousquet. November is subscription drive month, and that means our annual subscribers party follows. Join us Sunday, December 1, 4-7pm at Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street). Entry is free for all subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber already, you can click here to subscribe or purchase a subscription at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, adoption records, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Blair Rhodes, Catholic Children's Aid Society, child poverty rate, Chris Lamb, Derek Stephenson, Eddie Carvery, Fraser Institute, Graeme Benjamin, Indigenous fishermen, Joel Pink, John Risley, Kelly Regan, Leslie McNab, lobster fishery, Michael Gorman, Minister Mona Fortier, Origins Canada, referees, Sarah Ritchie, Skylar Blanchette, Transgender Day of Remembrance, tuatara, Zack Nicholas

The Donner Prize is part of a larger effort to reimagine Canada as a right-wing American Libertarian fantasy

Morning File, Monday, April 8, 2019

April 8, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

1. Donner Prize “Peter MacKinnon’s book, University Commons Divided: Exploring Debate and Dissent on Campus, has been shortlisted for the Donner Prize,” writes El Jones: In an article I wrote for the Halifax Examiner about MacKinnon’s defense of blackface, I identified how MacKinnon’s arguments lack a scholarly basis. He frequently does not quote or misleadingly quotes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alan Lomax, Allan Gotliev, Association for Cultural Equity, Backstory NS, blackface, Bob Bancroft, Canadian Constitution Foundation, clearcutting, Costas Halavrezos, designated smoking receptacles, designated smoking zones, Donner Canadian Foundation, Donner Prize, El Jones, Fraser Institute, Greg MacVicar, Hillsdale College, Ken Whyte, Patrick Luciani, Peter MacKinnon, R. Emmett Tyrell Jr., sidewalk clearing, Thomas Walkom, Vera Hall, William H. Donner Foundation, William Henry Donner, Woman Hailing a Cab

City staff cite the right-wing, anti-worker Fraser Institute for their living wage report: Morning File, Monday, June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Living Wage Back in February, Halifax council directed city staff to prepare a report: that addresses options for scoring of Local preference, social economic benefit, employee compensation/living wage, and environmental impact when evaluating proposals, and recommend any supporting amendments to the procurement policy as a result. That report, written by Senior Procurement Consultant Erin […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Jackson, Broadbent Institute, Calvin Maynard Sparks, Chad Morrison, dishonest statistics, DRE testing, drug impaired driving (DID), Erin MacDonald, Eugene Tan, Fraser Institute, Jacques Dubé, Kim McOnie, Legal weed, living wage report, marijuana-related crashes, Nadia Gonzales murder, Samanda Rose Ritch, William Sandeson found guilty

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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