Freedom of Information (FOI) website security failure Archives

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City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Province House

Fixing freedom of information in NS (and jails), pulp mill politics, and plastics – all that, and more.

by Joan Baxter January 16, 2019October 20, 2022

I’m Joan Baxter, filling in for Tim today. News 1. Freedom of Information in Nova Scotia – the failure and the fix As Tim wrote, yesterday Nova Scotia privacy commissioner Catherine Tully and auditor general Michael Pickup released their reports on the FOIPOP website security failure. Both painted damning pictures of how the government handled […]

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An expert says three Nova Scotian bureaucrats should be fired over the FOI security failure. Also: tragedy barely averted at Stanfield International

by Tim Bousquet April 30, 2018October 20, 2022

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.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Tag: Freedom of Information (FOI) website security failure

Fixing freedom of information in NS (and jails), pulp mill politics, and plastics – all that, and more.

An expert says three Nova Scotian bureaucrats should be fired over the FOI security failure. Also: tragedy barely averted at Stanfield International

‘Going through hell:’ Black HRM worker speaks at panel on equity, inclusion in workplace

Halifax councillors to consider adding previously-planned climate change positions to budget

Nova Scotia approves fast-tracked Port Wallace development

Is ‘green hydrogen’ the next Crypto?

Council agrees to sell sliver of Dartmouth parkland to Penhorn Mall property developer