Gilbert Samberg

John Risley’s South African adventure

How did a Nova Scotia billionaire end up as the cash and clout behind an international court battle claiming a South African government-owned arms company owes hundreds of millions of dollars to an international arms dealer who claims he lost money after Nelson Mandela’s new democratically elected government refused to honour the arms dealer’s deal with the apartheid regime? How indeed?

February 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 22 Comments

On December 26, Boxing Day, I received an email with the subject line “JOHN CARTER RISLEY given his outrageous behaviour and bringing others to book in a huge scandal.” I quickly scanned the text of the email, and saw that, like the subject line, it contained lots of all caps, run-on sentences, and nonlinear thoughts. […]

Sheri Elwood, a blond woman wearing a green top, with sunglasses on her head and black headphones around her neck.

Episode 47 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

The Canadian television multi-hyphenate Sheri Elwood has spent the past two summers down in Hubbards making Moonshine, a semi-autobiographical drama about the family that runs a summer resort and its adjacent venue (aka The Shore Club). In a spare 15 minutes from creating, co-writing, and directing the second season, she phones in from the shore to talk about being “repatriated” from American TV (and the differences of working in it versus here), and why now felt like the time for a show like this. Listen to the full episode here.

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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.

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