• Black Nova Scotia
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Health
    • COVID
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Labour
  • Policing
  • Politics
    • City Hall
    • Elections
    • Province House
  • Profiles
  • Transit
  • Women
  • Morning File
  • Commentary
  • PRICED OUT
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
    • Gift Subscriptions
  • Donate
  • Swag
  • Receipts
  • Manage your account: update card / change level / cancel

The Donkin coal mine and the end of the world: sorry, kids! Morning File, Wednesday, March 1, 2017

March 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Gone Like the Wind I was excited when reporter Jennifer Henderson pitched her story about Innovacorp’s investment in a tech firm that appears to be struggling and for which promised returns have not yet, and likely never will, materialize. I’m always interested in these provincial economic development pursuits that go belly-up. But Henderson […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Danielle Fong, Donkin coal mine, Facebook fight, false claims, fog lights, Greg Fong, inclusion, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Bunn, LightSail, LightSail Canada, Richard Starr, Stephen McNeil, Trudy Fong, Wendy Jones

Gone like the wind

In a bid to salvage something positive from the collapse of the Bowater mill in Brooklyn, the province bought a $2 million equity stake in LightSail Energy. The compressed air energy storage company was started by Dartmouth whiz kid turned Silicon Valley darling Danielle Fong, who promised to build a renewable energy demonstration project at the former mill site. But the company has burned through $70 million, Fong's credibility is questioned, and the Brooklyn project may never materialize.

February 28, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

“Creating a system that can store large amounts of renewable energy will have a positive impact all over the world.” That’s what then-Energy Minister Andrew Younger gushed in July 2014, as he stood outside the former Bowater Mersey paper mill in Brooklyn to announce the defunct plant would be where LightSail Energy would test its […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Bowater Mersey, Danielle Fong, Eric Wesoff, Greg Fong, Innovacorp, LightSail, LightSail Energy, OneWind Services, ReNova Scotia BioEnergy, Stan Mason, Stephen Duff, Steve Crane, Trudy Fong, Unify Energy, Vinod Khosla, Watts Wind Energy

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

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.

You can reach Tara here.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification when we publish new Morning Files and Weekend Files. Note: signing up for this email is NOT the same as subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • National study to assess pandemic’s health impacts, potential long-term effects of COVID-19 May 19, 2022
  • NSTU president concerned about conflict as province announces end to mask mandate in schools May 19, 2022
  • Royal flush: the monarchy’s role in reconciliation and Canada today May 19, 2022
  • Dartmouth man charged with wilful promotion of hatred May 19, 2022
  • “Representation matters”: Vince Williams talks about the inaugural CFL Officiating Academy training camp May 18, 2022

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2022