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Michael Bryant has deleted his dickish tweet about Atlantic Canada and replaced it with a dickish apology

Morning File, Thursday, August 6, 2020

August 6, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Mass murder investigation Jennifer Henderson tells me that in the not-for-attribution technical briefing on the provincial budget update, reporters were told that as of May 30, an extra $3.2 million was spent to hire additional RCMP officers and civilians to investigate the mass murders of April 18/19. Those additional police investigators included 30 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: body cameras, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, cells data, dickish tweet, gun violence, Information to Obtain (ITO), long term care (LTC), mass murder investigation, Michael Bryant, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, RCMP investigation, self-isolation, virtual meetings

There’s been an increase in gun violence, but the incidents don’t appear to be related

August 6, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

Saturday night was the kind of a perfect summer evening you might have dreamed about for months. Finally, warm enough after five to still wear shorts and a cotton top or T-shirt comfortably. Clear skies stretching the hours of daylight into a glorious sunset for the finale.  Friends had invited us to join them for […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: armed robbery, assault with a weapon, Const. John MacLeod, gun violence, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Richard George Willis, shooting, stabbing, weapon related violence

Not satire: Halifax police board to consider appointing committee to define defunding

July 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 8 Comments

At a meeting where it was expected to debate defunding the police, Halifax’s police board voted to debate appointing a committee to define defunding the police — at its next meeting. The board of police commissioners had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Thursday, but after starting more than half an hour later due […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Amy Siciliano, Carlos Beals, Carole McDougall, Ceasefire Halifax, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund the police, DeRico Symonds, gun violence, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Marty Ward, Natalie Borden, Youth Advocate Program

Not only the lonely are lonely during COVID-19

Morning File, Wednesday, June 17, 2020

June 17, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Dead Wrong on Uncover Tim Bousquet’s podcast Dead Wrong, on CBC’s Uncover, is now live and you can listen to the first couple of episodes here. Everyone at the Examiner knows how hard he’s worked on this podcast for the past several months, but, of course, his work on the Dead Wrong series […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: and All That’s Between, Body Break, Brenda Way, By the Numbers 2020, Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights, CBC Podcasts, Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, DEAD WRONG, Department of Health and Wellness, Derek Sloan, domestic violence, Dr. Ami Rokach, Dr. Rob Green, elderly, Erin O'Toole, Firearms community, Glen Assoun, gun lobby, gun violence, Hal Johnson, Heal-NS Trauma Research Program, IWK, Joanne McLeod, Leslyn Lewis, Loneliness, Love, mental illness, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Nova Scotia Healthcare Crisis, Pam Glode-Desrochers, ParticipAction, Paula Minnikin, Peter MacKay, Pictou County, Pitbull, podcast, Racism, Steele Hotels, TSN, Uncover, Waye Mason, York University

Gunning for change: doctors in the gun control debate in Canada 

June 8, 2020 By Joan Baxter 3 Comments

When Dr. Rod Wilson first heard about the mass shooting that started in Portapique the night of April 18, and ended the next morning when police finally caught and shot the gunman in Enfield at the end of a 13-hour rampage through three counties in Nova Scotia, painful memories flooded in. “It took me back […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: A.J. Somerset, Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights (CCFR), Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns (CDPG), Canadian Shooting Sports Association (CSS, Christopher Holcroft, Conservative Party of Canada, Doctors for Firearm Safety and Responsibility (DFSR), Dr. Rod Wilson, Ecole Polytechnique, gun control, gun lobby, gun violence, Kirstin Weerdenburg, Michael Ackermann, Najma Ahmed, National Council of Women in Canada, National Firearms Association (NFA), Portapique mass shooting murder spree, Rod Giltaca, Stockwell Day

“There’s some fiddle for ya”: A Portapique love story

April 26, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

One of the many poignant stories coming from the Portapique murders involves the Tuck family: mother Jolene Oliver, father Aaron (Friar) Tuck, and their 17-year-old daughter Emily Tuck, all senselessly and horrifically murdered in their house that Saturday night. As we try to wrap our heads around the tragedy, male violence — “a pandemic in its […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Aaron Tuck, Angus Rogers, Doreen Coady, Emily Tuck, fathers, Gloria Rogers, gun violence, Jolene Oliver, mass shooting, Portapique

“There’s a person down there with a gun”: first responder audio from the beginning of the murder spree

April 22, 2020 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner has obtained audio of first responders responding to the call to Portapique Saturday night, soon after the mass murder spree began. This audio clip starts at about 11:08pm Saturday night. Here’s a rough transcript of that audio: So there’s a structure fire. There’s a person down there with a gun. They’re still […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: first responder audio Nova Scotia, gun violence, mass killing spree, Portapique

Really F***ing Cool: Morning File, Saturday, July 8, 2017

July 8, 2017 By El Jones 16 Comments

News 1. On Board the Eisenhower Despite my faithful participation in the No Harbour For War protests against the Halifax International Security Forum (thanks Peter McKay!) it turns out that I am not considered a security risk, and so I was invited to a reception to celebrate the “241st Anniversary of the Independence of the United […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cornwallis statue, gun violence, Hell's Angels, homegrown racist violence, military strategy of dominance, Proud Boys, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower

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.

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