• 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

“I didn’t know he was the devil”: women recall their experiences with the mass murderer

April 25, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

This article is sexually graphic. In 2008, a woman in her 30s bought a Victorian house in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Next door was a rooming house owned by Tom Evans, an older gay lawyer. In documents compiled by the Mass Casualty Commission, the woman is referred to as AA. She was interviewed by RCMP investigators […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: GW, Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission, Portapique, RCMP, Tim Bousquet

Exploiting pandemic measures for profit

Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022

March 22, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]

Filed Under: COVID, Economy, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: BP, Bridgewater, Catherine Klimek, CBC, Chief Dan Kinsella, Chris Wortman, Colorado, Colorado Public Radio, David Mitchell, dentists, Denver, direct billing, fraud, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, Geoff Martin, Greater Plutonio, GW, Hannah Main, insurance, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Lezlie Lowe, light rail, Lisa Banfield, Matthew Byard, Medavie Blue Cross, Nathaniel Minor, New Horizons Baptist Church, Northern Pulp, offshore, oil, pancake machine, Pastor Rhonda Britton, Patt Dunn, Paul Wortman, Portapique, Rhonda Britton, Richard Woodbury, Rob Csernyik, Sarah Sawler, Scotiabank, Tim Houston, transit

The Halifax Examiner’s mass murder coverage

February 28, 2021 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner’s mass murder coverage includes: “RCMP investigator: There are ‘in excess of 19 victims’ in Nova Scotia’s mass murder rampage” (April 20, by Tim Bousquet) “These are the 22 people murdered in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020.” (April 22, 2020 by Erica Butler, Joan Baxter, Jennifer Henderson, Tim Bousquet, Philip Moscovitch, Yvette d’Entremont, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Examiner mass murder coverage, GW, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, Mass murder, Portapique

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

  • Tech issues bedevilled the RCMP response to the mass murders of 2020 May 16, 2022
  • Black Youth Development Mentorship Program gets word out to high school students May 16, 2022
  • The Bar Society’s governing council — ‘We’re supposed to be lawyers?’ May 16, 2022
  • Weekend File May 14, 2022
  • Halifax council to consider hiking taxi fares for the first time in 10 years May 13, 2022

Commenting policy

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

Copyright © 2022