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“A crisis that hits any part of the world or segment of society also affects us”

Morning File, Tuesday, June 22, 2021

June 22, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. At the time of Corey Rogers’ death, HRP had no policy on spit hoods, and officers had no training in using the hood place on him Zane Woodford reports on the first day of the Police Review Board hearing into the conduct of the three officers who arrested Corey Rogers in June 2016. […]

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A virtual disaster: the Halifax Convention Centre

Morning File, Monday, July 13, 2020

July 13, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

1. McNeil and workers Writes Stephen Kimber: Our premier prefers to attack those who dare to question him. Just ask the unarmed, unionized compliance officer recovering from an assault at our border, or the Crown attorneys reprimanded for trying to protect their collective rights. Click here to read “Does Stephen McNeil believe in workers’ rights? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canadian Employee Benefits Conference, Canadian Medical Association Annual Meeting, convention centre hotel, coronavirus, COVID-19, Dawn Baldwin, Events East, Hal-Con, Halifax Convention Centre, Hotel Barmecide, Laura Penny, Nova Centre, pandemic, Rogers, Sutton Place Hotel, Suzanne Fougere, virtual conventions, virtual meetings, Zoom meetings

Tourism is dead in its tracks: Where to from here?

April 9, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. “There is nothing that compares to this, says Ross Jefferson, the CEO of Discover Halifax, a non-profit agency that works with Tourism Nova Scotia to promote the city to visitors. “It is eclipsing the financial crisis of 2008 and 9/11 when we saw the world […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Airbnb, coronavirus, COVID-19, Darlene Grant Fiander, Glenn Squires, Halifax Convention Centre, hotels, Noelle McGough, Out of the Cold emergency shelter, pandemic, Ross Jefferson, Tourism, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia (TIANS)

Glen Assoun will receive early compensation

Morning File, Friday, September 13, 2019

September 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Glen Assoun will receive early compensation “The federal and Nova Scotia governments are making an initial payment to Glen Assoun, a man who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey told reporters Thursday the payment would be made […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cedric DeChamp, cellphone internet failures, convention centre hotel, East Coast Greenery, Glen Assoun compensation, Halifax Convention Centre, HRM By Design, Hurricane Dorian, hurricanes and workers, Judy Haiven, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Kevin Bissett, Maggie Rahr, Michael Gorman, Michael Tutton, Nova Centre hotel, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Pat Stay, police chase, rape, Stephen Archibald and cast iron facades, Sutton Place Hotels

The convention centre property tax bill for this year alone is $3.6 million more than expected

Morning File, Tuesday, June 25, 2019

June 25, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. After the Gold Rush: the toxic legacy “If learning from past mistakes were a government tradition in Nova Scotia, the current government would not be exhibiting all the symptoms of gold fever,” writes Joan Baxter.” But it is, and it looks like a raging bout of the affliction.” Baxter goes on review the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Convention centre, councillor Waye Mason, Graham Larkin, Halifax Convention Centre, Jean Laroche, Michael Gorman, MLA Alana Paon, Neil Young, Newbridge Academy, PC leader Tim Houston, Strategic Road Safety Framework, Vision Zero, Zane Woodford

The Nova Centre hotel isn’t opening any time soon; what does that mean for the city budget?

Morning File, Tuesday, April 23, 2019

April 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Street checks “No one in authority seems willing to apologize for the decades of ‘disproportionate and negative’ impact street checks have had on Nova Scotia’s black community,” writes Stephen Kimber. “Worse, no one seems to be committed to finally ending them once and for all.” Click here to read “Street checks: Who’s sorry […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alberta, Andrew Nikiforuk, armoured vehicle, ARV, Barbara Darby and the Easter Bunny, Brendan Elliot, Bruce Fisher, Calgary, Cape Breton Correctional Facility, Gary Mason, geographical politics, Grabher, Grafton Street glory Hole, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax ReTales, Hollis Street bike lane, Inspector Jim Butler, Jan deRoos, Jen Gerson, Joe Ramia, Justice Darlene Jamieson, Mary Campbell, Nick Ritcey, Nova Centre, Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC), Roger Taylor, Sutton Place, The Tyee, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

Birds of prey and the meaning of life, Shearwater edition

Morning File, Friday, April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

1. St. Margaret’s Bay development Last week, Philip Moscovitch reviewed the largest residential development ever proposed for St. Margaret’s Bay — and the divisions in the community it has caused. Moscovitch now follows that up with a report on a meeting held Wednesday night to take public input on the proposal. Click here to read “Talking […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angel Moore, Biomass explained in four tweets, DND falconer needed, Don Bauder, Events East, Halifax Convention Centre, Hartlen's Point golf course, Heywood Sanders, incentive payments to conventions, Jean Laroche, Liberals and the convention centre, new Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Pam Glode-Desrochers, Philip Moscovitch, Rambo the raccoon, Raymond Plourde, sensitivity training for MLAs, Shearwater air base, St. Margaret’s Bay development

Spectacular failures: Nova Scotia’s wild-eyed megaproject schemes

Morning File, Monday, April 2, 2018

April 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

1. Reporting While White “I have never claimed to write ‘objectively,’” writes El Jones: That doesn’t mean I write things I believe to be untrue or that are factually wrong, but I am always openly writing from the standpoint of a Black woman. White people, however, believe and are taught that their practices are in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby, Bent Flyvbjerg, Bill Turpin, Cape Breton Correctional Centre, Ernie LeBlanc, Examineradio 152, Halifax Convention Centre, hateful graffiti on churches, Joe Ramia, Justin Brake, megaprojects, Michael Tutton, noon gun Citadel Hill, Nova Centre, Peter Munk, restorative justice

Examineradio, episode #139: CFL in Halifax? Hail Mary!

December 2, 2017 By Terra Tailleur Leave a Comment

This episode is really about the city you want vs. the city you need. Take professional sports. There’s been some talk about a group of investors bringing a CFL franchise to Halifax. Some people are excited about this. Tim is not one of them. Still, we wanted some perspective. We reached out to Moshe Lander, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CFL, Examineradio 139, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax Explosion, Moshe Lander, Nova Centre, podcast, stadium, Terra Tailleur

We continue to fail those who have been wrongfully convicted: Morning File, Tuesday, October 10, 2017

October 8, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. A failed convention centre “Ottawa’s convention centre won’t be able to make a $4-million payment on a loan it still owes for its construction, the centre’s bosses have told the provincial government,” reports David Reevely for the Ottawa Citizen: The payment is due next September, after a five-year break from payments on what started […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bridget Murphy, David Reevely, Glen Assoun, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax Explosion, James Upham, Joe Ramia, Justice James Chipman, Mark Green, Moncton Christmas tree, Ottawa Convention centre, Sandy Roberton, Stephen Archibald North End Library, tiny home movement, Vanessa Blanch, Wrongful Conviction Day

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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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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