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Halifax Mayor Mike Savage launches re-election campaign, releases platform

September 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Mayor Mike Savage launched his re-election campaign Tuesday, selling himself to voters as a consensus-building leader focused on issues like racial justice and affordable housing. The 60-year-old two-term mayor is the clear frontrunner in a three-way race for the mayor’s chair, up against Coun. Matt Whitman and Max Taylor, a newcomer to politics. The only […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: April Howe, Chris Lydon, Debbie Eisan, Diana Whalen, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, mayoral race

Want $65,000? Just write a letter!

Morning File, Thursday, October 17, 2019

October 17, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. You can have the right to strike; just don’t try to use it. Yesterday, the provincial government showed its continued labour relations finesse — this time in its negotiations with crown attorneys. The crowns want a 17% pay increase over four years. The province is offering 7%. Yesterday, while most of the prosecutors […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Aly Thomson, Andrew Rankin, biomass, Blair Rhodes, Brett Bundale, Canadian Labour Congress, Constable Jennifer McPhee, Cory Taylor, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Steve Adams, Craig Kielburger, crown attorneys, drug use on fishing boats, fish fraud, funding for WE Day, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW), Josh Laughren, Larry Haiven, Mary Booth, mislabelled fish, Neil Giroux, Oceana Canada, PC leader Tim Houston, union

Halifax Mayor Mike Savage recognizes “Wrongful Conviction Day” but takes no action on the wrongful conviction his city is responsible for

Morning File, Monday, October 7, 2019

October 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

1. Boat Harbour “The day-by-day countdown to the closing of Boat Harbour happens on a large painting erected in front of the Pictou Landing First Nation band council office, reports Joan Baxter: The painting depicts Boat Harbour as it was before it was dammed (and damned) in 1966, transformed from a healthy tidal estuary to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Carter, Anahad O'Connor, Bradley C. Johnston, CFL stadium, climate emergency, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, Extinction Rebellion, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Kaulbach Island, Lynn Jones, MacDonald Bridge, Melford Railway, red meat, stadium proposal, Tara Parker-Pope, Truro town council, Wrongful Conviction Day

Hell, Let’s Talk

Morning File, Wednesday, January 30, 2019

January 30, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Mill “A permanent injunction has been granted preventing fishermen from blocking survey vessels from carrying out work for a contentious treated waste pipeline into the Northumberland Strait,” reports the Canadian Press: Justice Josh Arnold approved the injunction Tuesday after Northern Pulp and the fishermen agreed to a consent order last week. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bell's Let's Talk campaign, climate change, contracting out, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, Davie Shipyard, Dexel Developments towers Spring Garden Road, Digby Ferry, Emily Baron Cadloff, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Joint Task Force Atlantic, Justice Josh Arnold, Murray Brewster, Museum Strategy, MV Captain Jim, Northern Pulp injunction, Pam Berman, pedestrian struck Armdale rotary, Rebecca Lau, RMI Marine Limited, Rouvalis towers application, Scott Brison, Uber in Halifax, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Zane Woodford

Power outages are costing Nova Scotia businesses millions of dollars, but Stephen McNeil, Mike Savage, Ray Ivany, and the economic development agencies are silent

Morning File, Friday, November 30, 2018

November 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November Subscription drive The last day! Tomorrow we’ll go back to less intrusive measures to extract your money from you. But seriously, this operation doesn’t work without your subscriptions. We’re trying to do something important here: produce journalism without relying on advertising, advertorial, government money, selling your data, Jeff Bezo’s money, or any other hare-brained […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Hart, Bar Harbor, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Carl Yates, Dennis Patterson, Donald Patterson, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Water, Hayden Hart, Jamie MacGillivray, Jeffrey Theriault, Matt Delorme, Nova Scotia Power outages, Premier Stephen McNeil, Quinpool Road bridge, Ray Ivany, Wray Hart, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

Great white sharks are killing people and they’re coming to Nova Scotia

Morning File, Wednesday, September 19, 2018

September 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Deaths in custody Yesterday morning, I reported that an official at the Burnside jail had testified in court that “several” prisoners at the jail have died over the past week. I knew about the death of Joshua Evans, a man with a mental disability who took his own life, but no other deaths […]

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Joyce Treen offers helpful household hints to avoid starving to death: Morning File, Wednesday, April 5, 2017

April 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Food banks Yesterday, Nick Jennery, executive director of Feed Nova Scotia, talked with the legislature’s Community Services committee. Robert Devet picks it up from there: Meanwhile, the provincial government gives all of $12,000 to Feed Nova Scotia, a fraction of Feed Nova Scotia’s community-funded operating budget of roughly $3.5 million, Jennery told reporters after this […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Argyle Street, couponing, Economy Shoe Shop, EllisDon, Feed Nova Scotia, Francis Willick, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Shipyard, Irving Shipbuilding, job interviews in Australia, Joyce Treen, moose sighting, Nick Jennery, Pat McGowan, Robert Devet, Sarah Norris, Steve Conrad, streetscaping, Toothy Moose, Waye Mason

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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