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Weekend File

A look back on our stories from July 31 to August 6, 2021.

August 7, 2021 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday   Saturday, July 31 1. Liberals unveil plans for affordable housing, anti-racism, and inclusion Jennifer Henderson reported on the Liberal Party’s social policy platform, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Reid, Birch Cove Lakes – Blue Mountain wilderness, COVID-19, cycling, debate, Emancipation Day, environment, Gary Burrill, Halifax Pride, Iain Rankin, leaders debate, Liberal Party, NDP, North Preston, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives, street checks, Tim Houston, TrueFaux Films, violence against women, WAVES, Weekend File

Black in nature

Morning File, Thursday, August 5, 2021

August 5, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Party leaders debate economic policy Jennifer Henderson reports on yesterday’s leaders’ debate hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce. Not surprisingly, the focus was economic issues, although health care and mental health care (why are we still making this distinction?) figured in the debate as well. Henderson writes: So which party should you […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: #BlackInNature, Andrew Metlege, Andy Fillmore, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Chris Lambie, Chúk Odenigbo, COVID-19, election, Gary Burrill, Halifax Pride, Iain Rankin, infilling, Jennifer Henderson, Kejimkujik National Park, lobster, Marc Fennel, Mayor Mike Savage, Morning File, Mountain Co-op, Northwest Arm, Nova Scotia, pandemic, Pier 21, slavery, Stuff the British Stole, Tara Thorne, Te Herekiekie Haerehuka Herewini, Templeton Properties, The Headhunters, Tim Houston, Transport Canada

Writers cancel talks at Halifax Public Libraries, activists continue calls for removal of “transphobic” book from collection

June 2, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

Several Nova Scotia writers have cancelled upcoming readings at Halifax Public Libraries, to express their objection to the library’s decision to keep a recently purchased book on the shelves. On Friday, Halifax Pride announced it had also severed ties with the library over the issue. The book, by freelance journalist Abigail Shrier, is called Irreversible […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: 2SLGBTQ+, Adam Reid, Ajay Parasram, Alex Khasnabish, Andre Fenton, Canadian Federation of Library Association, Dalhousie University, Debbie LeBel, Halifax Pride, Halifax Public Libraries, Jo Treggiari, library, MacEachen Institute of Public Policy and Governance, Mila McKay, Mount Saint Vincent, Sarah Sawler, Sydney Smith, Tom Ryan, transphobia

The public wifi switcheroo: Morning File, Tuesday, February 7, 2017

February 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. “Public” wifi Today, Halifax council will consider a proposal for “Public” wifi in downtown Halifax and Dartmouth (the purple-ish areas shown on the map above). Let me first put out there that I am not the intended target of the proposal. I have a super-duper business account, and pay about $150 a month for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angela MacIvor, Bill Bradley, Bill Turpin, coup at the Pride meeting, Denlock's Acadian Grill, electric cars, Halifax Pride, methadone, police participation, public wifi, redheaded duck, Stephen Archibald

A heavenly wedding: Morning File, Friday, October 7, 2016

October 7, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The Coup at the Pride Meeting El Jones attended Wednesday night’s contentious meeting of Halifax Pride, and reports back: The short version of what happened at the Halifax Pride Society’s AGM is that cisgendered straight people organized to vote down motions by LGBTQ+ […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bluenose II, e-gaming, gambling, Graham Steele, Halifax Pride, Jane MacAdam, Juanita Leeco, McInnes Cooper, MCPEI, NSTU, Rob McEachern, teachers union, Teresa Wright

Wait a minute… you clowns are on dope! Morning File, Thursday, October 6, 2016

October 6, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Fish collapse “A new federal audit report warns another fish species collapse could happen again under the watch of Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: “From my perspective, we are still at risk of having another stock […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, carbon tax, Charles LeFort, clowns, Convention Centre delay, Cordell Stephen Weare, DFO, fish species collapse, Halifax Pride, Joe Ramia, Julie Gelfand, Marty Leger, Paul Withers, Roger Taylor, Spider Lake, Stephen McNeil

SWATting on steroids: Morning File, Thursday, September 22, 2016

September 22, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. SWATting Yesterday at about 8am, police responded to a bomb threat made via a fax to Nova Scotia Community College’s north end Halifax campus, and the school was soon evacuated. At roughly the same time, fax-sent threats were made to NSCC’s Sydney and Annapolis Valley campuses, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: benches, bomb threat, ferries, Halifax Pride, Krysta King, Queer Arabs of Halifax, Sgt. Kevin Bailey, Size Doesn't Matter, Stephen Archibald

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!

Listen to the episode here.

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