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High Powered Customs Apparel on a roll in clothing, printing business

May 2, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

A Black-owned roller skating arena set to open this summer in Spryfield is getting a lot of buzz, and all of the company’s swag will be created by another locally owned Black business, High Powered Customs Apparel. Stefan Williams, who owns and runs High Powered Customs Apparel, said he never met Shane Upshaw, the owner […]

Feet File, Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Who is taking their shoes off in the Halifax Library? WHO?

May 2, 2017 By Katie Toth 14 Comments

I’m Katie Toth, serving up freshly-baked news takes to start your Tuesday. Tim just got back from a super-secret trip to Cape Breton. Don’t tell anyone. Do follow me on Twitter. News 1. Election campaign, Day One On the first day of the election campaign, the NDP focuses on more doctors, the Liberals double down on roads, and the […]

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.

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.

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