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The world’s top expert on deep sea drilling disasters worries about “the relatively high likelihoods” of a blowout at BP’s Scotian Shelf operation

Morning File, Thursday, May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Blowout Antonia Juhasz, who is an energy analyst, author, and investigative journalist specializing in oil, has taken an interest in Nova Scotia’s offshore, and so asked Robert Bea to have a look at the regulatory approval for BP’s drilling on the Scotian Shelf. Bea was the right person for Juhasz to ask. Bea […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Laughlin, Antonia Juhasz, BP drilling on Scotian Shelf, Bridge Commission, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), cannabis sales, Coastal Cannapy, emergency alert on phones, Gregory and Cynthia Arab, Halifax Harbour Bridges (HHB), Inglis Street fire, licence plate readers, Mark Crawford, Philip Croucher, Robert Bea, Seadrill West Aquarius, uncontrolled blowout risk

Understand how Andy Fillmore derailed a plan to demolish the Cogswell Interchange and you’ll understand how we got the Nova Centre

Morning File, Wednesday, May 9, 2018

May 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. The Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator’s exposé on the security failure Yesterday, the Halifax Examiner and Cape Breton Spectator went to court to ask Justice Gregory Lenehan to unseal a search warrant Halifax police executed on the house of a 19-year-old Halifax man suspected of illegally downloading information from the FOIPOP website. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Andy Fillmore's secret council meeting, CAO Jacques Dubé, Cape Breton Spectator, Cogswell Interchange demolition, cop stabbed, Cst. Andrew Gordon, Employment Systems Review, Hardman Group, HRM By Design, Ian Fairclough, Inglis Street fire, Jennifer Keesmaat, Joe Ramia, Nova Centre, Racism at City Hall, Raymond Sheppard, search warrant exposé, Tim Krochak, Zane Woodford

Brown-bagging it old school style at the liquor store

Morning File, Tuesday, May 8, 2018

May 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Charges dropped in security failure case In a short press release issued yesterday — which still manages to confuse a security failure with a data breach — Halifax police announced they are not pursuing charges against the 19-year-old who was arrested: Halifax Regional Police has concluded its investigation into the data breach that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: cannabis sales, Charges dropped in security failure case, Inglis Street fire, Jean Laroche, New Horizons Baptist Church, NSLC cannabis store model, Pastor Rhonda Britton, Superintendent Jim Perrin

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.

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