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Bullshitter of the day: Jacques Dubé

Morning File, Thursday, November 1, 2018

November 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

November subscription drive It’s time for our annual November subscription drive, so all month I’ll be banging the subscription drum a bit more frequently and a bit louder. The Halifax Examiner is just over four years old. As owner, I run this business very conservatively. The Examiner is financially sound, there’s zero debt, all taxes […]

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Why would anyone seriously think that the Downtown Dartmouth plan would result in anything useful?

Morning File, Wednesday, October 24, 2018

October 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Carbon plan “Nova Scotians will pay more for electricity, gasoline, and home-heating  over the next four years as part of the province’s plan to reduce its carbon footprint and avoid a carbon tax Ottawa announced it will impose on four other provinces beginning this January,” reports Jennifer Henderson. “But Premier Stephen McNeil insists […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bullshit, carbon plan, carbon tax, Design Review Committee, Downtown Dartmouth plan, highway death Musquodoboit Harbour, HRM By Design, innovation, Innovation Rebate Program, investigation, IWK CEO spending scandal, Michael Gorman, Michelin, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Stephen D'Arcy, Tracey Kitch, Zane Woodford

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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Bullshitter of the day: Martha Crago. Morning File, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Update: Bassam Al-Rawi has been found and served Monday, the Examiner reported that over a week of trying, police had not been able to locate taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi to serve documents notifying him his case would be brought before the Court of Appeal. There had been multiple, but unconfirmed reports that Al-Rawi had left […]

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Innovating our way to disaster: Morning File, Wednesday, October 19, 2016

October 19, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Nova Scotia’s film industry just won’t die After a disastrous season last year, filmmakers have seen an uptick in productions this year. But will the work keep coming? Jennifer Henderson surveys the local film scene and discovers that it’s a glass half-full/ half-empty […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dead End on Shakin’ Street, granular, innovation, Karen Casey, Marie Gilchrist, New and Better Ways: A Field Guide for Nova Scotia's Innovation Ecosystem, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Paul Wozney, PEI e-gaming scandal, Peter Nicholson, teachers, Teresa Wright, Thomas Frank

Tim meets the Mayor: Examineradio, episode #56

April 8, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

This week we’re pleased to welcome Halifax Mayor Mike Savage as our special guest. This marks the first time we’ve recorded Examineradio in front of a live audience, and our thanks to the Company House for hosting the event and Erin Costelo for providing a great musical interlude. The live taping was part of CKDU’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: amalgamation, Andy Fillmore, Chairman Mao, Examineradio, innovation, Mike Savage, podcast, Scott Ferguson

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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