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The Beaverbank Connector highway exit is a death trap

Morning File, Monday, December 3, 2018

December 3, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

1. Six demonstrators arrested outside Canada Post facility “I was sitting at home when I got the community call-out for a solidarity action at the Canada Post on Almon Street on Sunday night,” writes El Jones. “Since I live in the area, I decided to go down and see what was happening and join in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alfred Burgesson, Atlantic Journalism Awards, Bailey Roy, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Cape Breton Post, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Damien Roy, Future City Builders, Gordon Dalzell, hoax related to terrorist activity, housing crisis, Irving Oil refinery explosion, Laura Lyall, Mary Campbell, pedestrian killed Beaverbank Connector, RCMP Cpl. Jullie Rogers-Marsh, Ryan Ross, SaltWire, Saltwire layoffs, T.J. MacGuire, Zane Woodford

There’s other stuff happening besides cannabis legalization, but also cannabis legalization is happening

Morning File, Tuesday, October 16, 2018

October 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Kasian Report on VG Redevelopment “Finally, the province has released a massive amount of information from a consulting firm hired to draw up a Master Plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital,” reports Jennifer Henderson: You can read what Kasian Architecture has recommended the proposed new facilities should look like and what services they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: cannabis pricing, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Dennis building, designated smoking areas, Halifax city council, Irving Oil refinery explosion, Kasian Architecture, Meghan Groff, Paul Armstrong, St. Paul's Church, VG replacement report

A man was killed in a 1998 explosion at the Irving refinery; afterwards, a safety report made recommendations that would “prevent a similar occurrence,” but 20 years later the refinery exploded again

Morning File, Wednesday, October 10, 2018

October 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Refinery explosion Canadian Press reporters Holly McKenzie-Sutter and Brett Bundale interviewed Jonathan Wright, an American contractor who was working just 25 metres from the site of the explosion at the Irving Oil refinery Monday: First, Jonathan Wright heard a loud hissing. Then he was thrown to the ground and turned to see a wall of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Africville Interpretive Framework Project, Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Bundale, Bruce Livesey, CFL stadium proposal, Dave Naylor, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Irving Oil environmental record, Irving Oil refinery explosion, Irving Oil safety record, Jonathan Wright, Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPI), Sarah Petz, Sean Tucker, Terry MacEachern

Too many walls and not enough bridges

Morning File, Tuesday, October 9, 2018

October 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Chris Mosher I reported over the weekend: After he was charged with sexual assault and then for repeatedly violating the conditions of his release, Halifax cop Chris Mosher was fired last year by the Halifax police department. But Mosher has successfully appealed his firing, and has received a cash payout from the city […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anna Kusmer, Bayers Lake mystery walls, Ben's Bakery site, Centre Plan, Chris Mosher, Frances Willick, Gottingen and Bilby development, graffiti war memorial, Irving Oil refinery explosion, Jonathan Fowler, Molly Hayes, Quinpool and Pepperell development, stone walls, Westwood Developments

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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