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A bad day for people on bikes

Morning File, Thursday, July 25, 2019

July 25, 2019 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

News 1.  Two collisions send two cyclists to hospital A pick-up truck driver who hit a cyclist on Waverley Road Wednesday morning has been charged with “Vehicle Passing a Bicycle while Travelling on Right When There is Less than 1 Metre between the Vehicle and Cyclist” according to the RCMP. The cyclist was taken to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bike lanes, bus lanes, Carolyn Ray, Chignecto Isthmus, climate change, cyclist struck John Brackett Drive, cyclist struck Waverley Road, David Burke, drive-by shootings, handguns, Jacob Boon, micromobility lanes, OCEARCH, Philip Croucher, sea level rise, transit fares, Tristan Cleveland, vehicle/cyclist collision

Report on Shambhala sexual misconduct released

Morning File, Monday, February 4, 2019

February 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. QuadrigaCX The biggest tech story of the year so far happened right here in Nova Scotia, and it’s amazing. When 30-year-old Fall River resident Gerald Cotten died unexpectedly, the location of some $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency went to the grave with him. Writer Andrew Wright tells us: A 25-year-old Gerald Cotten and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A.J. Liebling, Aaron Matthews, Acadia Axemen hockey brawl, bike bridge, Bill Burr, Blair Rhodes, Canada Games Centre, Canadian Sport Centre Atlantic Society, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Dave Stewart, Extinction Rebellion, Gerald Cotten, Jacob Boon, Lee Anna Osei, Leo MacPherson, Macdonald Bridge bike ramp, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Mary Campbell, Michael McNutt, QuadrigaCX, Scott Messervey, Selina Bath, Shambhala sex abuse scandal, St. Francis Xavier University women’s basketball, St. FX hockey brawl

You too can own a cool Halifax Examiner travel mug

Morning File, Friday, November 16, 2018

November 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

November subscription drive We’ve got travel mugs! They’re too costly to mail, tho, so you can only get them if you come to our subscriber party, Sunday, November 25, 4–7pm at Bearly’s Tavern. The band Museum Pieces will play, and former CBC host and spice merchant Costas Halavrezos will introduce investigative journalist Linden MacIntyre as our […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bill Turpin, Canada Post, codeine, Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia, Jacob Boon, recent history of suspicious packages, snow plow collision, social media extortion scam, Soldiers of Odin, Stephen Archibald and Paris, Suspicious Package West Street, Tylenol 1

Davie and Irving shipyards are in the midst of a lobbying blitz in Ottawa

Morning File, Thursday, October 18, 2018

October 18, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Davie v Irving In recent days, Unifor Marine Workers Federation Local 1, which represents Irving Shipyard workers, has been conducting a “Ships Stay Here” campaign that included getting Halifax council to support its efforts. The union fears that some of the shipbuilding work contracted to Irving will be shifted to Davie Shipyard in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Ashley Lemire, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Blair Rhodes, Bruce Webb, cannabis, Dalhousie University, Davie Shipyard, Fred Boisvert, Irving Shipyard, Jacob Boon, James Irving, lobbying, Naresh Raghubeer, R. Peter MacKinnon, shipbuilding, Ships Stay Here, shipyard lobbying, Tantallon asphalt plant, William Sandeson, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Zane Woodford

It’s the People’s Arena: we paid for it, we own it

Morning File, Thursday, October 11, 2018

October 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. P3s explained Does the McNeil government’s announcement that the QEII New Generation project will be financed by a P3 (public-private partnership) arrangement leave you scratching your head in confusion? It should. So many arguments are tossed out to justify the decision, but none of those are explained in detail or backed up by hard […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aiden R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman, Dexel Developments proposal, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jacob Boon, Jagsprett (Kit) Singh, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Mary Campbell, naming rights, P3s explained, QE2 Redevelopment Project, Smiling Goat Café, the People's Arena, Weedmaps, Westwood Developments

Trying to get straight answers from the provincial government is an exercise in frustration and futility

Morning File, Thursday, October 4, 2018

October 4, 2018 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

Joan Baxter here again, filling in for Tim who is in Toronto for Wrongful Conviction Day, and being recognized by Innocence Canada, a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, advocating for, and exonerating individuals convicted of a crime that they did not commit. He is being awarded the the Tracey Tyler Award for his reporting on the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Allan Smith, Bill No. 57, Bruce Nunn, Chris Schafer, councillor Richard Zurawski, Credit Union Act, credit unions, Douglas Leahey, drive-thrus, Ecology Action Centre, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Geoff Regan, government communications offices, Hubert Horan, Ian Fairclough, Jacob Boon, Jason Hollett, Jean Laroche, Joan Baxter, Kelsey Lane, Mary Campbell, Mary Gorman, micro-loans, Mike Toomey, MLA Susan Leblanc, Motor Vehicle Act, Northern Pulp's mill waste, payday loans, Peter Ritchie, Premier Stephen McNeil, Steve Ferguson, Traffic Safety Act, Uber Canada, Uber in Halifax

The allegations of sexual violence against Shambhala leader

Morning File, Tuesday, July 3, 2018

July 3, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Shambhala The Shambhala community is embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal, but no one seems to want to talk about it. On Tuesday, I asked Erica Butler to link to the Project Sunshine report, “a 3-month Initiative To Bring Healing Light To Sexualized Violence At The Core Of The Shambhala Buddhist Community,” hoping […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Argyle Street pedestrian paradise, Arthur Gaudreau, Atlantic Lottery district office, Catherine Tawil, Cornerstone Developments, CSBA convention, Halifax ReTales, HRM By Design, Jack Lawen will and estate, Jacob Boon, Katy Butler, Leah Perrin, Levi Asher, Mary Lawen, Michael Lawen, Nova Centre retail prospects, physical disturbance Alderney Landing, Project Sunshine report, Regent Tendzin, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, Samia Khoury, Shambhala sex abuse scandal, Supreme Court Justice Robert Wright, Trungpa Rinpoche

Longest day of the year blues

Morning File, Thursday, June 21, 2018

June 21, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Offshore research Yesterday, the province announced $11.8-million in spending over four years for the second phase of its Offshore Growth Strategy. According to a press release, the money will go towards: • collecting core samples and high-resolution mapping information of the ocean bottom and sub bottom • working with Morocco to reconstruct seismic […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Frisko, carbon emissions, homicide Hornes Rd. Eastern Passage, Jacob Boon, Jamie Bishop, Mary Hale, Michael Tutton, offshore research, Stephen Archibald and tree guards, Stephen Thomas

The “breach of privacy” arrest looks like an exercise in misdirection

Morning File, Thursday, April 12, 2018

April 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. “Breach of privacy” Yesterday, the province announced that the Freedom of Information site had been “breached”: Government is working with Halifax Regional Police to investigate a breach of information on the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) website. Of the documents that were inappropriately accessed, less than four per cent, about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, Cogswell Interchange plan, FOIPOP, Fred Vallance-Jones, Freedom of Information website breach of privacy, Halifax's Chinese population, Jacob Boon, Lama El Azrak, Stephen Archibald and words

Bureaucratic oversight and other misdemeanours

Morning File, Tuesday, April 10, 2018

April 10, 2018 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, sitting in on Morning File today. News 1. Randy Riley case “Last Tuesday, there was dramatic moment in Supreme Court, worthy of its own Law & Order episode,” reported Tim yesterday: In the course of its prosecution of Randy Riley for the 2010 murder of Chad Smith, the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Blois Colpitts, Frances Willick, Halifax doctor shortage, Imagine Bloomfield School, Jack Julian, Jacob Boon, Knowledge House, Matt Whitman complains about CBC, Matt Whitman vs Emma Davie, pot dispensary robbed, school lockdown system, Smiling Goat evicted from Kings Wharf, Wendy Walters

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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