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Who killed the electric bus? Halifax Transit turns down electric bus funding, opts to stick with diesel instead

July 10, 2019 By Erica Butler

City staff are “mothballing” an electric bus pilot project for which council had already approved $1 million in funding, in the process turning down another $2.25 million in federal funding secured to help fund the project, according to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information request. An electric bus generates about 62 fewer tonnes of...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: climate change, CUTRIC, Dave Reage, electric buses, Halifax Transit, Jacques Dubé, Josipa Petrunic, Nova Scotia Power, PTIF, WSP

Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Audrey Parker, Bailey Roy, Brett Bundale, bullshit, Bullshitter of the day: Jacques Dubé, Calum Johnston, CBRM Mayor Cecil Clarke, Corey Roy, Damien Roy, Francis Campbell, Halloween hoax, Harry Frankfurt, innovation, Jacques Dubé, kids are terrible, Laura Brown, Mary Campbell, Michael MacDonald, Moshe Lander, Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), Rosalind Penfound, Roy brothers, Steve Sutherland, subscription drive, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

Shortsighted and a bit foolish: Morning File, Wednesday, September 6, 2017

September 6, 2017 By Erica Butler 10 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, your friendly neighbourhood Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim this morning. News 1. Tire-burning “A handful of Colchester County residents will get their day in court next year to try and halt a one-year pilot project that would burn tires for fuel at the Lafarge Canada cement plant in Brookfield, 12 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bob Bjerke firing, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway Ltd., David Hendsbee pension, Erica Butler, Halifax Deputy Mayor Steve Craig, Jacques Dubé, Linda Mosher, Myles McNutt, Oxford Theatre sale, paying for parking, paying for the bus, Purcells Cove backlands, rail line, Shaw Group/Nature Conservancy

City staff cite the right-wing, anti-worker Fraser Institute for their living wage report: Morning File, Monday, June 19, 2017

June 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Living Wage Back in February, Halifax council directed city staff to prepare a report: that addresses options for scoring of Local preference, social economic benefit, employee compensation/living wage, and environmental impact when evaluating proposals, and recommend any supporting amendments to the procurement policy as a result. That report, written by Senior Procurement Consultant Erin […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Jackson, Broadbent Institute, Calvin Maynard Sparks, Chad Morrison, dishonest statistics, DRE testing, drug impaired driving (DID), Erin MacDonald, Eugene Tan, Fraser Institute, Jacques Dubé, Kim McOnie, Legal weed, living wage report, marijuana-related crashes, Nadia Gonzales murder, Samanda Rose Ritch, William Sandeson found guilty

Halifax Harbour is shrinking: Morning File, Monday, April 10, 2017

April 10, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Dubé and lying city councillors In early March, I was tipped that Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé had been missing from City Hall for two weeks. I called around, and spoke to three councillors, two of whom told me that Dubé had a family member who had a severe illness and was attending to it. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chronicle Herald journalists, David MacCallum, Economy Shoe Shop, Jacob Boon, Jacques Dubé, Jennifer Stairs, lying city councillors, Marieke Walsh, Michael Lightstone, Nova Centre, Victor Syperek, Waye Mason

“Salacious details”: the Halifax connection. Morning File, Thursday, January 12, 2017

January 12, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. “Salacious details”: the Halifax connection Don’t think about an elephant. Now don’t think about Donald Trump and golden showers. OK, well, now that you can’t stop thinking about either, you might as well know there’s a Halifax connection to the latter story. Reports the Guardian: In mid-November, the documents took another route into Washington […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turbin, Chinese tourists, Crystal City, DDI Conspiracy, death in custody, DongDu International Group, Greater Halifax Partnership, Halifax International Security Forum, Human Source Management Solution, Jacques Dubé, Justice Nick Scaravelli, replica city, Salacious details, Stephen Archibald Saint John ironwork, Stephen Dempsey, Stephen McNeil, street checks, The St. Mary's Chinese conspiracy

The dangers of Glynnis O’Connor and her horse: Morning File, Tuesday, December 20, 2016

December 20, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Living wage Yesterday, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives released a study of living wage requirements in Halifax and Antigonish: The 2016 living wage for Halifax is $19.17 and the living wage for Antigonish is $17.30. This is the wage rate required to pay the necessities for a family of four with two […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda McDougall, Dorothy Grant, Earlene MacMullin, Ed MacMaster, Jacques Dubé, Joe Ramia, Kathy Birt, Kendra Coombes, living wage, Marty Ward, Nova Centre, police commission revolt, police state, Ray Paruch, Steve Craig, Sydney Harbour, Ted Upshaw, Tom Ayers, unsanitary shopping carts, Waye Mason

“I miss the job” – Sue Uteck. Examineradio, episode #72

July 29, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

After losing her long-held south-end seat by fewer than 100 votes, former city councillor Sue Uteck is gearing up to challenge incumbent Waye Mason in this October’s municipal election. What’s inspiring her run and what does she think the city should be doing better? Plus, CBC steps in it by “explaining” that North Preston is some sort […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: CBC, El Jones, Examineradio, Jacques Dubé, Lameia Reddick, Marilla Stephenson, North Preston, podcast, Sue Uteck

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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