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All hail the queen bees

Morning File, Thursday, May 7, 2020

May 7, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. Search continues for missing boy Searchers in Truro are still looking for a three-year-old boy who went missing Wednesday afternoon. Dylan, who is described as having brown hair, rosy cheeks and a green left eye and blue right eye, was visiting his grandmother when he disappeared. CBC reports that Dylan’s grandfather, Norman Brown, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Crouse, blueberries, Canada Honey Council, community garden, COVID-19, Immigrant Settlement Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS), Jennifer Watts, missing boy Truro, Norman Brown, Nova Scotia Beekeeper Association, queen bees, Wood N Hive Honey

Calling connected devices “smart” is propaganda

Morning File, Tuesday, April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, Cape Breton Spectator, coronavirus, Daily COVID-19 update, David Fraser, digital legacy, Dr. Monika Dutt, Dr. Robert Strang, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, Jennifer Watts, Mary Campbell, missing people, museums, Olivia Malley, pandemic, Petnet feeder, Portia Clark, school reopening, Shaina Luck, smart appliances, smarthome, social media, worker safety, workplace deaths

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: Morning File, Tuesday, October 18, 2016

October 18, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 26 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Voter turnout CBC’s Information Morning interviewed Dal prof Jeffrey Roy about the low turnout in the Halifax election, and Roy went on to spread some misinformation: There are lots of reasons why people didn’t get out and vote this time around, according to Roy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Centre for Islamic Development, Centre Plan, creepy clown, Dale Rancourt, David Weale, development, Good Robot Brewing, HRM By Design, Ihsan Academy, Jeffrey Roy, Jennifer Watts, Klutzy the Clown, The politics of bullshit, voter turnout

Figureheads vs. Humans: Morning File, Saturday, September 3, 2016

September 3, 2016 By El Jones 10 Comments

Today’s Morning File is going to be short, because I’m off being a bridesmaid and stuff. TOTALLY JOKING! They’ve known each other for years. 1. Shelley Fashan There was a story this week about the St. John’s Telegram using its front page to highlight the abuse women receive in online comments. That story followed upon the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bullshitter of the Day, Council, East Coast Music Association, garden conches, Jennifer Watts, Leslie Jones, Matt Hebb, Septembre Anderson, Sheldon MacLeod, Shelley Fashan, Stephen Archibald, Twitter, Working While Black

Is the RCMP listening to your phone calls? Examineradio, episode #66

June 17, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

  This week we speak with Justin Ling, Vice Canada’s Parliamentary Reporter. In the past month he’s written a series of articles highlighting the RCMP’s ability to intercept cellphone calls and messages, and how they’re using the courts to try to continue taking advantage of this technology. Plus, the Halifax Examiner turns two this week, which means […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Examineradio, Jennifer Watts, Justin Ling, Orlando, podcast, RCMP, Sidney Crosby, Silva, Stingray, Vice

Mainland Common may be solution to Africville dog park kerfuffle

July 24, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

Tensions were high at the beginning of last night’s public consultation over how to replace the Africville dog park, but as the meeting progressed dog owners and city staff seemed to zero in on a possible solution agreeable to all: A new, large and fenced dog park at the Mainland Common. To back up, former residents...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Africville, dog park, Jennifer Watts, Karen Pitt, Peter Bigelow, Terry Downey

Groups may have to compromise on housing plans for St. Pat’s-Alexandra site

July 4, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

North end residents dreamed big about the future of St. Pat’s-Alexandra at a meeting last night, but heard they may have to compromise on their housing goals. About 70 people attended the consultation at the Halifax North Memorial Public Library to yet again speak their minds on the future of the former school site. It...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Hope Blooms, Jennifer Watts, JONO Developments, Margaret Casey, Maureen MacDonald, Rhonda Britton, Ross Cantwell, St. Pat's-Alexandra, Waye Mason

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.

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