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A filthy rich American wants to profit from turning Owls Head into a golf course, and he apparently wants the Canadian taxpayer to subsidize the effort

Morning File, Friday, May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Police budget “The city’s board of police commissioners is recommending in favour of a $5.5 million cut to the Halifax Regional Police budget,” reports Zane Woodford: Chief Dan Kinsella told the board this week that there will be no impact on public safety from the reduced spending, about $4 million of which comes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amy Susin, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Beckwith Gilbert, Cape Breton Regional Hospital (CBRH), Chris Miller, Colin MacDonald, Field Point Capital Management Company, FOI request, Joel Pink, Judge A. Peter Ross, Kitty Gilbert, Landon Thomas Jr., Lighthouse Links Development Company, lobbyist, Mary Saltzman, Michel Samson, Owls Head Park, PASSUR Aerospace, Roy Garland, Sean Glover, Simon MacDonald, Tammy Carrigan-Warner, Thomas Gilbert Jr., Thomas Strong Gilbert Sr., Valerie MacGillivary

Why open adoption records matter

Morning File, Thursday, November 21, 2019

November 21, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

Party! This item is written by Tim Bousquet. November is subscription drive month, and that means our annual subscribers party follows. Join us Sunday, December 1, 4-7pm at Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street). Entry is free for all subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber already, you can click here to subscribe or purchase a subscription at […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, adoption records, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Blair Rhodes, Catholic Children's Aid Society, child poverty rate, Chris Lamb, Derek Stephenson, Eddie Carvery, Fraser Institute, Graeme Benjamin, Indigenous fishermen, Joel Pink, John Risley, Kelly Regan, Leslie McNab, lobster fishery, Michael Gorman, Minister Mona Fortier, Origins Canada, referees, Sarah Ritchie, Skylar Blanchette, Transgender Day of Remembrance, tuatara, Zack Nicholas

Panglossian vox pop at the Herald: not a contrary word to be heard

Morning File, Wednesday, June 19, 2019

June 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Steve Craig Steve Craig won the byelection for MLA in Sackville-Cobequid. (Preliminary results are above.) The district has long been solidly NDP, so a PC victory is notable, but I wouldn’t read too much into it. The NDP candidate, Lara Fawthrop, didn’t have Craig’s name recognition, and Craig is more on the “progressive” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chronicle Herald sponsored content, commuter rail, Convention centre, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Tim Outhit, Dylan Corkum, Elizabeth McSheffrey, global warming data points, IWK expense scandal, Joel Pink, Lara Fawthrop, Michael Gorman, MLA Steve Craig, Nova Centre, Peter Dostal, Progressive Conservative party, Sara Ericsson, Tracey Kitch, Zane Woodford

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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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