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What’s a little unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine among friends?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

I’m Philip Moscovitch, filling in for Tim Bousquet this morning. Tim is editing from a diner at an undisclosed location. News 1. Spaceport concerns Last month, Maritime Launch Services — the people who say they want to run a spaceport out of Canso —submitted a 159-page environmental assessment for the project. Federal and provincial government staffers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam MacInnis, Agave in Public Gardens, Canso spaceport, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Don Mills, Elizabeth McMillan, Frances Willick, John Lohr, Maritime Launch Services, Mobility Cup regatta, Peter MacKay, Philip Moscovitch, Sue Goyette, Taryn Grant, Uber, women's baseball

Is Tory leader wannabe John Lohr a Maxime Bernier in waiting?

Andrew Scheer’s federal Tories seem to be in full split-apart mode. The provincial Progressive Conservatives? Much will depend on their upcoming leadership convention.

August 25, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Will Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives pull a federal Conservative Party and stagger out of their October 27 leadership convention hopelessly divided between their regular right-wing whingers and their ultra-right-wing whiners? Could PC leadership hopeful John Lohr — he of the Northern-Pulp-protesters-were-paid, free-speech-for-fanatics, let’s-build-more-statues-to-Edward-Cornwallis, frack-yes(!) wing of the party — emerge as the leader of a...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party of Canada, John Lohr, Maxime Bernier, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives

Meet the PC Leadership candidates

June 22, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

More than 200 Progressive Conservatives turned out at Dartmouth’s Alderney Theatre last night to hear from the five people competing to become the next leader of their party and possibly the first Tory Premier since Rodney MacDonald lost to Darrell Dexter of the NDP in 2009. The choice will be made October 27. In the...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cecil Clarke, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Jamie Baillie, Jennifer Henderson, John Lohr, Julie Chiasson, PC Leadership hopefuls, Peter MacKay, Tim Houston

John Lohr plays footsies with the reprehensibles: Morning File, Friday, March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Dirty Dealing, Part 3 “In a study published in 2017, Dalhousie University researchers reported that air levels of three volatile organic compounds (VOCs) near the Abercrombie pulp mill in Pictou County exceeded cancer risk thresholds and ‘are of primary health concern in terms of population risk,’” reports Linda Pannozzo, who goes on to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill 72 passed, Design Review Committee, free-speech advocates, John Lohr, Linda Pannozzo, maritime Centre face lift, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre wind, pedestrian struck Nantucket Avenue, Ron Burdock, Stephen Archibald's house, Threats made against schools, wind study, Zane Woodford

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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