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Watch Mayor Mike Savage and HRM councillors’ chucklefest with Atlantic Gold

Morning File, Monday, September 23, 2019

September 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Climate change action This week people around the world are stepping up activism around the climate emergency during the UN climate action summit in New York. A list of local events can be found here. 2. What to do about Justin? Writes Stephen Kimber: Last week’s Blackface/Brownface controversy raises the complicated question of […]

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Harvard Street residents go to court over bikeway plan

Morning File, Friday, August 10, 2018

August 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Class action lawsuit filed against Archdiocese Last week, Halifax lawyer John McKiggan and the Toronto law firm of Koskie Minsky announced they were filing a class action lawsuit against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax–Yarmouth on behalf of children they allege were sexually abused by priests from 1960 to the present. After the lawyers issued […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Albert LeBlanc, Alex M. Cameron, Angus McRae, Archdiocese lawsuit, Bruce Wark, Canadian Martyrs' Church, Cape Sharp Tidal, councillor Steve Streatch, Donna Rammo, Douglas Champagne, Edouard Joseph Theriault, Father George Epoch, Gary MacLellan, Geraldine O'Shea, Glen Ginther, Harvard Street bikeway plan, Jack Julian, Jamac painting and Sandblasting Ltd, Janet Stevenson, John McKiggan, Jolyn Swain, Joseph Dominix, Justice John D. Murphy, Justice Minister Diana Whalen, Kelsey MacAulay, Kim Plaxton, Kristin Tweel, Kylie Cooper, Lance Barney, Manuel Cierra, Marlene Cooper, Michael Teehan, Nancy Murphy, Open Hydro collapse, Pat Thompson, Peter Munro, Premier Stephen McNeil, roadside memorial Fall River, Robert MacDougall, Ross Thompson, Scott Hodgson, Stacey Pineau, Sue Goyette, Trevor Brumwell, unconquered peoples, Wendy Brookhouse

Bill 30, sex abuse, and separation of church and state: Morning File, Wednesday, October 25, 2017

October 25, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Bill 30, sex abuse, and separation of church and state “Bill No. 30 – Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth Act” was considered by the usually non-controversial Private & Local Bills committee of the legislature yesterday. But, “[t]he committee voted to hold the bill at this stage of the lawmaking process following a presentation by lawyer John […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth, Bill 30, Blake Jennings, Cassandra Armsworthy, Hay bale Teddy, Jean Laroche, John McKiggan, safety harnesses, sexual abuse by priests, 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

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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