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The Nacho Cheese Incident: Morning File, Thursday, October 27, 2016

October 27, 2016 By Katie Toth 6 Comments

Tim is otherwise occupied, so today’s Morning File is written by guest writer Katie Toth. Good morning, Halifax. I’m a sleepy reporter and writer and you can follow me on Twitter. News 1. What makes a disability? A Nova Scotia woman can’t get a federal income tax break for her hard-of-hearing toddler because he has hearing aids, so the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Charlotte Waters, Cogswell Interchange, Crisi B. MacLellan, Jordan Brennan, Pam Darnoff, Zane Woodford

Muskrat Falls is all about power: Morning File, Monday, October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Muskrat Falls “An ongoing blockade against the Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador took a dramatic turn on Saturday as land protectors stormed and occupied the Muskrat Falls work site itself,” reports Justin Brake, editor of the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent: As about 200 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Candice MacLennan, Cape Breton, carbon tax, Climate Change Nova Scotia, David Nuke, decimated forest, Diana Whalen, fossil fuels, Joanne Light, Jordan Brennan, Justin Brake, Liz Solo, Muskrat Falls, Nunatukavut, Rachel Ward, Robert Devet, Stephen McNeil

Income inequality is at a four-decade high in Nova Scotia: Examineradio, episode #84

October 21, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

  Jordan Brennan is an economist with Unifor and a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University. In a  recent report, he trashes the Nova Scotia Liberal government’s neoliberal austerity agenda. He argues that cutting government spending when the private sector is also belt-tightening is exactly the opposite of responsible economic stewardship. Also, we speak with four […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: austerity, election, Examineradio, Jordan Brennan, Lindell Smith, Lisa Blackburn, podcast, Rochard Zurawski, Shawn Cleary

Halifax, Tatooine, the city with two suns: Morning File, Thursday, October 13, 2016

October 13, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives yesterday released a report, “Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity,” written by labour economist Jordan Brennan. At 46 pages, the report is a short and easy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Anne Derrick, Arabic language radio station, austerity, carbon tax, George Baker, ghost building, Hal Davidson, Hollis and Bishop Street design proposal, industrial accident, Irving, Jennifer Taplin, Jordan Brennan, McNeil Liberals, Richard Starr, Steve Bruce, Tatooine, The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, two suns

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!

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