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Saint Mary’s University’s problematic relationship with the Confucius Institute

Morning File, Tuesday, December 18, 2018

December 18, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Lewis Rendell 2 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather. 2. Reasonable grounds “Police officers who lawfully pull over a driver no longer need reasonable grounds to demand a sample of their breath,” reports Kaitlyn Swan for the CBC: New changes in the Criminal Code that take effect Tuesday give officers more authority when screening drivers for alcohol in hopes of reducing impaired […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Ashley Taylor, Bay Ferries Limited, Benjamin Perryman, Bill Priestap, Catherine Tully, Chinese Communist Party, Confucius Institute, Const. Chad Morrison, Cory Taylor, Fred Sanford, Habitat for Humanity Nova Scotia, impaired driving, Justice Joshua Arnold, Kaitlyn Swan, Lewis Rendell, Margaret Murphy, Marshall Sahlins, Paradigm Investments, People’s Republic of China, Rinzin Ngodup, Sergeant Greg Robertson, Steve Doane, Tim White, Willard Comeau, Yarmouth ferry costs

There are a lot of ugly buildings in Halifax

Morning File, Wednesday, December 12, 2018

December 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Habeas Corpus Five prisoners at the Burnside jail filed more habeas corpus applications last week, claiming that they were inappropriately kept in lockdown for up to four days. As has become typical, by the time the habeas applications could make their way to a court hearing before a judge, four of the prisoners […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Auditor General Michael Pickup, Azmi Arnaout, Burnside jail, Burnside Jail lockdown, Canada Post injunction, councillor Steve Adams, David Tanner, Dunbrack Street development, Freedom of Information, George Armoyan, habeas corpus applications, Hospice Society, IWK Health Centre, James Hardiman, Joan Baxter, Justice John Bodurtha, Justice Joshua Arnold, Link Performing Arts Centre, Matt Fitzgerald, Michael Gorman, Michael Paglia, NS Department of Energy and Mines, Patrick Sisson, property taxes, Shannon Kerr, Stephen Archibald and Petit Paris, YMCA funding

“Vexatious litigant” Ade Olumide comes to Nova Scotia

Morning File, Wednesday, November 21, 2018

November 21, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

November subscription drive I’m running behind so I’m just going to repeat what I wrote yesterday: Everyone should come to our subscription party Sunday. Here’s our Facebook event for the, er, event: Come celebrate with us! Investigative journalist Linden MacIntyre joins us as guest speaker. He’ll be announced by former CBC radio host/ spice merchant Costas […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ade Olumide, Alexandra Willson, Andres Picon, Bernice Bond, Blair Rhodes, Boston Christmas tree, Canso Pharmacy Ltd, Cassidy Bernard, Chief Rod Googoo, Chris Morris, Const. Sean Rocca, Dennis Oland retrial, Elie Hoyeck, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Justice David Stratas, Justice Joshua Arnold, Justice Terrence Morrison, oil spill Newfoundland, Pedestrian struck Spring Garden Road, Peter Kempton, prescription deaths, Ray Wagner, Roger Callow, Taryn Grant, Tourism promotion tree, vexatious litigant, Westray Law

Poo in the water, and other calamities

Morning File, Friday, August 24, 2018

August 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, beach closures, Brett Bundale, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, Cape Sharp Tidal, cow patty bingo, Energy Minister Derek Mombourqeuette, Erica Butler, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Garron Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Graeme Benjamin, gun lobby, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jagpreet Kit Singh, Jeff Waugh, Justice Joshua Arnold, Louis Reznick, monument to the Maroons, Naval Energies, Neeta Kumar-Britten, OpenHydro, Project Sunshine new report, Sea King helicopters, Smiling Goat written decision, Starfish Properties, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, Tom Ayers

Here come the public subsidies for a CFL team: Morning File, Thursday, December 28, 2017

December 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Sexual history and anonymity Yesterday, the courts published Judge Anne Derrick’s decision on whether testimony on Catherine Campbell’s sexual history would be allowed in the preliminary inquiry of the murder charge against Christopher Garnier. Derrick’s ruling is complicated, but the gist of it is she ruled that Campbell’s sexual history […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Wark, CFL franchise in Halifax, CFL stadium proposal, Christopher Garnier, Francis Campbell, Judge Anne Derrick, Justice Joshua Arnold, Saint John garbage transfer to Nova Scotia, sexual history and anonymity

Court Watch: Henneberry’s unsuccessful appeal and the Sandeson murder trial

April 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet

Court dismisses Henneberry’s appeal On Thursday last week, when the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal dismissed Victoria Henneberry’s appeal of her guilty plea to murder, family members of murder victim Loretta Saunders applauded. Miriam Saunders, Loretta’s mother, told reporters she can now begin to heal and advocate for the larger issues raised by her daughter’s...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew Starzomski, Chief Justice Michael MacDonald, Justice Beveridge, Justice Joshua Arnold, Justice Van den Eynden, Mark Scott, Miriam Saunders, murder convictions without bodies, trial of William Michael Sandeson, Victoria Henneberry appeal

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.

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