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The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters

Morning File, Friday, November 15, 2019

November 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

November subscription drive Once again, I’m running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris insists that I remind readers that if you buy an annual subscription this month, we will give you an Examiner T-shirt. Here’s one modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: Also, I’ll have more details Monday, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Airbnb, Andy Filmore, Bay Ferries, David Wachsmuth, Design Review Committee, Don Cherry, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, HRM By Design, Joel Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice Joel Fichaud, Justice Peter Bryson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Lisa Manninger, Mary Campbell, Nadia Gonzalez, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Nova Centre hotel, Paul Sampson, PC caucus, peak poppy, Peter Clewes, Remembrance Day, Samanda Ritch, Scott Campbell, Skye Halifax, Smitty's restaurant, Stephen Archibald and brooms, Sutton Place Hotel, Tim's dad, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., war, Zane Woodford

Halifax council has declared a climate emergency, so why is it preparing to increase transit fares?

Morning File, Wednesday, July 24, 2019

July 24, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Mark Furey is free to speak, but won’t Conflict of Interest Commissioner Joe Kennedy has cleared Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey to speak to the Glen Assoun wrongful conviction. In a letter released yesterday, Kennedy reviewed the Assoun case, the RCMP’s involvement in the case, and Furey’s worry that he had a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Michael Durnford, Atlantic Exchange Resto Group, bus fares, Carl Sparkes, Conflict of Interest Commissioner Joe Kennedy, Football Canada, Football Nova Scotia, Glen Assoun, Halifax Transit, HMCS Toronto, Icarus Report July 24 2019, Jason Warren, Jim Spatz, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Justice Peter Rosinski, sexual harassment in military, Southwest Properties (SWP) MAPLE, The Exchange, XOH

Paying for cops but not courts: Yarmouth ferry file

April 26, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

It’s heartening to learn the Province has not been asked by Bay Ferries to pay its legal fees to appeal a judge’s decision which allows the Progressive Conservative leader to seek a court order to find out how much taxpayer’s money is going to Bay Ferries for managing the Yarmouth ferry service. Which isn’t to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Justice Peter Rosinski, Marla MacInnis, Minister Lloyd Hines, PC lawsuit, PC leader Tim Houston, Scott Campbell, Yarmouth ferry

PC lawsuit seeking Yarmouth ferry financial numbers advances; judge rules against Bay Ferries’ attempt to get lawsuit thrown out on technicality

April 5, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Progressive Conservative caucus: 1. Bay Ferries: 0. In a court decision released today, Justice Peter Rosinski has rejected all of Bay Ferries’ arguments that a lawsuit filed by the Progressive Conservative ferry related to provincial financing of the Yarmouth ferry should be thrown out of court. I explained the background of this issue earlier this […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Catherine Tully, Justice Peter Rosinski, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC caucus, PC lawsuit, Tim Houston, Yarmouth ferry FOIPOP

How Vaportecture is used to obscure Canada Land’s untendered sale of land for a Shannon Park stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Bay Ferries, biomass, Canada Lands, Catherine Tully, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Joan Jones, Joanne Bernard, Justice Peter Rosinski, Kristen Hare, Lisa Manninger, Neil deMause, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC lawsuit, percent, Rocky Jones, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Scott Campbell, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, stadium rendering, Stephen Archibald and Encounter at Kwacha House, Tim Houston, Vaportecture, Wendie Poitras, Woman Hailing a Cab

The abandoned tidal turbine still sits on the bottom of the Minas Basin, and taxpayers are probably on the hook for removing it

March 6, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

The future of a massive, five-storey high tidal turbine sitting on the bottom of the Bay of Fundy off the coast of Parrsboro continues to represent a financial sinkhole for Nova Scotia taxpayers. Yesterday, Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Peter Rosinski officially accepted a letter from the lawyer representing Grant Thornton, the receiver appointed by...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bay of Fundy Inshore Fisherman's Association, Bay of Fundy tidal turbines, Cape Sharp Tidal, Darren Porter, Emera Inc., Energy Minister Derek Mombourquette, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Justice Peter Rosinski, Marc Isaacs, Naval Energies of France, Ocean Supercluster Program, OpenHydro Technologies Canada

Medjuck v. Medjuck: Harold says his brother Ralph, one of Nova Scotia’s most powerful property developers, ripped him off for decades

Morning File, Friday, December 21, 2018

December 21, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Bike projects Erica Butler has Part 2 of her update on bike projects. In Part 2, she discusses the Brunswick Street/Spring Garden Road, Forest Hills Parkway, Macdonald Bridge, Bedford Highway, Vernon Street, and Oak/Allen bike projects. Click here to read “Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 2.” This article is for subscribers. Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and Santa, Blair Rhodes, Burnside jail, habeas corpus applications, harassing smokers, Harold L. Medjuck, Hedda Medjuck, hospital smoking areas, Justice Peter Rosinski, Medjuck v Medjuck, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Ralph M. Medjuck, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and candlesticks, vendor disclosure statements, wrongful convictions

El Jones gets at the human core of the issues and people she writes about

Morning File, Tuesday, November 6, 2018

November 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. El Jones I first met El Jones when I worked at The Coast. Our meeting was not in person, but virtually — I remember that I asked her to write a guest commentary, and a couple of days later she came back with a poem, which she sent me via a Facebook message. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside explosion, Chad Harvey Leopold, Duane Eddy, El Jones, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Grace MacCormick, habeas corpus applications, Hanna Garson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Matthew Coaker, Matthew Grimm, Matthew Lambert, Maurice Pratt, Michael Gorman, Northern Pulp Mill effluent pipe, Randolph Riley, Robert Sanford, Sarah White, Stephen Archibald and Kent Monkman, Supreme Court mootness hearing

Court Watch: Victoria Henneberry and Lindsay Souvannarath

April 12, 2017 By Christina Macdonald

On the docket Henneberry to appeal guilty plea for second-degree murder of Loretta Saunders Victoria Henneberry will appear before the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on Wednesday and Thursday to appeal her guilty plea. She wants to argue that her mental state was impaired when she entered her plea, but she has to convince the...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Allister Boutilier, Arnelle Wellington Ellison, Blake Leggette, Daniel Michael Pellerin, David Boutilier, Glenn Francis Dunbar, Halifax Shopping Centre mass shooting, James Gamble, Justice Heather Robertson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Justice Van den Eynden, Kristin Johnston, Lindsay Kanittha Souvannarath, Loretta Saunders, Luke Craggs, Nicholas Butcher, Nova Scotia Youth Facility in Waterville, Peter Planetta, Randall Steven Shepherd, Robert Kennedy, Victoria Henneberry

Nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion: Morning File, Friday, August 12, 2016

August 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The NDP promised Irving even more than we knew “Nova Scotia’s Liberal government revealed Thursday it refused to honour a $200-million loan guarantee offered to Irving Shipbuilding in a secret 2012 provincial government letter to the company,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: The $200-million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: C. Meisner, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, George Armoyan, Heather Desserud, Ian Brown, Irving, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Melvin Jr., John Demont, Justice Peter Rosinski, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Kevin Lacey, Labi Kousoulis, Michael Gorman, Morning File, Paul Withers, Rachel Ward, Ron Foley Macdonald, Stephen Archibald, Steve Bruce

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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