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Halifax heritage: Disappearing from the top down

Morning File, Friday, January 10, 2020

January 10, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp We have two articles about Northern Pulp this morning. The first, by Jennifer Henderson, looks at Northern Pulp’s announcement that it will continue to operate as a business in Nova Scotia and is continuing with the environmental assessment for its proposed effluent pipe into the Northumberland Strait. As well, Henderson looks […]

Government moves slowly, except when it moves lightning fast

Morning File, Friday, October 4, 2019

October 4, 2019 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. Twenty years after the Marshall decision, DFO still has no agreement with First Nations communities over fishing management It’s been twenty years since the Marshall decision (in which the Supreme Court of Canada found that Donald Marshall Jr. had a treaty right to fish for eels out of season) and the Department of […]

A person in Indigenous ceremonial dress and a boy dance on the red sand of a beach on the Minas Basin.

Episode 46 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Bretten Hannam has been working on Wildhood, in one way or another, for the past decade, pausing to make multiple short films and their debut feature, North Mountain (2015), an experience that took years itself to recover from. Wildhood is the story of a Two-Spirit Mi’kmaq teen who sets off to find the mother he thought was dead, a gorgeously rendered, gentle journey of self-discovery. In 2020 it became the first feature film to shoot in Nova Scotia in a post-COVID world. Brett stopped in on their way to the film’s world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to chat challenges, considerations of community, and opening FIN tonight.

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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.

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