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Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives win majority government

August 18, 2021 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Tim Houston’s health care-focused campaign resonated with voters across the province, if the results are any indication, with the the Progressive Conservative Party trouncing the Liberals on the way to a majority government. “We made history in this election. And not just here in Nova Scotia, but in all of Canada. We proved that just […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: ambulance crisis, anti-abortion demonstration, Antigonish, Argyle Cumberland North, Bill Casey, Brendan Maguire, Claudia Chender, Dartmouth South, doctor shortage, election, Greg Morrow, Guysborough-Tracadie, Health caree, Iain Rankin, Jennifer Henderson, Labi Kousoulis, lizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Lloyd Hines, Michelle Thompson, MLA Susan Leblanc, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party, Randy Delorey, Susan Le, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Suzy Hansen, Tim Houston, Zane Woodford

Would you buy a used government from one of these guys?

Don't worry. You don't have to choose. Liberal delegates will pick your next premier for you. All you have to do is live with him... for a while.

January 3, 2021 By Stephen Kimber

Welcome to 2021! In addition to figuring out the appropriate trash folder into which to dump all of 2020 (along with last week’s plethora of pleading emails — Last chance to take advantage of 2020 savings… Last chance in 2020 to donate to this worthy cause… First chance to take advantage of 2021 savings… First...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Iain Rankin, Labi Kousoulis, Liberal leadership 2021, Randy Delorey

Why people still believe the myth of tampered Halloween candy

Morning File, Thursday, October 1, 2020

October 1, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 7 Comments

News 1. Nearly 84% of Nova Scotia public schools had elevated levels of lead in water Zane Woodford reports on the results of the testing done on drinking water in schools across Nova Scotia. The results were finally released by the provincial government on Wednesday. And according to the numbers, 84% of public schools in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: candidates' answers, Dalhousie University, Deep Saini, Derek Bellemore, enrolment, Eric Jury, Fenwick Tower, Gillian Batten, halloween candy, Halloween treat tampering, Iain Taylor, Iona Stoddard, Joel Best, John Bignell, Labi Kousoulis, Liberal Party, Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU), Pamela Lovelace, pandemic, Robert Holden, Ronald O'Bryan, The Vuze (Fenwick), Tim Elms

The Chronicle Herald probably couldn’t survive without public money: Morning File, Tuesday, June 27, 2017

June 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Government financial support for the Chronicle Herald Following up on a report last winter from the Public Policy Forum, News Media Canada has put forward a proposal for the federal government to subsidize Canadian media to the tune of $350 million annually. It’s always a bad idea to get the government involved in journalism, for lots […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bob Cox, Chronicle Herald subsidy, dead whales in Gulf of St. Lawrence, Halifax Police safe roadway use tickets, Heritage Advisory Committee, Jesse Brown, journalist subsidy, Labi Kousoulis, Public Policy Forum, SaltWire, Transcon subsidy, Victoria Apartments Dartmouth

Proud of his indifference: Morning File, Friday, June 23, 2017

June 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. McNeil proud of his indifference “Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says he stands by his government’s record on domestic violence after a former staffer said the Liberals turned their back on her when she was assaulted by a party staffer — her partner,” reports Marieke Walsh for Global. Walsh asked McNeil about an article that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angela MacIvor, domestic violence, Kyley Harris, Labi Kousoulis, Maggie Rahr, Marieke Walsh, Michelle Coffin, opioids for pets, Premier Stephen McNeil, Tidal research money

The Liberals flippant attitude to domestic abuse: Examineradio, episode #116

June 16, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

Three years ago, then-Liberal Director of Communications Kyley Harris pleaded guilty to domestic assault and was dismissed from his role. Not for the assault itself, but for not mentioning the charges to his boss, Premier Stephen McNeil. As the 2017 election approached, communiqués from the Liberal Party once again featured Harris’s name in his old […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Examineradio, Kyley Harris, Labi Kousoulis, Michelle Coffin, podcast, Premier Stephen McNeil

The obsolete local newspaper: Morning File, Wednesday, May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Court Watch This week, Christina Macdonald looks at the Jimmy Melvin Jr and William Sandeson trials, Gabor Lukacs’ big small claims court victory, and points us to a really cool chart. Click here to read Court Watch. This article is behind the Examiner’s paywall and so available only to paid subscribers. Click here to purchase a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ben Thompson, business model for newspapers, Christina Macdonald, crosswalk flags, dead tree newspaper, election budget comparison, Labi Kousoulis, local newspapers, Metro Centre, Richard Starr, shared services agreement, World Trade and Convention Centre

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

No swear words or profanity: Morning File, Tuesday, August 9, 2016

August 9, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Energy East “Anti-pipeline protestors outside a Liberal fundraiser in Halifax got some face time with the event’s guest of honour on Monday night,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: More than 30 people joined the demonstration in front of Seven Bays Café on Gottingen […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Fillmore, Catherine McKenna, George Armoyan, George Baker, Labi Kousoulis, Manning MacDonald, Mark Jardine, Morning File, People First Nova Scotia, Peter Noakes, Preston Mulligan, Rachel Ward, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, 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.

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