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Breaking down street barriers for people who are blind and partially sighted

Morning File, Monday, September 14, 2020

September 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. QAnon knows no borders Joan Baxter reports on QAnon, a global movement that promotes conspiracy theories, which has followers here in Nova Scotia. QAnon only started a few years ago with one post on the 4chan internet channel. Baxter took a look around to check out some of the post QAnon and its […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: automated pedestrian signals (APS), Brandi Shaw, COVID-19, Education Minister Zach Churchill, gender reveal parties, Graham Driscoll, Jean Laroche, Jenna Karvunidis, Laurie Graham, Michael Gorman, Milena Khazanavicius, Minister Chuck Porter, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), partially sighted, pedestrian push buttons, pedestrian safety, people who are blind, QAnon, Rene Ross, Suzanne Humphries, Unmask Our Children, Walk and Roll, Yarmouth

Hugh MacKay and our I-know-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing premier

Why is it so hard for Stephen McNeil to acknowledge mistakes were made, let alone admit he or anyone in his orbit ever does anything wrong? The latest Hugh MacKay drunk-driving allegations offer a premier case study in Trumpian counterattack, obfuscation, and butt-covering.

March 1, 2020 By Stephen Kimber

Stephen McNeil insists he knew nothing, his chief of staff did nothing wrong, and it’s all the fault of the author of an email or/and the leader of the opposition for failing to go to the police with information Chester-St. Margaret’s MLA Hugh MacKay might have been driving drunk almost a year before he was...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andre Veinotte, Laurie Graham, Michael Lawless, MLA Hugh MacKay, PC leader Tim Houston, Penny Lawless, Premier Stephen McNeil

Let’s play The Game of Halifax!

Morning File, Thursday, February 27, 2020

February 27, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 7 Comments

News 1. Indigenous students at Hants East high school say they face tougher suspensions Aly Thompson at CBC reports on Indigenous students at Hants East Rural High School who say they are being discriminated against when it comes to punishments from staff. Thompson spoke with several students, including 16-year-old Xavier Sack from the Sipekneꞌkatik First […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, Aly Thompson, anti-Indigenous racism, bullying, Caora McKenna, Councillor James Goyetche, councillor Shawn Cleary, David Shepherd, East Hants Rural High School, Erin MacInnis, Fairbnb Coalition, Game of Halifax, Gary Adam, Kelly Cameron, Laurie Graham, Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Metro X commuter service, Michael Zwaagstra, Miguel Greer, MLA Hugh MacKay, Pink Shirt Day, Premier Stephen McNeil, PREVNet, Richmond County Council, short term rentals, Stuart Peddle, Susan McClure, Suzette Belliveau, Thorben Wieditz, Tom Ayers, Tourism Accommodations Registration Act, Travis Price, Warden Brian Marchand, Wendy Craig, Xavier Sack

The Clown Show: Morning File, Friday, September 22, 2017

September 22, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. The Clown Show I’ve been to the opening of the legislature a few times, but skipped yesterday’s performance because I had too much catching-up to do. A friend, however, went in my stead. I wasn’t expecting them to write anything, but I got the missive below last night… friend doesn’t want their name […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan Kenley Matheson, angel investors, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Bill Power, cabdriver sexual assault, Craig Brown, HalifaxToday website, Houssen Milad, Interview Rocket, Jackie Foster, Jacob Boon, Jamie Baille, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Laurie Graham, Mrs. C. Brown, opening of Legislature, Peter Moreira, protestors, Sarah MacDonald, Throne Speech

The Liberals’ $24.5-million Acadia University funding fandango

While Nova Scotia’s other universities were busy slicing and dicing, Acadia was applying for — and routinely being granted — secret government bailouts for its financial woes. For five years! Why?

August 7, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

Back in the summer and early fall of 2014, I served on an inelegantly named “Faculty Working Group on the Future of the College” at King’s, the small liberal arts and journalism university where I’ve taught since before forever. Our working group was set up in response to a six-months-in-the-making report from a “Long Term...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Acadia University, Laurie Graham, Ray Ivany, Universities

How to get funding for your university: Morning File, Thursday, August 3, 2017

August 3, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Child sexual abuse A Halifax man who has been convicted of sexually abusing three boys was sued Tuesday by three other men who say they were also his victims. Another two alleged victims have already filed suit against the man, and an active police investigation is looking at the possibility he abused dozens […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acadia University bailout, Bud's Hemp Shop, Centre Plan exemptions, Child sexual abuse, Darkside Cafe, Glove guy, Innovation Saint John edition, Laurie Graham, Michael Patrick McNutt, One Ocean Expeditions, pedestrian struck Birch Cove, Project Apollo, Ray Ivany, Stephen Archibald Portland Maine, Stephen McNeil

Stephen McNeil’s pricey PR people suck at their jobs: Morning File, Monday, November 28, 2016

November 28, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

November Subscription Drive Click here to purchase a subscription. News 1. McNeil’s pricey PR people suck at their jobs Yesterday on Facebook, Graham Steele posted an analysis of the McNeil government’s reaction to the collapse of negotiations with the teachers union. Steele’s entire post is worth reading, but I was most struck by this: The government’s communication strategy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Centre Plan, conquered people, David Jackson, Doug Trussler, exemptions, former journalists, Graham Steele, HRM By Design, Jackie Foster, Laura Lee Langley, Laurie Graham, Marilla Stephenson, Nova Centre, Peter Kelly, PR, Ray Ivany, Robert Devet, Stephen McNeil

Too much news, none of it good: Morning File, Wednesday, November 23, 2016

November 23, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

November Subscription Drive Click here to purchase a subscription to the Halifax Examiner. News 1. Tyler Keizer Police have identified the man killed Monday night on Gottingen Street as 22-year-old Tyler Ronald Joseph Keizer of Halifax. 2. Nihilistic loners’ plot for mass murder “A young Halifax man has been handed a 10-year prison sentence for his role in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Tieleman, Cape Breton University Board of Governors, Dale Keefe, David Jackson, David Wheeler, former reporters, Halifax Shopping Centre, Jackie Foster, James Gamble, Justice Patrick Duncan, Laurie Graham, Marilla Stephenson, Premier Christy Clark, Randall Steven Thomas Shepherd, Ray Larkin, reporters as political hacks, Stephen Kimber, Stephen McNeil, Steve Bruce, Tom McNeil, Tyler Keizer, Zane Woodford

Stephen McNeil and the folly of false choices

November 6, 2016 By Stephen Kimber

“We believe we’ve delivered what is a fair package [for teachers]. If there is more required to be on the table, people need to explain where they want us to get that. Do they want us to take it out of health care? Do they want us to take it away from vulnerable Nova Scotians?” —...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Laurie Graham, Marilla Stephenson, Stephen McNeil, teachers, vulnerable Nova Scotians, Yarmouth ferry

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.

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