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Walking through the stories of the volunteers of the North End Services Canteen

Morning File, Thursday, May 12, 2022

May 12, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. RCMP officers privately warned their loved ones that a killer was on the loose, but didn’t warn the broader public On the morning of April 19, 2020, many Nova Scotians were using Twitter and Facebook and trying to find out what was happening in and around Portapique. Meanwhile, as Tim Bousquet reports, the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Black Beauty Culture, Black hair care, Gerrish Community Hall, Jane's Walk, Lezlie Lowe, north end Halifax, North End Services Canteen, Samantha Dixon Slawter, Second World War, servicemen, volunteers, WW2

Exploiting pandemic measures for profit

Morning File, Tuesday, March 22, 2022

March 22, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. You mean MLAs aren’t supposed to be corporate shills? Last week, it came to Joan Baxter’s attention that there was a Friends of New Northern Pulp sign up at MLA Pat Dunn’s constituency office. Dunn is the MLA for Pictou Centre and minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs. Baxter wondered whether this was […]

Filed Under: COVID, Economy, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: BP, Bridgewater, Catherine Klimek, CBC, Chief Dan Kinsella, Chris Wortman, Colorado, Colorado Public Radio, David Mitchell, dentists, Denver, direct billing, fraud, Friends of a New Northern Pulp, Geoff Martin, Greater Plutonio, GW, Hannah Main, insurance, International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Lezlie Lowe, light rail, Lisa Banfield, Matthew Byard, Medavie Blue Cross, Nathaniel Minor, New Horizons Baptist Church, Northern Pulp, offshore, oil, pancake machine, Pastor Rhonda Britton, Patt Dunn, Paul Wortman, Portapique, Rhonda Britton, Richard Woodbury, Rob Csernyik, Sarah Sawler, Scotiabank, Tim Houston, transit

Where do you go when you gotta go?

Morning File, Tuesday, February 25, 2020

February 25, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Supported living This item is written by Tim Bousquet. In 2013, the Nova Scotia government accepted a report titled “Choice, Equality and Good Lives in Inclusive Communities: A Roadmap for Transforming the Nova Scotia Services to Persons with Disabilities Program.” That 56-page report clearly identified the reliance on large institutions to house people […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessible housing, accessible washrooms, affordable housing, African Nova Scotians, Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia, Bobbie-Jean MacKinnon, Brenda Small, Brenda Thompson, Bruce Nunn, Carbon Arc Independent Cinema, Cassidy Chisholm, Cermaq Canada, Cineplex, Community Homes Action Group, Courtney Pyrke, Emma Smith, Garden Food Bar and Lounge, Harold Ritchie, Joann Hamilton-Barry, Jonathan Fowler, Kevin Cormier, Kourash Rad, Lezlie Lowe, Maggie-Jane Spray, Marilyn O’Neil, Marshalltown Alms House, Marshalltown poor house, Meinhard Doelle, Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors, New Brunswick Public Library Service, Nova Scotia Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (DFA), open-pen fish farm, poor houses, rapid transit service, Seafarmer's Conference, Siloën Daley, supported living, Sylvie Nadeau, Tom Smith, Wendy Lill, William Lahey

Inez Rudderham: The face of the healthcare crisis in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Friday, April 26, 2019

April 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

I’m Suzanne Rent  and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Basic income Erica Butler chatted with Evelyn Forget who wrote Basic Income for Canadians. Forget will one of several speakers be at the Basic Income: The Evidence Speaks conference at the Halifax Central Library tomorrow. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Andy Bowers, beer, Blacklegged tick, brewing, Brewster Festival, Donna Lugar, Evelyn White, Inez Rudderham, Jeremy White, Kelly Costello, Lezlie Lowe, Lyme disease, Melanie Bock-White, Miranda Anthistle, NS Health Authority, paula Allen, Premier Stephen McNeil, sexist hockey fans, telecommuting, Terry Rudderham, Toronto Maple Leafs, working from home

We’re pretty sure it will soon be legal to smoke dope with that murderous imperialist Boer War dude outside Province House

Morning File, Monday, October 1, 2018

October 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. The 1% “Did you know Canadian taxpayers earning more than $250,000 annually — them’s the “one per cent” to me and thee — paid $6.8-billion less in federal taxes in 2016 than they did in 2015?” asks Stephen Kimber: But… uh… wait a minute. Didn’t Canada’s shiny new Liberal government create a whole […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: #MeToo, Alanna Rizza, Andrew Preeper, Anna Duckworth, Audrey Champagne, Bruce MacKinnon, cannabis legalization, drinking and smoking in parks, earthquake, fatality Highway 102, Fenwick MacIntosh, Halifax council campaign finance rules, Heather Cabot, Kate Miller, Kavanaugh hearing, Lezlie Lowe, Miss Grass, naming policy, naming shit for people, Nicole Thompson, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and cheese

News from Florida, ticketed for being poor, and headless in Truro

Morning File, Wednesday, May 2, 2018

May 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Raw sewage This was an odd and exasperating story I reported yesterday afternoon: An apparent act of sabotage on the MacKay Bridge resulted in a loss of communications between sewage pumping stations and the Dartmouth sewage plant; that in turn led to raw sewage being dumped into Halifax Harbour. When we asked a […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby, business school bullshit, Cody McEachern, Daytona Beach News Journal, Florida wildfire, George Armoyan in Florida, Geosam Capital, Laura Brown, Lezlie Lowe, New Smyrna Beach, panhandling from median strips, Solemnization of Marriage Act, Squeegee Kid Act, Three more cannabis stores, Ticketed for being poor, Tim Krochak, Truro tree statues

Why Winston Churchill is surrounded by rats: Morning File, Thursday, August 4, 2016

August 4, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. That crappy old office building on Argyle Street “The Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre is still for sale and the city has decided not to purchase it for now,” reports Sherri Borden Colley for the CBC. As I reported in April 2015: The WTCC […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Hebda, Cape Breton Spectator, Francella Fiallos, Lezlie Lowe, Mary Campbell, Maureen Googoo, Preston Mulligan, Queen’s Marque, Robert Devet, Sherri Borden Colley, Trade Centre Limited, Willis Stevens, 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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