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City Hall tried to crawl through a loophole on gender discrimination

When last week's human rights commission hearing on gender discrimination in Halifax's fire service began, lawyers for HRM tried to get the complaint tossed on a technicality. The good news is that they lost. The bad news is that they tried.

May 26, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

In lawyer terms, it probably made sense. Scrounge in the legal underbrush for a technicality, a loophole to crawl through to derail potential litigation against your client. Save your client some unwanted publicity, maybe even a little — or a big — cash settlement. All good, all standard-issue Litigation 101. Unless, of course, your client...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Dennis James, Doug Trussler, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Karen MacDonald, Kathy Symington, Ken Steubing, Liane Tessier, Ron Stockton, systemic gender discrimination

Did Stephen McNeil even read the audit he reacted so badly to? Morning File, Tuesday, December 19, 2017

December 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. The Pickup-McNeil war I was supposed to interview Auditor General Michael Pickup yesterday for this week’s Examineradio podcast, but Pickup cancelled for personal reasons. Shit happens, so it goes. We’ll get back to him in the new year. But in preparation for the interview, I read Pickup’s audit of Family Doctor Resourcing, and I came […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: audit of Family Doctor Resourcing, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Barbara Sawatsky, Canso spaceport, Civil service pay, environmental assessment of the Canso Spaceport, environmental effects of the rocket fuel, Halifax's Fire Chief Ken Stuebing apologizes, John Kearney, Kathy Symington, Keith Doucette, Larry Haiven, Liane Tessier, Maritime Launch Services, Stephen Matier, The Pickup-McNeil war

A bunch of horrible things: Morning File, Wednesday, December 13, 2017

December 13, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

News 1. Nova Scotia Power and Emera are “rife with ongoing conflict of interest situations” “It was Nova Scotia Power on the hot seat yesterday as Bruce Outhouse, the lawyer for the Utility and Review Board, quizzed Nova Scotia Power president Karen Hutt about the potential risks to ratepayers of self-dealing among the growing stable of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Halef, councillor Richard Zurawski, crosswalk flags, Erica Butler, Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service, Heads Up Halifax, Judy MacIsaac-Davis, Liane Tessier, Lisa Blackburn, Lucasville and Hammonds Plains boundaries, MLA Lenore Zann, pedestrian struck Mumford Road, racist emails, Service Nova Scotia headquarters, Stephanie vanKampen, systemic historic gender discrimination, Waterstone Subdivision

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Keonté Beals. Photo: Keke Beatz

Episode #21 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

The young R&B artist Keonté Beals — Tara’s former NSCC student, by the way — started out singing in church in North Preston and performing popular covers before digging into who he is an artist. On his debut album KING, he sings about love, loyalty, and authenticity. He zooms in for a chat about its creation, his children’s book, and how not even a pandemic can keep him down.

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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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