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Matt Whitman’s idiocy and free speech: Morning File, Tuesday, February 27, 2018

February 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Windsor & Hantsport Railway “A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail,” writes Rick Grant: Robert T. Schmidt’s claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: advice for free speech advocates, Alison Auld, Brett Bundale, citizen complaints against city councillors, Clay George, free speech, Graham Steele, Haley Ryan, Hassan Ali Kheireddine, Heather Hemming, Jessica Leeder, Lebanese man dies, Liette Doucet, Northern Pulp, Nova Scotia Teachers Union (NSTU), Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation, Premier Stephen McNeil and teachers, Richard Woodbury, Rick Mehta, right whales, Whitman is a blowhard

Memo to Stephen McNeil: beware teachers bearing frustrations

On October 25, 2016, 96 per cent of teachers gave their union an overwhelming strike mandate. And that changed everything about everything in the McNeil government’s union-busting calculus.

February 25, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Cast your mind back to October 25, 2016. The date will be significant. Before that day, Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government seemed to be in full control of its anti-public-sector-worker agenda. The executive of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union was preparing — reluctantly — to recommend its 7,600 members agree to a tentative...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: education, Liette Doucet, NSTU, Stephen McNeil, teachers

A durable dog is the bestest kind of dog: Morning File, Wednesday, February 21, 2018

February 21, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Teachers “Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers could launch job action as early as Thursday if they endorse an illegal strike, the president of the province’s teachers’ union says,” reports the Canadian Press: Liette Doucet said the union executive will meet Wednesday to review Tuesday’s strike vote and decide whether to release the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and consumer protection, David Rutkowski, Glaze Report review, Greg Thompson, Halifax City Council minutes from 1981, Hyacinth Simpson, itchy underwear, Lee Berthiaume, Liette Doucet, Marieke Walsh, MV Asterix, NS teachers job action, pedestrian struck by bus Main Street, Stephen Archibald and stone walls, Third Jamaica Contingent, Yvette d'Entremont

The best cat video ever: Morning File, Thursday, May 18, 2017

May 18, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Stephen McNeil probably can’t meet his preschool pledge Jennifer Henderson reports: The Liberal’s pre-election budget included $3.7 million to expand Early Learning Centres to 30 new locations by September, just four months from now, but the locations haven’t been identified, there’s no money to help daycares transition, and school boards have been given no […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bayers Lake Outpatient Centre, Bill 75, Jad Crnogorac, Liette Doucet, Matt Whitman, NDP press release, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, NSTU, the Icarus Report May 18

What happened at Law Amendments today

February 16, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson 3 Comments

It may read Teacher Appreciation week on the calendar but none of the dozens and dozens of teachers who appeared before the Legislature’s Law Amendments Committee today are feeling appreciated. John Walker, a teacher for 26 years and father of four, wore a sign with “zero” around his neck to protest the zero per cent […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Bill 75, Joan Ling, John Walker, Law Amendments Committee, Liette Doucet, NSTU, Shari Abriel, Shelley Morse, Timothy MacLeod

Arise Ye Nova Scotia Slaves: Morning File, Friday, February 10, 2017

February 10, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Teachers reject contract The Nova Scotia Teachers Union sent out the following release last night: Teachers reject tentative agreement Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers have voted to reject a third tentative agreement reached between the Nova Scotia Teachers Union and the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development since the opening of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carrie Best, Cassie Williams, Chronicle Herald talks break down, Evelyn White, Ingrid Bulmer, James Calbert Best, Karen Casey, Liette Doucet, Teachers reject contract, The Clarion, Viola Desmond

Thoughtless and inane reporting: Morning File, Monday, January 23, 2017

January 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. One year Today marks the one-year anniversary of the strike by Chronicle Herald newsroom employees. The union is out picketing for the morning commute: at the MacDonald Bridge, at the Fairview overpass, at the Armdale Roundabout, on Bayers Road. The union asks that supporters join them for a noon hour rally at the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abad Khan, aquarium, Chronicle Herald strike, Drugs! Be afraid!, Evelyn C. White, Liette Doucet, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Pedestrian struck Gottingen Street, Pedestrian struck Jubilee Road, Pedestrian struck Spring Garden Road, Peter Ziobrowski, RCMP drug seizures on highways, Round and octagonal buildings, shoddy journalism, Stephen Archibald, taxi crashes into shop, tentative agreement, UFO Landing Pad, whale tank

All teachers (and a couple of ships): Morning File, Monday, December 5, 2016

December 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Schools closed If you’ve been in a cave or solitary confinement or on a three-day acid trip, you’ve missed that on Saturday the Liberal government ordered all provincial schools closed starting today. What happens now? On their respective Facebook pages, Graham Steele and Andrew Younger have been posting their informed knowledge of house […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Darrell Dexter, daycare, Department of Education and Early Years Branch, John Risley, Karen Casey, Kenzi Donnelly, Law Amendments Committee, Liette Doucet, Lisa Rondeau, neoliberalism, Nova Scotia Parents for Teachers, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, schools closed, self-serving political agenda, Stephen McNeil, Tina Roberts-Jeffers

How ACOA could save $79,900: Morning File, Friday, November 4, 2016

November 4, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

November Subscription Drive Graham Steele writes: I’ve subscribed to the Halifax Examiner since it started for one simple reason: Halifax needs it. Somebody has to watch. I’ve been there. I know. In the back rooms of government, it was the reporters and columnists we cared about. It scares me to think what would happen if there was nobody to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris LeClair, container ports, Don Glendenning, E-gambling, Graham Steele, Jane MacAdam, Kelly Regan, Larry Haiven, Liette Doucet, Melford terminal, Melissa MacEachern, Michael Tutton, Nova Scotia Parents for Teachers, Nova Scotia Teachers Union, Novaporte, RevTech, Stephen McNeil

The Grafton Street Glory Hole and other obscenities: Morning File, Wednesday, October 5, 2016

October 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Convention centre opening delayed… again The Halifax Convention Centre will not open as scheduled on April 1. A new opening date has not yet been established, but Trade Centre Limited is rescheduling conventions booked through the end of June; seven national and international conventions […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brian Taylor, carbon pricing, Convention centre, D.M. Bulger, due diligence, Ecology Action Centre, George Armoyan, Joe Ramia, Karen Casey, Liette Doucet, Lil MacPherson, Margaret Miller, Marla MacInnis, Mike Campbell, Mike Savage, NSTU, Stephen Thomas, Suzanne Fougere, TCL, The Carleton, The Grafton Street Glory Hole, World Trade & Convention Centre, WTCC

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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