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Keep the travel restrictions

Morning File, Tuesday, September 15, 2020

September 15, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Forest health Linda Pannozzo writes: Instead of improving the state of the province’s forests, the Nova Scotia government conducts a survey about improving The State of the Forest reporting. The Halifax Examiner takes the survey. Pannozzo methodically walks us through why it’s wrong to repeatedly ask the public to take part in surveys […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic bubble, clearcutting, coronavirus, COVID-19, cruise ship industry, David Patriquin, Elvis Presley, Epic Stream TV, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), Forensic Accounting Management Group (FAMG), forestry, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), John Cunningham, Kayla Thomeh, Leland Anthony, Linda Pannozzo, Mary Campbell, Michael Gorman, Municipality of the District of Yarmouth, Operation Hotwire, pandemic, Premier Stephen McNeil, quarantine, RCMP Federal Serious and Organized Crime (FSOC), Riad Thomeh, self-isolation, Sydney, television program piracy, Tomás Pueyo, travel restrictions

Terrible things are happening, but there’s a cat in the sky

Morning File, Friday, May 8, 2020

May 8, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Loosening restrictions “Nova Scotia hopes to start loosening up restrictions in place around COVID-19 at the end of May, including allowing ‘non-essential businesses’ and ‘daycare and education settings’ to open and ‘non-urgent health care services to resume,’ according to a private presentation given by the province’s chief medical officer of health this week,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic journalism Awards (AJA), Barbara Darby and a modest proposal, El Jones, Linda Pannozzo, Stephen Archibald and spring, Stephen Kimber

A pinch of SALT

Morning File, Thursday, December 19, 2019

December 19, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. In Nova Scotia, pulp rules Linda Pannozzo’s latest is a commentary on the ongoing Northern Pulp story. While we wait for the premier’s announcement tomorrow, Pannozzo gives us some background on how we got here, and thoughts on how the process has created an unnecessary “environmentalists vs forestry and mill workers” dichotomy: By […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abriel Fisheries, Andrew Rankin, Anjuli Patil, Assistant Fire Chief Corey Beals, Banc Developments, Besim Halef, Boat Harbour, Bounty Print Ltd, Brett Bundale, Brian Hebert, Develop Nova Scotia, Diane Rowe, Digby Pines, George Armoyan, Glenn Squires, Holloway Lodging, Hope for Wildlife, Jeff Gratto, Linda Pannozzo, Lorraine Otto, losses before the holidays, Mark Lever, Northern Pulp, Pacrim Hospitality Services Inc, Paul Palmeter, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Robert J. Galbraith, SALT, SaltWire, stock photos, Taylor Printing Group Inc, Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia (TIANS), turkey vulture, Yvonne Colbert

Ukrainian corruption and the Canso spaceport

Morning File, Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 12, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

November subscription drive I was going to write a long thing this morning in support of our subscription drive, but got pulled away trying to make sense of the Ukrainian space industry. So I’ll keep it short. We need your money. Thanks. News 1. Waiting for Fitch “Bob Dylan didn’t need a weatherman to know […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Degtyarev, Andrew McKelvey, Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), Bobbi-Jean MacKinnon, Brett Ruskin, Canso spaceport, Cheryl Gardner, climate emergency, Corey Rogers, crane incident, Daniel Fraser, Don Bowser, Ekatirine Keramaris, Firefly Aerospace, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, Irving Shipbuilding, Jack Sorbo, John Ball, John Misenor House, Lead Structural Formwork Ltd, Linda Pannozzo, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Natasha Pace, Pavel Degtyarenko, Premier Stephen McNeil, Raymond Shannon, Roger Eckoldt, Steven Lutes, Ukrainian corruption, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

New police chief Dan Kinsella holds a degree from WalMart U.

Morning File, Tuesday, May 14, 2019

May 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Ramadan in jail “Malik is calling from the jail asking for the numbers of any Muslims he can contact just to talk to, maybe hear some Quran from,” writes El Jones: The last time he prayed with community was during Ramadan last year, and since then, his requests for spiritual services have been […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 12 Wing Shearwater, Acting Halifax Regional Police Chief Robin McNeil, American Military University (AMU), American Public University (APU), American Public University System (APUS), armoured vehicle, Attorney General Maura Healey, AuraData, Blair Rhodes, Brendan Elliott, Bry’n Ross, Chief Dan Kinsella, Cop Light Bling, David Fraser, DND, El Jones, Forest Confidential, Harold Dawson, Keith Doucette, Linda Pannozzo, mary Ellen Doucet, Melanie Booth, mission creep, Paul Fain, RCMP Insp. Robert Doyle, street checks, tendering fraud, WalMart U, Zane Woodford

An armoured vehicle won’t protect people during a mall shooting, but it will protect institutional racism in the police department

Morning File, Monday, April 15, 2019

April 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Gerald Regan Writes Stephen Kimber: More than 20 years after former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted of sexually assaulting multiple women, other women are still coming forward with still more stories of what he did to them, still needing finally “to be heard.” Including “Catherine.” Catherine tells Kimber of an alleged […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: armoured rescue vehicle (ARV), armoured vehicle, biomass, Francois Olivier, Halifax Police, Inspector Jim Butler, International Armoured Group (IAG), Linda Pannozzo, Mary Campbell, Police Commission, police overreach, police racism, Postmedia, SaltWire lawsuit, street check report, TC Transcontinental, Wortley report

Anthony Leblanc is asking the Trudeau government to pay for his stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, March 19, 2019

March 19, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 7 Comments

News 1. Alton Gas This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. “There is no evidence to support the occupation of land near Fort Ellis by Dale Poulette, Rachael Greenland-Smith, and others,” said N.S. Supreme Court Justice Gerald Moir in an oral decision granting Alton Natural Gas Storage Inc. a temporary injunction. The injunction is aimed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Natural Gas Storage protest, Anthony Leblanc, CFL team, Cst. Adam Whynott, Cst. Basso, Dale Poulette, David Patriquin, David Wallace, EcoJustice, Halifax Police, Irving Shipbuilding, James Gunvalsen-Klaassen, James Irving, Justice Gerald Moir, Justice Kevin Coady, Kristin Wilton, Laurence Gary Basso, Linda Pannozzo, lobbying, Marco Vigliotti, Pulp Culture, Rachel Greenland-Smith, Robin MacLachlan, scoreboard, Sgt. Mike Willett, Sgt. Peter Burdock, Sipekne’-katik First Nation, stadium financing, Summa Strategies, Tavia Connolly, Tim Powers

If you’re going to play in the sandbox, you should at least know what the sandbox is for

Morning File, Monday, January 7, 2019

January 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Why was Lamar Eason suspended? Writes Stephen Kimber: “People don’t like to talk about race, culture, bias,” Bayview Community School principal Lamar Eason explains, adding elliptically: “Doing your job can lead to questioning the people employing you. Understandably, people get defensive. But [race relations officers] are not there just to support schools; we’re […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alice Aiken, Atlantic cod, Bob McDonald, Bruce Wark, container ship fire, Corbett Lake, Frances Willick, Fred Harrington, grey seals, Hailey Desormeaux, Healthy Forest Coalition, icy trails Point Pleasant Park, Jeff Hutchings, Lamar Eason, Linda Pannozzo, MSVU crows, MSVU Motherhouse Lands development, Paul Withers, sandbox, seal cull, seal kill, SURGE, timeclocks, tree harvesting on Crown Land, Yantian Express

Province amps up its unwise and discredited biofuel efforts

Morning File, Thursday, December 13, 2018

December 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Biofuel Last year, in her article “Life After Pulp,” Linda Pannozzo showed how as the old pulp industry is collapsing, the government is chasing two other forest dreams — biomass and biofuel. On the latter, she wrote: In 2012, when the Dexter government announced the defunct paper mill would become a business hub […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: biofuel, biomass, Brendan Elliott, Cape Sharp Tidal, Cathi Mullaly, Cellufuel, CTV advertorial, Dartmouth Crossing, David Patriquin, Emera, Emma Davie, Esquire, Global Forest Coalition, Halifax CFO, Jacques Dubé, Jane Fraser, JNET Communications LLC, John Traves, Lands and Forestry Department, Linda Pannozzo, Link Performing Arts Centre, Mary Campbell, Minas Basin tidal project, OpenHydro, Paul Hollingsworth, Reverend Dr. David Jefferson Sr., Richard Starr, ServiCom, Zane Woodford

We’re about to learn just how subservient Nova Scotia is to the forest industry

Morning File, Tuesday, December 4, 2018

December 4, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

1. Clearcutting “The McNeil government is promising less clearcutting on crown lands through new ‘interim’ harvesting guidelines introduced yesterday in response to a comprehensive report on forestry practices prepared by University of King’s College president Bill Lahey last August,” reports Jennifer Henderson: It’s unclear how much the controversial practice will be reduced until after permanent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art Bouman, Austin Hiltz, beg buttons, Brad Fougere, Canada Post protesters, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Cathy Valade, clearcutting, Councillor Lorelei Nichol, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Crosswalk Safety Task Force, Darius Mirshahi, Glen Assoun, Ian Fairclough, Icarus Report Dec 4 2018, Jennifer Henderson, Justin Whitten, Ken Reashor, Lahey report, Linda Pannozzo, North Dartmouth, pedestrian walk signal, Pier 21, Rachelle Valade, Tony Tracy, Vincenz and Kristina Bogatin, YMCA asking for money, YMCA funding, Zane Woodford

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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