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Quick hits: the parties on the environment

May 16, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Close to 150 people turned out for a rapid-fire political debate on environmental issues Tuesday at the University of King’s College. The forum was hosted and co-ordinated by East Coast Environmental Law, the Sierra Club Atlantic chapter, and the Ecology Action Centre. The four parties were represented by Iain Rankin, Liberal candidate for Timberlea-Prospect; Lisa...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: environment, Iain Rankin, Jessica alexander, Lisa Roberts, political debate on environmental issues, provincial election, Rob Batherson

The return of Nova Scotia’s spoils system: Morning File, Thursday, February 2, 2017

February 2, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. NSCAD to accept students stranded by Trump’s immigration order “NSCAD University will be among a group of Canadian art schools accepting international students slated to go to U.S. schools now left stranded by President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration,” reports Chris Lambie for the Halifax Examiner. This article is behind the Examiner’s paywall […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brendan Maguire, feisty, Graham Steele, Halifax Transit, Jean Laroche, Lantz interchange, Liberal postcards, Lisa Roberts, Margaret Dennis, Marieke Walsh, missing journalism, Parks & Rec budget, Real-time bus location, Schools and political spoils

Is the province out $200 million? Morning File, Thursday, January 26, 2017

January 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Atlantic provinces must repay “hundreds of millions” of dollars to Ottawa Charlottetown Guardian reporter Teresa Wright drops a bombshell this morning: Ottawa is asking all four Atlantic provinces to repay hundreds of millions of dollars in harmonized sales tax revenues the finance department says it overpaid to the region. The Guardian has learned Prince Edward Island, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brendan Maguire, Chris Lambie, Christina Macdonald, court reporting, Dal SUB photos, Finance Canada, Graham Steele, Haley Ryan, Introducing: Court Watch, J.L. Ilsley High School, Jack Aubry, Lisa Roberts, Marcus goes ice fishing, miscalculation, overpaid HST, property damage Mount Olivet Cemetery, Schools and political spoils, Stephen Archibald, Stephen McNeil, teachers contract negotiations, Teresa Wright, Vaughan Davies

Local goons: Examineradio, episode #77

September 2, 2016 By Russell Gragg 3 Comments

  This week we speak with Rhiannon Makohoniuk, the Dalhousie Student Union’s Vice-President Internal, about the university’s decision not to fully fund the nascent Sexual Assault Hotline. The university claims that, based on a report they won’t release to the public, the partial funding they offered was adequate. But who needs safe students when you can send billionaires […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Dalhousie, Examineradio, labour, Lisa Roberts, NDP, podcast, racial profiling, sexual assault, Sobeys, strike

Mushroom File, Thursday, September 1, 2016

City protects plants; province neglects plants; scientists peer at plants. We are literally watching grass grow today, but stay with me -- it matters.

September 1, 2016 By Katie Toth 10 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Katie Toth. I’m a reporter and writer who’s hopped up on cold brew coffee and cranky letters, so let’s do this. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. ‘FRO’ to Blue Mountain developers, City staff says From CBC: HRM staff recommended council avoid developing the Blue […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthem of the Seas, Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lake Wilderness, child support, Dartmouth, Dinkin Mine, education, energy, environment, Lisa Roberts, NDP, shooting, sponges, Tourism

In search of the real #1: Mid-morning File, Wednesday, August 31, 2016

August 31, 2016 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Halifax Examiner transportation columnist, Erica Butler, who will probably never win a race against a bus. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Lisa Roberts elected in Halifax-Needham To no-one’s surprise, NDP candidate Lisa Roberts handily won a seat in the provincial legislature last night, representing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: election, Graham Steele, Greystone, Halifax Typographical Union, Halifolks, highway 101, Lisa Roberts, Minh Tan, Mitigation Partners

Dead murderers don’t murder again: Morning File, Monday, August 29, 2016

August 29, 2016 By Russell Gragg 5 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Russell Gragg. I’m the producer of Examineradio, the Halifax Examiner’s weekly podcast. I also handle the syndication for Canadaland, Canada’s only media criticism program. I’m the Station Director at CKDU Radio, and co-host of The Commute, the station’s Friday afternoon drive-time show. I don’t really sleep anymore. News Views Noticed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, assault, boycott, ferry, Graham Steele, Halifax-Needham, Lisa Roberts, racial profiling, Sobeys, taxi, Yarmouth

I’m only a dolphin, ma’am: Morning File, Monday, August 8, 2016

August 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Death “Police investigators on Monday morning were dealing with the aftermath of a house fire at 25 MacKay Lane in Eastern Passage,” reports Local Xpress. “RCMP were called to the scene overnight after a report shots were fired. A body has reportedly been found […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, Bill Flower, Dorothy Grant, Graham Steele, JoAnn Alberstat, Judy Haiven, Lisa Roberts, Manning MacDonald, Mohammed AlMukhtar, Morning File, Peter Kelly, Peter Moreira, Sam Austin, Thomas Hall, Unique Solutions

Halifax-Needham heads to the polls: Examineradio, episode #73

August 5, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we feature a roundtable between Halifax Examiner editor Tim Bousquet and candidates Lisa Roberts and Andy Arsenault. In it, they discuss seniors’ issues, housing, the Film Tax Credit and the future of the Bloomfield site. Also in the news, lawyers representing Westlock County, AB, have detailed no fewer than 12 breaches of contract/breaches of county rules […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, Examineradio, Lisa Roberts, podcast, Rod Wilson, Tanya Shaw, Unique Solutions

Friday on my mind: Morning File, Friday, August 5, 2016

August 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Prison deaths “Two Newfoundland families have launched negligence lawsuits against Correctional Service Canada over the separate deaths of two women in a Nova Scotia penitentiary, alleging the prison failed to provide proper physical and mental health care in both cases,” reports Michael Tutton for the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Arsenault, Camille Strickland-Murphy, Claudette Frizzell, Correctional Service Canada, Craig Robert Burnett, George Armoyan, Graham Steele, Lisa Roberts, little brown bats, Lloyd Hines, Michael Tutton, Moira Donovan, Morning File, Nova Institution for Women, RCMP Operational Communications Centre, sexual assaults by cab drivers, Tourism Nova Scotia, Veronica Park

The Wrongful Conviction of Glen Assoun

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.

Click here to read the Halifax Examiner's extensive reporting on the case.

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a police coverup shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

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