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It started badly and it’s ending wrong: Morning File, Friday, October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Tidal power “Inshore fishermen from the Bay of Fundy made a last-ditch plea to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia yesterday to stall the placement of two massive, five-storey-high turbines on the bottom of the Minas Passage near Parrsboro until an appeal of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Convention centre, Copenhagen, Deb MacNeil, Elizabeth Chiu, EllisDon, Institute for Big Data Analytics, Joe Henry, Joe Ramia, Matt Brand, Nova Centre, OxyContin, Phil Pacey, Scott Ferguson, Stan Matwin, Stephen Archibald, Suspicious Packages, Suzanne Fougere, Trade Centre Limited

The Ministry of Thought: Morning File, Thursday, September 15, 2016

September 15, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Engage, or else Halifax council’s Community Planning & Economic Development Committee meets this morning. I have in the past given this committee a bit of grief, but I take it all back; to its great credit, the committee demanded some accounting from the provincial […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bob Richards, Dartmouth Sportsplex, Engage Nova Scotia, Haley Ryan, Matt Brand, Ministry of Thought, Peter Kelly, Peter MacKay, Robert Devet, Tristan Cleveland, Westlock

Won’t somebody please think about this statue’s feelings? Examineradio, episode #61

May 13, 2016 By Russell Gragg 3 Comments

  This week, local humourist Matt Brand learned that you shouldn’t poke fun at businesses with high-priced legal teams. By posting a satirical story on his website, Brand raised the ire of the Steele Auto Group, prompting them to send a sharply-worded letter to the writer and stay-at-home father. They then threatened to demolish his home and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CKDU, Cornwallis, Examineradio, Matt Brand, podcast, Steele Auto Group, Waye Mason

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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