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The politics of spectacle

Former MP Megan Leslie: the best antidote to the normalization of Trump-like behaviour is an engaged citizenry

January 27, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson

Former Halifax MP Megan Leslie gave a lecture to warm and sustained applause from a couple hundred Dalhousie University students last night.  Her topic was “Civic Engagement: Why Activism, Politics and Community Matter more than ever,” and she delivered a blistering speech in response to an invitation that arrived six days after the election of...

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Filed Under: Education, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: civic engagement, Dalhousie University, Debra Ross, Megan Leslie

Puppy File, Thursday, November 10, 2016

November 10, 2016 By Katie Toth 28 Comments

Today’s Morning File is guest-written by Katie Toth. Not a whole ton of news out there today, Halifax — just gotta be honest. But let’s do our best!  November Subscription Drive Megan Leslie is the former Member of Parliament for Halifax. She writes: I am a voracious consumer of the Halifax Examiner. I read the Morning File every […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Coel Ediger, Dockyard explosions, Megan Leslie, Pam Berman, Point Pleasant Battery, Ranking MacDonald, Steve Silva, teachers

Ain’t no cure for the summertime news: Morning File, Monday, July 4, 2016

July 3, 2016 By Lewis Rendell Leave a Comment

Today’s guest writer for Morning File is Lewis Rendell. Lewis is a queer woman of mixed indigenous ancestry, occasional writer and Tim Bousquet’s (often unsolicited) consultant on millennial culture. You can find her on Twitter at @AtomBombshell. Tim returns tomorrow, with the story about one small town’s monorail-like plan to save itself. News Views Noticed Government On […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Jacob Keating, Megan Leslie, microbeads, Morning File, pickles, Ramadan

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.

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