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Canoeing and cultural appropriation: Morning File, Friday, December 1, 2017

December 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Andreas Dittmer Earlier this week, Canoe Kayak Canada announced that it had hired Andreas Dittmer as its new Men’s Canoe Coach: Andreas Dittmer marked the history of sprint canoeing and inspired thousands of young athletes around the world. The German Olympian will take charge of the Canadian men’s sprint canoe team. During his career, Dittmer dominated […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andreas Dittmer, Andreas Dittmer in native dress, Black poverty, Canoe Kayak Canada, drunk driving Timberlea, Fenwick Tower caught fire, Indigenous stereotypes, Joe Metlege, Michelle Strum, pedestrian struck Lacewood Drive, Rivka Galchen, Robert Devet, tender for body bags

It’s a hard world for little things: Morning File, Tuesday, November 8, 2016

November 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

November Subscription Drive Philip Slayton is the author of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession; Mighty Judgment: How the Supreme Court of Canada Runs Your Life; Bay Street: A Novel; and Mayors Gone Bad. He splits his time between the south shore and Toronto. He writes: The Halifax Examiner is delivered six mornings […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Alteregos, Aly Thomson, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Loyd Murray, Michelle Strum, North End, PEI, Philip Slayton, planes hitting animals

Bad attitude: Morning File, Friday, September 23, 2016

September 23, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Matthew Hines “Correctional Service Canada has fired one staff member and disciplined three others after an inmate was beaten and repeatedly pepper-sprayed at a New Brunswick prison before his death,” report Karissa Donkin and Joan Weeks for the CBC: The top correctional official in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Alan Ruffman, Alicja Krzychowiec, CBRM, Chris Lambie, Clay Moyle, Const. Hans Ouellette, Dorchester Penitentiary, Eric Mourant, George Baker, Graham Steele, Jack Dempsey, Joan Weeks, Joe Metlege, John Demont, Jono Developments Ltd, Justice J.E. Scanlan, Karissa Donkin, Marlene Usher, Mary Campbell, Matthew Hines, Michelle Strum, Port of Sydney, Robert Devet, Saint Patrick’s Alexandra, Sam Langford, Wayne Bishop

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.

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