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Put homeless people in unused hotel rooms

Morning File, Friday, March 27, 2020

March 27, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Community spread and vindictive behaviour Yesterday, at the daily briefing on COVID-19, we learned that there is a possible case of community spread of the disease, probably related to a St. Patrick’s Day event. An hour or so after the briefing, the Nova Scotia Health Authority issued a release with details: FOR IMMEDIATE […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barbara Darby and Charlotte's Web, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 testing, David Clark, Dr. Robert Strang, Elizabeth McMillan, eviction, Halifax Transit COVID-19, homelessness, Housing First, Jason LeBlanc, Lake Echo, Mayor Mike Savage, Nova Centre hotel, Premier Stephen McNeil, rents in NS, St. Patrick's Day, Sutton Place Hotel

The Town of Yarmouth is fixing up the ferry terminal in hopes that one day a boat will sail from it

Morning File, Thursday, January 9, 2020

January 9, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Yesterday, the Department of Environment sent out a short release: Northern Pulp has informed the Department of Environment that it will continue the environmental assessment process for its proposed effluent treatment plant. “Since the company has chosen to carry on with the environmental assessment process, we are legally required to continue,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Aya Al-Hakim, Fatemeh Mahmoodi, Hotel Barmecide, Iranian plane crash, Jan deRoos, Jeff Gaulin's Job Board, Kayla Hepworth, Mandieh Ghavi, Maryam Malek, Masoumeh Ghavi, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Centre hotel, recycling, Sadra Kord-Jamshidi, Sharieh Faghihi, Star Halifax, Sutton Place Hotels, Torstar, U.S. Consulate security alert, Victoria Walton, Westlock News, Yarmouth Ferry terminal upgrades, Yvette d'Entremont

The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters

Morning File, Friday, November 15, 2019

November 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

November subscription drive Once again, I’m running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris insists that I remind readers that if you buy an annual subscription this month, we will give you an Examiner T-shirt. Here’s one modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: Also, I’ll have more details Monday, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Airbnb, Andy Filmore, Bay Ferries, David Wachsmuth, Design Review Committee, Don Cherry, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, HRM By Design, Joel Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice Joel Fichaud, Justice Peter Bryson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Lisa Manninger, Mary Campbell, Nadia Gonzalez, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Nova Centre hotel, Paul Sampson, PC caucus, peak poppy, Peter Clewes, Remembrance Day, Samanda Ritch, Scott Campbell, Skye Halifax, Smitty's restaurant, Stephen Archibald and brooms, Sutton Place Hotel, Tim's dad, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., war, Zane Woodford

Halifax in two acts: The Hotel Barmecide

Morning File, Monday, October 28, 2019

October 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Crowns Writes Stephen Kimber: After a crazy week of blind-siding legislation, insults, distortions, bluster, meaningless committee hearings and more fact-free moments than you’d find in a Trumpian White House, the province and its Crown attorneys are right back where they began — at the bargaining table. Well, not exactly as illustrated… Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AIDAdiva, Air Canada, Bill 213, crane incident, crown attorneys, Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act (EGSPA), GHG emissions, Gus Reed, illness on cruise ships, John McPhee, Mark Parent, norovirus, Nova Centre hotel, shit wages, Sutton Place Hotel, YMCA

Glen Assoun will receive early compensation

Morning File, Friday, September 13, 2019

September 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

News 1. Glen Assoun will receive early compensation “The federal and Nova Scotia governments are making an initial payment to Glen Assoun, a man who spent 17 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey told reporters Thursday the payment would be made […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cedric DeChamp, cellphone internet failures, convention centre hotel, East Coast Greenery, Glen Assoun compensation, Halifax Convention Centre, HRM By Design, Hurricane Dorian, hurricanes and workers, Judy Haiven, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Kevin Bissett, Maggie Rahr, Michael Gorman, Michael Tutton, Nova Centre hotel, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Pat Stay, police chase, rape, Stephen Archibald and cast iron facades, Sutton Place Hotels

A bunch of uninspired glass schlock may soon clutter up Wyse Road in Dartmouth

Morning File, Wednesday, August 21, 2019

August 21, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Compensation for Glen Assoun “Nova Scotia’s justice minister says officials in his department and at the federal level are working on ‘early’ compensation for Glen Assoun,” reports Michael Gorman for the CBC: In an interview Tuesday, Justice Minister Mark Furey said no decision has been made yet about an inquiry or an apology […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdilahi Elmi, Angel Moore, before the courts, Carnival Corp. & PLC, cruise ship discharge, Erin MacInnis, Ghosns, Glen Assoun compensation, Icarus Report August 21 2019, Indigenous journalist, Jan deRoos, Jody Wilson-Raybould, John MacLeod, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Kayla Hepworth, Mariah Baker, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre hotel, Pam Berman, Peter Ziobrowski, Princess Cruises, Robert Devet, Wyse Road development, Yvette d'Entremont

The untold story of sexual harassment in the restaurant industry

Morning File, Thursday, March 15, 2018

March 15, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Sutton Place Yesterday morning, the gossip mill (meaning my email) was buzzing with news that a hotel operator for the Nova Centre hotel will be announced today — Sutton Place, I was told, a chain with five hotels out west, will brand the hotel. Alas, I was busy, and Roger Taylor at the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allison Saunders, Arezoo Najibzadeh, CBRM's secret meeting, Hillary Beaumont, Jacob Boon, Jan deRoos, Jayde Tynes, Joe Ramia, Karen Lee MacKenzie, Matt Hogan, Nova Centre hotel, Owen Patrick Nelson, Roger Taylor and Nova Centre, Sexual harassment in the restaurant industry, sexual harassment on Parliament Hill, St. Matthew's steeple, Sutton Place Hotels, Zane Kelsall

An expert explains why there’s no hotel at the Nova Centre

October 22, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Why hasn’t an operator been named for the hotel being constructed above Halifax’s new convention centre? That’s the question I asked last week of Jan deRoos, a professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. A specialist in hotel management and franchising, deRoos has created a software program for […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Convention Centre delay, Jan deRoos, Nova Centre hotel

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

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