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What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?

Crazy? Is it any crazier than pouring more millions of dollars into an American ferry, American docking facilities, American customs officers...?

June 16, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Say, here’s an idea. My idea isn’t quite the Chase-the-Ace, get-us-on-national-TV, fun-and-games scheme Tim suggested a few months back. “Simply toss 20 dollar bills from a helicopter above downtown Yarmouth,” he proposed as his own common sense alternative to pouring still more millions of our tax dollars into that bottomless ocean that is our from-nowhere-to-no-way-not-now...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Bay Ferries CEO Mark MacDonald, Minister Geoff MacLellan, Nova Star, Premier Stephen McNeil, Tina Comeau, Tourism Nova Scotia, Yarmouth ferry

People are secretly plotting to lie to you about the stadium

Morning File, Wednesday, January 9, 2018

January 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Stadium Reportedly, last week the Maritime Football people delivered a “business case” for a stadium to City Hall. I’m presuming that councillors have seen that business case. I don’t know why the rest of us can’t see it, but that’s how this town rolls. It’s like that report […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alakai, Alexander Quon, Bar Harbor, Barry Ritholtz, Bay Ferries, Brendan Elliott, CFL economics, Diane Saurette, Maritime Football, MLA Tim Houston, Nova Star, old convention centre redesign, Paul LaFleche, stadium business case, taxi driver sexual assault, Waye Mason and CFL stadium, winter work for ferries

Yarmouth ferry operator Bay Ferries wants to stop going to Portland and instead go to Bar Harbor

Morning File, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Stop the Cogswell misfire! Today, writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: …city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Pardy, Bar Harbor, Barrett Lumber letter, Bay Ferries, Bruce Evans, ditch tax, drunk Germans on flight to Cuba, Icarus Report June 5 2018, Keith Doucette, Liz Graves, Lynn Connors, Maine Department of Transport (MDT), Maine Port Authority (MPA), Mark MacDonald, Mary Campbell, Mayor Mike Savage going to Zhuhai, Nova Star, Portland, racism at Halifax Transit, Rebecca Lau, Sem Paul Obed, sexual assault Cunard Street, Singapor Technologies Marine Ltd (ST Marine), Tom Murphy, transit racism case, Utility and Review Board (UARB), Yarmouth ferry

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

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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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