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Australian magpies have learned to sound like sirens

Morning File, Friday, January 3, 2020

January 3, 2020 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. George Elliott Clarke apologizes, but will go ahead with lecture Renowned poet George Elliott Clarke is at the centre of a controversy based out of the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, where he was slated to give the Woodrow Lloyd annual lecture, which he had titled, “‘Truth and Reconciliation’ versus ‘the Murdered and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Australia bush fires, Australian magpies, Canadian traffic laws, councillor Richard Zurawski, diesel buses, electric buses, Francis Campbell, George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Transit, Humboldt truck driver, Jaskirat Sidhu, Kathryn Moore, Kelsey Lane, Pamela George, Parker Donham, pedestrian struck Cogswell Street, pedestrian struck North Park Street, Radheyan Simonpillai, Steven Kummerfield, Vision Zero

The redemption of Frank Anderson

Morning File, Monday, May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Transit passes “Soon, more people will get access to low income transit passes,” writes Erica Butler. “But the cap on this important program remains a needless obstacle.” Click here to read “Transit Pass Bingo.”  This article is for subscribers. Click here to subscribe. 2. This is North Preston Stephen Kimber introduces us to This […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abortion, Andrew Alkenbrack, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Atlantic journalism Awards (AJA), bullshit, Cabot Links Golf Resort, corruption, Dan Leger, David Deveau, Economic Development, El Jones, Frank Anderson, grifters, Holly Conners, Immigration, Joan Baxter, Mary Campbell, North Preston’s Finest, Parker Donham, Pierre Simard, police investigator Dave MacDonald, Rebecca Thomas, Riverside Lobster, South West Shore Development Authority (SWSDA), Stephen Archibald and wire fences, Stephen Kimber, Timothy Gillespie

It never ends: the cycle of childhood sexual abuse and social dysfunction

Morning File, Monday, February 25, 2019

February 25, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Sexual abuse of children at Waterville I reported yesterday: A known sexual predator was allowed to prey on boys held at the Youth Training Centre in Waterville. That is the allegation raised by lawyer Mike Dull on behalf on seven men who have filed lawsuits against the province for abuse they say they suffered […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Barho fire, Charlie Phillips, Child sexual abuse, Jeremy Akerman, Matthew Gerald Kennedy, Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre, Parker Donham, pedestrian killed Pleasant Street, Taryn Grant

Oil spills, protected areas, and the future of the planet

Morning File, Monday, November 19, 2018

November 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November subscription drive I’m really bad at self-promotion, so I’m going to let Trevor Parsons give today’s plug for the November subscription drive: This @HfxExaminer travel mug won't help you survive in #WildNovaScotia, but it will keep your coffee warm on the way to the trail head. More importantly, subscribing to the Examiner helps to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Atlantic Gold, bullying, Catherine Tully, climate change, Dufferin gold mine, Energy Minister Derek Mombourquette, FOIPOP, Frances Willick, Halifax International Security Forum, Holly Lake, Husky Energy, Joan Baxter, Malone Mullin, Michael Gorman, Moose River Consolidated Project, oil spill Newfoundland, Parker Donham, SeaRose FPSO, Steffan Watkins, Stubborn Goat, tracking Canadian military ships, transporting cyanide, waterfront beer garden

There is nothing self-deprecating or ironic or even remotely funny about this boring headline

Morning File, Thursday, September 20, 2018

September 20, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Maurice Pratt Yesterday, Justice James Chipman dismissed Maurice Pratt’s habeas corpus application. Pratt was the first of at least eight prisoners at the Burnside jail to have their habeas applications heard by Chipman. (The others are scheduled for Monday, but I’m hearing there may be a delay.) The prisoners filed their applications in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam Hallett, Angie Hebb, Bill Kowalski, Brad Ross, Brendan Elliott, Burnside jail, Burnside jail death, Burnside Jail lockdown, Chronicle Herald advertorial, great white shark lobby, habeas corpus applications, Headlines, Jeff Weatherhead, Joshua Evans, Justice James Chipman, Lake Banook, Lunenburg Electric Utility, Lunenburg power outages, Mairin Prentiss, Maurice Pratt, Nancy Selig, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), Parker Donham, Sarah Gillis, Shelah Allen, Smoking ban, Stephen Archibald and Hal Forbes

893 city employees make more than $100,000 annually and yet janitors cleaning city buildings are paid poverty wages

Morning File, Tuesday, August 7, 2018

August 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Oil spill Friday morning, I criticized Nova Scotia Power (NSP) for its press release related to the oil spill from the Tufts Cove Generating Plant. The press release called it a “limited” spill; I wrote: “Limited” is PR spin. Every oil spill is “limited” in some sense — the Deepwater Horizon spill that destroyed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Amanda Whitewood, Andrew Rankin, Anthony Spinelli, Bob Bjerke, Brian Ward, CAO Jacques Dubé, City Hall’s Sunshine List, civil servants salaries, Dan MacDonald, data collection creep, Highway 104 racing, John Traves, Leitches Creek death, No. 6 fuel oil, Parker Donham, privacy, stunting, Susan Bradley, Tufts Cove oil spill, warm weather, Yvonne Colbert

Bad behaviour everywhere

Morning File, Thursday, August 2, 2018

August 2, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

1. An apology The Halifax Examiner acknowledges that the Armour Group Limited neither hired, nor fired, the janitors previously employed to clean Founder’s Square. Further, The Halifax Examiner retracts, and apologizes for the allegation that Armour Group engaged in racial discrimination in determining to no longer engage with GDI Integrated Facility Services. The original article […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Winn, Andrew Rankin, architectural drawings, Armour Group Limited, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, Bill Turpin, Blue Mountain – Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park, Cassie Williams, Catherine Tully, Chronic Relief, Convention centre, councillor Waye Mason, development proposal Robie and Pepperell, dispensary fire, Drug Information System (DIS), Events East, Founders Square, Fred MacGillivray, Harold MacKay, Icarus Report August 2, Jacque Dubé, Joe Ramia, Leitches Creek, Nova Centre appeal, Parker Donham, Robyn Keddy, Shambhala community, Sobeys pharmacist privacy breach, Stephanie Domet, Sunshine Report, Ticket Atlantic, Trade Centre Limited

Quackery and dog whistles: all in a day’s work for the Halifax Examiner

Morning File, Wednesday June 6, 2018

June 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Cogswell Halifax council yesterday gave its OK to the process for the Cogswell interchange redevelopment project, but insisted that there be more public input as it proceeds. 2. Quack “medicines” “If you’re looking for a “natural” remedy for your cough or earache, you can cross Stone’s Drug Store in Baddeck off your list,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA grants and loans, Alentic Microscience, Beyond Food, BlueLight Analytics, Cape Breton Municipality, Chuck Cartmill, Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, Cribcut, David Howe, Equalization, former Business Minister Mark Furey, Golf PEI, Graham MacKenzie, Guild Software, John Lohr supports Doug Ford, John McPhee, Julie Chiasson supports Doug Ford, LED Roadway Lighting Ltd, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Origin BioMed, Parker Donham, Peter Conlon, Peter Moreira, Quack medicines, Stone’s Drug Store

Dingle File, Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Police, sleeping pills, and another view on the path to legalizing cannabis.

April 19, 2017 By Katie Toth 7 Comments

I’m Katie and I’m writing Morning File on Wednesday this week, so Tim can report some news. No GIFS today. But….. A beautiful morning at the #Dingle! #Halifax pic.twitter.com/r3RHXkyJJH — Paula Langille (@paulalangille) April 19, 2017   News 1. Bridgewater revenge-porn case back in court “Revenge porn” is a phrase almost any young woman knows, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bridgewater, Bridgewater Junior/Senior High School, Good Charlotte, Jodie Emery, Marc Emery, Parker Donham, revenge porn

Marijuana File, Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Everyone is talking about cannabis, and Tegan and Sara are coming to town.

March 28, 2017 By Katie Toth 12 Comments

I’m Katie, the rabid shitposter and memelord standing in for Tim from Toronto.  I just heard that Tegan and Sara are coming to Halifax in July! OMG.   News 1. It is bad out there Everyone is talking about the weather… It’s a bit of a slip & slide out there this a.m., after snow/ice pellets […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Henderson, digital rights management, Legal weed, Nancy Murphy, Parker Donham

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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