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The summer of play

Morning File, Friday, July 3, 2020

July 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Cabinet roundup Jennifer Henderson offers a concise and informative roundup of the day’s news from virtual Province House, following yesterday’s cabinet meeting. The short version: the province and feds are still trying to work out the details of an inquiry into the April 18-19 mass murders, school may or may not be on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, camping, children playing, Churchill statue, Emmet Petersmann, Harbour Watercraft & Adventure Rentals, Ira Glass, JD Irving, Jon Tattrie, Lee Pollock, Ossama Nasrallah, Peter Ziobrowski, Roger Hart, Sara Kirk, Sasha Martin-Maher, Sea-doo, sea-doo crash, Tom Beckley, Walk Against Winston, Winston Churchill

“A victory for tenants everywhere”

Morning File, Wednesday, November 27, 2019

November 27, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

Party this Sunday! The annual Halifax Examiner subscriber party takes place at Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street) on Sunday, Dec 1, from 4 pm – 7 pm. Music! Giveaways! Merch! Writers meeting readers! Free entry for Examiner subscribers. You can subscribe here or you can buy a subscription at the event. I look forward to seeing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Naparstek, Black Power Hour, Chris Milburn, CN strike, Corey Rogers, double strollers, Doug Gordon, El Jones, Elizabeth Fry Society, Elizabeth McMillan, Gerald Regan, housing crisis, Jenna Hopson, Mayor Bill Steinberg, Pam Berman, parking rates, Peter Ziobrowski, public transit, Rebekkah Hyams, rent control, Sarah Goodyear, Sharon Hyman, Sylvain Charlebois, tenants rights, Uber

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

Was Trevor O’Neil’s death preventable?

In March, firefighter Skylar Blackie died when pressurized equipment failed; last week, O'Neil, a worker at the shipyard, died while operating a pressurized sandblasting machine. But the shipyard worker didn't learn from the firefighter's death because of Labour Department secrecy.

July 10, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson 1 Comment

The Herald’s shipping columnist Peter Ziobrowski writes movingly this morning of a workplace fatality at Irving Shipyard last week. Forty-year-old Trevor O’Neil died three days after he was struck on the head by the lid from a pressurized cylinder that came off the sandblasting equipment O’Neil was using. He fell several feet to the ground […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Department of Labour, Irving Shipyard, MacKinnon & Olding, Peter Ziobrowski, Shannon Kerr, Skylar Blackie, Trevor O'Neil, workplace deaths

Atlantic Gold meeting fallout continues

Morning File, Thursday, May 30, 2019

May 30, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Straight Outta Spryfield “After a month of waiting with boat ready to go, a new ferry service across the Northwest Arm is set to begin service sometime this week, or early next,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: David Backman will be running his new 22-foot saltwater pontoon boat from the dock near […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allscripts, armoured vehicle, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Gold and RCMP, Atlantic Gold public meeting, Ava Czapalay, Brian Krebs, Cape Breton Regional Police Services (CBRPS), Catherine Berliner, Chuck Porter, David Backman, Denise Perret, Deputy Minister shakeup, Donna Macdonald, First American Financial Corp., FOIPOP security failure, Jeff Conrad, Joanne Munro, John Perkins, Justin Huston, Kelliann Dean, Lindsay Souvannarath, Mary Campbell, Melissa MacKinnon, Minister Mark Furey, Minister Ralph Goodale, Mobile Command Center, Nancy MacLellan, Natasha Clarke, Northwest Arm ferry, One Patient One Record, Patricia Arab, Paul Schneidereit, Paul Sobey, Peter Ziobrowski, Sandra Cascadden, Staff Sgt Jodie Wilson, Sustainable Northern Nova Scotia (SuNNS), tech startups, Tom Marrie, Tracey Barbrick, Tracey Taweel, Unisys Canada

Volvos Start (and end) Here: How Nova Scotia’s misguided plan to lure foreign money to save the economy hasn’t changed in 60 years

Morning File, Monday, December 31, 2018

December 31, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

There’s not a lot going on today, so I’m only posting a few things and then getting into the history of the Volvo plant because why not? Read down for that. 1. Baby right whale “The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the winter season has been spotted off the Florida coast heading north with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Sealion, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canadian–U.S. Trade Pact, Dean Salsman, development minister George Mitchell, Dimitry Anastakis, Industrial Enterprises Ltd (IEL), Mac MacKay, Máté Petrány, McNally Construction Inc., Minister of Labour Walter Fitzgerald, National Harbour Commission (NHB), New Year's blizzard 2009, North Atlantic right whale, Pat Samuel, pedestrian struck Barrington and Prince Streets, Peter Ziobrowski, Pier 41 42 expansion, Premier Robert Stanfield, Volvo Canada, Volvo plant, Volvos in Bedford Basin

Welcome to the new Halifax Convention Centre! Here’s your $100 fine for smoking on the sidewalk

Morning File, Wednesday, September 12, 2018

September 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Burnside jail update The prisoners at the Burnside jail have ended their 20-day strike and have issued a statement, which reads in part: Dear supporters, You are commended for your work on our behalf. None of us thought that we would gain so much support by sharing our conditions with the public. The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Burnside jail death, Burnside jail strike, Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility, Charles Koch Foundation, Councillor Sam Austin, death in custody, DeSmog Blog, dry communities, Events East, Grafton Street glory Hole, habeas corpus applications, HalifaxToday website, Liquor Control Act, Matthew Lambert, Minister Karen Casey, Peter Ziobrowski, Randy Riley, Robert Sanford, Smoking ban, storm cheat sheet, Supreme Court Justice James Chipman

The fuel leak at Tufts Cove is reminiscent of Halifax Transit’s fuel leak

Morning File, Thursday, August 16, 2018

August 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Fuel leaks at Tufts Cove and Halifax Transit “Pressed about the fact it took [Nova Scotia Power (NSP)] 12 days to talk about the almost 20,000 litres spilled on its property, [Environment Minister Margaret] Miller said she wasn’t overly concerned,” reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: “It would have been better if they […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anhaga, Auditor General Larry Munroe, Bay Ferries, CEED, Emma Davie, Entrevestor, Halifax Transit oil spill, Jean Laroche, Jennifer Lee, Krista Spurr, Michael Colborne, Minister Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Power, OpenHydro, Paul LaFleche, Peter Moreira, Peter Ziobrowski, startup culture, startup debt and mental health, Stephen Archibald and groomsmen, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, transit tickets size, Tufts Cove oil spill, Yarmouth Ferry passenger counts, Zeedra

Let’s daylight the other buried streams: Morning File, Tuesday, February 6, 2018

February 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. Needlessly institutionalized People have been locked into a psychiatric ward at the Nova Scotia Hospital for “no medical or legal reason,” says lawyer Vince Calderhead. Jennifer Henderson reports: The complainants in this four-year-old human rights complaint are two intellectually disabled adults (a third complainant died) who spent most of their adult lives locked […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brett Bundale, Daylighting streams, Elmwood Hotel, Irving and NAFTA, Peter Ziobrowski

Don’t make waves in Canada’s ocean playground! Morning File, Thursday, October 12, 2017

October 12, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Burnside Expressway The routing of the proposed Burnside Expressway was moved, reports Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: From 1991 up until sometime in 2012, the plan for the Burnside expressway was a shorter, more direct route than is currently proposed. Since it was conceived, the plan had been to build the road […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Andrew Douglas, cartoon of El Jones, El Jones, Frank Magazine, Godfred Chongatera, Harvey Weinstein: the Nova Scotia angle, Licence plate slogan, Lindsey Hubley, Michael Tutton, Peter Ziobrowski, Robert Devet, Sarah Dunsworth, street checks

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A blonde woman and a white man with a dark beard, both wearing pajama bottoms and either a red or a pink bra, have a pillow fight on a bed.

Episode 84 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

After a year’s worth of singles and videos, the Halifax duo is finally releasing its first recorded project in the form of FLUTTER, a six-song genre-agnostic EP that’s deeply personal and incredibly catchy. Art Ross and Aaron Green return to the show a year later to dish on their music-industry immersion, why Ross’ sapphic lyrics strike all kinds of chords, and where you can see them this summer.

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