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How to value 27 newspapers spread across three provinces: the Ford Falcon test

Morning File, Tuesday, April 16, 2019

April 16, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Police Commission I have left this item for last to write about today, simply because it’s so dispiriting. I spent a couple of hours watching the police commission in action yesterday, and I could write at length about it here, but Margaret Anne McHugh summarized it perfectly with this tweet: Learned a lot […]

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An armoured vehicle won’t protect people during a mall shooting, but it will protect institutional racism in the police department

Morning File, Monday, April 15, 2019

April 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Gerald Regan Writes Stephen Kimber: More than 20 years after former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted of sexually assaulting multiple women, other women are still coming forward with still more stories of what he did to them, still needing finally “to be heard.” Including “Catherine.” Catherine tells Kimber of an alleged […]

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Moncton’s bid to host the Francophone Games is a disaster

Morning File, Friday, December 14, 2018

December 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Secret police commission meeting Yesterday, the Police Commission received an update on the street checks report in secret. No legal justification for the secrecy was spelled out beyond “legal matters,” which isn’t actually in any of the governing regulations for holding secret meetings. But even more remarkably, the Commission’s debate about whether to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Donald Savoie, Eric Mathieu Doucet, Francophone Games, Greg Turner, Gulf Nova Scotia Fleet Planning Board, Isabelle LeBlanc, Jacques Poitras, Jennifer Choi, Kate Walker, Kevin MacAdam, Mayor George LeBlanc, Moncton, Northern Pulp Working Group, Pictou Landing First Nation, Police Commission, the Maritime Fishermen's Union

Morning File, Tuesday, January 10, 2017

News, views, and snowshoes from Mainland Nova Scotia's greatest municipality

January 10, 2017 By Katie Toth 2 Comments

Tim is goofing off this morning. Today’s guest writer is Katie Toth. News 1. Hospital accused of turning away Lionel Desmond insists it’s never denied care According to new reporting by Melanie Patten for CBC News, one doctor at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish says it’s never denied care in its emergency rooms. Lionel Desmond’s family […]

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The eight-arm theory of management: Morning File, Monday, December 19, 2016

December 19, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Syria and Halifax “As evacuation efforts stalled in Aleppo, nearly 200 people gathered in a Halifax park on Sunday to raise awareness of the plight of people caught in the middle of the deadly civil war in Syria,” reports Zane Woodford for Metro: Men, women and children, many of them new Canadians, gathered […]

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Do the “your speed” signs on the MacKay Bridge approach work?

July 17, 2014 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Towards the end of Monday’s Police Commission meeting there was a short discussion about the value of “your speed” signs that tell drivers both the posted speed limit and the speed they are actually travelling. Deputy Chief Bill Moore cited the before-and-after experience of the Bridge Commission, which has put such signs at the approach to the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Bill Moore, Police Commission, Traffic

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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