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If we really valued immigrants, we’d pay them better

Morning File, Friday, May 10, 2019

May 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Clearcuts “The Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry (DLF) recently hired DG Communications, a public relations firm, to assess the department’s progress in meeting the recommendations of William Lahey’s Independent Review of Forest Practices, specifically in terms of Lahey’s calls for increased transparency and engagement with the public,” reports Linda Pannozzo: The […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CRA, floorball, Frank Anderson, immigrants, Maan Alhmidi, minimum wage, Narrative Research Poll, Polls, Riverside Lobster, Yvette d'Entremont

The election horse race: Why the long face? Morning File, Wednesday, May 24, 2017

May 24, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Kousoulis ad followup Yesterday, I commented on the Labi Kousoulis ad that appeared in The Coast last Thursday, and which is still sitting on newsstands. The ad contains the false statement that ““Your Liberal government has frozen clearcutting on Crown lands.” Later in the day, reporter Jennifer Henderson followed up: The Liberals have not frozen clearcutting. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brynn Langille, clearcutting on Crown lands, council pay, Crystal Cruises F grade, Edward Cornwallis removal, election projections, giving Whitman the stink-eye, Halifax Commuter Rail, Kousoulis ad followup, Matt Whitman photoshopping, Pam Berman, Polls, the Icarus Report May 24

Divest Dal: Examineradio, episode #103

March 17, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with Simon Greenland-Smith and Cameron Lowe of Divest Dal, a student lobby group working to get Dalhousie University to stop investing in fossil fuels.   Also, Bassam al-Rawi was lost but now he’s found, Stephen McNeil takes a hit in the polls, Canso could be the next Cape Canaveral, and the New […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: basketball, Bassam Al-Rawi, Canso, Dalhousie, Divest Dal, Examineradio, fossil fuels, New York Times, podcast, Polls, Stephen McNeil

Stephen McNeil: are Nova Scotians just parking their votes and keeping score?

My own unscientific, un-poll-tested view is that McNeil’s broad support in the polls during his years in office was always more shallow than deep, more reluctant than heartfelt, more apparent than real... And now?

December 19, 2016 By Stephen Kimber

What a difference a week — or a poll — makes. On December 6, Corporate Research Associates released its quarterly snapshot of the state of play in Nova Scotia politics, and it seemed to be more of the same-old, same-old, ho-hum, nothing-to-see-here-folks, move-along news story. CRA concluded the governing Nova Scotia Liberals remained our “preferred...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Gary Burrill, Jamie Baillie, Polls, Stephen McNeil

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

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