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A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

With increased projections of sea level rise and storm surges, does it make sense to put a Cultural Hub on the waterfront?

October 29, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Question:  With signs of accelerating effects from climate change, should $200-300 million of public money be invested in a new building to last less than a century on the Halifax waterfront? When it comes to a new home for both the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Applied Geomatics, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), climate change, Jennifer Henderson, Minister Leo Glavine, Peter Bigelow, Queen’s Marque, Shannon Miedema, storm surge, Tom Smart

Waterfront Development refuses to make the lease for Queen’s Marque public: Morning File, Friday, April 7, 2017

April 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Prisoners and the Chronicle Herald As I noted earlier this month, Examiner contributor El Jones has often discussed the usurious fees charged to the families of people in prison for phone calls from their loved ones: Last week, Jones noted on Facebook that prisoners in provincial jails are now facing increased phone fees: Calls […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bruce Wark, Chronicle Herald, free speech issues, Kieran Leavitt, Mount Allison graffiti, phone calls in prison, prisoners, Queen’s Marque, Robert Devet, Scott MacKinnon

Queen’s Marque is a gigantic piece of crap: Morning File, Monday, March 20, 2017

March 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Weather There are various kinds of weather today. 2. Examineradio, episode #103 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 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beverly Miller, Bus Rapid Transit, Cornwallis Street Baptist Church, disaster evacuation, gigantic piece of crap, Jean Laroche, Mobile Parking Payment, Nzingha Millar, Queen’s Marque, Request for Proposal, Simon Gillis, Stephen Archibald

Half as big as the Nova Centre, but twice as ugly: Morning File, Thursday, January 19, 2017

January 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Queen’s Wharf Not only are Waterfront Development and the Armour Group despoiling the waterfront, they’re changing the perfectly good historic name of Queen’s Wharf into some BS marketing-schemed “Queen’s Marque.” Anyway, construction of the monstrosity began this week, and immediately the bulldozers started revealing and demolishing ancient wharf structures buried in the fill. Waterfront Development assures me […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armour Group, Charles W. Sampson, Craft beer, Dan Leger, Erin Moore, How to ride the bus, Jillian Ellsworth, Kieran Leavitt, Pedestrian struck Kearney Lake Road, Peter Ziobrowski, Queen’s Marque, Request for Proposal, Wanderers Grounds, Waterfront Development Corporation, website analytics, Zane Woodford

Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Kowalski, Armour Group, Ben McCrea, Bill Davies, Brenden Sommerhalder, children's graveyard, Chris Poole, David Irish, Design Review Committee, Graham Steele, Hangman's Beach, HRM By Design, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, living wage ordinance, Marty Leger, Michael Lightstone, Patrick Murphy, Queen’s Marque, Rachel Ward, Todd McCallum, Tom Traves, Waterfront Development Corporation, WDC

Why Winston Churchill is surrounded by rats: Morning File, Thursday, August 4, 2016

August 4, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. That crappy old office building on Argyle Street “The Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre is still for sale and the city has decided not to purchase it for now,” reports Sherri Borden Colley for the CBC. As I reported in April 2015: The WTCC […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Hebda, Cape Breton Spectator, Francella Fiallos, Lezlie Lowe, Mary Campbell, Maureen Googoo, Preston Mulligan, Queen’s Marque, Robert Devet, Sherri Borden Colley, Trade Centre Limited, Willis Stevens, Zane Woodford

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.

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