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Yarmouth ferry operator Bay Ferries wants to stop going to Portland and instead go to Bar Harbor

Morning File, Tuesday, June 5, 2018

June 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Stop the Cogswell misfire! Today, writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: …city councillors will convene to decide on what will take the place of the Cogswell Interchange. They will have spent the weekend with a staff report featuring this drawing of a 60 per cent complete design of the new street network, including […]

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How Randy Symonds experienced racism at Halifax Transit

Morning File, May 30, 2018

May 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Randy Symonds The Human Rights Commission yesterday released a decision of its Board of Inquiry, which was looking at racism at the Halifax Transit garage in Burnside. The complainant is referred to as Y.Z., a white man who began working in the garage in 1979. In May of 1982, Y.Z. married a Black […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arthur Maddox primary tormentor, Arthur Maddox racist, Carl Hood, Cathy Martin, Danny Deal, Dave Buckle, Lynn Connors, Mary Ellen Donovan, physical toll from racism, racism at Halifax Transit, racism in healthcare system, Randy Symonds, Stephanie Wright, Steve Liddard

Abdoul Abdi’s defenders are “piling on,” complain government lawyers who are trying to deport him

May 29, 2018 By El Jones 2 Comments

I went to court today because arguments were being made in the Abdoul Abdi case about whether the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and Justice for Children and Youth would be granted intervenor status. Earlier in the day, the city had apologized for allowing “racism to fester unchallenged at Halifax Transit.” Reading the report, my main […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi defenders, Black children are guilty, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Justice for Children and Youth, racism at Halifax Transit

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!

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