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The convention centre is running a $4 million operating deficit this year… and that’s just the beginning of the costs

Morning File, Monday, September 10, 2018

September 10, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Mehta Stephen Kimber writes: Last winter, Acadia University said it was investigating [Rick] Mehta “for the manner in which you are expressing views that you are alleged to be advancing or supporting and, in some instances, time that you are spending on these issues in the classroom.” We need to parse that sentence. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Argyle Developments, Burnside jail demonstration, Convention centre operating loss 2018, Councillor Sam Austin, Emma Davie, Events East, Haley Ryan, HLT, Hurricane Florence, Ian Fairclough, Joe Ramia, Katy Jean, Michael Gorman, Michael Tutton, Minister of Justice Mark Furey, Mother Canada, Norma Jean MacPhee, Norwegian Dawn, Nova Centre tax assessment, racist graffiti, restaurants vs young children, Rick Mehta, Trade Centre Limited

Racist graffiti at St. Catherine’s Elementary School

August 12, 2018 By El Jones 1 Comment

On Friday, racist graffiti was discovered defacing St. Catherine’s Elementary School in Halifax’s West End. Tina Roberts-Jeffers, who has two children attending the school in the fall, saw the graffiti when she met another mother for a playdate in the school’s playground. “When I first saw it I just thought, why?  Why here?  Why would […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Elwin LeRoux, racist graffiti, St. Catherine’s Elementary School, Tina Roberts-Jeffers

The convention centre is costing us at least $294 million; what else could that have bought? Morning File, Wednesday, March 7, 2018

March 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. South Park Street bike lane “Halifax is going to build its longest protected bike lane sometime in the next year on South Park Street,” reports Erica Butler: The 1.2 kilometre lane will run from Sackville Street all the way to Inglis Street in the south end, near Saint Mary’s University. With council’s approval […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, Argyle Developments, Breitbart, Convention Centre lease, Convention Centre monthly operating payments, El Jones, Events East, Joe Ramia, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Paul Palmeter, racist graffiti, South Park bike lane, Spring Garden Area Business Association's (SGABA), Spring Garden Road, Tom Ayers, tourism ads, Tourism Nova Scotia

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: Morning File, Wednesday, May 31, 2017

May 31, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

News 1. Liberal Majority It was a nail-biter of an election. When I went to bed at half past midnight, the CBC was projecting a Liberal victory two seats short of a majority, but an hour later that had flipped to a two-seat Liberal majority. Points to note: • Voter turnout was 53.55 per cent, down […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Elections Nova Scotia website, Liberal majority, New Glasgow tank, North Preston campaign signs, racist graffiti

Great Market Expectations: Morning File, Saturday, October 24, 2015

October 24, 2015 By El Jones 6 Comments

News Views News Note: I’m writing this in Saskatoon in a hotel, and since Acadia repossessed my faculty laptop (ah, what the hell, might as well throw shade on every possible university in this edition) I have to write on the computer in the lobby and it has Windows 8: Hellscape and also shuts off […]

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

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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.

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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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.

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