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Power outages are costing Nova Scotia businesses millions of dollars, but Stephen McNeil, Mike Savage, Ray Ivany, and the economic development agencies are silent

Morning File, Friday, November 30, 2018

November 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November Subscription drive The last day! Tomorrow we’ll go back to less intrusive measures to extract your money from you. But seriously, this operation doesn’t work without your subscriptions. We’re trying to do something important here: produce journalism without relying on advertising, advertorial, government money, selling your data, Jeff Bezo’s money, or any other hare-brained […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Hart, Bar Harbor, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Carl Yates, Dennis Patterson, Donald Patterson, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Water, Hayden Hart, Jamie MacGillivray, Jeffrey Theriault, Matt Delorme, Nova Scotia Power outages, Premier Stephen McNeil, Quinpool Road bridge, Ray Ivany, Wray Hart, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

Stop naming shit for people who are still alive: Morning File, Wednesday, August 23, 2017

August 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 22 Comments

1. Taking transit to parks Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler profiles two operations that bus people from the city to parks. The first is Parkbus, which was established in Ontario to bring Torontonians to Algonquin Park but has since expanded around the world, including taking tentative steps to a Halifax-to-Keji service. The second is Trips By […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: naming policy, naming shit for people, Ray Ivany, Richard MacLellan, Waterfront Campus

The Liberals’ $24.5-million Acadia University funding fandango

While Nova Scotia’s other universities were busy slicing and dicing, Acadia was applying for — and routinely being granted — secret government bailouts for its financial woes. For five years! Why?

August 7, 2017 By Stephen Kimber

Back in the summer and early fall of 2014, I served on an inelegantly named “Faculty Working Group on the Future of the College” at King’s, the small liberal arts and journalism university where I’ve taught since before forever. Our working group was set up in response to a six-months-in-the-making report from a “Long Term...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Acadia University, Laurie Graham, Ray Ivany, Universities

How to get funding for your university: Morning File, Thursday, August 3, 2017

August 3, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

News 1. Child sexual abuse A Halifax man who has been convicted of sexually abusing three boys was sued Tuesday by three other men who say they were also his victims. Another two alleged victims have already filed suit against the man, and an active police investigation is looking at the possibility he abused dozens […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Acadia University bailout, Bud's Hemp Shop, Centre Plan exemptions, Child sexual abuse, Darkside Cafe, Glove guy, Innovation Saint John edition, Laurie Graham, Michael Patrick McNutt, One Ocean Expeditions, pedestrian struck Birch Cove, Project Apollo, Ray Ivany, Stephen Archibald Portland Maine, Stephen McNeil

A series of segues: Morning File, Thursday, July 6, 2017

July 6, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Corey Rogers Yesterday, the Public Prosecution Service issued this rather cryptic release: The Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has asked the Manitoba Prosecution Service to provide legal advice to the Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) on its ongoing investigation into a 2016 death in Halifax Regional Police cells. On June 16, 2016, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: $3000 FOIPOP, Aly Thomson, Bill Turpin, Corey Rogers, Dan MacRury, Dave MacDonald, death in police custody, Dennis Theman, FOIPOP: successful WIPSI funding applications, Freedom of Information, Gary Basso, Ghost the cat, Jerri Southcott, Martin Herschorn, Mary Campbell, More on the PPS (Public Prosecution Service), Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service (PPS), osprey nest Lunenburg County, Ray Ivany, Ron Fetterly, Ron J. MacDonald, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Tiffany Chase, Workplace Innovation and Productivity Skills Incentive (WIPSI)

Stephen McNeil’s pricey PR people suck at their jobs: Morning File, Monday, November 28, 2016

November 28, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

November Subscription Drive Click here to purchase a subscription. News 1. McNeil’s pricey PR people suck at their jobs Yesterday on Facebook, Graham Steele posted an analysis of the McNeil government’s reaction to the collapse of negotiations with the teachers union. Steele’s entire post is worth reading, but I was most struck by this: The government’s communication strategy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Centre Plan, conquered people, David Jackson, Doug Trussler, exemptions, former journalists, Graham Steele, HRM By Design, Jackie Foster, Laura Lee Langley, Laurie Graham, Marilla Stephenson, Nova Centre, Peter Kelly, PR, Ray Ivany, Robert Devet, Stephen McNeil

Dalhousie president Tom Traves retired in 2013, but he’s still the highest paid public employee in Nova Scotia: Morning File, Wednesday, August 10, 2016

August 9, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Public Accounts The province yesterday published the public accounts for the 2015-16 fiscal year, which ended March 31. I’ve been slowly going through the documents, and as I find interesting items I’ll report on them. For now, I’ve just scanned for the big salaries. […]

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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.

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