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Tanks but no tanks: Halifax councillors vote to cancel armoured vehicle, reallocate funding

June 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax regional councillors voted on Tuesday to cancel the purchase of an armoured vehicle for the city’s police and reallocate the funding to diversity and inclusion, public safety, and fighting anti-Black racism. Councillors voted to redirect $53,500 to city’s office of diversity and inclusion to make up for a planned cut this year; a total […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Coun. Shawn Cleary, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Steve Adams, defund police, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, El Jones, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Maggie-Jane Spray, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Rebecca Thomas, Scot Wortley, tank armoured vehicle, Terradyne

People are getting bent out of shape about $25 million being spent on bike projects over three years, but we’ve already spent more than that on road maintenance projects this year and no one batted an eye

Morning File, Tuesday, July 30, 2019

July 30, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Bike money rolls in “On Monday morning federal, provincial, and municipal officials gathered to announce a combined $25 million in funding for Halifax’s all-ages and abilities (AAA) bike network,” reports Erica Butler: The proposed network is almost identical to the one approved in the Integrated Mobility Plan, with a few changes. On-street protected […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AAA bike network, architectural drawings, Burnside Connector, Glen Assoun podcast, Rebecca Thomas, road contracts, road maintenance, St. Patrick's Rectory addition, vehicle collision Lower South River

A lot of people in Halifax will be hungover at work on Thursday

Morning File, Tuesday, May 21, 2019

May 21, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 14 Comments

News 1. Gold “Here’s the deal,” writes Joan Baxter: On Wednesday, May 14, an Australian gold mining company called St. Barbara Limited, with one gold mine in Australia and a second one in Papua New Guinea, agreed to pay $722 million for Atlantic Gold Corporation, which operates one open pit gold mine in Nova Scotia, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cameron, Angela MacIvor, Atlantic Gold, Brookfield Golf and Country Club, Catherine Dunphy, Charlene Boyce, employment in NS, freelancing, Jacques Vanasse, James Millard, job hunting, John Gallant, Justice David Farrar, living wage, Mayor Mike Savage, Moose River gold mine, Nova Institution for Women, NS prisons, Rebecca Thomas, Rodger Cuzner, Shelley Lawrence, Springhill Institution, statutory holidays, street checks, Todd Denton, Touquoy mine, toxic workplace, unemployment, Victoria Day

The redemption of Frank Anderson

Morning File, Monday, May 13, 2019

May 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Transit passes “Soon, more people will get access to low income transit passes,” writes Erica Butler. “But the cap on this important program remains a needless obstacle.” Click here to read “Transit Pass Bingo.”  This article is for subscribers. Click here to subscribe. 2. This is North Preston Stephen Kimber introduces us to This […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abortion, Andrew Alkenbrack, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Atlantic journalism Awards (AJA), bullshit, Cabot Links Golf Resort, corruption, Dan Leger, David Deveau, Economic Development, El Jones, Frank Anderson, grifters, Holly Conners, Immigration, Joan Baxter, Mary Campbell, North Preston’s Finest, Parker Donham, Pierre Simard, police investigator Dave MacDonald, Rebecca Thomas, Riverside Lobster, South West Shore Development Authority (SWSDA), Stephen Archibald and wire fences, Stephen Kimber, Timothy Gillespie

A Modest Proposal: Morning File, Saturday, September 16, 2017

September 16, 2017 By El Jones 12 Comments

1. A Modest Proposal (Rick Conrad covered this story yesterday in his Morning File.) Stephen McNeil, history expert, has more thoughts on history. McNeil was asked about the town of Amherst, named after Jeffrey Amherst of the smallpox blanket Amhersts, following Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre’s decision to remove the street name Amherst. “People are going […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, challenging, Clonard Keating, El Jones, imagine if it were a Black person game, Premier Stephen McNeil history expert, Rebecca Thomas, renaming controversy, smallpox blankets, Winston Churchill

Examineradio 126: MacLean vs McNeil

August 25, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week, we speak with NSGEU president Jason MacLean about the McNeil government’s proclamation on Bill 148, which forces a contract on public servants. Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas co-hosts this week’s show. (<a href=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/halifaxexaminer/Examiner_Radio_-_126_-_Herald_Strike_Ends.mp3″>direct download</a>) (<a href=”http://halifaxexaminer.libsyn.com/rss”>RSS feed</a>) (<a href=”https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/examineradio-halifax-examiner/id5676299″>Subscribe via iTunes)</a>

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Bill 148, Examineradio, NSGEU president Jason MacLean, podcast, Rebecca Thomas

One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish: Morning File, Monday, May 1, 2017

May 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Election I stayed up last night trying to think of something intelligent to say about yesterday’s election call, but I don’t have much. I guess it all boils down to whether voters will accept the provincial Liberals’ austerity policies (which contradict the federal Liberals’ rejection of same) — that is, will Nova Scotians […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: booze heist, DFO, election call, John Hutton, Katy Parsons, Memorial University, Noreen Golfman, PBJ sandwich by mail, Rebecca Thomas, Scott Costen, shark survey

Bulding A Better Nova Scotia Through Poetry: Examineradio, episode #109

April 28, 2017 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

Rebecca Thomas, Halifax’s poet laureate, woke City Council with an electrifying poem she read in Chambers titled “Not Perfect.” The subsequent meeting saw a resolution passed to revisit the idea of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the Cornwallis statue in, uh, Cornwallis Park. Also, the Liberal government released a meaningless budget designed to buld on a stronger […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: budget, Christina Macdonald, Edward Cornwallis, election, Erica Butler, Examineradio, Jennifer Henderson, Lindell Smith, podcast, Rebecca Thomas, Stephen Kimber

The power of poetry: Morning File, Wednesday, April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis Two weeks ago, Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas read her poem “Not Perfect” before city council: The reading had two effects. The first was that councillor Shawn Cleary was moved to ask that Halifax council revisit the issue of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the statue of Cornwallis in the south end. (Councillor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Not Perfect" poem, Craig Jackson, Dr. Alan Drummond, Edward Cornwallis removal, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Halifax Regional Council, Jack Webb, Lindell Smith, Louise Delisle, Michael Tutton, Mother Canada, Paul Withers, Randy Billings, Rebecca Thomas, Rick Davis, Shawn Cleary, Shelburne dump, softwood lumber tariff, Steve Streatch, Waye Mason, Westlock County Alberta, Yarmouth ferry season extension

Humiliation as a business model: Morning File, Wednesday, April 12, 2017

April 12, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Pre-election spending Jennifer Henderson has begun combing through provincial press releases to build a weekly scorecard of pre-election spending announcements from the McNeil government. We’ll continue to run this until an election is called. (I’ll update it with previous weeks’ announcements as well.) Government Pre-Election Spending Announcements  (April 3- April 10) 2. Court Watch This […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: airline industry, Barry Saxifrage, climate change, CO2 levels, humiliation as a business model, John Demont, lower Halifax speed limits, pre-election spending, Rebecca Thomas, Rory Andrews, United Airlines

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

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