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The leaders of tomorrow: Morning File, Monday, October 16, 2017

October 16, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Cap-and-trade Jennifer Henderson reports: Legislation introduced by the McNeil government to enable setting up a cap-and-trade system to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions as part of a Trudeau directive to slow climate change was debated briefly in the Legislature this week. What is missing from Bill 15 — “An Act to Amend Chapter […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Annie Liebovitz photos collection, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS), cult of inequality, Dalhousie drunken students, Diane Paquette, Ian Munroe, Lisa Bugden, partyocracy, pedestrian struck Halifax Waterfront boardwalk, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, pitfalls of entrepreneurship, Richard Florizone, Stephen Kimber, tax reform, Teresa Wright, unsanctioned Homecoming celebration

The Shipping News: Morning File, Wednesday, June 28, 2017

June 28, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Torture ship The Chilean sailing ship La Esmeralda arrived in Halifax yesterday. It is currently at anchor and will move to Pier 20 behind the Seaport Market tomorrow afternoon. During the Pinochet years, La Esmeralda was a torture prison, reported the Guardian when the ship pulled into London in 2015: A series of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amnesty International, Angela Hall, Anthony Michael Leadley, Christian Enang Clyke, Divest Dal, Emma Davie, Heather Vargas, Innovation drinking game, La Esmeralda, newfangled, NSLC Expression of Interest, Richard Florizone, Robin Vargas, Tatooine building, torture ship, Trump refugees, U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier, Zim Antwerp

Bullshitter of the day: Martha Crago. Morning File, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

March 15, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Update: Bassam Al-Rawi has been found and served Monday, the Examiner reported that over a week of trying, police had not been able to locate taxi driver Bassam Al-Rawi to serve documents notifying him his case would be brought before the Court of Appeal. There had been multiple, but unconfirmed reports that Al-Rawi had left […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bassam Al-Rawi found, Brenda Gallant-Graves, Brett Ruskin, Canso, Dalhousie Senate meeting, Divest Dal, Edward Ellegood, fluffing cosmonauts in Canso, Francoise Bayliss, innovation, John MacDonell, Lantz interchange, Letitia Meynell, Margaret Miller, Maritime Launch Services, Martha Crago, McNeil government, Paul Mombourquette, Penney Group, Richard Florizone, spaceport, Stephen King

Comma Who Is White Comma: Morning File, Saturday, October 1, 2016

October 1, 2016 By El Jones 3 Comments

1. Tim Bousquet discovers new day in the year According to the Morning File template, opened by contributor El Jones on Friday, September 30th, Tim Bousquet has discovered a new day of the year, September 31st. The Examiner wants to congratulate Mr. Bousquet on this exciting new contribution to horology. The new “leap September” will […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amherst, Bousquet Yay! Kittay Day, commercialization, Daniel P. Sampson, Derek Bok, George Baker, George Elliott Clarke, George Tsimiklis Institute of Architecture, Graham Reynolds, Greg Marquis, hangings, Harvey Amani Whitfield, KKK, Klan, knuckle calendar, lynchings, New England Planters, Richard Florizone, Robert Devet, slavery, The Birth of a Nation, Timothy Jacques

The “elites” justify themselves: Morning File, Tuesday, September 27, 2016

September 27, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The “elites” justify themselves I attended the Dalhousie Senate meeting yesterday so I could hear president Richard Florizone justify the $300,000 trip by self-styled “elites” to MIT. In a response to questions by Senator Françoise Baylis, Florizone said the “REAP” trip was justified […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Anna Metaxas, bomb threat, Canal Greenway Park, Chris Lambie, coral, Francoise Baylis, George Armoyan, interview, Ivany Report, Joe Ramia, Letitia Meynell, Manny Tobin, MHPM, MIT, North End Community Health Centre, Nova Centre, Richard Florizone, World Trade and Convention Centre

Bagpipe lung is coming for you: Morning File, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

August 23, 2016 By Lewis Rendell 3 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Lewis Rendell. I’m filling in for Tim this morning while he takes a much needed vacation. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Hit-and-run seriously injures cyclist in St. Margaret’s Bay On Monday morning a bike commuter was hit by a truck that left the scene. As […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACORN, African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, Andrella David, AUBA, Carly Stagg, Chris Huskilson, Gratitude at Work, Haley Ryan, John Risley, MIT, Richard Florizone, Sobeys, Stephen Kimber, Tim Lane

Fear the Reaper: Morning File: Saturday, August 20, 2016

August 20, 2016 By El Jones 9 Comments

1. Manuments Yesterday, Tim covered Sarah Toye and the Halifax Women’s History Society’s project to highlight the lack of diversity in Halifax’s monuments and in public space. This seems like a good time remind us of the days when felt vulvas began appearing on Halifax statues: The article notes that “the vagina greatly improved his appearance.” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Angela MacIvor, Bruce Thomson, Cunard, felt vulvas, Fox News, Frederick Douglass, Halifax Regional Police, John Risley, MIT, Morning File, Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program, Richard Florizone, Robyn Atwell, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Statue of Liberty, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, W. Caleb McDaniel

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. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Alex MacDonald, David Wheeler, Elizabeth Chiu, Kent MacDonald, Milestone Properties, Morning File, OpenHydro, Pemberley Suites, Peter Cowan, Ray Ivany, Richard Florizone, Richard Starr, Robert Summerby-Murray, Scotia Tide, Supreme Court appointments, Tom Traves, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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