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How will you respond to fascism? Morning File, Monday, January 30, 2017

January 30, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 23 Comments

News 1. Fascism If you use the F-word, inevitably some people respond by saying “this isn’t fascism because unlike Hitler…” or whatever. But of course fascism in the 1930s was expressed in its own time; 80 years later, it will be expressed differently. Trump is a fascist, his government fits the dictionary definition of fascism, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anna Quindlen, Cory Bowles, Erica Baguma, facism, Hannah Arendt, Jacob T. Levy, Josh Jones, Laura Regan, Mary Tyler Moore, Ron Foley Macdonald, Thomy Nilsson

Fish, climate change, debt, and future generations: Morning File, Wednesday, December 28, 2016

December 28, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Fish, climate change, debt, and future generations What began as localized reports of dead herring has ballooned into gigantic fish kills along the coast of St. Mary’s Bay, south of Digby. Michael Gorman, reporting for the CBC, notes that the dead fish zone includes not just herring but “also dead starfish, lobsters, bar […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Christine Saulnier, Colin Woodard, Dan Dare, Elly Heim, fisheries, gigantic fish kills, living wage ordinance, Mark Cunningham, Mayday: Gulf of Maine in Distress, Michael Gorman, Ron Foley Macdonald, Suzanne MacNeil

Everything is an emergency: Morning File, Monday, December 12, 2016

December 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. El Jones On Saturday, The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission awarded Examiner contributor El Jones the Dr. Allan Burnley “Rocky” Jones Individual Award for her prisoner advocacy work. The full list of recipients is: Youth Award • Samuel Gregan, Halifax, Grade 9 student at Gorsebrook Junior High, honuored for his work as an LGBTQ advocate Dr. Allan […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dr. Allan Burnley "Rocky" Jones Individual Award, El Jones, fentanyl, Graham Steele, John Power, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Panama Papers, Preparing for the end of the world, Ron Foley Macdonald, Torstar, two films about Viola Desmond

Why you shouldn’t use the Halifax airport’s wifi: Morning File, Thursday, November 17, 2016

November 17, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

November Subscription Drive Yesterday’s article by Chris Lambie on the filling in of Halifax Harbour (linked to below) is an example of what the Halifax Examiner does best, I think. I’ve long been aware that fill has been deposited at the Fairview Cove shipping terminal, but wasn’t really conscious of the extent of the operation until […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Lambie, Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Greg Weston, Halifax Airport, Halifax Harbour infill, Jen Taplin, Jeri MacNeil, Lori Marino, Michael MacDonald, Ron Foley Macdonald, Ryan Gallagher, Security Forum, Tim Kaine, Tim Krochak, upkeep idle properties, Whale Sanctuary Project, wifi

The arrival of the Quantum Presbyterians: Morning File, Monday, October 31, 2016

October 31, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Max’s Folly: Examineradio, episode #85 Bill Turpin is a lifelong journalist with stops at the Montreal Gazette and the Halifax Daily News. He’s just released his debut novel, Max’s Folly, a love letter to the craft of journalism. (direct download) (RSS feed) (Subscribe via iTunes) 2. I TOLD YOU SO “Nearly all Halloween candy […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, Chronicle Herald, David Irish, flying saucers, Halifax Library, halloween candy, Joel Best, Judy Haiven, Kathleen Marden, Lloyd Kerry, Matt Whitman, Richard Woodbury, Ron Foley Macdonald, Stanton T. Friedman, Stephen McNeil, teachers strike, Todd Van Ritchie

They are not the hell “your” whales: Morning File, Wednesday, October 12, 2016

October 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Teachers to hold strike vote “The Nova Scotia Teachers Union will hold a strike vote on Oct. 25, the union said Tuesday,” reports Jon Tattrie for the CBC. 2. Fenwick Tower “Work has been stopped at the Fenwick Tower construction site after debris fell […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill Turpin, brain size, CSA, Dorothy Grant, Fenwick Tower, Frances Fish, Greg Marquis, gun in the er, Haley Ryan, Halifax Explosion, J.E. (Betty) MacKay, Jon Tattrie, Lori Marino, Middleton, Nova Scotia Nurses Union, Ron Foley Macdonald, Sherri Borden Colley, solar power, Soldiers Memorial Hospital, space and whales, Strand Theatre, teachers, The Birth of a Nation, vehicle/pedestrian collision

Nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion: Morning File, Friday, August 12, 2016

August 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The NDP promised Irving even more than we knew “Nova Scotia’s Liberal government revealed Thursday it refused to honour a $200-million loan guarantee offered to Irving Shipbuilding in a secret 2012 provincial government letter to the company,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: The $200-million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: C. Meisner, Canadian Taxpayers Federation, George Armoyan, Heather Desserud, Ian Brown, Irving, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Melvin Jr., John Demont, Justice Peter Rosinski, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Kevin Lacey, Labi Kousoulis, Michael Gorman, Morning File, Paul Withers, Rachel Ward, Ron Foley Macdonald, Stephen Archibald, Steve Bruce

Art for the one per cent: Examineradio, episode #65

June 10, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

This week we speak with local arts writer Ron Foley Macdonald about the dearth of arts criticism in Nova Scotia and how fewer arts organizations are taking risks with their content for fear of alienating their corporate benefactors. MacDonald writes extensively about arts and culture at View902. Also, Russell reads an actual daily newspaper written by actual journalists […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: arts, Chronicle Herald, culture, Examineradio, Mark Lever, North Preston, podcast, Ron Foley Macdonald, Theodore the Tugboat

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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