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Is executive fraud behind the bankruptcy of VistaCare Communications?

Morning File, Tuesday, July 9, 2019

July 9, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Power rates “Nova Scotia Power has filed an application that would see power rates rise 1.5% a year for residential customers in each of the next three years, if approved by the Utility and Review Board (UARB),” reports Jennifer Henderson: The increases are related to rising fuel costs and purchases of imported power. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, ACOA grants and loans, Advatek Systems, Andrea Gunn, Ben Cowan-Dewar, BMO, Bruce Phinney, Business Development Bank of Canada (BDBC), Cabot Links, Cape Breton Island Airport Community Interest Company, Daniel Gallivan, David Deveau, Donkin coal mine rockfall, Edna Restaurant, Frank Anderson, Inverness Airport, Jane Wright, Jenna Mooers, Jennifer Alkenbrack, Just Jane's, lobbying, lobbyist, Maxime Bernier, Michel Jacob, Mike Keiser, MLA Gordon Wilson, MP Colin Fraser, MP Rodger Cuzner, Paul LeBlanc, People's Party of Canada, Peter Moreira, Pierre LeBlanc, Riverside Lobster, Robert Marks, Ronnie LeBlanc, RoyNat Capital, RoyNat Inc, Russel Jacob, Scott Nauss, Tom Ayers, VC International, VistaCare, VistaCare Underground Equipment, VistaCare Underground Services, William Archer

PRICED OUT

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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

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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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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