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Back to the drawing board, Bill

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says his budget will provide support for journalism. It won't. It will only provide demise-delaying bailouts for badly managed media corporations. There are better ways.

March 24, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Start with this from Page 173 of the federal budget Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled in the House of Commons last week: “Support for Journalism.” No one — certainly not I — would argue “a strong and independent news media” isn’t “crucial to a well-functioning democracy,” or that the news media doesn’t play a “vitally important...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism, Subscribers only Tagged With: allnovascotia, April Lindgren, Canada Council, Chris Waddell, Chronicle Herald, legacy print media, Mark Lever, Minister Bill Morneau, Postmedia, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations(QCJO), SaltWire, Sarah Dennis, Star Metro, Steph Wechsler, subsidy, Support for Journalism, tax credit, Torstar

The only thing that can save journalism: “Subscribe Somewhere”

Morning File, Monday, February 11, 2019

February 11, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Canadian Press layoffs On Friday, the Canadian Press notified its staff that at the end of March it will be laying off six reporters nationwide, four of whom are in its Atlantic bureau in Halifax. The four Halifax reporters are Brett Bundale, Aly Thomson, Keith Doucette, and Alex Cooke. All are excellent reporters. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 99% Invisible podcast, Alex Cooke, Aly Thomson, Amanda Jess, Axem Neurotechnology, Blake Jackson trial, Brett Bundale, Canadian Press (CP), Canadian Press layoffs, Catherine Klimek, Christopher Friesen, Entrepreneurship, Evidence-based policing & research partnerships, former Premier John Hamm, free speech warriors, Gray Arena, Halifax Regional Police Strategic Plan, Keith Doucette, Mark Lever, Menlo Park police, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives, PC press release, SaltWire, Sarah Dennis, Selena Ross, Ship Victory, Soccer Nova Scotia, taxi driver sexual assault, Tesfom Kidane Mengis, The Blazer Experiment, Tim hates flying, Tony Ingram, Victor Cizanckas, Yarmouth ferry

The Beaverbank Connector highway exit is a death trap

Morning File, Monday, December 3, 2018

December 3, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

1. Six demonstrators arrested outside Canada Post facility “I was sitting at home when I got the community call-out for a solidarity action at the Canada Post on Almon Street on Sunday night,” writes El Jones. “Since I live in the area, I decided to go down and see what was happening and join in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alfred Burgesson, Atlantic Journalism Awards, Bailey Roy, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Cape Breton Post, Charlottetown CAO Peter Kelly, Damien Roy, Future City Builders, Gordon Dalzell, hoax related to terrorist activity, housing crisis, Irving Oil refinery explosion, Laura Lyall, Mary Campbell, pedestrian killed Beaverbank Connector, RCMP Cpl. Jullie Rogers-Marsh, Ryan Ross, SaltWire, Saltwire layoffs, T.J. MacGuire, Zane Woodford

Postmedia CEO Paul Godfrey was paid $5 million in 2018, but says his company is so broke it needs public subsidies

Morning File, Wednesday, November 28, 2018

November 28, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Legacy media: CEO compensation and public subsidies Yesterday, Postmedia released its Management Information Circular in preparation of January’s shareholder meeting; the circular shows that CEO Paul Godfrey was awarded a $1.2 million bonus on top of his $1.2 million dollar salary in 2018, and with stock options brought in over $5 million in […]

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The Yarmouth ferry subsidy? Still? Still more? Always…

“Our goal, which I believe we have achieved,” Transportation Minister Geoff MacLellan said when he signed the latest ferry deal, “was to put a stable, long-term agreement in place.” How’s that working out?

July 29, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

I could say I told them so — and I did, way back when “them” was still Rodney Macdonald and his Tories, and from then on forward through Darrell Dexter and Stephen McNeil to whatever same-old-same-old will come next — but I’d have to stand in a too-long line behind all the other told-them-so nattering...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Mark Lever, SaltWire, Stephen McNeil, Yarmouth ferry

The gospel according to Mark

The short and the small of it all is that SaltWire CEO Mark Lever is blandly, blindly traveling a well-trod path to self-immolation. Unfortunately, SaltWire’s employees — and its readers — will become collateral damage in his self-lit inferno.

July 15, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

“We believe being in 25 communities is a big strength… I believe telling local stories in Gander, and in St. John’s, and in Corner Brook, and Summerside, and Sydney are going to be what supports this network. Not amalgamating. Not putting the same copy in every paper.” Mark Lever, Saltwire CEO Financial Post interview July 17,...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism, Subscribers only Tagged With: Halifax Chronicle Herald, Mark Lever, SaltWire

We spent millions of dollars on the Argyle Street reconstruction project and forgot to put in washrooms and water fountains

Morning File, Friday, July 6, 2018

July 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 12 Comments

News 1. Cabinet shuffle This item is written by Joan Baxter. Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is no more. Yesterday, Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government renamed it the Department of Lands and Forestry (not, however, Lands and Forests, something lamented by the insightful Facebook page devoted to Nova Scotia’s “Woods and Water”). Timberlea-Prospect […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessible washrooms, aquaculture, Argyle Street patios, Cabinet shuffle, Carol McIsaac, David Fraser, Department of lands and Forestry, Department of Natural Resources renamed, Kevin Kindred, marine mammals, Mark Lever, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), MLA Derek Mombourquette, MLA Iain Rankin, MLA John Lohr, MLA Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia Health Protection Act, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ralph Surette, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, SaltWire, Sean Kirby, Taryn Grant, water fountains and washrooms, whales, William Lahey

Calvin Clarke wins his constructive dismissal suit against the Chronicle Herald

Justice Suzanne Hood rules that the 18-year "Herald man" was improperly pushed out of his job.

January 12, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

Calvin Clarke has won his constructive dismissal suit against the Chronicle Herald. Justice Suzanne Hood has ruled that the Herald must pay Clarke $77,761.87, which is the equivalent of  16 months’ pay ($103,616) minus money Clarke owed the the Herald and income Clarke earned at other jobs after he quit the Herald. Additionally, Hood ordered […]

Filed Under: Featured, Journalism, News Tagged With: Alex Liot, Aubrey Graham, Bounty, Calvin Clarke, Chronicle Herald, Headline Promotions, Justice Suzanne Hood, Nancy Cook, SaltWire

Dawn Sloane says her parking spot is worth $25,000: Morning File, Friday, November 10, 2017

November 10, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 26 Comments

News 1. Constructive dismissal The trial of Calvin Clarke’s suit against the Halifax Herald Ltd. continued in Supreme Court yesterday, with testimony from Nancy Cook, who holds the ridiculous title of “chief people officer” at Saltwire, the Herald’s parent company, followed by Alex Liot, the VP of Sales. Clarke is claiming “constructive dismissal,” which basically means […]

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What’s In Mark Lever’s Books? Examineradio, episode #123

August 4, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

  As a crippling 18-month strike drags on, the Nova Scotia government has appointed an independent arbitrator to try to strike an agreement between the Chronicle Herald and its unionized workers. This industrial inquiry, the first in Nova Scotia in nearly a quarter century, gives the mediator, William Kaplan, sweeping powers, including the ability to subpoena […]

Filed Under: Featured, Journalism, Province House Tagged With: Chronicle Herald, Examineradio, Halifax Typographical Union, Mark Lever, podcast, SaltWire

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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.

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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