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It’s been 12 years since Joe Ramia won the contest for the convention centre, and the deal still looks shady af

Morning File, Friday, June 3, 2022

June 3, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Corey Rogers “A Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice has acquitted the former Halifax Regional Police special constables who booked Corey Rogers in cells the night he died,” reports Zane Woodford: “While the death of Corey Rogers is sad and tragic, it did not come as the result of criminal negligence,” Justice James Chipman […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Angus MacIsaac, Ceres Acquisition Corp, Cogswell Interchange, Convention Centre creation of, Deputy Minister Paul Taylor, Expression of Interest (EOI), FOIPOP, Hardman Group, Joe Ramia, Jr., Judge Suzanne Hood, Liam Daly, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Mayor Peter Kelly, Midtown Tavern, MP Mike Kelloway, Nova Centre, Parallel, Rank Inc, Scooter Braun, Scott Ferguson, spaceport, special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Susses Strategy Group, Trade Centre Limited, Ukraine, William “Beau” Wrigley

Who killed Robin Hartrick?

Morning File, Tuesday, September 11, 2018

September 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. “Culture of fear” “A former correctional officer who worked at Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility (the Burnside jail) is concerned that the lack of attention to conditions in the jail will lead to violence and to people getting hurt,” reports El Jones: The former correctional officer contacted the Halifax Examiner and spoke about […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brenda Way, CAO Jacque Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, Dave Hebert, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, dumbass graffiti, Fred MacGillivray, Glen Assoun, Halifax Water, Margaret (Robin) Hartrick, NASA, ocean temperatures, Paul Withers, Scott Ferguson, Stephen Archibald and old schools, Ticket Atlantic, Trade Centre Limited, water restrictions Lake Major

A terribly depressing read from start to finish

Morning File, Thursday, June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Fool’s Gold, Part 4 We’ve published the fourth and final instalment of Joan Baxter’s “Fool’s Gold” series. Part 4 looks at how the mining lobby is working to undermine environmental protection in Nova Scotia. In particular, the Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS) wants to open up protected wilderness areas to mining. Writes […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 911 call about salad, CAO Wayne Anstey, Cape Breton Spectator, Colin Woodard, conflict of interest commissioner, Dominique Dionne-Simard, IWK Health Centre, Merlin Nunn retirement, Michael Gorman, Mine safety, minimum wage Stats Canada study, Peter Kelly, René Morisette, Scott Ferguson, Stephen D'Arcy, Susan Dodd, Tracy Kitch, Trade Centre Limited, World Trade Centre Association (WTCA), Yarmouth ferry subsidy

City Hall has a problem keeping women finance directors

Morning File, Wednesday, March 28, 2018

March 28, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News 1. Ferry “Remember the Big Lift?” asks Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler: The astronomically expensive Macdonald bridge deck replacement caused a lot of inconvenience over roughly two years, but there was a silver lining. To help compensate for evening and weekend bridge closures, Halifax Transit increased ferry service during evenings and weekends, and people […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Amanda Whitewood, Black janitors Founders Square, Bruce Fisher, CAO Jacques Dubé bizarre text message, Cathie O'Toole, City Hall has a problem keeping women finance directors, Dale MacLennan, free-speech advocates, gender dynamic at City Hall, Greg Keefe, Harold MacKay, Jean Chrétien and Stephen McNeil, Jean Laroche, Jerry Blackwood, Karla MacFarlane, Peter Kelly, Scott Ferguson, Sydney container terminal, Wayne Anstey

It started badly and it’s ending wrong: Morning File, Friday, October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Tidal power “Inshore fishermen from the Bay of Fundy made a last-ditch plea to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia yesterday to stall the placement of two massive, five-storey-high turbines on the bottom of the Minas Passage near Parrsboro until an appeal of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Convention centre, Copenhagen, Deb MacNeil, Elizabeth Chiu, EllisDon, Institute for Big Data Analytics, Joe Henry, Joe Ramia, Matt Brand, Nova Centre, OxyContin, Phil Pacey, Scott Ferguson, Stan Matwin, Stephen Archibald, Suspicious Packages, Suzanne Fougere, Trade Centre Limited

Kid Rock was right! Examineradio, episode #63

May 27, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak to restaurateur and mayoral candidate Lil MacPherson. With her business partner Chris Bower and a handful of other forward-looking chefs and restauranteurs, MacPherson brought the concept of local and sustainable to a new level in Halifax. MacPherson now wants to bring that ethos to a civic level. Plus, Scott Ferguson is finally exiled to the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Black Eyed Peas, Chronicle Herald, climate change, Examineradio, Lil MacPherson, Mark Lever, podcast, Reg Rankin, Scott Ferguson, Sue Uteck, TCL, Waye Mason, Wooden Monkey

Tim meets the Mayor: Examineradio, episode #56

April 8, 2016 By Russell Gragg 2 Comments

This week we’re pleased to welcome Halifax Mayor Mike Savage as our special guest. This marks the first time we’ve recorded Examineradio in front of a live audience, and our thanks to the Company House for hosting the event and Erin Costelo for providing a great musical interlude. The live taping was part of CKDU’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: amalgamation, Andy Fillmore, Chairman Mao, Examineradio, innovation, Mike Savage, podcast, Scott Ferguson

Two decades of world-class delusion

May 16, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

How Halifax’s big dreams have become a nightmare, and what needs to happen to make the city a great place to live. by Tim Bousquet This article was awarded the gold medal for Commentary at the 2013 Atlantic Journalism Awards. It was first published in The Coast, on July 11, 2013. After “drop the bomb,” […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Commonwealth Games, concert scandal, Convention centre, Fred MacGillivray, Joe Ramia, Paul McCartney, Peter Kelly, Scott Ferguson, Trade Centre Limited, World-class city

How Halifax’s concert scandal played out

May 5, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

With new details such as how Rush got bum-rushed, The Coast tells the most complete story to date. by Tim Bousquet This article was first published in The Coast, on December 5, 2011. Last spring, Halifax’s now-infamous “concert scandal” broke when city staffer Cathie O’Toole revealed that mayor Peter Kelly and the city’s deputy CAO, […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Investigation, Province House Tagged With: Barb Stegemann, Black Eyed Peas, concert scandal, Fred MacGillivray, Halifax, Harold McKay, John O'Brien, Kid Rock, Paul McCartney, Peter Kelly, Rush, Scott Ferguson, Trade Centre Limited, Wayne Anstey

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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