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Would you like to buy a stadium?

Morning File, Friday, September 27, 2019

September 27, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Strike for climate Today’s “strike for climate” is the main local event for this week’s climate actions. People are meeting at 11am at Victoria Park — half the park is closed due to the collapsed crane, but the “back,” southern half is open. From there, strikers will march to Nova Scotia Power, thence […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brooklyn Currie, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), CFL stadium request for funding, climate strike, Const. Jennifer McPhee, corporate registry, crane incident, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), economic growth, Gardner Pinfold, GDP, Genesee & Wyoming (G&W), klepto cop, lobbying, Mary Campbell, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), nail gun, Port of Sydney Development Corporation, Schooners Sport & Entertainment, Shannon Park, Shawn Wade Hynes, shoplifting cop, Stacey Dlamini, stadium financing, stadium traffic, StadiumCo, Stephen Thomas, Steve Bruce, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

A squirrelly situation: lessons in urban planning

Morning File, Thursday, May 2, 2019

May 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

1. Active transportation “The nine-kilometre long Burnside Connector highway will cost at least $196 million, more than the entire Integrated Mobility Plan for active transportation and transit projects across the city,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “No one said the highway was too expensive, but councillors cry poverty when it comes to actually addressing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 99% Invisible podcast, Adam Rogers, Anthony Leblanc, Boudrot Properties, Canada Lands, CFL stadium, Dan Kinsella, David MacKinnon, El Jones, Janette Boudrot, Jason Boudrot, Johnny Mac, Keshen Goodman Library cafe, Mark Elderkin, Mary Campbell, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Shannon Park, squirrels, street checks

Here’s a tip: Don’t take your staff’s gratuities

Morning File, Friday, April 12, 2019

April 12, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

I’m  Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim today. You can follow me on  Twitter @Suzanne_Rent. News 1. Two women could be in running for police chief job Halifax will likely get a new police chief in May and rumour has it there are two women in the running for the job, reports Francis […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anne Theriault, Annie Bernard-Daisley, Anthony Leblanc, Barbara McLean, Canada lands Company, Cassidy Bernard, Councillor Steve Craig, cycling, First nations, Francis Campbell, gratuities, Halifax police chief, Heather Watts, Jeff McNeil, Judy Haiven, Ken Filkow Award for Freedom of Expression, Living Earth Exhibit Hall, Missing and murdered Indigenous women, Nova Scotia Federation of Anglers and Hunters, Nova Scotia Museum, Ontario Science Centre, PEN Canada, Port Morien Wildlife Association, Premier Stephen McNeil, Shannon Park, Silent Steeds: Cycling in Nova Scotia to 1900, Small History NS, Sonia Thomas, spring bear hunt, stadium proposal, tipping

How Vaportecture is used to obscure Canada Land’s untendered sale of land for a Shannon Park stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Bay Ferries, biomass, Canada Lands, Catherine Tully, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Joan Jones, Joanne Bernard, Justice Peter Rosinski, Kristen Hare, Lisa Manninger, Neil deMause, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC lawsuit, percent, Rocky Jones, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Scott Campbell, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, stadium rendering, Stephen Archibald and Encounter at Kwacha House, Tim Houston, Vaportecture, Wendie Poitras, Woman Hailing a Cab

Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window

Morning File, Monday, April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Street checks Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Auld, Anthony Leblanc, APTN, Canada Lands, Canadian Press (CP) layoffs, Christie Blatchford, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Justice Derek Green, Justin Brake, Mary Campbell, Michael Tutton, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Darren Fisher, Northern Pulp, Philip Croucher, public consultation, public engagement, Saltwire Network, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, street checks, The Blatchford Bad Writing Hall of Fame

Halifax has too many fireworks displays: Morning File, Monday, October 23, 2017

October 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. An expert explains why there’s no hotel at the Nova Centre Why hasn’t an operator been named for the hotel being constructed above Halifax’s new convention centre? That’s the question I asked last week of Jan deRoos, a professor of Hotel Finance and Real Estate at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. A […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adina Bresge, Amazon HQ, Brett Bundale, councillor Tony Mancini, Darren Fisher, fireworks, Haley Ryan, Peter McGuire, right whales, Shannon Park, Yarmouth Ferry numbers

One smart cat: Morning File, Thursday, December 8, 2016

December 8, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. The S-word No, not soccer, but we’ll start with that. Reports Chris Cochrane for Local Xpress: The top official with a new Canadian pro soccer league, planned for a 2018 start in several major Canadian cities, was in Halifax Wednesday for talks with those behind a proposed local franchise. Halifax-based sports promotion firm Sports & […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: automated stop announcements, Canadian Premier League, Cassie Williams, Centre Plan exemptions, Chris Cochrane, Derek Martin, Ehab Soliman, Graham Steele, John Risley, Joseph Howe cartoon, Karen Casey, Mary Campbell, Piper the cat, Shannon Park, Sports & Entertainment Atlantic, stadium, Stephen Archibald, Tiffany Chase

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

About the Halifax Examiner

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