News 1. Daily COVID-19 update (sans briefing) There hasn’t been a provincial COVID-19 briefing since Friday, but the province has continued to release numbers daily. The Cape Breton Spectator’s Mary Campbell has generously given the Examiner permission to republish info from her daily COVID-19 update. Here are yesterday’s numbers, from Campbell: Numbers Total new cases: 27 […]
Calls for answers and calls for kindness
Morning File, Thursday, April 23, 2020
News 1. The anatomy of failure: How and why the emergency alert system was not activated when a mass murderer was roaming around Nova Scotia Tim Bousquet, Jennifer Henderon, Yvette d’Entremont, and Joan Baxter did some excellent reporting on the question of why the emergency alert system wasn’t activated early on Sunday. Bousquet, Henderson, d’Entremont, […]
The provincial government is thinking about using bogus “carbon offsets”
Morning File, Monday, September 16, 2019
News 1. Dorian “On Sept. 3, 2019, as deadly, destructive Dorian zeroed in on southeastern US coastal states, the four biggest American wireless carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — all pre-emptively announced plans to help their customers stay connected,” writes Stephen Kimber: Verizon, for example offered unlimited calling, texting and data from Sept. […]
A Canadian Heritage Minute: Morning File, Saturday, February 25, 2017
News 1. A VERY IMPORTANT Halifax Examiner Investigation Warning: naughty content ahead. Under the guidance of Tim Bousquet, we here at the Halifax Examiner take investigative journalism very seriously. Thirteen months into the Chronicle Herald strike, it is even more vital than ever that we carry the torch for serious, challenging local reporting. With the legislated […]