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Action Against Canso Spaceport sign in Canso. White sign with words "WE SAY NO!" in red letters over "to the CANSO SPACEPORT" in green and black lettering.
Posted inMorning File

There are dozens of spaceport projects around the world; they probably won’t bring the economic salvation backers promise

by Tim Bousquet February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Change just a few of the particulars, and Melness looks a lot like Canso, while Orbex sounds a lot like Maritime Launch Services, albeit Orbex is much further along in the development process and has substantial funding and an operating rocket factory.

a skunk on green grass
Posted inEconomy, Labour, Morning File, Policing

Skunks, of the animal and human sort, are fouling up the Halifax airport

by Tim Bousquet September 2, 2022January 9, 2023
A glass building with a white sign reading, Halifax Convention Centre. The 'O' in convention is blue. In the upper right corner, there are green leaves from a tree hanging into the frame. Below the leaves is a man in a black and yellow jacket waiting beside a yellow sign reading, "safer social."
Posted inBusiness and Development, Morning File

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

by Tim Bousquet June 3, 2022January 9, 2023
Posted inEconomy

Maritime Launch Services has hired a PR firm to conduct a “push poll” for its proposed spaceport in Canso

Avatar photo by Joan Baxter June 26, 2021November 22, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

A white dude writes about cultural appropriation: Morning File, Monday, May 15, 2017

by Tim Bousquet May 15, 2017October 20, 2022
Posted inUncategorized

Marine File, Tuesday, April 11, 2017

by Katie Toth April 11, 2017October 20, 2022
Posted inMorning File

Bullshitter of the day: Martha Crago. Morning File, Wednesday, March 15, 2017

by Tim Bousquet March 15, 2017November 25, 2022
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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.


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In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

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