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Council votes in favour of report on taxi appeals committee

Morning File, Wednesday, September 25, 2019

September 25, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Uranium “After yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Nova Scotia’s Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act seems to be safe,” reports Joan Baxter. “At least for now.” Baxter recounts the testimony of not one, not two, but three different representatives of the Mining Association of Nova Scotia […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blair Rhodes, Cassidy Bernard, collapsed crane removal, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Darren Smalley, Judy Haiven, Mark Reynolds, Matt Whitman and appeals committee, Michael Bowen, Mona Bernard, Morning File photos of men vs women, Premier Stephen McNeil, secondary labour market, Simon Radford, Susan Bradley, taxi appeals committee, UK British sailors sexual assault trial, women in the workforce, Zane Woodford

Watch Mayor Mike Savage and HRM councillors’ chucklefest with Atlantic Gold

Morning File, Monday, September 23, 2019

September 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Climate change action This week people around the world are stepping up activism around the climate emergency during the UN climate action summit in New York. A list of local events can be found here. 2. What to do about Justin? Writes Stephen Kimber: Last week’s Blackface/Brownface controversy raises the complicated question of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Gillian, Anjuli Patil, Atlantic Gold video, Bar Harbor ferry terminal, Bill Trotter, Cesar Lalo, Chief Bob Gloade, Chris Fischer, Chris MacAulay, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Steve Adams, Eagle Beach Contractors Limited, gas leak, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Glenn Stevens, gold mine video, Halifax Partnership gold video, Heritage Gas, Indian Brook land claim, John McKiggan, Lesianu Hweld, Lisa Cameron, Lloyd Currie, Mike Savage gold video, Millbrook land claim settlement, OCEARCH, Queen's Marque construction, Shannon Power, sharks, Sipekne’katik First Nation (Indian Brook), St. Barbara gold video, Susan Bradley, taxi driver sexual assault, The Nook, white sharks around Nova Scotia, Yarmouth ferry

CN wants to buy HalTerm, and what that means for other prospective megaports in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Friday, December 7, 2018

December 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. ServiCom ServiCom has closed its call centre in Sydney, and laid off all 600 workers. “ServiCom site director Todd Riley blasted the company’s executive team for misleading him and all employees at the centre,” reports Chris Shannon for the Cape Breton Post: “Any time would be hard, but Christmastime? To me, it’s a very […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Canadian National Railway Co. (CN), Chris Shannon, Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, Evelyn White, Halterm, Jean Jacques Ruest, Justin Boutilier, Maurice Ruddick, megaport, plastic bag ban, Rick Grant, ServiCom, Stephen Archibald and Acadian Bus Lines terminal, Susan Bradley, Tiffany Chase, Todd Riley, Tufts Cove oil spill, Zane Woodford

893 city employees make more than $100,000 annually and yet janitors cleaning city buildings are paid poverty wages

Morning File, Tuesday, August 7, 2018

August 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Oil spill Friday morning, I criticized Nova Scotia Power (NSP) for its press release related to the oil spill from the Tufts Cove Generating Plant. The press release called it a “limited” spill; I wrote: “Limited” is PR spin. Every oil spill is “limited” in some sense — the Deepwater Horizon spill that destroyed […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Amanda Whitewood, Andrew Rankin, Anthony Spinelli, Bob Bjerke, Brian Ward, CAO Jacques Dubé, City Hall’s Sunshine List, civil servants salaries, Dan MacDonald, data collection creep, Highway 104 racing, John Traves, Leitches Creek death, No. 6 fuel oil, Parker Donham, privacy, stunting, Susan Bradley, Tufts Cove oil spill, warm weather, Yvonne Colbert

A Scotiascapes Landscaping employee was driving a truck that killed a five-year-old boy in 2013

Morning File, Friday, July 13, 2018

July 13, 2018 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

News 1. Scotiascapes On Monday, truck driver Michael Wile died while depositing a load at the Fairview Cove Sequestration Facility. Wile was driving for Scotiascapes Landscaping, which was issued a Stop Work order by the Department of Labour. An investigation is ongoing. In 2013, another Scotiascapes employee was the driver of a Ford F-350 pickup […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Avondale Construction, Boat Harbour, Cap and Trade, CFL funding, Chase the Ace, Dal Hutchinson, Elmsdale Landscaping illegal quarry, Fairview Cove Sequestration Facility, jason rogers, Laura Coupar, Michael Wile, Northease Drilling and Blasting, pedestrian struck Barrington and Prince Streets, Premier Stephen McNeil, Scotiascapes Landscaping accident, Stephen Archibald and stone heads, Susan Bradley, Tri-Ex Construction

If it were up to me: Morning File, Thursday, March 1, 2018

March 1, 2018 By Erica Butler 13 Comments

Hi folks. Erica Butler here, filling in for Tim today. Here’s your Morningfile: News 1. P3 or not P3 “The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres,” reports Jennifer Henderson. But […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Centre Plan Part One, Erica Butler, Erin Esiyok-Prime, Frank Palermo, Haley Ryan, Marina von Stackelberg, Marjorie and Edwin Crossland, metal detectors, Michael Gorman, stealing spare tires, Susan Bradley, Zane Woodford

The parking violation death sentence: Morning File, Friday, January 27, 2017

January 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. HST hit to Nova Scotia Yesterday, I linked to Charlottetown Guardian reporter Teresa Wright’s bombshell that Atlantic provinces are being told to return “hundreds of millions” of dollars of miscalculated HST payments back to Ottawa. I wrote: Wright doesn’t put a dollar figure on the amount Nova Scotia owes, but assuming that the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: automated stop announcements, Bob Bjerke, Halifax Transit, Kyle McCracken, NS owes HST, Randy Delorey, Susan Bradley, Teresa Wright, The parking violation death sentence

How not to impress the queen: Morning File, Friday, October 28, 2016

October 28, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Catie Miller “The man who killed Catie Miller and dismembered her body was arrested early in the police investigation because his appetite for murdering women was so strong, officers feared he would carry out his fantasies again,” reports Susan Bradley for the CBC: Jason James Johnson was captured on wiretaps talking “about his desire to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2012 Michener Awards, Aaron Beswick, bow tie, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Catie Miller, cruise ship tourism, how to cut a pineapple, how to fold a cat, Jason James Johnson, Kelly Amanda MacDonald, Kyle Shaw, liquefied natural gas, LNG, Mary Campbell, moose, Rose Courage, Ross Klein, Stephen Archibald, Stephen Maher, Susan Bradley

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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