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Taking the first steps on the drastic plastic problem

Morning File, Wednesday, June 22, 2022

June 22, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 7 Comments

News 1. RCMP Commissioner tried to “jeopardize” mass murder investigation to advance federal gun control efforts The latest string of shootings south of the border, Uvalde and Buffalo chief among them, has stirred up the same debates in the United States this past month. More gun control versus freedom to live (and die) as Americans […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: American Beauty, Baccaro Point, Barrington Municipality, Cineplex, CTV, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax Regional Municipality, health care, housing, Jennifer Henderson, Jonathan MacInnis, Kathy Johnson, Kevin Spacey, Lauren Ferris, Lolita, MACPASS, Mai Rabson, parking, parking meters, plastic bags, plastics ban, SaltWire, shoreline cleanups, single-use plastics, The Canadian Press, Tim Bousquet, Transport Canada, Ukraine, Wi-Fi, Zane Woodford

Small business owners should be advocating for off-market housing

Morning file, Monday, June 20, 2022

June 20, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Small businesses and housing costs There’s been a torrent of articles recently about the struggles small businesses are facing, including two articles published right here in the Halifax Examiner. This morning, Jennifer Henderson reports on a recent virtual discussion hosted by the Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce, in which small business owners […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: affordable housing, Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, Halifax Chamber of Commerce, housing, Housing cooperatives, housing crisis, housing inflation, Jennifer Henderson, Jessika Hepburn, Michel Raymond, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Power, off-market housing, Small business, Stephen Kimber, Stephen McNeil, Suzanne Rent, taxes, The Biscuit Eater Café & Books, Tim Bousquet, Truro and Colchester Chamber of Commerce, Victory Houses, Yarmouth ferry

Masculinity, as defined by a friend of a mass murderer: “Men want art work that’s a picture of a gun enlarged seven feet high”

Morning File, Friday, June 17, 2022

June 17, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Illegal deposit “A Halifax woman says she was denied an apartment after refusing to pay an illegal deposit to her prospective landlord,” reports Zane Woodford: Kirsten Parnell has been looking for a place since she moved back to Halifax more than a month ago. She thought she’d lucked out two weeks ago with […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: COVID-19, embalmer, embalming, funeral homes, Jennifer Henderson, Kevin Von Bargen, Klaus Nienkamper, Klaus Nienkamper Jr, Kortney Adams, Mass Casualty Commission, Matthew Byard, Nancy Matthews, New Brunswick, New Brunswick Funeral Directors and Embalmers Association, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Board Of Registration of Embalmers And Funeral Directors, Robert Doucette, Swiss Air disaster, Swiss Air recovery operations, Tim Bousquet, Walker Funeral Home, Wayne Page, Zane Woodford

How the mass murderer leisurely drove through the main streets of Truro without being stopped by police

June 6, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

Through the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, there was a series of miscommunications and mixed messages between the RCMP and the Truro Police Service such that the killer was able to slowly drive right through the centre of Truro without being noticed or confronted by Truro police. As the killer wasn’t stopped in Truro, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Chief David MacNeil, Cst. Chad Morris, Cst. Heidi Stevenson, Donnalee Williston, Gina Goulet, Joey Webber, Mass Casualty Commission, Portapique, RCMP, Sgt. Richard Hickox, Staff Sergeant Brian Rehill, Tim Bousquet, Truro Police Service

Cpl. Rodney Peterson is “not tactically sound” and “puts us at risk” says fellow cop Nick Dorrington

Morning File, Monday, May 30, 2022

May 30, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. Bodies not discovered for 18 hours   “The bodies of five victims on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020 — Joy and Peter Bond, Aaron and Emily Tuck, and Jolene Oliver — were not discovered by the RCMP until 4:45pm on Sunday, April 19, more than 18 hours after they were shot […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Aaron Tuck, Bryan Gibson, Cpl. Rodney Peterson, Cst. Nick Dorrington, Cst. Pierre Bourdages, Emergency Response Team, Emily Tuck, Halifax Regional Police, Jaimie Peerless, Jolene Oliver, Joy Bond, Kentville, Lillian Campbell, Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission, Matthew Byard, MCC Lead Investigator Will Crews, Peter Bond, Portapique, RCMP, Sgt. Andy O'Brien, Staff Sgt. Al Carroll, Stephen Kimber, Tim Bousquet

Nova Scotia Crowns push ahead with 2023 jury trial for Randy Riley

May 24, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Crown is refusing Randy Riley’s request for a trial by judge alone, pushing ahead with a jury trial in September 2023 — well after the time limit prescribed by the court system. In 2018, Riley was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 killing of Chad Smith. In 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Chad Smith, Crown attorney Peter Craig, Crown prosecutor Paul Smith, El Jones, Randy Riley, Tim Bousquet, Vetrovec warning, Zane Woodford

John Risley jumps on the “green” hydrogen subsidy bandwagon

Morning File, Tuesday, May 24, 2022

May 24, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Mass Casualty Commission “The clock is ticking,” writes Stephen Kimber. “There are just 116 weekdays between now and the day that the Nova Scotia Mass Casualty Commission is required — by the orders in council that created it — to report back to the rest of us… Neither the federal nor provincial government […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Atlantic Loop, Bodidata, Bruce Terry, CBC, clean hydrogen, Crystal Capital Markets, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, emergency alert, Energy and Technology Minister Andrew Parsons, Everbridge App, Everwind, hfxAlert, hydroelectricity, Industry, Jennifer Henderson, John Risley, Larry Uteck Developments, Mass Casualty Commission, Mori Salehi, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Premier Blaine Higgs, RCMP, Scott Balfour, Stephen Kimber, Tanya Shaw, Tara Miller, Tim Bousquet, Tory Rushton, Trent Vichie, Yarmouth, Yarmouth ferry

Project Ploughshares fails to critically interrogate proposed Nova Scotia spaceport

Morning File, Monday, May 2, 2022

May 2, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Housing Trust “The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia is changing up its strategy, moving to sell its property on Maitland Street and buy hundreds of existing affordable rental units,” reports Zane Woodford: The trust, a nonprofit founded by developer and consultant Ross Cantwell in 2009, used to own two nearby properties between Gottingen […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Dr. Jessica West, Eric Schlosser, Maritime Launch Services, Plowshares, Project Ploughshares, Space Café Canada, Spaceport Nova Scotia, SpaceWatch.Global, Stephen Matier, The Canadian Council of Churches, Tim Bousquet

Record numbers of people are dying of COVID in the ‘So What?’ wave of the pandemic

Morning File, Friday, April 29, 2022

April 29, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 22 Comments

News 1. Record COVID deaths Twenty-four people died from COVID in Nova Scotia last week (April 19-25) —  the highest weekly COVID death toll for the duration of the pandemic. COVID hospitalizations also increased, to 91 for the same reporting period (up from 84 the week before). As of yesterday, Nova Scotia Health reported the […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Antigonish, California, Canadian Blood Services, COVID-19, Dartmouth squirrels, Dr. Robert Strang, James Banfield, Lisa Banfield, mass killings, Norfolk, Nova Scotia, Ol' 55, pandemic, PCR testing, pedestrians, RCMP, Tim Bousquet, Tom Waits, Virginia

The RCMP didn’t tell the public about the mass murderer’s fake police car because they didn’t want to create a ‘frantic panic’

April 27, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

Ever since the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, one unanswered question has been: Why did the RCMP wait so long to notify the public about the killer’s fake police car? An answer comes via RCMP Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday, who was interviewed by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC) on November 3, 2021. According to […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Lisa Banfield, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Portapique, RCMP, RCMP Staff Sergeant Steve Halliday, Tim Bousquet

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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.

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