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How the financialization of housing hurts renters and boosts profits

Morning File, Tuesday, June 15, 2021

June 15, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. Could cheap repurposed drugs help provide a way out of the pandemic? The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. One phenomenon I was not aware of before the pandemic was people being fans of specific drugs. My attitude towards pharmaceuticals generally involves listening […]

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White-washing the Boer War

In 1901, Lord Alfred Milner was "lamenting" the "fact that the death rate among young children in the [Boer War concentration] camps was still not dropping. 'The theory that, all the weakly children being dead, the rate would fall off is not so far borne out by the facts,' Milner wrote. 'The strong ones must be dying now and they will all be dead by the spring of 1903.'" On October 14, 1901 the cornerstone for the Boer War monument was laid at Province House.

April 7, 2018 By El Jones 5 Comments

Yesterday, Tim wrote an item about the monument to the Boer War on the grounds of Province House: I don’t care about the parking one way or the other, but can we discuss that damn Boer War monument? [Jean] Laroche goes on to interview Joe Ballard, president of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, who says […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Hirsch, Apartheid, Black South Africans, Boer War monument, Carman Miller, El Jones, FW De Klerk, Lord Alfred Milner, Martin Plaut, Ntombifikile Nkiwane, Paul Harris, Robert Baden-Powell, Sherene Razack, Shree Paradkar, Tim Jaques, Winnie Mandela, Yves Engler

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 blonde woman and a white man with a dark beard, both wearing pajama bottoms and either a red or a pink bra, have a pillow fight on a bed.

Episode 84 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

After a year’s worth of singles and videos, the Halifax duo is finally releasing its first recorded project in the form of FLUTTER, a six-song genre-agnostic EP that’s deeply personal and incredibly catchy. Art Ross and Aaron Green return to the show a year later to dish on their music-industry immersion, why Ross’ sapphic lyrics strike all kinds of chords, and where you can see them this summer.

Listen to the episode here.

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