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Kipple and bots

Morning File, Wednesday, September 23, 2020

September 23, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 18 Comments

News 1. The Nova Scotia mass murderer may have done a dry run Tim Bousquet reports on revelations from court documents that the man behind the April 18-19 murders, who the Examiner calls GW, may have visited several key locations before the killings. In partially redacted court documents, GW’s common-law spouse says the pair “drove […]

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Halifax Transit moving forward together, but without some Beaver Bankers

Morning File, Thursday, December 5, 2019

December 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. 198 workers out of a job as Web.com closes Yarmouth location Almost 200 employees at Web.com in Yarmouth were told yesterday that their location is shutting down next year. The company offers internet services to businesses and has locations in New Glasgow and Halifax. The Yarmouth location has been operating for 18 years. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beaver Bank bus route, Bryony House, bus route plan, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Debert Court, Dion Mouland, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dominique Amit, Erin DiCarlo, Fadila Chater, Halifax Transit, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Jenna Young, Katherine VanBuskirk, Ken Wilson, Kevin Chapman, Kristin Gardiner, logging scars, Lyle Mailman, Maria MacIntosh, Matt Dagley, Mayor Pam Mood, Melissa Walton, Moving Forward Together (MFT), National Housing Co-Investment Fund, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Ocean View, Sandy Ross, Shannex, Small History Nova Scotia, Special Care Act, taser, Tina Comeau, Web.com, Wildlands League

What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?

Crazy? Is it any crazier than pouring more millions of dollars into an American ferry, American docking facilities, American customs officers...?

June 16, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Say, here’s an idea. My idea isn’t quite the Chase-the-Ace, get-us-on-national-TV, fun-and-games scheme Tim suggested a few months back. “Simply toss 20 dollar bills from a helicopter above downtown Yarmouth,” he proposed as his own common sense alternative to pouring still more millions of our tax dollars into that bottomless ocean that is our from-nowhere-to-no-way-not-now...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Bay Ferries CEO Mark MacDonald, Minister Geoff MacLellan, Nova Star, Premier Stephen McNeil, Tina Comeau, Tourism Nova Scotia, Yarmouth ferry

Halifax’s moral panic over the legalization of cannabis

Morning File, Wednesday, August 1, 2018

August 1, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Convention centre Oh, running out of time for this… I’ll write it up today for tomorrow’s Morning File. 2. Smoking ban On Monday, Dartmouth councillor Sam Austin published a blog post saying he was reconsidering his support for the smoking bylaw, weirdly wanting to keep the provisions of the bylaw as they pertain […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Bay Ferries, Brett Cantlay, Brett Ruskin, cannabis, Carleton patio, Catherine Tully, Councillor Sam Austin, Downeast Windjammer Cruise Lines, FOIPOP website, groundwater pollution at airport, Gus Reed, Halifax CFL team, Hiroshi Masui, John Demont, John Traves, legalization in Colorado, Makusi language, Nuisance Bylaw, Ron MacDonnell, Smoking ban, Steve Pagels, Terry Jones, Tina Comeau, Transport Canada, Yuki Masui

Peter Kelly is personally liable for $194,000, says lawyer: Morning File, Tuesday, August 2, 2016

August 2, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Lawyer: Peter Kelly is personally liable for $194,000 Peter Kelly is personally liable for $194,000 in costs incurred by Westlock County, Alberta, but it would be difficult to get a court judgment against him. That’s the opinion of Kelsey L. Becker Brookes, a […]

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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

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.

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