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The possible horrible legacy of the “coronavirus convention”

Against suggestions that it be cancelled, 23,000 people from around the world attended a mining convention in Toronto in March. Now, a government mining official from Burkina Faso who attended the convention has tested positive for COVID-19, and the disease threatens to decimate that country.

March 29, 2020 By Joan Baxter 11 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free When this global health crisis finally ends, as it will one day, there will be much soul-searching about what could have been done better, and how we could have prevented the spread of the virus and the pandemic. In Canada, one of the lessons learned […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alex Black, Allan Woo, Andy Abraham, Bonnie Henry, Burkina Faso, coronavirus, Coronavirus Convention, COVID-19, Dr. Herveen Sachdeva, Dr. Theresa Tam, Dr. Vinita Dubey, Felix Lee, Gabriel Friedman, James West, Jerry-Jonas Mbasha, Kristy Kenny, Laurentian University, McEwen Mining, Minister Oumarou Idani, Minister Seamus O’Regan, Pacific Dental Convention, Premier Doug Ford, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Rio2 Ltd, Rob McEwen, Scott Ansel, Shannon Kerr, Sun Peak Metals Corp, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Toronto Public Health (TPH), Troilus Gold Corp, World Health Organization (WHO)

With the hyper-financialization of housing, private equity firms and REITs are making obscene profits on the backs of everyday people in Dartmouth and Halifax

Morning File, Friday, February 28, 2020

February 28, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 11 Comments

News 1. Covid-19 I found yesterday’s New York Times’ The Daily podcast quite helpful in understanding the coronavirus, the threats of it, and the likely outcomes. The Guardian’s explainer is useful as well. The short of it: unless some surprise treatment emerges, this will probably become a global pandemic along the lines of the Spanish Flu […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armco Capital, convention centre hotel, COVID-19, Cynthia van Kooten, financialization of housing, George Armoyan, Graeme Benjamin, Herveen Sachdeva, Highfield Park, Highfield Park Residential Inc., Hotel Barmecide, Howard Njoo, Jason Shannon, Katherine Williams, Michael Gorman, Michael Lawless, MLA Hugh MacKay, Patrick Condon, Penny Lawless, Prospectors and Developers of Canada Association (PDAC), Province House firearm, Public Health Agency of Canada, Push, REIT, Ron Meagher, Shannex, Sutton Place Hotel, Tedros Adhanom, Theresa Tam, Toronto Public Health (TPH), Urchin Properties, Willow Tree development

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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