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The Torstar sale leaves a gaping hole in the Canadian news scene, but journalism can still thrive

Morning File, Wednesday, May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. COVID-19 updates “A woman in her 80s who had an underlying medical condition has died after contracting the COVID-19 virus. She was a resident of the HRM but not a resident of Northwood or any other long-term care home,” reports Jennifer Henderson: The news came at today’s daily briefing by Dr. Robert Strang, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: coronavirus, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, electric buses, fast ferries, forest fires, Halifax Transit, Jim Rudderham, Jordan Bitove, Josh Rubin, journalism, Lands and Forestry Minister Iain Rankin, legacy media bailouts, Navigator, NordStar Capital, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, Paul Rivett, rapid transit service, Toronto Star, Torstar

The Town of Yarmouth is fixing up the ferry terminal in hopes that one day a boat will sail from it

Morning File, Thursday, January 9, 2020

January 9, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Yesterday, the Department of Environment sent out a short release: Northern Pulp has informed the Department of Environment that it will continue the environmental assessment process for its proposed effluent treatment plant. “Since the company has chosen to carry on with the environmental assessment process, we are legally required to continue,” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Aya Al-Hakim, Fatemeh Mahmoodi, Hotel Barmecide, Iranian plane crash, Jan deRoos, Jeff Gaulin's Job Board, Kayla Hepworth, Mandieh Ghavi, Maryam Malek, Masoumeh Ghavi, Northern Pulp closure, Nova Centre hotel, recycling, Sadra Kord-Jamshidi, Sharieh Faghihi, Star Halifax, Sutton Place Hotels, Torstar, U.S. Consulate security alert, Victoria Walton, Westlock News, Yarmouth Ferry terminal upgrades, Yvette d'Entremont

The Ecology Action Centre says Nova Scotia can be completely off coal by 2030

Morning File, Monday, November 25, 2019

November 25, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

Hey, come to our party! Join us Sunday, December 1, 4-7pm at Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street). Entry is free for all subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber already, you can click here to subscribe or purchase a subscription at the event. 1. Doctors’ deal Writes Stephen Kimber: When the government announces its new contract with […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Christine Oreskovich, decarbonization, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Halifax International Security Forum, industrial accident, Intertape Polymer Group, lead in drinking water, Peter Van Praagh, renewable energy, Roger Taylor, Ross Marshall, StarMetro, the Coast, Tom Leblanc, Torstar, Zane Woodford

Bad news for local journalism

Morning File, Wednesday, November 20, 2019

November 20, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 10 Comments

News 1. Torstar shuts down StarMetro newspapers The Toronto Star is closing down all of the StarMetro newspapers across the country, including the The Star Halifax. Other papers affected include those in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Seventy-three people, including journalists and those working in advertising and distribution, will lose their jobs. In Halifax, Star […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abel Bowen, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Alice House, almanac, Anjuli Patil, Belcher's Farmers Almanac, Bob Hepburn, Carman King, Charlene Gagnon, Claudia Jahn, Clement Horton Belcher, Dean Stienburg, Dog Island podcast, Elizabeth Fry Society, Elizabeth McMillan, Emma Smith, Fairmount, Gwen Davies, Haley Ryan, Halifax Regional Police Association, Home for Good, Karyn Pugliese, Keith Grant, Kelly O'Neil, Marguerite Centre, Sara Spike, Sarah Ritchie, secure housing, shit pay, shitty jobs, Sickboy podcast, Simon Thibault, soccer referee pay scale, speed limits, StarMetro, supportive housing, Taryn Grant, Tim Fedak, tipping and slavery, tipping systems, Torstar, Trap Neuter Return, Yvette d'Entremont, YWCA Halifax

Truly, no one much takes this supposed climate emergency seriously

Morning File, Monday, November 4, 2019

November 4, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

November subscription drive Through the Halifax Examiner’s first couple of years, I wrote Morning File every day. Then, the Examiner started hiring guest writers for Morning File when I was on vacation or out of town. More recently, other writers have become such a regular feature that we no longer call them “guests” — they’re […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Canso spaceport, climate emergency, entangled right whale, Keith Doucette, lead in drinking water, Michael Gorman, parking garage Summer Street, right whale necropsy, Robert Cribb, Star Halifax, Suzanne Rent, tap water, Torstar, WSP Canada, Zane Woodford

Back to the drawing board, Bill

Finance Minister Bill Morneau says his budget will provide support for journalism. It won't. It will only provide demise-delaying bailouts for badly managed media corporations. There are better ways.

March 24, 2019 By Stephen Kimber

Start with this from Page 173 of the federal budget Finance Minister Bill Morneau tabled in the House of Commons last week: “Support for Journalism.” No one — certainly not I — would argue “a strong and independent news media” isn’t “crucial to a well-functioning democracy,” or that the news media doesn’t play a “vitally important...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Journalism, Subscribers only Tagged With: allnovascotia, April Lindgren, Canada Council, Chris Waddell, Chronicle Herald, legacy print media, Mark Lever, Minister Bill Morneau, Postmedia, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations(QCJO), SaltWire, Sarah Dennis, Star Metro, Steph Wechsler, subsidy, Support for Journalism, tax credit, Torstar

The Trudeau government’s tax subsidy for journalism puts the Halifax Examiner in an impossible situation

Morning File, Friday, March 22, 2019

March 22, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Holly Bartlett Last night, I went to a special preview of the first episode of AMI TV’s six-part series on Holly Bartlett (I wrote about the series here). It’s as good as I expected. I like that we can see where Holly lived, and how the police theory of her death makes no sense […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, allnovascotia, Canada population, Canso spaceport, Chronicle Herald, Frances Willick, Holly Bartlett, Maritime Launch Services, Mark Lever, Nova Scotia population, Postmedia, Qualified Canadian Journalism Organization (QCJO), Sarah Dennis, SpaceQ, Stephen Archibald and government wharfs, Steve Matier, subsidy for reporters, Support for Canadian Journalism, tax credit, tax subsidy, Torstar, Trudeau government

Assault on democracy: Stephen McNeil is ruling as an autocrat, answerable to no one and beyond question

Morning File, Thursday, September 27, 2018

September 27, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Stephen McNeil’s assault on democracy Reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: The committee at Nova Scotia’s Province House that’s been most effective at holding governments to account and squeezing information out of high-ranking officials will no longer be as freewheeling or topical as it has traditionally been. The Liberal members on the powerful public accounts […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accountability, Auditor General Michael Pickup, dead tree newspaper, Jean Laroche, John Boynton, MLA Gordon Wilson, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Accounts, Rob Batherson, StarMetro Halifax, subscription model, Torstar

Everything is an emergency: Morning File, Monday, December 12, 2016

December 12, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. El Jones On Saturday, The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission awarded Examiner contributor El Jones the Dr. Allan Burnley “Rocky” Jones Individual Award for her prisoner advocacy work. The full list of recipients is: Youth Award • Samuel Gregan, Halifax, Grade 9 student at Gorsebrook Junior High, honuored for his work as an LGBTQ advocate Dr. Allan […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Dr. Allan Burnley "Rocky" Jones Individual Award, El Jones, fentanyl, Graham Steele, John Power, Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, Panama Papers, Preparing for the end of the world, Ron Foley Macdonald, Torstar, two films about Viola Desmond

PRICED OUT

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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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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