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Share, not scare: how technology has changed what information we tell others

Morning File, Thursday, April 28, 2022

April 28, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News 1. Church gets second recommendation for heritage status Zane Woodford was at Halifax regional council’s Heritage Advisory Committee yesterday where a United Church on Kaye Street in Halifax got another recommendation for heritage designation. The former United Memorial Church, which was built in 1921 and was designed by Andrew Cobb, replaced two other United […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, Women Tagged With: Elena Rossini, FaceApp, facebook, filters, Friends, Instagram, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Lynn Matheson, Mr. Roper, phone book, Rebecca Makkai, Suzanne Rent, The Illusionists, Twitter, Wayback Machine, Yellow Pages

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

Morning File, Wednesday, April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Sam Austin blames volunteers for crisis shelter assault Last Saturday morning, members of the anonymous volunteer group Mutual Aid Halifax erected a crisis shelter in Starr Park in Dartmouth. On Monday, Halifax Regional Police say, someone living in the shelter assaulted a local resident who had knocked on the shelter. In a post […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Amy S. Bruckman, Associate Deputy Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Banned Book Week, Bluenose Inn and Suites, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, CBRM, child poverty, children and youth, crisis shelters, Elon Musk, Ethan Molick, Georgia Tech, health, homelessness, housing, John Ghosn, libraries, Mary Campbell, Mass Murders, Mutual Aid Halifax, Nora Young, Portapique, Sam Austin, Sara Kirk, Spark, Starr Park, Twitter, Wentworth Park, Wharton University

The stickiness of harmful habits

Morning File, Tuesday, March 1, 2022

March 1, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

News 1. Portapique: 13 dead in 40 minutes, children left alone for hours This article includes graphic descriptions of intimate partner violence, multiple murders, and trauma to children. Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson report on documents released by the Mass Casualty Commission, laying out just what happened in Portapique on the night of April 18, […]

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Maritime Launch Services has hired a PR firm to conduct a “push poll” for its proposed spaceport in Canso

June 26, 2021 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

About a year and a half ago, a couple of people contacted the Halifax Examiner about a telephone survey they had participated in. The survey concerned them because it seemed designed to convince respondents that they should support open pit gold mining in the province, something they emphatically did not support. On February 5, 2020, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: Action Against Canso Spaceport (AACS), Altantic Gold, Antignoish County, Canso, Cochrane Hill, dimethylhydrazine, Eastern Memorial Hospital, Eastern Shore, gold mining, Guysborough County, hydrazine, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), Municipality of the District of Guysborough (MODG), Narrative Research, Narrative Research Poll, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Port Hawkesbury, push poll, rocket launch facility, spaceport, St Barbara Ltd, St. Mary's River, The Guysbrough Journal, The Port Hawkesbury Reporter, Twitter, Ukranian rockets

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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Bill C-10 and the future of Canadian content in broadcasting, on the internet

Television screenwriters worry about what will happen to their stories if the new Broadcasting Act dies, while critics of C-10 say it overreaches, threatens free speech, and limits choices.

June 9, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch

Maureen Parker has put in a dozen years of “prep and work and lobbying and money, and sweat and tears” in an effort to get the federal government to regulate streaming services and ensure they help fund Canadian content. And now she’s worried that goal may slip away. Parker is the long-time executive director of...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Abridean International Inc, ACTRA, Amazon, Bell Media, Bill C-10, broadcaster, Broadcasting Act, C-10, Canadian content, Canadian culture, Canadian Media Fund, Canadian Media Producers Association, Canadian music, Canadian news, Canadian producers, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CBC, Corus, CRTC, CTV, Daniel Bernhard, domestic theatrical market, facebook, film, film industry, foreign location and service, free speech, Heritage minister, indigenous production, internet, Internet Society, Jean Yoon, K-pop, Kim's Convenience, Korean, Korean-Canadian, Laura Mackenzie, licence fees, Mark Buell, Maureen Parker, Netflix, Parliament, performers' union, private broadcasters, Profile 2020, public broadcaster, Question Period, Schitt's Creek, Screen Nova Scotia, screenwriters, South Korean, Standing Committee of Canadian Heritage, Steven Guilbeault, streaming services, Sugith Varughese, television, television writers, Twitter, Writers Guild of Canada, YouTube

After reading a Halifax Examiner article, two cops showed up at an author reading at Mount Allison University

Joan Kuyek wrote a book about communities protecting themselves from mining companies, and so the RCMP sicced its Criminal Intelligence Section on her.

January 23, 2021 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

It was an innocuous event, as most book launches are, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police didn’t think so, and two officers in plain clothes showed up at Hart Hall at Mount Allison University, apparently concerned by what they read in this Halifax Examiner story and in three Facebook posts advertising the launch. It’s a […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Academic freedom, Access to Information Act, Access to Information and Privacy Branch, Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Gold and RCMP, book launch, Criminal Intelligence Section, Dave Thomas, Halifax, Hart Hall, Information Commissioner of Canada, Joan Kuyek, John Perkins, Lisa Croteau, Maryse Belanger, MiningWatch Canada, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, RCMP, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Sackville, Sherbrooke, Steven Dean, Tatamagouche, Terry Moser, Twitter, Unearthing Justice, Water Not Gold

QAnon knows no borders

A conspiracy theory that originated in the US has become a global movement and is attracting adherents in Nova Scotia. Anti-hate activists are concerned about where it will lead.

September 13, 2020 By Joan Baxter 10 Comments

This article contains graphic descriptions of conspiracy theories about child abuse and torture that may not be suitable for all readers. The change in the Nova Scotian woman — I’ll call her Lidia — was dramatic and it happened suddenly. According to a member of her family, Lidia had always been left leaning and progressive […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: "Q", 4chan, anti-Jewish, anti-maskers, anti-vaxxer, Bill Gates, Billy Joyce, Canadian Anti-Hate Network, Child abuse, child-trafficking, conspiracy theories, Corey Hurren, coronavirus, COVID-19, cult, Donald Trump, Evan Balgord, facebook, FBI, G5, Genocide Watch, GeorgeSoros, Gregory Stanton, Hillary Clinton, Hollywood, Instagram, Janet Conway, MSVU, Nazism, pandemic, People's Party of Canada, Pizzagate, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, QAnon, red pill, Satanic panic, social media, Terrorism, Twitter, US Democratic Party, US Republican Party, WWG1WGA, YouTube

Figureheads vs. Humans: Morning File, Saturday, September 3, 2016

September 3, 2016 By El Jones 10 Comments

Today’s Morning File is going to be short, because I’m off being a bridesmaid and stuff. TOTALLY JOKING! They’ve known each other for years. 1. Shelley Fashan There was a story this week about the St. John’s Telegram using its front page to highlight the abuse women receive in online comments. That story followed upon the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bullshitter of the Day, Council, East Coast Music Association, garden conches, Jennifer Watts, Leslie Jones, Matt Hebb, Septembre Anderson, Sheldon MacLeod, Shelley Fashan, Stephen Archibald, Twitter, Working While Black

The value of a tweet: CIBC’s campaign for the Run for the Cure

September 30, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

The CIBC is positioning itself as a responsible corporate citizen. Why, just ask them. Monday, it embarked on a Twitter campaign to raise money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The company initiated the campaign with this tweet: By the end of the day, the corporate twitter account announced success: Money for charity. What could possibly […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, CIBC, Jeff White, Twitter, Value of a tweet

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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