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Province to abandon computer system at heart of Freedom of Information security failure

October 12, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The Halifax Examiner has learned the province will replace the Amanda 7 computer system used to access and process requests for government information. A tender will go out within the next five months, almost a half-year since the online portal used by journalists and the public to file Freedom of Information requests shut down. Online...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: AMANDA 7, Auditor General Michael Pickup, Department of Internal Services, FOIPOP web portal data breach, Jennifer Henderson, Office of Information and Privacy, Sandra Cascadden, Unisys

Don’t Smile Be Happy

Morning File, Monday, May 14, 2018

May 14, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. From who me to #metoo Writes Stephen Kimber: In which Stephen McNeil continues to be Stephen McNeil, dismissing calls to apologize to a young man for the province’s own security failure. But there is also some small hint of change in the #metoo air. We take our good news where we find it. Click […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Assumption Fund, Cape Breton Spectator, data collection, David Burke, facial recognition technology, imminent terrorist attack, Joseph Crook, Kevin Mitchell, Kyle Duggan, Mary Campbell, Nova Scotia drivers' licences, Public Service Commission, Registry of Motor Vehicles, Sydney Novaporte, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, U.S. Consulate security alert, Unisys

The Liberals’ Fang-less Five ‘pre-empt’ public interest

There's a clear public interest in knowing how well the province is protecting our personal data. So why are Liberal MLAs refusing to let the public accounts committee question witnesses about the latest data breaches?

April 29, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Really? Of course, really. Last Wednesday, five Liberal MLAs — Gordon Wilson, Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Ben Jessome, Brendan Maguire, and Hugh MacKay — voted, not with their minds, or their hearts, or their common sense, or even in the interests of the taxpayers who put them there, but in the craven service of their self-interested my-way-or-no-way...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: FOIPOP Data, Patricia Arab, Public Accounts Committee, Unisys

Now that we’ve taken a bath on the convention centre, let’s do a stadium

Morning File, Monday, April 16, 2018

April 16, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 16 Comments

1. The Securities windfall “A $77.1 million windfall helps balance the books in this year’s provincial budget,” reports Jennifer Henderson: That’s the amount the federal government is paying Nova Scotia as incentive to disband the provincial Security Commission and join a national securities regulator. But that one-time payment comes at the cost of $15 million […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brian Taylor, CFL stadium, defacement, Heywood Sanders, Muskrat Falls new costs, Philip Croucher, provincial web page hacked, Stadium support, StarMetro, the battle for subscriptions, Unisys

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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