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Why did the McNeil government subsidize my trip to Maine?

Morning File, Wednesday, February 13, 2019

February 13, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Weather There’s weather today. 2. Divest Dal Today was a huge win for @DivestDal and a moment to show @DalPres what Dal students are all about. Dalhousie BOG committed to signing onto the UN's Principles of Responsible Investing, which includes recognizing the risk that fossil fuels pose to our endowement fund. #DalDoBetter pic.twitter.com/0ioIo3vfBJ […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Councillor Steve Craig, Divest Dal, Information and Privacy Commissioner Catherine Tully, Murray Brewster, Premier Stephen McNeil, Seyed Abolghasem Sadat Lavasani Bozor, taxi bylaw, taxi driver sexual assault, taxi licences, taxi medallion holders, UN's Principles of Responsible Investing, vehicle pedestrian collision report, vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Halifax, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Yarmouth ferry, Yarmouth ferry subsidy

Gnawing away at the vitals of this community, since 1970

Morning File, Friday, January 18, 2019

January 18, 2019 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

This is Erica Butler, filling in for Tim.  News 1.  Council defers capital budget approval As we know from last December when it first appeared on council’s agenda, Halifax’s proposed capital budget leaves A LOT out, especially just about anything to do with the city’s approved Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), and the final years’ implementation […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bay Ferries, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Nova Scotia, CAO Jacques Dubé, Catherine Tully, Chris Miller, Encounter on Urban Environment, FOIPOP, HRM Safe Streets for Everyone, Integrated Mobility Plan, Jean Laroche, Kyle Miller, Moira Donovan, Roll and Stroll for Safe Streets, scoreboard, Stephen Archibald and steep streets, vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Halifax, Zane Woodford

Thank you, we love you, never stop: Morning File, Thursday, November 23, 2017

November 23, 2017 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

I’m Erica Butler, one of the people paid through your subscriptions, to research and write in hopes of helping you better understand what the heck is going on around here. It’s November, and so time to remind subscribers how important your support is. (Seriously, there’s no Examiner without your monthly contributions. Thank you. We love […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, dwellings needing repairs census, Erica Butler, Halifax worst collision rate, Jake McKenna, Mylene Belanger, PEI goes to the Feds over Northern Pulp, Spencer Osberg, Stephen Thomas, Teresa Wright, This is why you should subscribe to the Halifax Examiner, Tracy Kitch off list, vehicle-pedestrian collisions in Halifax, VIA Rail regional service

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.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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