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How many different ways can you say “short term gain for long term pain”?

Morning File, Wednesday, February 5, 2020

February 5, 2020 By Erica Butler 27 Comments

News 1. How can we convince you that gold mining is golden? “It looks as if someone is getting a little nervous about the growing backlash to the latest gold rush in the province,” writes Joan Baxter today in the Examiner. So far, two people have contacted me with concerns about a phone survey being […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb shooting, Bruce Budd, Donkin coal mine rockfall, electric vehicle (EV), First nations, Indian day schools, Jalen Colley, John Paul, John Ross, Joshua Gibson-Skeir, Kameron Coal, Nic Meloney, parking garage Summer Street, Scott Nauss, The Ocean, Transport Action Canada, VIA Rail, Wendy Martin

Cannabis dispensary owner Ryan Nehiley was shot dead in his Spryfield home

Morning File, Monday, November 26, 2018

November 26, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

November subscription drive Not too late! Click here to subscribe. 1. William Shrubsall The Parole Board of Canada agrees that dangerous offender William Shrubsall is still a danger, writes Stephen Kimber. “So why grant him full parole? Good question. Bad answer.” Click here to read “William Shrubsall: gambling on American justice, gambling on public safety.” This article is for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blair Rhodes, Captain Brad Ross, Captain Jason Smith, Chronic Releaf Medical Dispensary, court reporting, Crown prosecutor Alex Keaveny, Detective Constable Pat O'Neill, dispensary firebombed, El Jones, Elie Hoyeck, Haley Ryan, Judge Daniel MacRury, Justice James Chipman, Marie-Anna Murat, Peter Kempton, Ryan Michael Nehiley, Santa parade death, Stephen Archibald and Tim, Steve Bruce, train derailment, Vance Webb, VIA Rail

VIA planning to restore some regional service to the Maritimes, but it will probably still suck

February 7, 2017 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

VIA Rail could be starting two new regional train routes in the Maritimes as soon as September of this year, according to CEO Yves Desjardins-Sicilianom who was in town last week presenting at a Halifax Chamber of Commerce luncheon. VIA’s regional service plan has been around for awhile now, and was originally expected to be up […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Halifax Commuter Rail, regional service, Ted Bartlett, Transport Action Atlantic, VIA Rail, Yves Desjardins-Sicilianom

Rainbow refugees and Halifax Pride: Examineradio, episode #71

July 22, 2016 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

Kevin Kindred is a local human rights lawyer and spokesperson for the Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia. He speaks about the push to find LGBTQ+ refugees safe harbour in Halifax and beyond and also the drive to encourage the Trudeau government to make this resettlement pilot program a permanent part of Canada’s foreign policy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Birch Cove Lakes, Blue Mountain, Examineradio, Kevin Kindred, LGBTQ, Peter Kelly, podcast, Pride, refugees, taxi, VIA Rail

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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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