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Winter picnic in the park

Morning File, Monday, February 3, 2020

February 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Complicated legacies “Was Lionel Desmond a victim of his war demons?” asks Stephen Kimber. “Or was he a villain, a perpetrator of domestic violence who murdered his own family? Or both? We may never know.” Click here to read “Complicated legacies.” This column is for subscribers only. Subscribe here. 2. The danger of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Against the Rules, Assurant, Bengal Lancers, Brent Kelloway, Cape Breton Cancer Centre, credit card insurance, hospital parking, Jillian Banfield, Michael Lewis, Minister Labi Kousoulis, parking garage Summer Street, Paul Vienneau, RBC, Rene Ross, Sheila MacIsaac, Stephen Archibald and Kempt Road, STIs, syphilis, Victoria Walton, winter picnic, Yvonne Colbert

Fawning over robots

Morning File, Wednesday, January 15, 2020

January 15, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

News 1. City keeps policing report secret The city is keeping a $200,000 consultants’ report into police services private. Councillor Lorelei Nicoll requested the report in 2018 as a way to identify service gaps and ways to save money. The report has been completed, but you can’t read it. Zane Woodford writes about the report’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AI, Andrew Rankin, Astra Taylor, automation, booting cars, councillor Matt Whitman, drunk tanks, East Coast Prison Justice Society, Emma Smith, Enginuity, Erin MacInnis, fake news, fauxtomation, Finland, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, fires South End, four-day work week, Harry Critchley, Joshua Bernas, Leah Genge, Mary-Dan Johnston, Matt Whitman and Uber, One-Shot Parking Solutions, Paul Palmeter, propaganda, Ramsey McGlazer, robots, Uber in Halifax, Victoria Walton

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

Enhancing the tourist experience by putting parking on protected land

Morning File, Tuesday, December 24, 2019

December 24, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

It’s Christmas Eve and I have no idea if anybody is reading or not. If you’re here, enjoy the Morning File. I usually work only minimally between Christmas and New Year’s, and I hope you get some time off too. News 1. Christmas in prison A prisoner we are calling JC offers a moving piece […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beckwith Gilbert, Bee Morrison, Caitlin Grady, Canadian Ferry Association (CFA), Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Capp Larsen, coastal barrens, councillor Richard Zurawski, David Burke, electric buses, Frances Willick, Francis Campbell, Government secrecy, Halifax Field Naturalists, Jaida Regan, Joan Dawson, John Beale, Kent Martin, Kitty Gilbert, Lighthouse Links Development Company, living wage, Loaded Ladel Co-op, Marine Atlantic ferries, Mayor Mike Savage, Michael Gorman, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Peggy's Cove, Roger Crooks, Serge Buy, Stephen Archibald and Chignecto Ship Railway, Victoria Walton

Licensing bicycles won’t help

Morning File, Wednesday, August 14, 2019

August 14, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 7 Comments

News 1. John Perkins sues “Sixty-eight-year-old John Perkins of Earltown is striking a blow for democracy after he says he was forcibly hauled out of a public meeting by an RCMP officer last May,” reports Jennifer Henderson: Perkins held a news conference in Halifax yesterday to explain why he is filing a lawsuit against Atlantic […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexa MacLean, Bee Wilson, bike licences, Canadian Women's Wellness Initiative, Consider the Fork, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, cycling, ExxonMobil, Helen Creighton, John Perkins, Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia, Pat Berman, Peter Kelly CAO Charlottetown, Richard Windsor, Transcendental Meditation, transit fares, Victoria Walton

“No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk”

Morning File, Thursday, August 1, 2019

August 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 1 Comment

News 1. “No one cares about Assoun, tsk, tsk, tsk” Dave Moore is the former RCMP officer who suspected that serial killer Michael McGray, and not Glen Assoun, murdered Brenda Way, even though Assoun was convicted of the murder in 1999. Moore repeatedly tried to get his colleagues interested in his investigation, but they were […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Autoport, Brenda Way, cyclist struck John Bracket Drive, Dan Tanner, Dave Moore, Glen Assoun documents, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Michael McGray, Olga Milosevich, RCMP Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB), Victoria Walton

Afua Cooper: “We need to smash those [racist] stereotypes and see the humanity in each and every one of us”

Morning File, Wednesday, May 22, 2019

May 22, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Bank of Canada acknowledges that climate change will impact the economy “For the first time ever, the Bank of Canada has released a report examining the threat climate change poses to the country’s financial system,” reports Karina Roman for the CBC. The report in question is the Bank’s annual Fiscal System Review, which […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, Alicia Draus, Bank of Canada, Catherine Tully, climate change, Connor Smithers-Mapp, Equity Watch, Freedom of Information request, Graeme Gibson, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), human resources (HR), Ipsos Reid, Josh K. Elliot, Judy Haiven, Karina Roman, Leslie Oliver, Margaret Atwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), privacy breaches, Racism, Rella Black History Foundation, Rick Howe Show, Robert Devet, Silver Donald Cameron, Task Force on Commemoration, Victoria Walton, Viola Desmond, Wanda Robson, Yvonne Colbert

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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

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