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Secrecy is a feature, not a bug

Morning File, Thursday, November 14, 2019

November 14, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. More fisheries mismanagement The environmental group Oceana Canada, which describes itself as “an independent charity established to restore Canadian oceans to be as rich, healthy, and abundant as they once were” is slamming the Department of Fisheries and Oceans for its management of fish stocks. Aaron Beswick reports for The Chronicle Herald on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, antipsychotic drugs, Atlantic cod, Barack Obama, Bay Ferries, Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, Ches Haines, Chicken Bones, David and Madonna Clothier, dementia, fisheries, Francis Campbell, gender parity on public boards, Haley Ryan, Huddle, Jenn Thornhill Verma, Jeremiah Clark, John Ralston Saul, Mary Schultz, Meredith Ralston, Michael Gorman, Moonshine Creek, Neptune Theatre, Nova Scotia Co-Operative Council, Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Oceana Canada, PC leader Tim Houston, seniors, Sharon Montgomery-Dupe, Skye Halifax, Tattoo, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., Volta Labs, Yarmouth ferry FOIPOP

Is privatization of Nova Scotia Power responsible for an increase in power outages or does Nova Scotia Power just suck? Morning File, Friday, January 5, 2018

January 5, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Weather and power outages Everything is opening late, or should be. It’s a mess out there. As of 7:30am, across the province there were 1,918 power outages affecting 113,849 customers. Here’s the power outage map for the Halifax area: Those big brown splotches are larger, area-wide outages. My power in Central Dartmouth was out […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CAO Richard Butts, Carol Moreira, Dave Stewart, Nina Corfu, Nova Scotia Power outages, Otter Lake dump, Ozge Yeloglu, pedestrian struck Herring Cove Road, PEI surrounded by ice, Peter Moreira, recyclables in a landfill, Stephen Archibald collage, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Waste management

The Herald steps on journalism ethics by publishing government propagandist Peter Moreira: Morning File, Tuesday, September 19, 2017

September 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp “Nova Scotia’s Environment Department has begun an investigation into Northern Pulp operations after the Pictou County mill exceeded air contaminant emissions limits by nearly 50 per cent in June,” reports Paul Withers for the CBC: This is the third year in a row emissions from the power boiler at the Northern Pulp mill exceeded the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Carol Moreira, Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic, Entrevestor, ethical standards in journalism, government-financed propaganda, Ian Thompson, Jesse Rodgers, paid propaganda, Peter Kelly in Westlock County, Peter Moreira, Unique Solutions, Volta Labs, Westlock News

World-class chicken racing: Morning File, Thursday, July 20, 2017

July 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

News 1. P3 schools The Department of Education issued this release yesterday: Government is exercising its contractual right to buy 10 P-3 schools from developers Nova Learning and Ashford Investment. The price for the schools is $49.3 million and this purchase represents the best value for Nova Scotia taxpayers. It is estimated that purchasing the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 1970s tragedy, Ashford Investments, Cape Breton Spectator, Chris Hansen, Cornwallis protestors doxed, Cornwallis statue, dead whales in Gulf of St. Lawrence, Deputy Justice Minister Karen Hudson, El Jones, freight train, Government advertising, Halifax Water ads, Hardman Group, Jordan decision, Ken Jessome, Maritime Centre, Nic Meloney, Nova Learning, P3 Schools, Volta Labs

PRICED OUT

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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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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