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Low voter turnout and our broken political culture: Morning File, Thursday, June 1, 2017

June 1, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 41 Comments

News 1. Voter turnout It’s been declining for decades, but at 53.55 per cent, voter turnout was a record low for Tuesday’s provincial election. Part of that was by design. Stephen McNeil knows that low voter turnout generally benefits the party in power, and he certainly did everything in his power to schedule the election […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony McNeil, Cape Breton vote, Chris McNeil, Chris McNeil resignation, Halifax Regional Police Department, Joanne Bernard, Kyley Harris, Maggie Rahr, Mary Campbell, Maudie correction, Michelle Coffin, Premier Stephen McNeil's brothers, Robin McNeil, Susan Leblanc, The Other McNeils, voter turnout

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: Morning File, Tuesday, October 18, 2016

October 18, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 26 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Voter turnout CBC’s Information Morning interviewed Dal prof Jeffrey Roy about the low turnout in the Halifax election, and Roy went on to spread some misinformation: There are lots of reasons why people didn’t get out and vote this time around, according to Roy. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brendan Elliott, Centre for Islamic Development, Centre Plan, creepy clown, Dale Rancourt, David Weale, development, Good Robot Brewing, HRM By Design, Ihsan Academy, Jeffrey Roy, Jennifer Watts, Klutzy the Clown, The politics of bullshit, voter turnout

Captain Cash and clickbait for mansplainers: Morning File, Monday, October 17, 2016

October 17, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 10 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Election results Saturday’s election was the most interesting HRM election I’ve witnessed. A record five new councillors were elected, which promises a newly energized council and very possibly surprising initiatives and the end of business as usual. One can hope, anyway. Two incumbent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: blog mausoleum, Bob MacLean, El Jones, election results, etymology, gender neutrality, Justice Margaret J. Stewart, mansplaining, Marieke Walsh, ombudsman, Shaina Luck, Stephen McNeil, Tim Moore, voter turnout

Voter turnout drops dramatically

Nearly 20,000 fewer voters cast ballots in yesterday's mayoral race than did so in 2012.

October 16, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

Voter turnout in yesterday’s council and mayoral elections collapsed from even previous woeful lows. Fewer votes were cast in the mayoral election. Fewer votes were cast in 14 of the 16 council districts; and while two districts saw an increase in the number of voters, they probably saw a decrease in percentage of voters casting ballots. The numbers show […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: mayoral race, municipal election, voter turnout

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

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!

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