Weekend File August 6 2022

Weekend File, August 6, 2022

All the articles we published from August 2 to 5.

August 6, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File, with links to all the articles you might have missed last week. Jump to the days: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Tuesday, August 2 1. Morning File: A history of arbourcide Tim Bousquet was thinking about trees after someone broke into the Halifax Public Gardens last week and girdled 30 […]

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.

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Episode 89 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

A man with dark hair and slight beard, wearing a dark hoodie, looks intently at the human skull he holds in his hands

To sleep, perchance to dream — in this humidity?! Shakespeare By The Sea’s production of Hamlet — its first staged tragedy since 2019 — opens on August 5, and director Drew Douris-O’Hara and the man himself, Deivan Steele, stop by the show before rehearsal to chat. Topics include: climate change’s effect on outdoor theatre, the timelessness of Shakespeare’s most popular work, the failure of funding models in all times (not just during COVID), and the resilience of squirrels.

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