Weekend File May 28 2022

Weekend File

All the articles we published from May 22 to 27, 2022.

May 28, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

Welcome to Weekend File, where you’ll find links to all the articles you might have missed last week. We didn’t have any articles on Monday, the 23rd. Jump to sections in this article: Sunday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sunday, May 22 The clock is ticking down on the Mass Casualty Commission As the […]

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.

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

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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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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