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How many different ways can you say “short term gain for long term pain”?

Morning File, Wednesday, February 5, 2020

February 5, 2020 By Erica Butler 27 Comments

News 1. How can we convince you that gold mining is golden? “It looks as if someone is getting a little nervous about the growing backlash to the latest gold rush in the province,” writes Joan Baxter today in the Examiner. So far, two people have contacted me with concerns about a phone survey being […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb shooting, Bruce Budd, Donkin coal mine rockfall, electric vehicle (EV), First nations, Indian day schools, Jalen Colley, John Paul, John Ross, Joshua Gibson-Skeir, Kameron Coal, Nic Meloney, parking garage Summer Street, Scott Nauss, The Ocean, Transport Action Canada, VIA Rail, Wendy Martin

Cops, cabbies, and doctors abusing their power

Morning File, Friday, January 24, 2020

January 24, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp takes the province to court Jennifer Henderson and Joan Baxter report on the news that Northern Pulp is taking the province to court, and on the Pictou Landing First Nation’s reaction. Yesterday afternoon the company issued a news release stating it will ask the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia to undertake […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alicia Draus, Andrew MacLeod, carbon calculator app, Const. Jasmin Razic, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, Godfred Chongatera, Gregor Craigie, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), John McPhee, Judge Gregory Lenehan, Manivasan Moodley, Maurice Carvery, Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Owl's Head Provincial Park, Paul Godfrey, Pema Chödrön, Postmedia, Project Sunshine, racial profiling, Sakyong Mipham, Shambhala, Tampere, taxi driver sexual assault, Tesform Kidane Mengis, Wendy Martin

Feeling the sting of first-past-the-post

Morning File, Tuesday, October 22, 2019

October 22, 2019 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Liberals win enough seats to form minority government With national voter turnout clocking in around 65.8% (it will adjust as those who registered on election day are counted) and Nova Scotia’s turnout slightly higher at 68.8%, Canadians re-elected 157 Liberal MPs, enough to form a minority government. In Nova Scotia, Liberals held on […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alfred Aucoin, Bernadette Jordan, Brent Kelloway, electoral reform, flu shot, Halifax Transit quarterly report, housing in Cape Breton, influenza, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jaimie Battiste, Jodi Wilson Raybould, Kody Blois, Lenore Zann, Liberal minority government, MacDonald Bridge, Maxime Bernier, Mike Kelloway, Robert Strang, Wendy Martin

The Nova Scotia government is giving “generous provincial grants” to gold mining companies

Morning File, Thursday, June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Dylan Corkum tells the true story of his Herald interview To be honest, I felt a little bad yesterday when I called out Dylan Corkum for his vox pox interview with Herald writer Heather Laura Clarke Sara Ericsson*. I mean, Ericsson is fair game (as am I and every other reporter), but Corkum […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: CBRM expenses, Centre 200, Cooper Quinn, Dylan Corkum, gold company subsidy, gold mining, Ian Fairclough, Lac Megantic, Leif Spilchen, Mary Campbell, Minister Derek Mombourquette, Nova Centre, Nova Scotia Mineral Resources Development Fund, Osprey Gold Ltd, Richard Starr, Sara Ericsson, Starvation Wages Arena, Wendy Martin

We’ll all be rich if we give Ben Cowan-Dewar an $18 million airport

Morning File, Friday, June 14, 2019

June 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. SIRT is not equipped to investigate rape by cops The Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is tasked with investigating police, but it has no written policies for preserving rape kit evidence and its investigators have no specialized training in dealing with victims of sexual assault. Reporter Maggie Rahr brings us the case of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACOA, Andrew Allenbrack, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Cabot Links airport, Carol Moreira, Chebucto School, Councillor John Dowling, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Entrevestor, Grant McDaniel, Lesiany Hweld, Lillian Piercey Concert Hall, London taxis, Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton, Megha Paul, Ocean Sonics, Port Hawkesbury Airport, Quinpool Road bridge closure, Robert Isbister, taxi driver, Tourism Nova Scotia, Wendy Martin, WestJet, Westwood Developments Ltd, Zane Woodford

All in All It’s Just Another Slick in the Harbour

Morning File, Tuesday, August 28, 2018

August 28, 2018 By Chris Benjamin 5 Comments

Hi, I’m Chris Benjamin, today’s guest writer. I’m a journalist as well as a writer and editor of books — fiction and non-fiction — and the managing editor of Atlantic Books Today Magazine. Environment and social justice are my beats. News 1. Oil spills, past and present The Canadian Coast Guard is investigating what appears to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, books in Mi'kmaw, Chris Benjamin, Conservative convention, Department of Community Services, Environment Minister Margaret Miller, global heat wave, Kaitlyn Swan, Macdonald Bridge repairs, Matt Strickland, oil slick Bishop's landing, opioid addiction treatment, Philip Croucher, Robert Devet, social assistance benefits, Tufts Cove oil spill, Wendy Martin

Just OK beer and crappy food: Morning File, Wednesday, September 27, 2017

September 27, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Here’s what we need for a great new Mumford Terminal “It’s finally happening,” writes Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “The city has started planning its redo of the ghastly, despised Mumford Terminal.” First, Butler explains, the city must make big decisions on commuter rail and transit lanes in order to get the bus terminal […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Constable Derek Fish, Downeast Beer Company owes creditors, Halifax Regional Police, Harold MacKay, Heather Bruce, Henry M. Bradford, Jeremy Durno, Judge Warren Zimmer, Marieke Walsh, Michele MacKay, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, O.H. Armstrong Ltd., Paul Harris, provincial budget, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), Steve Bruce, Wendy Martin

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.

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