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Fascism comes wrapped in the Maple Leaf flag and speaking in Canadian nice

Morning File, Monday February 14, 2022

February 14, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Convoyers and fascism “When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” I’ve been thinking about that quote (attributed, wrongly, to Sinclair Lewis) a lot lately, and especially since attending the “convoy” rally at Grand Parade on Saturday. There were lots and lots of Canadian flags […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: fascism, trucker convoy, white supremacy

The “convoy” originates in a sophisticated strategy to change our society for the worse

Morning File, Friday, February 11, 2022

February 11, 2022 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. “Convoy”ers The above graphic was used to promote a demonstration at MP Sean Fraser’s office. Writes Fraser: There was a protest at my constituency office in New Glasgow today. Under normal circumstances, I would welcome it. In fact, in the past we have purchased coffee and donuts for protestors and invited them for […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: fascism, trucker convoy, white supremacy

Hateful slurs disrupt online gatherings

As racialized and marginalized communities move online in response to COVID-19, they are increasingly the targets of organized racist and sexist attacks.

April 1, 2020 By El Jones Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The social isolation measures around COVID-19 have caused communities to adapt quickly to new forms of interacting. As in-person gatherings have shut down, online platforms have become popular places not only for business meetings and university lectures, but also for music performances, information forums, protests, […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, Alexander McClelland, alt-right, Black Canadian Studies Association, Charlie Kirk, coronavirus, COVID-19, Desmond Cole, online classes, online harassment, online racist attacks, Racism, Robyn Maynard, social distancing, Stacey Gomez, Val Marie Johnson, white supremacy, Zoom

The connections of Nova Scotia universities to slavery and why it matters

Morning File, Friday, February 14, 2020

February 14, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Elmsdale Lumber Elmsdale Lumber used to sell most of its bark and chips to Northern Pulp, but now that the mill has closed, Elmsdale is finding new markets, reports Jennifer Henderson. “We will survive” says owner Robin Wilber, but he sees the new markets as only a short-term fix until, he says, the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cape Breton Spectator, climate change, e-scooters, Jean Charest, lobbyist registry, Mary Campbell, Max Rastelli, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil, Richmond Yards, Segway, Shirley Tillotson, slave plantations, slavery in Nova Scotia, Stephen Archibald and curvy treasures, Susan MacLeod, trams, University of King's College, Westwood Developments, white supremacy

Georgie Fagan used to organize with white supremacists. Now he condemns them.

January 7, 2020 By El Jones 2 Comments

The friendship I can’t remember exactly when I met Georgie Fagan, but for some time we organized together for prisoners. Georgie had been in and out of prison for most of his life, and has years of experience in the prison system. At Prisoner Justice Day a few years ago, he spoke movingly about his […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged With: anti-immigration, Cindy Blackstock, Georgie Fagan, Maxime Bernier, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Nick Gallant, Norman English, Northern Guard, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Racism, Soldiers of Odin, Wet'suwet'en, white nationalism, white supremacy

What did Halifax’s new police chief Dan Kinsella learn in Hamilton?

Hamilton is the hate crime capital of Canada, but instead of investigating the white supremacist and other right-wing terrorist groups targeting Black, Jewish, and the LGBTQ communities, Hamilton police trained its investigative unit on people of colour and anarchists. And, with Kinsella in an administrative position, the Hamilton police adopted new methods of surveillance of marginalized people, and bloated its budget with the purchase of militarized equipment.

September 23, 2019 By El Jones 5 Comments

Since his arrival in Halifax and swearing in this summer, Halifax police chief Dan Kinsella has been making the rounds, meeting with police and community members. As the legislature returns for the fall session, questions will resume about street checks, and how the government and police intend to address the issues raised by the Wortley […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ameil Joseph, Caitlin Edwards, Cedar Hopperton, Chief Dan Kinsella, Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), Fred Eisenberger, Glenn De Caire, graffiti, Hamilton, Hamilton Police, Henri Berube, Heston Tobias, Lauri Sullivan, left wing protests, Marie Fitzpatrick, Matthew Green, police budget, police culture, predictive policing, racial profiling, street checks, systemic racism, traffic stops, white supremacy

Desmond Cole Reads the Local News

May 13, 2018 By El Jones Leave a Comment

Desmond Cole is in Halifax this weekend, keynoting at the Media and the Law conference. At around midnight on Saturday after a long day, I sat down with Desmond and recorded his take on some of our local news stories. Here are the first two stories we spoke about. Some cuts have been made for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 2015 Valentine's Day shooting spree, Alek Minassian, Brad Marchand licking people, Crime Stoppers, Desmond Cole, Dominic Mallette, Drake, EHS, El Jones, Halifax Stanfield International Airport, mall shooting conspiracy, nazi, NBA, Peter MacKay, PK Subban, police brutality, profiling at airport, Sabrina Szigeti, taser, Taser on children, Wanda Gallant, white supremacy

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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