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The cost of the Yarmouth ferry keeps increasing

Morning File, Friday, February 8, 2019

February 8, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Jackson trial This item refers to sexual assault. Yesterday was the fourth day of the sexual assault trial of Blake Jackson. Jackson, a student support worker at Citadel High School, is accused of sexually assaulting a then-student on December 15, 2015. At the time, the student was 18 years old; a publication ban protects […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allen Campbell, Annette Higgins, Atlantic Fleet Services, Bar Harbor, Bar Harbor ferry terminus, Bay Ferries, Bay Ferries CEO Mark MacDonald, Becky Pritchard, Blake Jackson trial, Cora Plourd Nicholson, Cornell Knight, Ed Morin, former premier Robert Ghiz, Harvey Amani Whitfield, Justice Christa Brothers, Michael Mayne, Michael Tutton, PEI Liberals lawsuit, Peter McGuire, Robert Devet, Sean McCarroll, slavery in Nova Scotia, Spencer Campbell, Stephen Archibald and building faces, Stephen Lewis, Susan Holmes, Svetlana Tenetko, Theresa Wright, Tom Singleton, United Nations (UN), Yarmouth ferry, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

Power outages are costing Nova Scotia businesses millions of dollars, but Stephen McNeil, Mike Savage, Ray Ivany, and the economic development agencies are silent

Morning File, Friday, November 30, 2018

November 30, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

November Subscription drive The last day! Tomorrow we’ll go back to less intrusive measures to extract your money from you. But seriously, this operation doesn’t work without your subscriptions. We’re trying to do something important here: produce journalism without relying on advertising, advertorial, government money, selling your data, Jeff Bezo’s money, or any other hare-brained […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Hart, Bar Harbor, Bay Ferries, Becky Pritchard, Carl Yates, Dennis Patterson, Donald Patterson, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Water, Hayden Hart, Jamie MacGillivray, Jeffrey Theriault, Matt Delorme, Nova Scotia Power outages, Premier Stephen McNeil, Quinpool Road bridge, Ray Ivany, Wray Hart, Yarmouth Ferry terminus

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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