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Tim Bousquet

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Editor at Halifax Examiner. Opinions are my own, and not necessarily shared by my colleagues.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Apr 22

There's now a collector page for my "Nova Scotia’s Policing Panic" series. Thanks to @irisblueskyris.bsky.social for setting that up: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/nova-scotias...

Nova Scotia's Policing Panic - Halifax Examiner

A special investigative series by Tim Bousquet. In some ways this is the origin story both of policing in Nova Scotia and of how Black people in particular are policed in Nova Scotia. It’s the story o...

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3h

Let’s pass the HELLNo Act

Morning File by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social

Let's pass the HELLNo Act - Halifax Examiner

Enough with using the names of laws for sloganeering.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 5h

Chair of Progress Monitoring Committee says ‘change takes time’ as Nova Scotia women continue to be killed

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Chair of Progress Monitoring Committee says 'change takes time' as Nova Scotia women continue to be killed - Halifax Examiner

Myra Freeman gave update on committee's second annual report on Thursday.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

AI's not going to buy your art, Evan.

blair @blairaf.com · 1d

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

‘Global warming is very much a thing’: A Nova Scotia water delivery company owner on the drought and climate change

Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social

'Global warming is very much a thing': A Nova Scotia water delivery company owner on the drought and climate change - Halifax Examiner

An interview with Tammie Isenor with Maritime Clean and Care Ltd. in East Hants.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

This is big.

‘Daniel Sampson was innocent’: leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated

'Daniel Sampson was innocent': leading lawyers and law organizations in Canada call for executed man to be exonerated - Halifax Examiner

My investigation of the Sampson case lays out the incontrovertible truth that Sampson was an innocent man framed by the RCMP, and then murdered by the state.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

District 8 residents talk development, Centennial Pool at town hall with Virginia Hinch, Andy Fillmore

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

District 8 residents talk development, Centennial Pool at town hall with Virginia Hinch, Andy Fillmore - Halifax Examiner

Mayor hosted event with Coun. Virginia Hinch on Wednesday night.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

Dartmouth non-profit protects affordable rents for 200 households

reported by Jennifer Henderson, @dartjenhen.bsky.social

Dartmouth non-profit protects affordable rents for 200 households - Halifax Examiner

Two hundred households paying well below market rent in north end Dartmouth and in Truro will not experience renoviction thanks to a recent purchase by a community group that has received substantial ...

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

[Chico]: Almond

Northern California produces something like 90% of the world's almonds.

There, "almond" rhymes with "salmon."

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

The Boston Christmas tree isn’t about gratitude

As I wrote in 2016: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

What I do have a problem with, however, is the mischaracterization of the exercise as a “thank you” to Boston for the help Bostonians gave Halifax after the Explosion. It’s nothing of the sort.

Of course, in 1917 and 1918 Bostonians (and others) provided medical and material relief that saved many lives. There was a terrible disaster relatively nearby, and people rose to the occasion.

And so in 1918, as the city of Halifax was getting back on its feet, the province sent a Christmas tree to Boston as a token of appreciation for the help. All very good. But from 1919 through 1970, the people of Nova Scotia were completely ungrateful for that help, at least not so grateful as to send another Christmas tree.

The “give a tree to Boston” thing was revised in 1971, not out of gratitude — most of the people who survived the Explosion were long dead from less spectacular causes — but to promote the provincial tourism and Christmas tree industry industries. Like all good advertising campaigns, the promotion was wrapped around mawkish feel-good sentimentality, and everyone in Nova Scotia and in Boston got to pretend that they were somehow basking in the reflected kindness and gratitude of people who lived two generations before — “Hey, your grandma was a nurse who came to Halifax to help my grandfather… maybe we can make a buck on this thing, eh?”

Immediately after the Explosion, relief trains came from Moncton and Saint John, but we don’t thank those communities with trees because, let’s face it, we don’t need a bunch of New Brunswickians wandering around aimlessly downtown; rather, we need Americans spending their high-valued greenbacks. So: tree for Boston, continued ridicule for Saint John.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

Finished construction in 1890. The building survived the Explosion. As a sort of performative nod to history, the clock is set permanently at 9:04. (It's a replica clock, not the original)

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

Public can now comment on amended planning documents for Halifax

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Public can now comment on amended planning documents for Halifax - Halifax Examiner

Public feedback will also include "targeted" sessions for developers.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

‘We’re here for good’: Mi’kmaw land defenders say they’re not leaving Hunter’s Mountain

reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

'We’re here for good': Mi’kmaw land defenders say they’re not leaving Hunter’s Mountain - Halifax Examiner

Mi’kmaw grandmother, Giju Madonna Bernard, is adamant. She has no intention of leaving the encampment that Mi’kmaw land defenders have set up over the past month to protect Hunter’s Mountain (Tqamuowe...

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2d

NDP zeroes in on Houston government’s failure on housing

Morning File by me

NDP zeroes in on Houston government's failure on housing - Halifax Examiner

Houston is creating housing policies mostly for the benefit of large development companies.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2d

Halifax council votes in favour of bylaw to restrict infilling at Dartmouth Cove

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Halifax council votes in favour of bylaw to restrict infilling at Dartmouth Cove - Halifax Examiner

More than two dozen people attended hearing at City Hall Tuesday night.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2d

Moon minus 0.1

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 2d

Well, they have $11.25 billion.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3d

The next president has to go full goth decor for the Oval Office.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3d

Samantha Cole at @404media.co does a lot of reporting on porn, and it's very good.

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3d

There are probably trade publications. I don't know if there's an independent journalist(s) who do this full time. Maybe?

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3d

Porn is a multi-billion dollar industry, so there's room for a non-salacious news org covering it from business, labour, technology, and customer perspectives.

You could even name it The Fucking News.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."