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Quick update on the new site, plus: lawsuit over Nova Centre | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Quick update on the new site, plus: lawsuit over Nova Centre. Construction of Nova Centre continues in downtown Halifax. A provincially granted exemption allowing the developer to bypass city planning rules is the subject of a lawsuit filed Thursday. The Thiels, for their part, own about 10 percent of the commercial office space downtown, and have an approval to construct a new development called 22nd Commerce Square. I made a f...
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Investigative reporting: why anonymous sources are so important | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Investigative reporting: why anonymous sources are so important. An investigative reporter has to be skeptical and curious. Things rarely are as they are portrayed. There’s always more to the story, and very often that more is something the powers that be don’t want aired in public. It’s my job to reveal that more. I don’t know that I can teach or explain what I do. Is curiosity teachable? That attendance at the Paul McCartney c...
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Tim Bousquet's next project | The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. | Page 2
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. The Jan Wong column generator! Until then, enjoy! Go to the Jan Wong column generator. April 7, 2014. I’m leaving The Coast. But it’s time for a change, and so I’ll soon be leaving The Coast. My last day in the office will be March 28. I’ll devote myself to my duties at The Coast for the next couple of weeks, and help in any way I can to make the transition easier. I’ll figure it out. Oh, please make note of my non-Coast email: ...
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Advertorial: an unnecessary evil | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Advertorial: an unnecessary evil. Of course, it’s ultimately impossible to completely separate the two (more on that tomorrow), but newspapers used to have a firewall between the advertising and editorial departments. The people selling ads didn’t know what the reporters were writing about, and the reporters tried to ignore all the ads that surrounded their news stories. I never was hired on full-time at the Daily Tidings, but I...
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April | 2014 | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Context is everything: History as journalism. Then-Premier John Buchanan cutting the ribbon for Halifax’s brand new World Trade and Convention Centre, in 1985. So I’m not particularly interested in diving into a full exposition on last night’s council meeting. It would’ve been one thing had the convention centre discussion happened in a vacuum. If there had never before anywhere or any time on Earth been a proposal to build ...
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Context is everything: History as journalism | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Context is everything: History as journalism. Then-Premier John Buchanan cutting the ribbon for Halifax’s brand new World Trade and Convention Centre, in 1985. So I’m not particularly interested in diving into a full exposition on last night’s council meeting. It would’ve been one thing had the convention centre discussion happened in a vacuum. If there had never before anywhere or any time on Earth been a proposal to build ...
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The Jan Wong column generator! | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. The Jan Wong column generator! Until then, enjoy! Go to the Jan Wong column generator. April 7, 2014. I’m leaving The Coast. I’m starting an online news site →. April 7, 2014 at 1:17 pm. I’m looking forward to hearing what you are going to do next…and the 411 on your sci-fi novel…. April 7, 2014 at 2:00 pm. Best Thing. Ever. April 7, 2014 at 2:25 pm. April 8, 2014 at 9:12 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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I’m starting an online news site | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. I’m starting an online news site. You couldn’t get rid of me that easily. Yes, I needed some time for myself. I went to California, spent my days walking on the beach, hiking in the mountains, hanging with my starlet friends in the sun. I haven’t been this relaxed in decades. April 22, 2014. The Jan Wong column generator! Advertorial: an unnecessary evil →. April 22, 2014 at 3:08 pm. April 22, 2014 at 3:28 pm. April 22, 2014 at ...
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Real journalism is adversarial journalism | Tim Bousquet's next project
https://timbousquethalifax.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/real-journalism-is-adversarial-journalism
Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Real journalism is adversarial journalism. I was just a kid, so the Vietnam War and Watergate were beyond my comprehension levels, but I understood that the news was talking about serious stuff. In the atmosphere of the time, journalism mattered. It delivered truths that couldn’t be found in the other institutions around me, my parochial school, the church, the military. There’s nothing new about adversarial journalism. In f...
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May | 2014 | Tim Bousquet's next project
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Tim Bousquet's next project. The view from an American expat in Nova Scotia. Quick update on the new site, plus: lawsuit over Nova Centre. Construction of Nova Centre continues in downtown Halifax. A provincially granted exemption allowing the developer to bypass city planning rules is the subject of a lawsuit filed Thursday. The Thiels, for their part, own about 10 percent of the commercial office space downtown, and have an approval to construct a new development called 22nd Commerce Square. Basically,...
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