Tim Bousquet

3 days ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

I was recently speaking with some journalism students, and in the Q&A after, one asked the question I’ve come to expect at such events: ‘Are you worried about AI taking your job?’I don’t fault the student for being concerned about this. The AI hype machine is everywhere, and overwhelmingly so. An inquisitive young person immersed in the culture and who reads news and tech analysis would almost certainly think AI is about to transform our entire society, the news business included.

1 week ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

Anyone crossing the Macdonald Bridge can plainly see there’s a development boom at the Dartmouth end of the bridge. Already under construction or in the planning stage are:• Wyse Tower, a 27-storey, 162-unit building at Williams and Lyle Streets immediately adjacent to the bridge; this was the site of the crane incident that closed the bridge for a few hours last November.

1 week ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

Last week, the Canadian Journalism Collective published a list of 108 media organizations and how much they received as a result of the Online News Act. It’s somewhat more complicated than this, but the gist of it is that Google this year paid about $22 million to be divvied up among approved media organizations. You can see the entire list here. The largest recipient, by far, is Postmedia, which received just over $4.2 million.

2 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

Whew. A majority of the Canadian electorate rejected Pierre Poilievre’s politics of fear and resentment, and sent a message to Donald Trump. But just a slim majority. In terms of vote share, the Liberals’ 43.7% barely squeaked past the Conservatives’ 41.3%. The Liberals did better for seat share, 49.3% to 42%, but neither metric is a landslide. It was a majority rejection of Poilievre, but not a majority for any one party. And the Liberal victory was the result of the collapse of the NDP vote.

2 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

Related to my work on the Daniel Sampson case, I’ve been looking at capital punishment more generally, trying to understand how Sampson fit into the larger application of the death penalty. People were executed before Nova Scotia was established as a colony, and in the early years sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between war-related military executions and criminal cases that resulted in execution. And it was messy: there were different authorities killing people.