Tim Bousquet

2 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

I don’t know that I’m a great read of people. Maybe that’s because I give most people the benefit of doubt. We all occasionally say and do stupid things — well, at least I occasionally say and do stupid things, and I wouldn’t want to be judged on my worst day. So you know, live and let live. It’s easy to be generous, at least until proof otherwise becomes overwhelming. There are exceptions. I think I can size up politicians pretty well.

3 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

The first thing I do every morning, even before starting the coffee, is check the Halifax Examiner financials. I look at the bank account, see how much (or more often, how little) cash is on hand. Then I look at the credit card balance (which I zero out every month in order to avoid interest charges). I open up Stripe and see what kind of money will be coming in over the next several days. Next I go to the Examiner site, click on the admin page, and look at the number of active subscribers.

3 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

Today is the first day of the Halifax Examiner’s biannual subscriber drive. I’m going to ask you for money. In a roundabout way, you already give the Examiner money. Subscribers to the Examiner can take advantage of the Digital News Subscription Tax Credit, and the Examiner benefits from the Canadian journalism labour tax credit. That’s all public money.

4 weeks ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet |Jennifer Henderson

Nova Scotia Power saw the potential for the company falling victim to a cyber attack. “Organizations are subject to risk of external threats, and malicious and accidental insider threats. The volume and sophistication of cybersecurity threats against organizations is ever rising,” wrote Dave Pickles, Nova Scotia Power’s Chief Operating Officer, in a report to the Utility and Review Board (UARB). With that concern identified, on Feb.

1 month ago | halifaxexaminer.ca | Tim Bousquet

In order to tell Daniel Sampson’s story — that he was framed by the RCMP for the murder of two boys near First Chain Lake, that RCMP officers lied under oath at trial, and that in 1935 Sampson was murdered by the state, the last person executed in Halifax — I had to dive very deeply into history. I am not a professional historian, but I’ve learned how to research, and I think I’ve made a convincing case. It’s all collected here.