Nominees for the 2016 Atlantic Journalism Awards were announced today, with a pair of crime-related Coast stories making the list. In Enterprise Reporting: Print, the AJA category for work such as investigative journalism that demonstrates reportorial initiative, our city editor Jacob Boon is nominated. You will probably remember Boon’s article, “Continuity errors,” for breaking the […]
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Before the murder and after, the life of Tyler Richards
In the mural painted in his honour, Tyler Richards looks out over his community with a pensive, protective glare, a basketball clenched between his palms. He can see the Steps—the childhood meeting place where he and his friends would congregate and play, a place Mulgrave Park kids before Richards’ generation and after have used as […]
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Journalism is going to be OK, says Seymour Hersh
[Image-1] Whether Seymour Hersh cares about his legendary status is neither here nor there. At age 78, the investigative reporter has a body of work most ambitious journalists would likely sell their souls to assemble. Hersh has produced material that’s been controversial, partly for mistakes he has admittedly made and for his use of unnamed […]
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Coast scores another award nomination
Hot on the heels of the Atlantic Journalism Awards making The Coast’s day, the Canadian Association of Journalists keeps the party going with its national awards nominations. The CAJ’s prestigious prizes are for “outstanding investigative journalism in Canada,” and one of those outstanding pieces of investigative journalism is Coast news editor Tim Bousquet’s February 16, […]
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A trust betrayed: Peter Kelly and the estate of Mary Thibeault
When Halifax resident Mary Thibeault died in her St. Petersburg, Florida, winter home, she left an estate valued at over half a million dollars and a will naming 13 people and five charities as beneficiaries. One of the beneficiaries was Halifax mayor Peter Kelly. Thibeault called Kelly a friend and valued his judgement: In addition […]
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Matthieu Aikins wins Canadian Association of Journalists prize
Congratulations to Matthieu Aikins. On Saturday, his Coast cover story “Unembedded in Afghanistan” took the prize as the country’s best Print Feature at the Canadian Association of Journalists annual awards. The CAJ calls the awards “Canada’s only recognition for the best in investigative journalism across the country” (“Unembedded” was up against stories from both the […]
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Why everyone loses under the city’s new property tax plan
One day last week I drove out to the Kingswood subdivision off Hammonds Plains Road, just beyond Bedford. Kingswood is the epitome of suburban sprawl; thousands of ritzy houses, some of them worth a million dollars or more, are plucked down on half-acre to two-acre lots along cul-de-sacs and roads stretching perhaps 10 kilometres into […]
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Unembedded in Afghanistan
[Editor’s note: On May 29, 2010 this story won the Canadian Association of Journalists award as the country’s best Print Feature, the second CAJ prize Matthieu Aikins has won in two years. This piece is also one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected […]
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Boat Harbour: On toxic pond
Rodney MacDonald’s government isn’t the first to say it will clean up the mess the province made of Boat Harbour. And it’s not the first to use public money to keep the polluting pulp mill running. An investigation by a group of University of King’s College journalism students finds over four decades of murky water and broken promises.
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Adam’s fall
Editor’s note This story was honoured with two journalism awards in 2009: The Canadian Association of Journalists gave a CAJ award for best investigative piece by a community newspaper, and it won a gold Atlantic Journalism Award for enterprise reporting. More importantly, the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission has decided to install suicide barriers along the entire […]