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Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park

April 26, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The councillor for the area is blaming a group of anonymous volunteers for an alleged assault in a Dartmouth park. Halifax Mutual Aid erected its latest emergency shelter in Starr Park on Prince Albert Road in Dartmouth on Saturday. They’re the same shelters that were first placed on municipal park land in early 2021, and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth, Halifax Mutual Aid, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, MLA Lisa Lachance, P.A.D.S. Community Network, PRICED OUT, Starr Park, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors cool to decriminalizing sheltering in parks

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax councillors aren’t ready to allow unhoused people to camp in parks without the threat of criminalization. Sakura Saunders, a member of the P.A.D.S. Community Network, made a presentation to council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee’s meeting on Thursday, asking councillors to allow camping in municipal parks using Bylaw P-600. The bylaw bans camping […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Bylaw P-600, Community Planning and Economic Development Committee, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Sam Austin, Halifax Regional Council, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Sakura Saunders, Zane Woodford

Tenants evicted from rundown Bedford Highway hotel; landlord says it’s not a renoviction

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

A developer is telling dozens of tenants to move out of a Bedford motel at the end of the month and offering no compensation — one of many landlords ignoring provincial rules around so-called renovictions, according to Dalhousie Legal Aid. The province banned the practice, where tenants are evicted to facilitate renovations or demolitions, during […]

Filed Under: Economy, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Bluenose Inn and Suites, Brandy McGuire, COVID-19, Dalhousie Legal Aid, Enqore Developments, Halifax, housing crisis, John Ghosn, Mark Culligan, Nova Scotia, renoviction, state of emergency, Zane Woodford

Halifax auditor general concerned about city’s risk assessment for big projects

April 20, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Halifax’s auditor general is concerned the municipality isn’t doing enough to plan for big projects after management failed to implement some of her recommendations from 2019. Evangeline Colman-Sadd presented a follow-up report to a virtual meeting of Halifax regional council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee on Wednesday looking at the municipality’s progress in implementing 11...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Politics, Subscribers only Tagged With: auditor, Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd, Cogswell Interchange, Coun. Shawn Cleary, COVID, Crystal Nowlan, Halifax, Halifax Water, HRM, Jerry Blackwood, LED streetlight conversion, Zane Woodford

The Coast sold to B.C.-based media group

April 20, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

  The Coast, Halifax’s former print alt-weekly, has been sold to a B.C.-based media company. Overstory Media Group announced the purchase in a news release on Wednesday, writing, “The acquisition of the acclaimed publication reinforces Overstory’s commitment to supporting and strengthening local news.” The company owns several media outlets, or brands, in Western Canada, including […]

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Supreme Court of Canada dismisses Nova Scotia’s bid to appeal systemic discrimination ruling

April 14, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed Nova Scotia’s bid to appeal a decision that found the province has for years been discriminating against people with disabilities. “The application for leave to appeal from the judgment of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Number CA 486952, 2021 NSCA 70, dated October 6, 2021, is dismissed […]

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Halifax councillors pass 4.6% increase to average property tax bill, including 3% for climate action

April 12, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Halifax regional councillors have finalized the municipal budget with a 4.6% increase to the average property tax bill, including 3% for climate action. During their virtual budget committee meeting on Tuesday, councillors voted 14-3 in favour of the 2022-2023 budget. Councillors David Hendsbee, Trish Purdy, and Paul Russell voted no. Councillors all but finalized the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Politics Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, budget committee meeting, climate action tax, climate change, commercial tax bill, Coun. Sam Austin, Coun. Trish Purdy, get back out there, HalifACT 2050, Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax regional councillors, Halifax Transit, HRM, Mayor Mike Savage, tax hike, tax rates, Zane Woodford

‘Anti-democratic’ bill cutting Halifax planning committees moves ahead

April 11, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

A bill described by Halifax’s deputy mayor as “anti-democratic” is moving ahead without changes after a meeting of the legislature’s Law Amendments Committee on Monday. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr introduced Bill 137 last Wednesday, and it passed second reading at Province House on Thursday. As the Halifax Examiner reported last week, the bill […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, Bill 137, CAO Jacque Dubé, Coun. Kathryn Morse, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Ecology Action Centre, Executive Panel on Housing, First Nations communities., Halifax, Heritage Advisory Committee, HRM, John Lohr, Kortney Dunsby, Law Amendments Committee, Liberal MLA Lorelei Nicoll, Mayor Mike Savage, MLA Kent Smith, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

Nova Scotia housing minister moves to cut Halifax planning committees for three years

April 6, 2022 By Zane Woodford 11 Comments

The provincial government is moving to suspend the city’s planning advisory committees for three years, removing one of the public consultation steps in the development approval process. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr introduced Bill 137 on Wednesday, comprising amendments to the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter designed to streamline the process of getting new […]

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Halifax council votes to cut off Reg Rankin’s salary as executive director of landfill monitoring committee

April 5, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Reg Rankin’s getting cut off. Halifax regional council voted on Tuesday to stop funding the former councillor’s salary as executive director of the community monitoring committee for the city dump. The change is part of an effort on council’s part to clean up governance issues with the Otter Lake Community Monitoring Committee (CMC). The committee...

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PRICED OUT

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

Uncover: Dead Wrong

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder. He served 17 years in prison, but steadfastly maintained his innocence. In 2019, Glen Assoun was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner founder and investigative journalist Tim Bousquet has followed the story of Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction for over five years. Now, Bousquet tells that story as host of Season 7 of the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.

Click here to go to listen to the podcast, or search for CBC Uncover on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast aggregator.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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