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Halifax planning advisory committee in favour of 16-storey Gottingen Street development

June 4, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Regional council’s peninsula planning advisory committee is recommending in favour of a 16-storey development on Gottingen Street despite concerns around seven so-called affordable units. Developer Joseph Arab wants to construct the building on the same lot as Victoria Hall, a municipally-registered heritage building dating back to 1884. The building at 2438 Gottingen St. housed low-income...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aaron Murnaghan, Creighton Street development, Gottingen Street development, Joseph Arab, Victoria Hall

Halifax heritage committee green-lights Kenny-Dennis, Acadian Recorder redevelopment

May 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee is recommending in favour of an addition to the historic Kenny-Dennis and Acadian Recorder buildings in downtown Halifax. Dexel Developments won the tender process to lease and develop the properties at 1724, 1730, and 1740 Granville St. from the provincial government, and posted the plan for what it calls the Press...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aaron Murnaghan, Acadian Recorder building, Dexel Developments, Freak Lunchbox, Heritage Advisory Committee, Jim Ballinger, Kenny-Dennis building, Press Block

Trails association wants to ban off-highway vehicles

Morning File, Wednesday, December 19, 2018

December 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Mill wins temporary injunction “A setback for the ‘No Pipe’ movement and a victory for the Pictou County pulp mill yesterday,” reports Jennifer Henderson. “Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge Denise Boudreau granted Northern Pulp a temporary injunction to prevent local fishermen from continuing with blockades she ruled interfered with a vessel […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Murnaghan, ATVs, Bay Ferries, Catherine Tully, Halifax Regional Trails Association (HRTA), Heritage Advisory Committee, Justice Heather Perkins McVey, Larry Haiven, Lloyd Hines, Louie Lawen, Margaret Marshall Saunders, Marie Henein, Michael Gorman, Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs), Potemkinvile, Rouvalis family, Spring Garden development, Tim in a hoodie, Tom Parry, Tom Servaes, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, Yarmouth ferry costs

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

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