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Jen Powley: For a real smackdown on slumlords, demand that landlords be licensed

February 28, 2022 By Jen Powley 1 Comment

Each year, the Slumlord Smackdown contest looking for Halifax’s worst landlords gets hundreds of entries. It is hosted by ACORN, an association of low to moderate income earners fighting for a better community. The Smackdown is a chance for tenants to speak out about broken appliances, thermostats, and windows, doors that don’t lock, rats, cockroaches, […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: ACORN, Councillors, Halifax, Halifax Regional Council, inspections, Jen Powley, landlord licensing, landlord registration, landlords, Nova Scotia, Ontario, RentSafeTO, Slumlord Smackdown, smackdown, Tenants, Toronto

Bagpipe lung is coming for you: Morning File, Tuesday, August 23, 2016

August 23, 2016 By Lewis Rendell 3 Comments

Today’s Morning File is written by Lewis Rendell. I’m filling in for Tim this morning while he takes a much needed vacation. News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Hit-and-run seriously injures cyclist in St. Margaret’s Bay On Monday morning a bike commuter was hit by a truck that left the scene. As […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: ACORN, African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia, Andrella David, AUBA, Carly Stagg, Chris Huskilson, Gratitude at Work, Haley Ryan, John Risley, MIT, Richard Florizone, Sobeys, Stephen Kimber, Tim Lane

Why would we Google? Examineradio, episode #69

July 8, 2016 By Russell Gragg 3 Comments

  This week we speak with Jonathen Brigley of Nova Scotia ACORN about that organization’s push for mandatory landlord licensing in Halifax. Also, Peter Kelly’s cross-Canada tour of fiscal malfeasance continues. After improper loans to concert promoters and the mismanagement of a dead woman’s estate here in Halifax, he’s now accused of overstepping his authority money-wise in the Alberta […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: ACORN, Charlottetown, Examineradio, housing, Peter Kelly, podcast, Westlock

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Listen to the episode here.

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