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Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

May 2, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Municipal staff are proposing the creation of a limited number of city-sanctioned tent sites in response to the housing crisis, but advocates for unhoused Haligonians worry the recommendation will mean forced eviction for people sleeping in municipal parks. In a staff report coming to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday, Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency shelter, Halifax Regional Municipality, housing, housing crisis, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, Mutual Aid Halifax, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, PRICED OUT, 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 could be living in ‘trailblazing’ Dartmouth housing project by mid-March

January 27, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

People could start moving into a “trailblazing” new housing project in a former Dartmouth hotel in mid-March. The municipal, provincial and federal governments held a joint video conference on Thursday to announce the Overlook, a new supportive housing project by the Affordable Housing Association (AHANS) and the North End Community Health Centre (NECHC). The building […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT, Province House Tagged With: affordable housing, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Ahmed Hussen, Community Services Minister Karla MacFarlane, Darren Fisher, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Regional Council, Jim Graham, Marie-France LeBlanc, North End Community Health Centre

“Call back the house until everybody’s got one:” Protestors demand province call emergency session of legislature to deal with housing crisis

November 28, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson 2 Comments

This article was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson. “Call back the house until everybody’s got one.” That was the chant repeated by a crowd of demonstrators gathered outside Province House in Halifax Sunday afternoon. Wrapped in scarves, toques, and winter coats, dozens of people blocked off part of George Street, demanding the provincial […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: affordable housing, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency housing, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Nick Meagher Park, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, PADS Community Network, People's Park, Premier Tim Houston, PRICED OUT, Province House, Rachelle Sauvé, Solutions for Housing and Homelessness Plan, Victoria Levack

As winter approaches, residents of People’s Park, volunteers, and neighbours wait for a better housing solution

One volunteer says people "do not want to allow ourselves or the community to get enticed or get distracted" by the city's purchase of new modular units that will only meet the needs of a small percentage of the homeless population.

November 12, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson Leave a Comment

At any given moment, a car might pull up to a small park at the corner of Chebucto Road and Dublin Street in Halifax. The driver will get out and talk to a man standing on the sidewalk. The pair will exchange “hellos” and “how are yous.” Then the driver will pass along food, cash, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Accessible, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, CAO Jacques Dubé, Chebucto Road, Coun. Lindell Smith, Dignified and Safer, Erica Fleck, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, homeless, homelessness, housing, John Griffin, Leslie Amminson, Nick Meagher Park, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Permanent, Rachelle Sauvé, Victoria Levack

Bad news for local journalism

Morning File, Wednesday, November 20, 2019

November 20, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 10 Comments

News 1. Torstar shuts down StarMetro newspapers The Toronto Star is closing down all of the StarMetro newspapers across the country, including the The Star Halifax. Other papers affected include those in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Seventy-three people, including journalists and those working in advertising and distribution, will lose their jobs. In Halifax, Star […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abel Bowen, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Alice House, almanac, Anjuli Patil, Belcher's Farmers Almanac, Bob Hepburn, Carman King, Charlene Gagnon, Claudia Jahn, Clement Horton Belcher, Dean Stienburg, Dog Island podcast, Elizabeth Fry Society, Elizabeth McMillan, Emma Smith, Fairmount, Gwen Davies, Haley Ryan, Halifax Regional Police Association, Home for Good, Karyn Pugliese, Keith Grant, Kelly O'Neil, Marguerite Centre, Sara Spike, Sarah Ritchie, secure housing, shit pay, shitty jobs, Sickboy podcast, Simon Thibault, soccer referee pay scale, speed limits, StarMetro, supportive housing, Taryn Grant, Tim Fedak, tipping and slavery, tipping systems, Torstar, Trap Neuter Return, Yvette d'Entremont, YWCA Halifax

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 man wearing a purple jean jacket and sporting a moustache lies on the green grass surrounded by pink plastic flamingos

Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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