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So… Nova Scotian

The still-unfolding story behind last year's firing of new NSCAD President Aoife Mac Namara fits all too neatly into the ongoing saga of business as usual in Nova Scotia. Pity.

June 13, 2021 By Stephen Kimber

It all seems, well, so … Nova Scotian. Let’s begin way back in the late 1960s and early seventies when a local developer named Ben McCrea cobbled together various deals that helped save a group of historic but ramshackle waterfront buildings from the wrecker’s ball. McCrea’s efforts not only transformed those rundown blocks into our...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Aoife MacNamara, Armour Group, Historic Properties, NSCAD

15-storey Dartmouth apartment building approved, including some federally-financed affordable and accessible units

September 11, 2020 By Zane Woodford

One-fifth of the units in a new 15-storey apartment building in Dartmouth will rent for less than market value, and 20 units will be accessible — as long as the developer secures financing with the federal government. The municipality’s Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council, tasked with development approvals on the Dartmouth side of the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: accessible housing, affordable housing, Armour Group, Councillor Sam Austin, Dean MacDougall, development Micmac Blvd, National Housing Strategy Program, Scott McCrea

Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé is raising money for charity; this is a problem

Morning File, Tuesday, August 6, 2019

August 6, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Spaceport “I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed spaceport that Maritime Launch Services wants to construct in the picturesque community at the very end of Highway 16,” writes Joan Baxter: In a charming restaurant a few […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Airbnb, Alex Halef, Armco Capital Inc, Armour Group, Banc Investments, Canso spaceport, CAO Jacques Dubé, Cape Canaveral, charity, Chincoteague Museum, David Darrow, Don Bowser, Frances Fares, fundraisers, Halifax Harbour Swim, Hector Jacques, Jack Julian, Jim Spatz, KBRS, Kevin Doran, King’s Wharf, Lawen Group, living wage, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Misty, Ronald L'Esperance, Royer Thompson, Scott McCrea, Stephen Matier, United Way

Working While Black: Founders Square tenant Robert Wright says firing of Black janitors is a “travesty of racial injustice”

March 24, 2018 By El Jones 6 Comments

An apology: The Halifax Examiner acknowledges that the Armour Group Limited neither hired, nor fired, the janitors previously employed to clean Founder’s Square. Further, The Halifax Examiner retracts, and apologizes for the allegation that Armour Group engaged in racial discrimination in determining to no longer engage with GDI Integrated Facility Services.  On Friday morning, the janitors […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Afua Cooper, anti-Black racism, Armour Group, Black janitors Founders Square, Black labour in Halifax, Deep Down Cleaning Services, El Jones, GDI Integrated Facility Services, Joseph Howe, racial discrimination Founders Square, racism in Halifax, Robert S. Wright, Sebastien Labelle, Solidarity Halifax, Working While Black

The cost of removing contaminated fill from the Queen’s Marque site has increased by $1 million

Originally budgeted at about $1 million, removing heavy metal-laden fill now is expected to cost $2 million, and the province is covering the bill.

July 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet

Site remediation at the Queen’s Marque site is expected to cost $2 million — more than twice the $950,000 budgeted for it. The entire cost will covered by the provincial government. In 2010, the Waterfront Development Corporation announced that it had reached an agreement with the Armour Group for development of the Queen’s Landing site....

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armour Group, Dexter Construction, Envirosoil Limited, Ground Fix Remediation Services, Peter Bigelow, Queen's Marque construction, Rocky Lake Quarry, Waterfront Development

Half as big as the Nova Centre, but twice as ugly: Morning File, Thursday, January 19, 2017

January 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Queen’s Wharf Not only are Waterfront Development and the Armour Group despoiling the waterfront, they’re changing the perfectly good historic name of Queen’s Wharf into some BS marketing-schemed “Queen’s Marque.” Anyway, construction of the monstrosity began this week, and immediately the bulldozers started revealing and demolishing ancient wharf structures buried in the fill. Waterfront Development assures me […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armour Group, Charles W. Sampson, Craft beer, Dan Leger, Erin Moore, How to ride the bus, Jillian Ellsworth, Kieran Leavitt, Pedestrian struck Kearney Lake Road, Peter Ziobrowski, Queen’s Marque, Request for Proposal, Wanderers Grounds, Waterfront Development Corporation, website analytics, Zane Woodford

Smiling bastards and a necropolis nursery: Morning File, Monday, October 3, 2016

October 3, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Upper Canadian concrete and glass right down to the water line In “Fisherman’s Wharf,” his lament for a disappearing Halifax, Stan Rogers sang: I looked from the Citadel down to the Narrows and asked what it’s coming to I saw Upper Canadian concrete and glass […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Kowalski, Armour Group, Ben McCrea, Bill Davies, Brenden Sommerhalder, children's graveyard, Chris Poole, David Irish, Design Review Committee, Graham Steele, Hangman's Beach, HRM By Design, Irvine Carvery, Lindell Smith, living wage ordinance, Marty Leger, Michael Lightstone, Patrick Murphy, Queen’s Marque, Rachel Ward, Todd McCallum, Tom Traves, Waterfront Development Corporation, WDC

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!

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