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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

Halifax should be better monitoring the dump, says auditor general

February 17, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Halifax’s auditor general says the municipality should be conducting its own monitoring of the Otter Lake landfill. Evangeline Colman-Sadd presented her office’s audit of HRM’s solid waste operations to council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee during a virtual meeting on Thursday. The audit found the municipality “effectively manages certain aspects of its solid waste operations...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd, Cathy Deagle Gammon, Otter Lake, Otter Lake dump

Halifax auditor general confirms the city’s website redesign was a mess

January 21, 2020 By Zane Woodford

It will come as no surprise to anyone who has logged on to halifax.ca: the city’s auditor general has confirmed that the redesigned website was riddled with errors when it went live in 2017. But in a report published Tuesday and presented to council’s audit and finance standing committee, auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd wrote that...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd, CAO Jacques Dubé, councillor Matt Whitman, FCV Technologies Ltd, halifax.ca website, Jane Fraser

The politics of resentment at Province House

Morning File, Thursday, April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Audits “The municipality has failed to completely implement more than half of the recommendations made by its auditor general between 2014 and 2016, and it’s unclear what percentage of the recommendations made before that were implemented,” reports Zane Woodford for StarMetro Halifax: Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd presented a report to regional council’s Audit […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agave in Public Gardens, Alison Auld, Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd, cannabis and racism, Deconstructing Cecil Clarke and Business Cape Breton, El Jones, FOI scandal legal defence, Jack Julian, Joseph Noel Landry, Mary Campbell, Michael Gorman, MLA Barbara Adams and African air, MLA Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin and Jamaicans, North Atlantic right whale Kleenex, Zane Woodford

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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