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Transportation committee pushes back on buttons at Halifax intersections

September 18, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Pushing back against the municipality’s traffic authority, council’s Transportation Standing Committee wants to rid much of the city of pedestrian push buttons in the next year. The committee met in person at Halifax City Hall on Thursday to discuss a list of information reports that were deferred from a council meeting earlier this month. Among […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: beg buttons, Brad Anguish, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, pedestrian push buttons, right turn on red, speed hump, Taso Koutroulakis, traffic authority

The Abdi siblings speak out

Morning File, Wednesday, September 2, 2020

September 2, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. In a lawsuit, Fatouma and Abdoul Abdi allege years of abuse while they were children in care Remember Abdoul Abdi? The Government of Canada wanted to deport him after he was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to prison. Abdi was not a citizen, and under rules brought in under the federal immigration […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, affordable housing, Back to school, backyard secondary suites, beg buttons, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, comments moderation, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, deportation policy, Eric Jury, Fatouma Abdi, high speed internet, Immigration, legislature, Minister Jason Kenney, Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, pedestrian push buttons, Shannon Johnson, sloganeering, St Joseph Cemetery, war

Halifax councillor unsatisfied with staff reports on pedestrian push buttons and other road safety measures, points to internal transportation ‘crisis’

September 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford 5 Comments

Nearly two years after he asked for a report on eliminating pedestrian push buttons in Halifax, what Coun. Waye Mason got back doesn’t even answer the question he asked. And it’s one of multiple information reports to council on Tuesday that Mason and other councillors believe show the municipality needs to change the way it […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: beg buttons, Brad Anguish, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, HRM Safe Cities for Everyone, intersections, Jacques Dubé, Jill Morrison, pedestrian push buttons, right turn on red, Roddy MacIntyre, traffic authority, traffic signal

People are finding small ways to show their sorrow

Morning File, Wednesday, April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

News 1. Mass murder victims believed to number 22 Tim Bousquet reports from yesterday’s RCMP press briefing, and outlines a “vague and misleading” statement issued by the RCMP regarding the mass murder spree on the weekend in which 22 people were murdered by a single perpetrator, over almost 14 hours, in a series of Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: active transportation, basic income, beg buttons, Brynn Budden, Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), climate change, coronavirus, COVID-19, covid-19 violation tickets, Dr. Robert Strang, Earth Day, exceptional white male syndrome, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Harry Sullivan, Ira Reinhart-Smith, Joy McCabe, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, murder spree Nova Scotia, Northwood, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, Pamela Palmater, pandemic, parks, pedestrians, Portapique, Rachel McLay, RCMP Nova Scotia, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, Senator Frances Lankin, Senator Kim Pate, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), shooting rampage, sidewalks, social distancing

We’re about to learn just how subservient Nova Scotia is to the forest industry

Morning File, Tuesday, December 4, 2018

December 4, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

1. Clearcutting “The McNeil government is promising less clearcutting on crown lands through new ‘interim’ harvesting guidelines introduced yesterday in response to a comprehensive report on forestry practices prepared by University of King’s College president Bill Lahey last August,” reports Jennifer Henderson: It’s unclear how much the controversial practice will be reduced until after permanent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Art Bouman, Austin Hiltz, beg buttons, Brad Fougere, Canada Post protesters, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Cathy Valade, clearcutting, Councillor Lorelei Nichol, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Crosswalk Safety Task Force, Darius Mirshahi, Glen Assoun, Ian Fairclough, Icarus Report Dec 4 2018, Jennifer Henderson, Justin Whitten, Ken Reashor, Lahey report, Linda Pannozzo, North Dartmouth, pedestrian walk signal, Pier 21, Rachelle Valade, Tony Tracy, Vincenz and Kristina Bogatin, YMCA asking for money, YMCA funding, Zane Woodford

Three men say they were sexually abused as teenagers at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre

Morning File, Friday, September 7, 2018

September 7, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Child sex abuse Three men allege that they were sexually abused as teenagers when they were housed at the Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre in Bible Hill. The Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre was an institution for young people with mental disabilities. I’m withholding the men’s full names until and unless they want to be […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: A.L. MacDonald Building, accessibility, Alumitech Architectural Glass & Metal, Avondale Construction, beg buttons, Ben Marston, Bruce Wark, Building D, Burnside jail, Cape Sharp Tidal Turbine Update, child sex abuse, Dalhousie University, David Lombardi, David Patriquin, Doug Doucet, Fred MacKinnon, Gail Gatchalian, Gordon B. Isnor Manor, Gus Reed, Jack Julian, Jeremy MacDonald, Kelly McKenna, lockdown, Michael Dull, Norsat Eblaghi, Nova Scotia Human Rights Act, Nova Scotia Youth Training Centre, OpenHydro, Patricia Brooks Arenburg, Paul Vienneau, pedestrian walk signal, private woodlot owners, RCS Construction, Reynobond PE, Seaforth Energy Inc, Sherri Borden Colley, sidewalk rebuilt Citadel Hill, sidewalk renovation, Solitary confinement, Stacy Pineau, Stephen Ellis, Supreme Court Justice Frank Edwards, Warren Reed

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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