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New bikeways pitched for north and west end Halifax, including something called a ‘jug handle’

September 8, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Halifax is hoping to try out some new ways to move cyclists and pedestrians with two new local street bikeways proposed for the north and west ends of the peninsula. The Halifax and West Community Council voted unanimously in favour of the plans at a meeting on Tuesday, recommending regional council approve 4.4 km of...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Banc Investments, bikeways, bump out, Coun. Shawn Cleary, curb extension, development Joseph Howe Drive, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, jug handle, median refuge island, mini traffic circle, Siobhan Witherbee, speed bump, speed table

Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 2

December 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 18 Comments

At long last, and in the shadow of a proposed capital budget which significantly underfunds HRM’s active transportation transformation, here’s part two of your update on some of the many bikeways projects underway right now in the city. You can find part one here. Brunswick Street & Spring Garden Road:  functional design (early and late […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bedford Highway Functional Plan, bikeways, Brunswick Street bike lane, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Forest Hills Parkway, local street bikeways, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway

Proposed city budget pulls the wheels off bike network

December 5, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I really, really wanted to write part two of the update on bikeway projects this week. But perhaps it is wiser to step back for a moment from documenting the planning progress around bike infrastructure, to consider whether or not this municipality actually has the intention to follow through and build what’s being planned. This […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: AAA bikeway network, bike infrastructure, bikeways, CAO Jacques Dubé, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Kelsey Lane

Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 1

October 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

I first wrote about bikes in Halifax back in 2003 when the city’s first bike plan, the “Blueprint for a Bicycle Friendly HRM,” was released and approved. Fifteen years and a half-dozen plans later, there is something that looks like momentum in the building of bike infrastructure in the city. There has been a slow […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: bikeways, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP)

Lengthy, limited local street bikeways policy coming soon to a city near you

November 1, 2016 By Erica Butler

The good news is Halifax will be getting into the local street bikeway business. The bad news: the process we have created to get there could put our first actual local street bikeway years away. Local street bikeways are designated bike-friendly routes through a city that make use of less busy, lower speed streets to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: 2014 AT plan, bikeways, transportation

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.

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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