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Is the time finally right for a municipal bike-share program?

Cycling advocates say with protected bike lanes, a connected network, and enough bikes, a bike-share program can be built to succeed in the city.

December 21, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

This is part 1 of a two-part series on bike-share programs. Here, Philip Moscovitch looks at bike-share programs in Nova Scotia and across the country and speaks with cycling advocates what needs to happen in the HRM to make a program work.  A mandatory helmet law, hilly streets, winter weather, and a lack of bike […]

Filed Under: Featured, Transportation Tagged With: Angela Reynolds, Annapolis Valley Regional Library, Ben Wedge, Bike-share, Bixi, Calgary, David MacIsaac, Derik Sauve, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Kelowna, Mark Oakley, Mobi, Montreal, Nicholas Scott, Shawn Cleary, Transportation Standing Committee, Vancouver

A Calgary company is drilling for oil in the world’s largest protected international wildlife reserve; these Nova Scotians are trying to stop it

The Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) is charged with regulating Canadian companies operating overseas, but it is toothless, say activists.

October 8, 2021 By Joan Baxter 1 Comment

In 1964, Flai Kalenga Mbwenga went looking for some good grazing land. Mbwenga was a small-scale farmer who lives in northern Namibia, close to the Kavango River that forms part of the border between his country and neighbouring Angola. Like nearly all the rural people in his country, Mbwenga’s family’s livelihood came from small-scale and mixed […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: Africa, Al Jazeera, Botswana, British Petroleum, Calgary, Canadian Ombudsman for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), climate crisis, climate emergency, conventional oil, diamonds, drilling, Economic and Social Justice Trust, elephants, Elisabeth Kosters, Flai Kalenga Mbwenga, Frack Free Namibia, Frack Free Namibia and Botswana, Fracking, Frankfurt, Geoffrey York, HIV/AIDS, hydraulic fracturing, Ian La Couvée, Jay Park, Jonas Mbwenga, Kavango River, Legal Assistance Centre, Marco Rodzynek, Matthew Totten, Mbambi, Namibia, Namibia High Court, National Geographic, oil and gas exploration, Okavango Delta, Omatako river, Oryx, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ReconAfrica, Reconnaissance Energy Africa, resource curse, Rinaani Musutua, Rob Parker, San people, solar energy, sub-Sahara Africa, The Globe and Mail, Tsodilo Hills, TSX-V, unconvential oil, uranium, US embassy in Namibia, Viceroy Research, wastewater, Windhoek, World Heritage sites

The Nova Centre hotel isn’t opening any time soon; what does that mean for the city budget?

Morning File, Tuesday, April 23, 2019

April 23, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 15 Comments

News 1. Street checks “No one in authority seems willing to apologize for the decades of ‘disproportionate and negative’ impact street checks have had on Nova Scotia’s black community,” writes Stephen Kimber. “Worse, no one seems to be committed to finally ending them once and for all.” Click here to read “Street checks: Who’s sorry […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alberta, Andrew Nikiforuk, armoured vehicle, ARV, Barbara Darby and the Easter Bunny, Brendan Elliot, Bruce Fisher, Calgary, Cape Breton Correctional Facility, Gary Mason, geographical politics, Grabher, Grafton Street glory Hole, Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax ReTales, Hollis Street bike lane, Inspector Jim Butler, Jan deRoos, Jen Gerson, Joe Ramia, Justice Darlene Jamieson, Mary Campbell, Nick Ritcey, Nova Centre, Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC), Roger Taylor, Sutton Place, The Tyee, Utility and Review Board (UARB)

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!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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