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A squirrelly situation: lessons in urban planning

Morning File, Thursday, May 2, 2019

May 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

1. Active transportation “The nine-kilometre long Burnside Connector highway will cost at least $196 million, more than the entire Integrated Mobility Plan for active transportation and transit projects across the city,” reports Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler. “No one said the highway was too expensive, but councillors cry poverty when it comes to actually addressing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 99% Invisible podcast, Adam Rogers, Anthony Leblanc, Boudrot Properties, Canada Lands, CFL stadium, Dan Kinsella, David MacKinnon, El Jones, Janette Boudrot, Jason Boudrot, Johnny Mac, Keshen Goodman Library cafe, Mark Elderkin, Mary Campbell, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Shannon Park, squirrels, street checks

How Vaportecture is used to obscure Canada Land’s untendered sale of land for a Shannon Park stadium

Morning File, Tuesday, April 2, 2019

April 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Joan Baxter and Jennifer Henderson on Northern Pulp This evening at 7pm, Joan Baxter will be interviewed by Jennifer Henderson on stage at the St. Margaret’s Centre in Tantallon. From the Facebook event page: Incisive, no nonsense, take no prisoners. Joan Baxter’s brilliant exposé “The Mill – Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest” […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Bay Ferries, biomass, Canada Lands, Catherine Tully, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, Jennifer Henderson, Joan Baxter, Joan Jones, Joanne Bernard, Justice Peter Rosinski, Kristen Hare, Lisa Manninger, Neil deMause, Nicole LaFosse Parker, PC lawsuit, percent, Rocky Jones, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Scott Campbell, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, stadium rendering, Stephen Archibald and Encounter at Kwacha House, Tim Houston, Vaportecture, Wendie Poitras, Woman Hailing a Cab

Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window

Morning File, Monday, April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Street checks Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Auld, Anthony Leblanc, APTN, Canada Lands, Canadian Press (CP) layoffs, Christie Blatchford, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Justice Derek Green, Justin Brake, Mary Campbell, Michael Tutton, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Darren Fisher, Northern Pulp, Philip Croucher, public consultation, public engagement, Saltwire Network, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, street checks, The Blatchford Bad Writing Hall of Fame

The stadium proposal deconstructed

Morning File, Monday, October 29, 2018

October 29, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stadium Tuesday, Halifax council will take up the proposal for a football stadium at Shannon Park. Specifically, council is being asked to direct staff to undertake a business case analysis of the stadium proposal and to identify financing options and legislative changes that would be required to make the proposal a reality. There’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Barroway, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Bowser, Canada Lands, CFL stadium proposal, Chris Miller, Clayton Developments, container ports modernization, Darrell Jackson, David Baker, Denise Schofield., Dennis Welch, Gary Bettman, Gary Drummond, Jerry Blackwood, Joanna Cagan, Kelly Denty, Maritime Football League Partnership (MFLP), Millbrook First Nation, MP Darren Fisher, Neil deMause, Nova Centre, Pam Berman, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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