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Not satire: Halifax police board to consider appointing committee to define defunding

July 9, 2020 By Zane Woodford 8 Comments

At a meeting where it was expected to debate defunding the police, Halifax’s police board voted to debate appointing a committee to define defunding the police — at its next meeting. The board of police commissioners had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Thursday, but after starting more than half an hour later due […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Amy Siciliano, Carlos Beals, Carole McDougall, Ceasefire Halifax, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund the police, DeRico Symonds, gun violence, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Marty Ward, Natalie Borden, Youth Advocate Program

Cold storage was going to save N.S. in 1926

Morning File, Thursday, October 3, 2019

October 3, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp’s sci-fi future This item is written by Joan Baxter. It’s all supposed to be decided in just 83 days. Yesterday, Nova Scotia Environment announced that it had received the focus report for Northern Pulp’s proposed effluent treatment plant, which was required after former environment minister Margaret Miller announced in March that […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brandon Walker, bridge protest, Carlos Beals, Ceasefire Halifax, CFL stadium proposal, collapsed crane lawsuit, collapsed crane removal, David T.S. Fraser, Extinction Rebellion, Francis Campbell, Haley Ryan, hfxAlert, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mayor Mike Savage on CFL stadium, Michael Smith, Northern Pulp focus report, Northern Pulp treatment facility, Nova Scotia Environment (NSE), Patrick Yancey, PC leader Tim Houston, Premier Robert Stanfield, Quentrel Provo, Rickey Walker, Rights 4 Vapers, Stephen Archibald and Halifax Seaport, Twiggz Shoes, vaping products ban, WE Day Atlantic

The hanging of Daniel Sampson: Morning File, Tuesday, December 5, 2017

December 5, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. IMP “The city has dropped its Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), a hefty 193-page document designed to help Halifax achieve its Regional Plan target of reducing the share of trips we all make in private vehicles,” reports Erica Butler: In 2006, council set a goal to reduce vehicle trips down to 70 per cent […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thompson, Barbara Darby, black candidates in North End Dartmouth, Black in Halifax, Carlos Beals, Christopher Garnier, Coles book signing cancelled, Daniel Perry Sampson, Duane Jones, Erica Butler, Francis Campbell, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Jayde Tynes, Joan Baxter, Kathy Cloutier, last man executed in Halifax, Lindell Smith, Northern Pulp, RCMP Cpl. Jody Allison, Reducing the number of councillors, Residential construction stats, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, The Mill: Fifty Years of Pulp and Protest, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Two-thousand dead, and we’ve learned no lessons from the Explosion: Morning File, Monday, December 4, 2017

December 4, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. The Mulroney Institute, St. Francis Xavier University, and the honorary arms dealers Writes Stephen Kimber: The former prime minister has had many “good” friends, many of whom pop up in leaks of information about tax havens. Many of those same names — surprise — also figure prominently in helping underwrite the soon-to-be Mulroney Institute. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Black in Halifax, Brett Bundale, Carlos Beals, CFL franchise in Halifax, Councillor Lindell Smith, El Jones, Elizabeth McMillan, Human remains found East Uniacke, Irving workers give strike mandate, Janice Borden, Judy Haiven, Mary Alice Powell, Moshe Lander, Order of the Good Time, Perry King, Philip Croucher, Quentrel Provo, Samuel de Champlain, Sexual assault allegations against St. F.X. football players, war memorials, Was the Halifax Explosion a war crime, weapons of mass destruction, What tourists say about us

There should be a moratorium on police checks: Morning File, Wednesday, January 11, 2017

January 11, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 20 Comments

News 1. Street checks Halifax councillor Lindell Smith says he has been stopped by the police often: “I’ve had issues where police followed me, or police have pulled me over and asked questions that really had nothing to do with what I was doing,” he said. “Of course your mind goes to, is it racism? […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aly Thomson, Arca 1, Ashley Taylor, Bill Moore, Carlos Beals, Christopher Giacomantonio, grounded tanker, Jean-Michel Blais, Kathy Birt, Lindell Smith, Michael Tutton, Stephen Archibald Saint John, street checks, Sylvia Parris, UN's Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

Council candidates answer two questions

October 5, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 18 Comments

I’ve asked two questions of candidates: 1. Will you support a living wage ordinance? (background here and here) 2. If elected, what single thing would you want to accomplish as councillor (or mayor)? The candidates’ unedited responses follow. I’ll update this page as I receive more responses Use these links to jump ahead to specific […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured Tagged With: Alison McNair, Anthony Kawalski, Brenden Sommerhalder, Bruce Smith, Carlos Beals, Colin Castle, Dawn E. Penney, Dominick Desjardins, Gabriel Enxuga, Iona Stoddard, Irvine Carvery, John Bignell, Kate Watson, Kevin Copley, Kyle Woodbury, Linda Mosher, Lisa Blackburn, living wage ordinance, Mike Savage, municipal election, Pamela Lovelace, Richard Zurawski, Sam Austin, Shawn Cleary, Shelley Fashan, Steve Streatch, Sue Uteck, Tim Rissesco, Trevor Lawson, two questions, Warren Wesson, Waye Mason

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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