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Dartmouth development to include affordable and accessible housing, but it needs help from government

September 16, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Plans for an affordable and accessible housing development in Dartmouth are nearing completion, but there are still significant financial hurdles in the way — indicative of the difficulties of building non-market housing in the Halifax area. Affirmative Ventures released the design for its Main Street development through project planner David Harrison this week. The plan […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: accessible housing, Affirmative Ventures, affordable housing, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Centre Plan, councillor Tony Mancini, David Harrison, density bonusing, Halifax Water fees, Main Street Centre, National Housing Co-Investment Fund, non-profit housing, Utility and Review Board

Halifax committee recommends in favour of eight-storey downtown heritage property addition

July 14, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city’s peninsula planning advisory committee is recommending in favour of a big developer’s plans to add a modern eight-storey building to the back of a South Street heritage property. Summer Wind Holdings, with the same owners as Southwest Properties, wants to build a total of 112 units in the space between South and Harvey...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Centre Plan, Harvey Street, Jesse Morton, South Street, Southwest Properties, Stairs House, Summer Wind Holdings, William James Stairs

Take this volunteer “job” and shove it

Morning File, Thursday, July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. The casino crapshoot Rob Csernyik has an incredible investigative piece on the casinos in Nova Scotia and how locals, not high-rolling tourists, became the big spenders. Csernyik looks back before the first casino opened by ITT Sheraton in the summer of 1995. A poll from 1993 showed that 57.7 respondents were against the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Power, Black Lives Matter, buxom wenches, Casino, Centre Plan, Chantel Moore, Colchester Historeum, Cork Street, COVID-19, defund the police, Department of Health and Wellness, Don't work for free, Dr. Chris Lata, Ejaz Ahmed Choudry, Foundry Hil, Gary Burrill, Glen Assoun, Halifax Regional Police, ITT Sheraton, IWK, Jane Wright, Ku Klux Klan, LMNO Properties, Lynn Stevenson, Matt Smith, mental illness, mobile crisis unit, museums, Northwood, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), PC leader Tim Houston, People Against Casinos in Nova Scotia, pirates, Portland Street, Quality-improvement Information Protection Act, Randy Delorey, Regis Korchinski-Parquet, shooting, social work, STEM Montessori Academy of Canada, Sydney, T. Chandler Haliburton, T.A. Scott Architecture + Design Limited, Truro, Uncover, volunteering, wellness checks

Halifax developer proposes 23-storey tower for Robie Street under baked-in Centre Plan exception

May 27, 2020 By Zane Woodford

  Developer Danny Chedrawe submitted a new proposal for his Robie Street property this week, seeking approval for a 23-storey tower next to the Willow Tree site. The proposal, submitted by WSP Canada Inc. on behalf of Chedrawe’s Westwood Developments and posted on the city’s website on Monday, is for a development agreement on the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: affordable housing, Armco, Carl Purvis, Centre Plan, Christina Lovitt, Councillor Lindell Smith, Danny Chedrawe, density bonusing, Shannex, Westwood Developments, Willow Tree development

How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital

January 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armoyan Group, Bengal Lancers, Centre Plan, councillor Waye Mason, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Partners for Care, Paula Bond, QE2 redevelopment, QEII redevelopment, Victoria General Hospital (VG), Wanderers Grounds

How a Young Avenue property is being flipped to “Canada’s worst landlord”

Morning File, Monday, December 2, 2019

December 2, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 14 Comments

News 1. Gerald Regan Writes Stephen Kimber: How do you reconcile the contradictory facts of our 19th premier’s life? You probably can’t. No matter what you write, you’re either rinsing Regan’s black heart in the cleansing stream of his passing or dancing gleefully on his grave. Most news reports I saw got it about as […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Canada's worst landlord, Centre Plan, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Waye Mason, Daniel Drimmer, Deputy Mayor Tony Mancini, development, Highfield Park, HRM By Design, Josh Hawley, real estate, rent hikes, roundabout Hwy 118, Starlight Investments, Transglobe, Tsimiklis family, Turkish Republic Day, worst landlord in town, Young Avenue bylaw changes

“Neoliberal bullshit” basic income

Morning File, Thursday, September 19, 2019

September 19, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. No charges in case of woman who died of horrific bed sore Chrissy Dunnington died from complications of a pressure sore (often called a bed sore) in March 2018. She was 40 years old. Dunnington had been living at the Parkstone Enhanced Care home, owned by Shannex, in Clayton Park for 18 months. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Allan MacMaster, bedsore death, Bill Spurr, Centre Plan, Charles Murray, Chrissy Dunnington, collapsed crane removal, crane incident, density bonusing, Dorothy Dunnington, Elizabeth McMillan, Green Party, Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI), Hurricane Dorian, John Wesley Chisholm, lower Halifax speed limits, Mark Reynolds, Mary-Dan Johnston, Mayor Mike Savage, Minister Labi Kousoulis, Parkstone Enhanced Care, police officer stealing, Shannex, Stuart Peddle, Universal Basic Income (UBI), uranium mining, Zane Woodford

The Centre Plan is a colossal waste of time, money, public attention, newsprint, and reporter energy

Morning File, Wednesday, September 18, 2019

September 18, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Centre Plan A public hearing on the Centre Plan was held at City Hall yesterday, and lasted well into the night. Council will debate the various issues and presumably vote to enact the package later today. I’ve never seen such a colossal waste of time, money, public attention, newsprint, and reporter energy devoted […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Boat Harbour Act, Brian Hebert, Centre Plan, food festival, Justice Timothy Gabriel, mac and cheese festival, menstrual products in schools, Nhlanhla Dlamini, Northern Pulp decision, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Stephen Archibald and LeMarchant-St. Thomas Elementary

The Assoun wrongful conviction: the McNeil connection

Morning File, Monday, July 8, 2019

July 8, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 2 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp Mill’s missing environmental data “If Premier Stephen McNeil is wavering on the Northern Pulp / Paper Excellence file, entertaining notions on amending the Boat Harbour Act so that effluent from the Pictou County pulp mill can continue to flow into the lagoon after January 31, 2020, he would do well to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: acting Chief of Police Robin McNeil, Anthony McNeil, Centre Plan, Chris Blanchard, Chris Cline, climate change, deputy police chief Chris McNeil, Don Blankenship, Donkin coal mine, Donkin Mine safety violations, Fred Fitzsimmons, Glen Assoun documents, Innocence Canada, Irving Shipyard, Jerome Kennedy, Justice James Chipman, Mainland Moose, Matthew Moore, Phil Campbell, police malfeasance, Premier Stephen McNeil, Ryan MacDonald, Sean MacDonald, Trevor O'Neil, Victoria Road development, Wellington Street development

Ignorance is bliss, and other news of the day

Morning File, Thursday, July 4, 2019

July 4, 2019 By Erica Butler 2 Comments

News 1. Ignorance is bliss: city councillors still not briefed on potential malfeasance by Halifax police “We’re witnessing an astonishing display of cowardice from our elected officials,” writes Tim this morning, after looking for answers on why a city lawyer intervened to prevent the release of court documents that could shed light on what went […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brunswick News, Centre Plan, climate change, Corporate Mapping Project, Glen Assoun documents, Greg Perry, Hadeel Ibrahim, Jean Ghosn, John Ghosn, Karissa Donkin, Matthew Hines, Michael de Adder, Omar Mosleh, police malfeasance, right whales, Robert Ghosn, Theresa Wright, Wyse Road development

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Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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