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Halifax councillors wanted a living wage ordinance; staff came back with a policy that departments merely “consider” a living wage

July 3, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

A long-awaited social procurement policy is coming to Halifax regional council for debate next week, but use of the proposed policy — including requiring contractors to pay a living wage or hire African Nova Scotians — would be mostly optional for municipal departments. The new policy is the result of a motion from Coun. Lindell […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: city janitorial services, Councillor Lindell Smith, diversity, living wage policy, social procurement policy, Stephen Terry

While everyone is tied up with COVID-19, what skulduggery is government up to?

Morning File, Friday, April 17, 2020

April 17, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. The latest Yesterday, we learned that 30 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nova Scotia, bringing the total to 579. Eleven people are currently hospitalized, four of them in ICUs; 176 people have fully recovered. Three have died. A big chunk of the increase in positive cases comes from nursing homes, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, city hall salaries, city janitorial services, coronavirus, councillor Richard Zurawski, COVID-19, firearms charge Hammonds Plains, living wage, Mayor Mike Savage, pandemic, Stephen Archibald and spring, Travis Laing, weapons charges, Zane Woodford

Come sail away with me (for free)

Morning File, Friday, December 6, 2019

December 6, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Disabled people can’t properly enjoy lots of money, says adjudicator “Beth MacLean is an intellectually disabled middle-aged woman who spent 35 years in institutions, including more than four years in a locked-down psychiatric unit of the Nova Scotia Hospital known as Emerald Hall,” writes Jennifer Henderson: She is currently living at Quest in […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brian Wilson, building cleaners, city janitorial services, free work, ideology of violence, Mike Dull, Nova Institution for Women, Philip Moscovitch, poverty wages, Sail Nova Scotia, sexual assault in prison, Stephen Archibald and parking garages, Truro Police Chief David MacNeil, volunteer position, yacht clubs

The Halifax stadium proposal: private profit for Anthony Leblanc, socialized risk for the public

Morning File, Tuesday, October 1, 2019

October 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. More stadium updates MLA Susan Leblanc, whose Dartmouth North district includes the Shannon Park site of the proposed stadium, has come out swinging against it: Tomorrow I will table legislation on behalf of the @NSNDP caucus that would block public money for a CFL stadium. #nspoli #HRM #Dartmouth — Susan Leblanc (@susanleblancMLA) September […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Leblanc, Atlantic Schooners, bus tickets, CAO Jacques Dubé, CFL stadium proposal, city janitorial services, Councillor Tim Outhit, Halifax Transit tickets, living wage policy, MLA Susan Leblanc, poverty wages, protected areas, stadium financing, StadiumCo, Trapeze Software, Tristan Cleveland

The city still doesn’t have a living wage ordinance, but the need for it hasn’t gone away

Morning File, Monday, January 14, 2019

January 14, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 4 Comments

News 1. Alton Gas “A retired geologist who worked for the province of Nova Scotia as well as the mining giant INCO says he has safety concerns about the proposed Alton Natural Gas Storage project,” reports Jennifer Henderson. Click here to read “UARB submission raises safety concerns about Alton Gas project.” This article is for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Chris Reynolds, city janitorial services, Councillor Lindell Smith, janitorial contracts, living wage, Richard Woodbury, Stillwell Beer Garden

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!

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