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Halifax council hikes taxi fares 16%

May 17, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Taxi fares are up after a vote by Halifax regional council on Tuesday. For the first time in 10 years, council has adjusted the fares taxi drivers are permitted to charge for transporting passengers in the municipality. On average, the fare will rise 16.1%, but shorter trips will see a higher increase than longer trips. […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Andrea MacDonald, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Waye Mason, Dave Buffett, gas prices, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Taxi Drivers Association, taxi fares, Zane Woodford

Halifax committee recommends heritage registration for former United Memorial Church

April 27, 2022 By Zane Woodford

For the second time, council’s advisory committee recommended in favour of heritage registration for the former United Memorial Church on Wednesday. But this time, the owner of the property on Kaye Street in North End Halifax is on board. The former church was built in 1921 following the Halifax Explosion, replacing two nearby churches destroyed in...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew Cobb, Bruno Elliot MacNeil, Centre Plan, churches, Coun. David Hendsbee, Halifax, Halifax Explosion, Halifax Regional Council, Heritage, Heritage Advisory Committee, Heritage Property Act, Historic Richmond, Hydrostone District, Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strateg, Seamus McGreal, Sidewalk Real Estate Development, Tony Metlege, United Church of Canada, United Memorial Church, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors cool to decriminalizing sheltering in parks

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax councillors aren’t ready to allow unhoused people to camp in parks without the threat of criminalization. Sakura Saunders, a member of the P.A.D.S. Community Network, made a presentation to council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee’s meeting on Thursday, asking councillors to allow camping in municipal parks using Bylaw P-600. The bylaw bans camping […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Bylaw P-600, Community Planning and Economic Development Committee, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Sam Austin, Halifax Regional Council, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Sakura Saunders, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors to consider an extra $7.5 million for new sidewalks

December 17, 2021 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Councillors will consider spending an extra $7.5 million on new sidewalks next year. Halifax regional council’s budget committee met virtually on Friday, continuing its Tuesday discussion of the proposed 2022-2023 capital budget — the city’s list of new and ongoing projects for the coming year. At Tuesday’s meeting, councillors requested a briefing note on improving […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Brad Anguish, budget adjustment list, budget committee, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Kathryn Morse, Coun. Sam Austin, Coun. Tim Outhit, Coun. Tony Mancini, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, sidewalks

Councillor responds to claims that East Preston is underserved by transit system

November 30, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

District 2 councillor David Hendsbee says the Black community of East Preston once had weekend bus service. “There was weekend service in the past when the bus route was operated under the former ‘Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service’; a holdover service prior to HRM Amalgamation,” Hendsbee said in an e-mail. “The weekend service was […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Transportation Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Black communities, Coun. David Hendsbee, East Hants Rural High School, East Preston, employment, Global, Grand Desert, Halifax, Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service, Halifax Transit, Lake Echo, Lawrencetown, Lucasville, marginalization, Marshall Williams, Mineville, Musgo Rider, Musquodoboit Harbour, North Preston, Porters Lake, Route 401, rural transit, Rural Transit Strategy, Seaforth, Tracey Jones-Grant, West Chezzetcook, Westphal

The Oblates ignored the stories and abuse at residential schools

Morning File, Wednesday, June 9, 2021

June 9, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 1 Comment

News 1. Gold and silver awards for Examiner contributors at the Atlantic Journalism Awards Congratulations to the members of the Examiner team who won gold and silver at yesterday’s Atlantic Journalism Awards. Rather than being held in-person, of course, the event was online, with winners announced via YouTube videos. Yvette d’Entremont won gold in the […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 215 children, 911 response system, AstraZeneca, Atlantic Business Magazine, Atlantic journalism Awards (AJA), Bill C-10, C-10, CBC, Chief Dan Kinsella, CIBC Intria, CN Halifax Hotel, Committee Trawler, Cornwallis Building, Cornwallis Park, Cornwallis Street, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Shawn Cleary, COVID-19, Dr. Alexa Bagnell, Dr. Robert Strang, eating disorders, Evelyn C. White, ferry, Five Little Indians, Florida wildfire, Florimond Gendre, free ferry ride, free parking, Friends of CBC, gamblers, Genocide, gold mining, Governor General’s Award, Halifax Central Library, Halifax Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, Halifax Transit, HotSpot parking app, Hydrostone, Indigenous, Internet Society, IWK, Kamloops, Kamloops residential school, libraries, Mark Buell, Matt Strickland, Maureen Parker, mental health, Michelle Good, Mila McKay, Moderna, movie theates, MoviePass, movies, mRNA, Nova Scotia Health, Oblates, Ontario Library Association, pandemic, Peace and Friendship Park, Pfizer, police, polygraph machines, Port Wallace, psychiatry, residential schools, roadside memorial, roadside memorials, Rob Csernyik, Santina Rao, second dose, Standing Committee of Canadian Heritage, Stephen Kimber, Sydney casino, television film, Treaties, treaty, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Walmart, Writers Guild of Canada, youth mental health, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Park name changes, parking for free, roadside memorials, and more: Halifax council roundup

June 9, 2021 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Cornwallis Park is now officially Peace and Friendship Park. Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of the staff recommendation to rename the park on Tuesday. The motion also starts a public consultation process to choose a new name for Cornwallis Street. Councillors tacked on an amendment too, looking to create a process for future […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: amendment, business recovery, citizen volunteering, City Hall, Columbus Street, Cornwallis Park, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Lindell Smith, Coun. Paul Russell, Coun. Sam Austin, Coun. Shawn Cleary, Coun. Waye Mason, COVID-19, cyclists, Dartmouth, Downtown Halifax Business Commission, Edward Cornwallis, ferry, free parking, Halifax, Halifax Council, Halifax ferry, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Transit, HotSpot parking app, Hydrostone, Indigenous, Jacques Dubé, memorials, park lighting strategy, park stewards program, parking, Paul MacKinnon, Peace and Friendship Park, roadside memorials, Ronald McDonald House, Stairs Street, Stanley Street, Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis and the Recognition and Commemoration of Indigenous History, tax relief, tax relief for not-for-profits, Treaties, treaty, Victoria Horne

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.

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