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UARB overturns Halifax councillors’ Middle Sackville development decision

May 5, 2022 By Zane Woodford

The provincial Utility and Review Board (UARB) has overturned a decision by Halifax regional councillors to deny a development application in Middle Sackville. In November 2021, the North West Community Council — comprising councillors in districts 1, 13, 14, 15, and 16 — considered the application for a four-storey, 52-unit apartment building at the corner...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: alifax Regional Centre for Education, Coun. Cathy Deagle-Gammon, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Paul Russell, Coun. Tim Outhit, Cresco Holdings Ltd., Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Marzieh Ansari Shourijeh, Middle Sackville, North West Community Council, Paul Sampson, Sackville Heights Elementary School, Sackville Municipal Planning Strategy, Sunset Plaza Inc., Utility and Review Board, Zane Woodford

Halifax Transit identifies ‘no operational or safety issues’ with revamped Route 55

April 28, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Residents of a neighbourhood off Waverley Road are continuing their fight against a Halifax Transit routing change. Route 55 Port Wallace used to run between the Bridge Terminal in Dartmouth and a gravel parking lot at the Highway 118 underpass on Waverley Road. As the Halifax Examiner reported in April 2021, Halifax Transit proposed to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Politics, Subscribers only, Transportation Tagged With: Coun. Cathy Deagle-Gammon, Coun. Paul Russell, Coun. Waye Mason, Dave Espeseth, District 1–Waverley-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley, Halifax Transit, Housing Minister John Lohr, Moving Forward Together Plan, Port Wallace, Route 55, Transportation Standing Committee, Waverley, 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

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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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