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Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

May 4, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Describing it as the best of a set of bad options, councillors are moving ahead with a revised version of the staff proposal to create designated tent sites for unhoused Haligonians. But significant questions remain about how and when people currently living in municipal parks will be asked to leave, or whether they’ll be forcibly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Tony Mancini, Coun. Trish Purdy, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, housing, Housing and Homelessness Partnership, housing crisis, Jacques Dubé, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, municipal parks, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, unhoused, United Way, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors pass 4.6% increase to average property tax bill, including 3% for climate action

April 12, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Halifax regional councillors have finalized the municipal budget with a 4.6% increase to the average property tax bill, including 3% for climate action. During their virtual budget committee meeting on Tuesday, councillors voted 14-3 in favour of the 2022-2023 budget. Councillors David Hendsbee, Trish Purdy, and Paul Russell voted no. Councillors all but finalized the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Politics Tagged With: Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, budget committee meeting, climate action tax, climate change, commercial tax bill, Coun. Sam Austin, Coun. Trish Purdy, get back out there, HalifACT 2050, Halifax Public Libraries, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax regional councillors, Halifax Transit, HRM, Mayor Mike Savage, tax hike, tax rates, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillor proposes $15 minimum wage for city staff

March 9, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

A Halifax councillor is proposing to hike pay for some city employees ahead of provincial minimum wage increases. While the municipality has a living wage policy covering some contractors’ staff, there’s no wage guarantee for HRM’s own staff. A living wage in Halifax, according to the latest calculation from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News Tagged With: $15 wage, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Coun. Shawn Cleary, Coun. Trish Purdy, Cyclesmith, Halifax, living wage, minimum wage, Nova Scotia

Halifax councillors aim for lesser tax increase, one gets a climate change crash course

January 30, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax councillors are aiming for lower taxes while considering taking on more debt after a budget committee meeting on Friday. In November, Halifax regional council’s budget committee voted in favour of a fiscal framework from finance staff that would build the municipality’s 2022-2023 budget around a 5.9% increase to the average property tax bill. Unlike […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: climate change, Coun. Trish Purdy, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, HalifACT 2050, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Halifax Regional Council

Committee recommends adoption of Halifax Common plan despite calls for more consultation

January 20, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Concerns about a lack of recent public consultation gave councillors pause, but weren’t enough for them to recommend a stop to the Halifax Common Master Plan. The plan is a proposed redesign of the Halifax Common, removing some baseball diamonds and adding features like trees, seating, and a trellis. It envisions concerts on the Common,...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee, Coun. Lindell Smith, Coun. Patty Cuttell, Coun. Sam Austin, Coun. Trish Purdy, Coun. Waye Mason, Friends of the Halifax Common, Halifax Common, Halifax Common Master Plan, Halifax Lancers

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

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Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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