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Council recap, October 21, 2014 meeting

October 22, 2014 By Tim Bousquet Leave a Comment

Taxes Residential property taxes were a huge issue in the first decade of this century, when the housing market was overheated and assessments were going up 20 percent and more in some neighbourhoods. Through that period, council didn’t raise the tax rate, but because of the soaring assessments, the actual tax bill went up hugely […]

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Garbage policy, sidewalk cafes, bike lane: Council recap, September 23, 2014 meeting

September 24, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

Yesterday’s meeting of Halifax council involved a lot of wide-ranging conversation and debate, which often raises the ire of people who think that the less discussion the better. But I think we all benefit from longer discussion of issues. But unfortunately it’s late in the day, so I’ll make this a quick and short recap...

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Khyber is saved, craven politicians, chimineaing while drunk: Council recap, September 9, 2014 meeting

September 10, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

The Khyber is saved Without warning, this summer city staff put The Khyber on the list of surplus properties, which is a relatively new process meant to identify and sell off properties the city no longer needs or are deemed to expensive to keep. The staff report gave little in the way of details. The...

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Hell-bent on development, Canada Post, and E-voting: council recap, August 5, 2014 meeting

August 6, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

Tuesday’s council meeting proceeded more or less as I predicted in the council preview, with the following exceptions and issues of note: Hell-bent on development Boy was I ever wrong. Monday, I predicted that council would concur with a staff recommendation to deny the development of a seven-storey, 75-unit apartment building on the old St. Theresa...

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The Forum is saved: City council recap, July 29, 2014 meeting

July 30, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

The take away news from yesterday’s council meeting is that the Forum and Centennial Arenas were saved, a new Dartmouth 4-pad arena will be constructed, and four other single ice pad arenas will be closed: Lebrun,  Devonshire, Gray, and Bowles. But before getting into those specifics, the whys and the wherefores, let’s step back and...

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Developer fees and unwarranted secrecy: Halifax council recap, July 22, 2014 meeting

July 23, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

  Tuesday’s council meeting was lengthy, going long into the evening. Most of the items were resolved as expected, and as I outlined Monday in the council preview. The exceptions and additions are below. Developer fees Council discussed the “Capital Cost Contributions”—CCCs for short, which are fees to be charged to developers—for about two hours. The...

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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

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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.

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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.

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 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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