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Halifax council approves living wage requirement for contractors

October 1, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

In one of the last votes of its term, Halifax regional council approved a living wage requirement for most contracted workers. As the Halifax Examiner reported earlier this month, municipal staff proposed the policy to council as part of a new code of conduct for suppliers: It’s a response to council’s lukewarm reception of the social procurement policy passed […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Steve Streatch, Councillor Tim Outhit, Jacques Dubé, living wage

Five Halifax councillors wouldn’t support letter advocating abolition of nuclear weapons

July 7, 2020 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

It was meant to be a symbolic gesture — “a wish for peace” — but concerns over jurisdictional meddling kept some of Richard Zurawski’s colleagues from fully supporting his call to abolish nuclear weapons. Zurawski brought the four-part motion to council’s meeting on Tuesday. It read in full: That Halifax Regional Council: Declare August 6, […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: abolish nuclear weapons, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Tony Mancini, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, Mayor Mike Savage

Speed humps coming to some Halifax-area school zones

June 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city is planning to install speed humps on 10 streets around seven schools in Halifax and Sackville this summer, but a large portion of the municipality is left off the map. Halifax regional councillors wanted to speed up efforts to slow down traffic across the municipality during this year’s original, pre-COVID-19 budget process. They...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Steve Craig, Councillor Tim Outhit, Erin DiCarlo, School Zone Speed Humps, speed hump, traffic calming measures

Halifax councillors look at extra risk to save cuts, scrap weekly green bin pick-up

May 13, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Halifax councillors are looking at taking on more financial risk to offset a third of the cuts proposed to the city’s budget due to COVID-19. Finance staff estimate the permanent impact of the pandemic on the municipality’s finances will be $85.4 million from lost revenue […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: budget, CAO Jacque Dubé, compost bins, coronavirus, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Stephen Adams, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, green cart, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Jane Fraser, Mayor Mike Savage, pandemic

City councillors approve increased police budget despite ongoing racial profiling

February 6, 2020 By El Jones 3 Comments

You don’t have to be Negrodamus to have predicted that the Halifax City Council would approve the police budget increase of about a million dollars, but even for the cynical the budget committee meeting on Wednesday demonstrated some surprising depths of unaccountability. Calls to freeze the police budget in response to the Halifax Regional Police’s […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Board of Police Commissioners, Carole McDougall, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, crime rate, Extinction Rebellion, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Mayor Mike Savage, Natalie Borden, Negrodamus, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Police Foundation, racial profiling, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT)

Councillors cold to cooling-off proposal, and other Halifax City Hall updates

January 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Halifax councillor Shawn Cleary’s proposal for a cooling-off period for councillors and senior officials was met with a cool reception at council. The request for a staff report looking into the policy, which would temporarily bar politicians and some staff from taking a job dealing with the city after their terms ended, came up during...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: accessible housing, affordable housing, Bird Construction, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Russell Walker, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, development Barrington Street, development Bedford Highway, George’s Investments Limited, John Traves, lobbyists, Lyft, Mayor Mike Savage, Old South Suburb Heritage District Plan, Pathos Properties Inc, ride-hailing regulations, Uber in Halifax, Williamswood fire station

City still ridin’ the stadium train

Morning File, Wednesday, October 23, 2019

October 23, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. Stadium This item is written by Tim Bousquet. Halifax council yesterday rejected Sam Austin’s bid to immediately end a staff review of the Schooners’ stadium proposal. Had Austin been successful, the stadium proposal would have effectively been rejected. In October 2018, council passed a motion outlining how it would deal with the stadium […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill 203, blue barge Bedford Basin, CAO Jacques Dubé, CFL stadium proposal, Christine Saulnier, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Paul Russell, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Steve Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, crown attorneys, Cst. John MacLeod, Danny Chedrawe, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), Discover Halifax, Duggers building, early childhood educators (ECE), Education Minister Zach Churchill, Jenica Atwin, Lesley Frank, Lisa Blackburn, Margot Nickerson, Mayor Mike Savage, Micco, Michael Gorman, Michele McKenzie, Mickey MacDonald, Paul Hollingsworth, Perry Borden, Ross Jefferson, Ross McNeil, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), Spring Garden Road Business Association, Sue Uteck, Westwood Developments, Willow Street homicide, Yvette d'Entremont

Halifax Mayor Mike Savage recognizes “Wrongful Conviction Day” but takes no action on the wrongful conviction his city is responsible for

Morning File, Monday, October 7, 2019

October 7, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

1. Boat Harbour “The day-by-day countdown to the closing of Boat Harbour happens on a large painting erected in front of the Pictou Landing First Nation band council office, reports Joan Baxter: The painting depicts Boat Harbour as it was before it was dammed (and damned) in 1966, transformed from a healthy tidal estuary to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Carter, Anahad O'Connor, Bradley C. Johnston, CFL stadium, climate emergency, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, Extinction Rebellion, Glen Assoun wrongful conviction, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, Kaulbach Island, Lynn Jones, MacDonald Bridge, Melford Railway, red meat, stadium proposal, Tara Parker-Pope, Truro town council, Wrongful Conviction Day

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

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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.

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