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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

Halifax council passes regulations for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft

September 22, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have received their final green light to start operating in Halifax. Regional council voted 13-4 in favour of taxi bylaw amendments to regulate ride-hailing companies, which the municipality calls transportation network companies, or TNCs, during its virtual meeting on Tuesday. Councillors Lindell Smith, Shawn Cleary, Stephen Adams and Richard...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Stephen Adams, Lyft, ride-hailing companies, transportation network company (TNC), Uber in Halifax

15-storey Dartmouth apartment building approved, including some federally-financed affordable and accessible units

September 11, 2020 By Zane Woodford

One-fifth of the units in a new 15-storey apartment building in Dartmouth will rent for less than market value, and 20 units will be accessible — as long as the developer secures financing with the federal government. The municipality’s Harbour East Marine Drive Community Council, tasked with development approvals on the Dartmouth side of the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: accessible housing, affordable housing, Armour Group, Councillor Sam Austin, Dean MacDougall, development Micmac Blvd, National Housing Strategy Program, Scott McCrea

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

Taking a stroll down The Avenue’s history

Morning File, Tuesday, July 7, 2020

July 7, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 6 Comments

News 1. Onslow fire hall shoot-up This item is written by Jennifer Henderson. Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) is currently conducting an investigation to determine if criminal charges should be laid against two police officers who pulled up in front of the Onslow-Belmont fire hall at about 10:30 am on Sunday April 19. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adrienne Lucas, African Nova Scotians, Atlantic bubble, Bill Casey, Black community, Black Nova Scotians, Christ Church Cemetery, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Sam Austin, COVID-19, Craig Ferguson, Danielle Nerman, Dartmouth Lake Road Church, DeeDee's Ice Cream, Elizabeth Cushing, grapenut ice cream, Halifax Transit, Hannah Young, Jennifer Crawford, Justice Minister Mark Furey, Nova Scotia mass shooting, Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade, RCMP Cpl. Lisa Croteau, RCMP shooting Lower Onslow, RCMP Supt Darren Campbell, Rev. Richard Preston, Sackville Terminal, self-isolation, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), The Avenue, travel restrictions, Victoria Road Baptist Church

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

Downtown Dartmouth renewal funding restored as council finishes COVID-19 budget adjustment list

May 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors voted to restore $2 million in funding for land purchases in downtown Dartmouth, along with money for three jobs related to the city’s climate change plan and two snow-shovelling programs at their budget committee meeting on Friday. The budget committee has been meeting nearly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: budget adjustment list, climate change, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, Downtown Dartmouth plan, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Water, Jane Fraser, Peter Duncan, property taxes, Sawmill River, sidewalk clearing, snow shovelling

Halifax councillors consider saving snow shovelling from COVID-19 cuts

May 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors hope to save a program that makes for more comprehensive snow clearing on the Halifax peninsula. During a budget committee meeting on Friday — the continuation of the rebuilding of the city’s recast COVID-19 budget with $85 million in cuts — councillors voted in […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: CAO Jacque Dubé, coronavirus, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Russell Walker, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, Denise Schofield., easing restrictions, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Mayor Mike Savage, pandemic, reopening beaches, sidewalk snow clearing, snow removal

Mostly non-COVID Halifax council round-up: Social policy, boulevard gardens, and more

May 12, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Coun. Lindell Smith’s social policy framework passed unanimously at Halifax regional council on Tuesday after a nearly three-year wait, though the councillor worried it lacked teeth. “Everything we do in the city, we have an impact on people’s lives,” Smith said. “We recognize in HRM that we have a role in social policy.” The social...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: boulevard garden, Const. Heidi Stevenson, coronavirus, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Sam Austin, COVID-19, HRM social policy framework, Jacques Dubé, John Traves, Mary Chisholm, pandemic

Halifax’s Come From Away moment

Morning File, Tuesday, January 14, 2020

January 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

News 1. Owls Head Provincial Park has been deleted from the province’s map of parks and protected areas Tim writes on the disappearance of Owls Head Provincial Park from the map of main protected areas on the province’s website. CBC’s Michael Gorman reported that the province removed Owls Head from a pending protected status list. […]

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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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