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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

‘I could win:’ Halifax has a third mayoral candidate — and he’s famous on TikTok

September 8, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

There’s now a third candidate for mayor of Halifax Regional Municipality, and one councillor will be acclaimed for a fourth term. Nominations closed at 5pm on Tuesday and the municipality updated its list of official candidates soon after. The election is scheduled for Oct. 17. Max Taylor has entered the mayoral race, joining current Mayor […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Councillor Tim Outhit, Max Taylor, mayoral race

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

Tank rethink: ‘Buyer’s remorse’ has councillors reconsidering armoured vehicle for Halifax police

June 4, 2020 By Zane Woodford 11 Comments

Halifax councillors who voted in favour of an armoured vehicle for police are considering cancelling the purchase in the wake of protests over the latest police violence against Black people. The purchase of an armoured vehicle was approved during the fiscal 2019-2020 budget process at a cost of $500,000. Police presented the idea to the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: acting Chief of Police Robin McNeil, armoured vehicle, body-worn cameras, community response officer (CRO), Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, Desmond Cole, Halifax city operating budget 2020/21, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Mayor Mike Savage, militarization of police, police brutality, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, Policing, tank

Racism, cops, media, and performative bullshit

Morning File, Monday, June 1, 2020

June 1, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Sure, budget surpluses are great, but have you ever experienced investments in long-term care? Stephen Kimber’s column this week points out one of the many obvious but under-discussed aspects of how COVID-19 has caused so much death and suffering for people in long-term care homes: that the state of LTCs is the direct […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexa MacLean, Alexandra Cox, Amy Goodman, Andrew Powell, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, armoured vehicle, Baseball by the Book podcast, Bishop, Councillor Tim Outhit, Darcy Dobson, Dodger Stadium, Elina Shatkin, Eric Nusbaum, Jane C. Hu, journalist attacked, Justice for Regis, Justin Brake, Justin McGuire, Kate MacDonald, La Loma, Los Angeles, militarization of police, Minister Catherine McKenna, MP Darren Fisher, New glasgow police, Omar Jimenez, Palo Verde, Peter MacKay, police violence, public toilets, public washrooms, racial justice, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, riot gear, Roz Wyman, targeting of journalists, un-Canadian

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

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

What would you build if Halifax council gave you $20 million?

Morning File, Wednesday, December 11, 2019

December 11, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 9 Comments

News 1. Halifax is getting a stadium Council voted in favour of spending $20 million on a stadium, although the Atlantic Schooners will have to find a new location, Zane Woodford with The Star Halifax reports. A staff report recommended spending the $20 million, but told Schooner Sports and Entertainment (SSE) its preferred spot of […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Betty MacKenzie, Black man tasered, CFL stadium, Councillor David Hendsbee, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Waye Mason, crane incident Sydney, doctor shortage, Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital, Edith Marshall, Elizabeth Chiu, Elwin LeRoux, ER Closures, Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) privacy breach, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Jo-Anne Landsburg, Lucy MacDonald, MLA Lloyd Hines, MP Sean Fraser, puppy mill, Quinpool Road, Rob Currie, school closure, Sheet Harbour, Sheet Harbour and Area Chamber of Commerce and Civic Affairs, Sheila Martin, stadium financing, traffic stop, Tyler Kennedy, Zane Woodford

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

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Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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