• City Hall
  • Province House
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Investigation
  • Journalism
  • Commentary
  • @Tim_Bousquet
  • Log In

Halifax Examiner

An independent, adversarial news site in Halifax, NS

  • Home
  • About
    • Terms and Conditions
    • Commenting policy
  • Archives
  • Contact us
  • Subscribe
  • Donate
  • Manage your account
  • Swag

Halifax Transit worker who reported testing positive for COVID-19 actually tested negative

May 5, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Halifax Transit now says a worker at its Burnside garage does not have COVID-19. On Monday, the Halifax Examiner reported that an email was sent to transit staff Sunday night notifying them that a worker at the garage had tested positive. In another email to […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: COVID-19 testing, Dave Reage, false positive, Halifax Transit Burnside garage, Ken Wilson

Who killed the electric bus? Halifax Transit turns down electric bus funding, opts to stick with diesel instead

July 10, 2019 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

City staff are “mothballing” an electric bus pilot project for which council had already approved $1 million in funding, in the process turning down another $2.25 million in federal funding secured to help fund the project, according to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information request. An electric bus generates about 62 fewer tonnes of […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Investigation, News Tagged With: climate change, CUTRIC, Dave Reage, electric buses, Halifax Transit, Jacques Dubé, Josipa Petrunic, Nova Scotia Power, PTIF, WSP

How and why electric buses will (probably) come to Halifax

January 24, 2019 By Erica Butler 17 Comments

Halifax’s first electric buses won’t hit the road as soon as planned, but don’t blame your local city councillor or the leadership at Halifax Transit for the delay. Blame Doug Ford. Among Ford’s many post-election climate change policy reversals was the cancellation of two funding contributions to electric bus pilot projects in York Region and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: ABB, Brendan Elliott, Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), Dave Reage, electric buses, Halifax Transit, Josipa Petrunic, New Flyer, Nova Bus, Nova Scotia Power, Premier Doug Ford, Proterra, Shawn Connell, Siemens

Two guys talking smack at the end of the bar really isn’t stadium news

Morning File, Thursday, December 6, 2018

December 6, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Northern Pulp I reported yesterday: Northern Pulp Mill is suing seven named and “various other” unnamed fishermen who the company says have blockaded survey boats from conducting the surveys necessary to route a pipe from the mill into the Northumberland Strait. Named as defendants are Edwin Donald Shaw, Allan Francis MacCarthy, Chad MacCarthy, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Beswick, Bruce Chapman, CFL Stadium PR, Dave Reage, Glen Bannon, Halifax Transit management, Mary Campbell, Mike Spicer, Nathan Colman, Northern Pulp, November weather, Sydney Harbor Investment Partners (SHIP), Tom Cochrane

What’s wrong with the Barrington Street bridge ramp, and can we fix it?

April 26, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Last week I wrote about the new street network being proposed for the land currently occupied by the Cogswell interchange, and asked why the city was proposing not to include a transit priority corridor along the full stretch of Barrington Street that’s being re-designed. The current plan does include some transit priority lanes on Barrington […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: Barrington Street bridge ramp, Cogswell Interchange demolition, Cogswell redesign, Dave Reage, David McCusker, Erica Butler, Erin Blay, Gottingen bus lane, Halifax Transit, Harrison McGrath, Marcus Garnet, Patricia Hughes, Patty Cuttell-Busby

IMPing along: under Halifax’s new transportation plan, what will change?

Highlights from council's opening budget talks on transportation and the Integrated Mobility Plan.

February 1, 2018 By Erica Butler

Last week, Halifax council met with city staffers to talk budgets, big picture style, in advance of nitty-gritty budget deliberations in the coming months. It’s worth recapping some of the highlights from the discussions for the city’s two big transportation departments — Transportation and Public Works (TPW) and Halifax Transit. (You can check out the...

This content is for subscribers only.
Log In Subscribe

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bruce Zvaniga, Councillor Sam Austin, councillor Shawn Cleary, Councillor Tim Outhit, councillor Tony Mancini, councillor Waye Mason, Dave Reage, Erica Butler, Halifax Council opening budget talks, Halifax Transit, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Mayor Savage, Transportation and Public Works (TPW)

Would you like the flaming pile of poo or the non-flaming pile of poo? Morning File, Wednesday, June 7, 2017

June 7, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Halifax Transit director rejects council direction to get outside expert help Halifax Transit is clearly an agency that is hostile to the idea of outside help, and its “baffling” report to city council is a clear red flag for problematic leadership from transit head Dave Reage. By Erica Butler. Click here to read “Too good for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Dave Reage, developers in Halifax, first-past-the-post, Halifax Transit report, Kevin Joseph MacDonald, Mark Coffin, Mary Thibeault, Matt Whitman says something stupid, Mike Woods, Nassim and Solomon Ghosn, Prince's Lodge Motel, sexual assault Middle Musquodoboit, Springtide, Voting challenge, W.M. Fares, Westwood Group development on Robie Street, zoning restrictions, zoning rules

Too good for second opinions? Halifax Transit refuses expert help

This is clearly a transit agency that is hostile to the idea of outside help, and its "baffling" report to city council is a clear red flag for problematic leadership from transit head Dave Reage.

June 6, 2017 By Erica Butler 3 Comments

Halifax Transit’s latest report to council’s Transportation Standing Committee can be summed up in a word: No. Six months ago Halifax Regional Council unanimously requested a report on hiring a consultant to review the corridor routes of Halifax Transit’s Moving Forward Together (MFT) plan. You may remember reading about it here. On Wednesday, June 7, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: corridor routes, Dave Reage, Halifax Transit report, Moving Forward Together (MFT), Scott Edgar, Transportation Standing Committee

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

Please subscribe to The Tideline.

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

Sign up for email notification

Sign up to receive email notification of new posts on the Halifax Examiner. Note: signing up for email notification of new posts is NOT subscribing to the Halifax Examiner. To subscribe, click here.

Recent posts

  • Nova Scotia’s COVID numbers are creeping upward, as likely community spread appears in two communities February 24, 2021
  • It’s official: New Scotland has a new premier February 24, 2021
  • Council approves rezoning for 17-storey apartment buildings in Clayton Park February 24, 2021
  • Halifax to contract for accessible taxi services February 23, 2021
  • 3 new cases of COVID-19 are announced in Nova Scotia on Tuesday, Feb. 23 February 23, 2021

Commenting policy

All comments on the Halifax Examiner are subject to our commenting policy. You can view our commenting policy here.

Copyright © 2021