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Halifax council allows appeal, overturning committee’s decision to approve Cunard block development

September 30, 2020 By Zane Woodford

After a long presentation and a longer debate, regional council decided Southwest Properties’ 16-storey proposal for the waterfront was just too big and strayed too far from the rules. The city’s design review committee approved the plans in July. As the Examiner reported the next day: The site is known as the Cunard lot —...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Coun. Bill Karsten, Coun. Waye Mason, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, Design Review Committee, development Cunard Block, Fran Payne, HRM By Design, Jeanne Cruikshank, Jennifer Chapman, Jim Spatz, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mayor Mike Savage, Southwest Properties, Ted Farquhar, Waterfront Place

People use the internet differently

Morning File, Tuesday, August 4, 2020

August 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. An exercise in obfuscation I wrote this morning: The Halifax Examiner is one of eight media organizations that has been petitioning the court to unseal documents related to the RCMP’s investigation of the April 18/19 mass murders. The documents in question are the “Information to Obtain”s (ITOs) a search warrant, which the RCMP […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: climate change, Cunard Block, Design Review Committee, Develop Nova Scotia, Examiner website, Halifax boardwalk, Halifax waterfront, Jennifer Chapman, Liscombe Lodge, Morning File, sea level rise, Southwest Properties

Halifax’s design review committee approves 16-storey waterfront development from Southwest Properties

July 31, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city’s design review committee has rejected advice from planning staff and approved an application from Southwest Properties for a 16-storey building on the waterfront. The site is known as the Cunard lot — located on the waterfront along Lower Water Street between Morris and Bishop streets, next to Southwest’s Bishop’s Landing condo development. It’s...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cunard Block, density bonusing, Design Review Committee, Jennifer Chapman, Jim Spatz, land use by-law, Southwest Properties

Council preview: Uber rules, climate plan, cooling-off period for bureaucrats

January 13, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Rules for Uber, a plan for climate change, and a cooling-off period for politicians and staff are all on the agenda for Halifax regional council’s meeting this week. The meeting, starting at 10am Tuesday, also includes an appeal hearing for a design review committee decision at 1pm and a public hearing on a Bedford Highway...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: CAO Richard Butts, climate emergency, councillor cool-off, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, Design Review Committee, development Barrington Street, development Bedford Highway, HalifACT 2050, Halifax city council, lobbyist, Old South Suburb Heritage Conservation District Plan, Pathos Properties Inc, perivale + taylor, Police Chief Dan Kinsella, RCMP Chief Superintendent Janis Gray, review of policing, ride-hailing companies, taxi bylaw, Uber, vulnerable sector checks

The Design Review Committee just chucked the HRM By Design rules out the window; now let’s pretend the Centre Plan matters

Morning File, Friday, November 15, 2019

November 15, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 6 Comments

November subscription drive Once again, I’m running out of time to cajole and beg for new subscriptions. However, Iris insists that I remind readers that if you buy an annual subscription this month, we will give you an Examiner T-shirt. Here’s one modelled by my friend Lisa Osmond: Also, I’ll have more details Monday, but […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Airbnb, Andy Filmore, Bay Ferries, David Wachsmuth, Design Review Committee, Don Cherry, FOIPOP request Yarmouth ferry, HRM By Design, Joel Sparks, Julia-Simone Rutgers, Justice Duncan Beveridge, Justice Joel Fichaud, Justice Peter Bryson, Justice Peter Rosinski, Lisa Manninger, Mary Campbell, Nadia Gonzalez, Nicole LaFosse Parker, Nova Centre hotel, Paul Sampson, PC caucus, peak poppy, Peter Clewes, Remembrance Day, Samanda Ritch, Scott Campbell, Skye Halifax, Smitty's restaurant, Stephen Archibald and brooms, Sutton Place Hotel, Tim's dad, Twisted Sisters, United Gulf Developments Ltd., war, Zane Woodford

Why would anyone seriously think that the Downtown Dartmouth plan would result in anything useful?

Morning File, Wednesday, October 24, 2018

October 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Carbon plan “Nova Scotians will pay more for electricity, gasoline, and home-heating  over the next four years as part of the province’s plan to reduce its carbon footprint and avoid a carbon tax Ottawa announced it will impose on four other provinces beginning this January,” reports Jennifer Henderson. “But Premier Stephen McNeil insists […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: bullshit, carbon plan, carbon tax, Design Review Committee, Downtown Dartmouth plan, highway death Musquodoboit Harbour, HRM By Design, innovation, Innovation Rebate Program, investigation, IWK CEO spending scandal, Michael Gorman, Michelin, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Stephen D'Arcy, Tracey Kitch, Zane Woodford

The public company that runs the convention centre will soon be held even less accountable

Morning File, Monday, September 24, 2018

September 24, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Right to “no” week “Happy Right to Know Week!’” writes Stephen Kimber. “It starts today in case you hadn’t noticed. Why would you?” Here in Stephen McNeil’s Nova Scotia — where it is always Their Right Not to Tell Us Day/Week/Month/Year/Mandate/Ever — we should mark the occasion by lowering the flag to half-mast […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ben Eoin, Bill 51, Chronicle Herald advertorial, Danny Chedrawe, Design Review Committee, Doyle Block, Eddie Rouvalis, Events East, Halifax Convention Centre competitiveness, John Leland, Mary Campbell, McMansion Hell, Morden Schmidt, Robie and College towers, Robie Street construction map, Steve Parcell, The Village Voice, view of Citadel Hill, Westwood Construction

John Lohr plays footsies with the reprehensibles: Morning File, Friday, March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Dirty Dealing, Part 3 “In a study published in 2017, Dalhousie University researchers reported that air levels of three volatile organic compounds (VOCs) near the Abercrombie pulp mill in Pictou County exceeded cancer risk thresholds and ‘are of primary health concern in terms of population risk,’” reports Linda Pannozzo, who goes on to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill 72 passed, Design Review Committee, free-speech advocates, John Lohr, Linda Pannozzo, maritime Centre face lift, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre wind, pedestrian struck Nantucket Avenue, Ron Burdock, Stephen Archibald's house, Threats made against schools, wind study, Zane Woodford

Blue Skies Forever: Morning File, Wednesday, December 7, 2016

December 7, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 31 Comments

News 1. More on the education battle • The work-to-rule job action is resulting in cancelled school bookings for artistic productions around the province, reports Katy Parsons for the CBC, resulting in financial difficulties for arts organizations: The contract dispute has meant cancellations and empty seats for other school theatrical performances, such as Eastern Front Theatre’s Dickens’ A […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Pinsent, Benjamin Wier House, Department of Labour, Design Review Committee, Diana Whalen, Don Mills, Don Savage, Halkirk Properties, Hilary Prince, Iain Rankin, John McCracken, Katy Parsons, Michel Samson, Olivia Bako, Peter Kelly, Steve Streatch, wage increases chart, work-to-rule, Zane Woodford

Make people work more so they are not so tired: Morning File, Friday, November 25, 2016

November 25, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

November Subscription Drive Jane Gagle-Bennett writes: The Halifax Examiner is independent journalism at its best, and when people ask me why I subscribe — you live in Portland, Indiana, and you subscribe to The Halifax Examiner??? That’s in Nova Scotia! In Canada! — I tell them that I’ve learned to look at my town, county, state, country […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alton Gas, Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs, Cogswell Street Interchange, Copenhagen, Design Review Committee, Fatigue Management Program, Francis Campbell, Graham Steele, Jane Gagle-Bennett, living wage, Østerbro, Peter Rukavina, Sipekne’katik, Stephen Archibald, Stephen McNeil apology, teachers strike

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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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