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Halifax Mayor Mike Savage launches re-election campaign, releases platform

September 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Mayor Mike Savage launched his re-election campaign Tuesday, selling himself to voters as a consensus-building leader focused on issues like racial justice and affordable housing. The 60-year-old two-term mayor is the clear frontrunner in a three-way race for the mayor’s chair, up against Coun. Matt Whitman and Max Taylor, a newcomer to politics. The only […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Elections, Featured, News Tagged With: April Howe, Chris Lydon, Debbie Eisan, Diana Whalen, Halifax Mayor Mike Savage, mayoral race

Why the long face? Morning File, Thursday, April 20, 2017

April 20, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. Pre-election spending spree Jennifer Henderson has updated her ongoing scorecard of pre-election spending by the McNeil government, and I created the following chart so you can follow along: I’ll continually update the chart as more announcements are made. 2. Butterfield Bank, Stephen Lund, and… Sears? On the above chart, you’ll note that on Tuesday Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: black dolls, Butterfield Bank, Cape Breton tourism, conquered people, Diana Whalen, Heather Read, Judy Haiven, Mary Campbell, MSVU, Nikki Jamieson, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), payroll rebates, pit pony, polygraph tests, Ray Hudson, Royal Ontario Museum, Sears call centre, Stephen Lund, Stephen McNeil's pre-election spending spree, tuition raise

Burn, Baby, Burn: Morning File, Saturday, March 25, 2017

March 25, 2017 By El Jones 5 Comments

News 1. Winning Ah, Mount Allison University. Perhaps you can take a class in the new Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, opened in 2014 and funded entirely by private donors, such as Power Corporation of Canada, whose investments include Total S.A., one of the “seven supermajor oil companies in the world” (last seen paying fines […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Arnold Viersen, burning tires, Centre Plan wording, Diana Whalen, Divest MTA, Gloria Jollymore, Lorne Grabher, Mount Allison University, Peter Mansbridge, Robert Campbell, Troy Grabher, women in Nova Scotia Legislature

Six steps for making the Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Park a reality

January 31, 2017 By Chris_Miller 4 Comments

Several months have passed since Halifax Regional Council voted down a sprawling development proposal for the Birch Cove Lakes. That near-unanimous decision to save the future regional park was an important moment for the city. The mayor and councillors chose to listen to the public (1,420 letters were submitted, nearly all in favour of the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured Tagged With: Birch Cove Lakes, Chris Miller, Diana Whalen, HRM regional plan, Tim Outhit

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

Muskrat Falls is all about power: Morning File, Monday, October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. Muskrat Falls “An ongoing blockade against the Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador took a dramatic turn on Saturday as land protectors stormed and occupied the Muskrat Falls work site itself,” reports Justin Brake, editor of the Newfoundland and Labrador Independent: As about 200 […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Younger, Candice MacLennan, Cape Breton, carbon tax, Climate Change Nova Scotia, David Nuke, decimated forest, Diana Whalen, fossil fuels, Joanne Light, Jordan Brennan, Justin Brake, Liz Solo, Muskrat Falls, Nunatukavut, Rachel Ward, Robert Devet, Stephen McNeil

PRICED OUT

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents
PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.

2020 mass murders

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.

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.

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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