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Redesigning the Windsor Exchange: if we get it right, it could be great

June 25, 2019 By Erica Butler

Sometimes government makes an announcement, and even though you know it’s ages from reality, and will probably be announced and re-announced many times hence, you simply can’t help but get excited at the possibilities. Such is the case with the announcement by Transport Canada earlier this month that the federal department will help fund a...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: active transportation, Africville, Africville Park and National Historic Site, Bedford Highway Functional Plan, CAO Jacques Dubé, councillor Waye Mason, Eliza Jackson, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Karen Oldfield, MP Andy Fillmore, Port of Halifax, Transport Canada, Windsor Street Exchange

The city can do a better job clearing snow from sidewalks, says councillor Shawn Cleary

The city's new Integrated Mobility Plan may finally settle the argument over what's possible in Halifax sidewalk clearing standards.

February 7, 2018 By Erica Butler

If you walk, roll, bike, or bus around Halifax in the winter, even the relatively mild one we are currently having, you have probably muttered under your breath at some point, “when will they figure out how to clear the *&^%$ snow in this city?” The short answer, for another year, is: not quite yet....

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: councillor Shawn Cleary, Eliza Jackson, Erica Butler, sidewalk snow clearing

Halifax might finally solve the Macdonald bridge bikeway access, though the fix could still take years

August 1, 2017 By Erica Butler

There’s been a certain amount of jubilation surrounding the latest city staff report on fixing the access to the Macdonald Bridge Bikeway. A couple of councillors at last week’s Transportation Standing Committee (TSC) meeting joked that it must feel like Christmas for the handful of cycling advocates gathered in the gallery. To be fair, they...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: David MacIsaac, Ecology Action Centre, Eliza Jackson, Kelsey Lane, Macdonald Bridge bike flyover, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Transportation Standing Committee (TSC)

Cycling Collision Card will help alleviate confusion after accidents

September 27, 2016 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

A friend of mine was hit by a car last year, and because of her modest income, she refused an ambulance ride from the scene to the hospital, where she could be properly assessed for a head injury. Days later she wound up in Emergency anyway, suffering from the tell-tale signs of a concussion. Setting […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ben Buckwold, Bicycle Nova Scotia, Cycling Collision Card, Dal Bike Centre, Eliza Jackson, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Kelsey Lane

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

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

Listen to the episode here.

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