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Rhetoric ramps up over non-resident property tax

Morning File, Tuesday, May 3, 2022

May 3, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Pitch your tent here … or else A Halifax staff report proposes sanctioning overnight tenting in some parks, and evicting people from all others in the municipality. The staff report, by parks and recreation special projects manager Max Chauvin and parks and recreation executive director Maggie MacDonald, comes to council today, Zane Woodford […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Abegweit, Amanda Mull, Canada Fitness Awards, co-operative movement, Confederation Bridge, COVID-19, Diane Marleau, Dr. Deborah Money, employment, Epekwitk, exercise, fitness, Halifax city council, homelessness, housing, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, non-resident landowners, pregnancy, Presidential Fitness Test, PRICED OUT, Raymond Sewell, salaries, SARS-CoV-2, tax policy, taxation, The Atlantic, University of British Columbia, youth employment

Councillor responds to claims that East Preston is underserved by transit system

November 30, 2021 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter Leave a Comment

District 2 councillor David Hendsbee says the Black community of East Preston once had weekend bus service. “There was weekend service in the past when the bus route was operated under the former ‘Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service’; a holdover service prior to HRM Amalgamation,” Hendsbee said in an e-mail. “The weekend service was […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured, Transit Tagged With: anti-Black racism, Black communities, Coun. David Hendsbee, East Hants Rural High School, East Preston, employment, Global, Grand Desert, Halifax, Halifax County Beaver Bank Transit Service, Halifax Transit, Lake Echo, Lawrencetown, Lucasville, marginalization, Marshall Williams, Mineville, Musgo Rider, Musquodoboit Harbour, North Preston, Porters Lake, Route 401, rural transit, Rural Transit Strategy, Seaforth, Tracey Jones-Grant, West Chezzetcook, Westphal

The Last Good Day Of The Year: Morning File, Wednesday, September 21, 2016

September 21, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News Views Noticed Government On campus In the harbour Footnotes News 1. The Shaw Group Wilderness™ Yesterday, Halifax council voted to direct staff to continue negotiating a purchase of a part of the Purcells Cove Backlands from The Shaw Group. Gloria McCluskey was the only dissenting vote. Shaw made an offer to the city, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Avon River Causeway, Cape Breton, Cogswell Interchange, Crystal Serenity, employment, Friends of the Avon River, G4S, George Baker, Lynn Carr, parking enforcement, Paul Withers, Purcells Cove backlands, Richard Starr, Robert Devet, Sy Montgomery, The Shaw Group, Veterinarians, William Langewiesche, Windsor-Mudflats, WSP

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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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