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Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 2

December 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 18 Comments

At long last, and in the shadow of a proposed capital budget which significantly underfunds HRM’s active transportation transformation, here’s part two of your update on some of the many bikeways projects underway right now in the city. You can find part one here. Brunswick Street & Spring Garden Road:  functional design (early and late […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Bedford Highway Functional Plan, bikeways, Brunswick Street bike lane, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Forest Hills Parkway, local street bikeways, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway

Proposed city budget pulls the wheels off bike network

December 5, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I really, really wanted to write part two of the update on bikeway projects this week. But perhaps it is wiser to step back for a moment from documenting the planning progress around bike infrastructure, to consider whether or not this municipality actually has the intention to follow through and build what’s being planned. This […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: AAA bikeway network, bike infrastructure, bikeways, CAO Jacques Dubé, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Kelsey Lane

City outsources Heads Up Halifax, continues focus on “shared responsibility”

November 28, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Last week, just in time for Crosswalk Safety Awareness Day, the city of Halifax revived its Heads Up Halifax campaign, but with a twist on past years. This year, instead of paying someone to come up with more ads like this: …the city announced it was going to ask citizens for their ideas on how […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Active Transportation Advisory Committee, crosswalk safety promotion, Crosswalk Safety Society of Nova Scotia, Ella Dodson, Erica Butler, Geoff MacLellan, Heads Up Halifax, HRM Safe Streets for Everyone, Martyn Williams, National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), Norm Collins, Walk and Roll Halifax

Erica Butler’s deep dive into the transportation beat

Morning File, Thursday, November 8, 2018

November 8, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 3 Comments

News 1. Erica Butler As the Examiner’s transportation columnist, Erica Butler gets into the nitty gritty of, yep, transportation: she attends the planning meetings, pesters the bureaucrats for more information, and interviews the experts and advocates. The resulting columns are incredibly detailed and thorough. For some readers, this holds little interest. But for others, Butler’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Boston Christmas tree, cargo plane crash Halifax airport, CFL franchise in Halifax, Chronicle Herald, Entrevestor, Erica Butler, James Drage, journalism, Orpheus, Peter Moreira, Quentin Casey, T-shirt

Update on ongoing bike projects, Part 1

October 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

I first wrote about bikes in Halifax back in 2003 when the city’s first bike plan, the “Blueprint for a Bicycle Friendly HRM,” was released and approved. Fifteen years and a half-dozen plans later, there is something that looks like momentum in the building of bike infrastructure in the city. There has been a slow […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: bikeways, David MacIsaac, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP)

As reliable as a beer commercial

Morning File, Tuesday, September 18, 2018

September 18, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

Erica Butler here, helping out with Morningfile today. Fear not, Tim’s still all over it. News 1. Burnside jail Tim reports from the hearing for Burnside jail prisoner Maurice Pratt, continuing to shed light on the situation in the facility. Prisoners launched a protest in August asking for better conditions at the jail, including access […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Agave in Public Gardens, Blair Rhodes, Cape Sharp Tidal, Chelsea Probert murder trial, clearcutting, dry wells, Emera, Erica Butler, Halifax school numbers, Jennifer Henderson, marijuana labelling, Marina von Stackelberg, Michael Gorman, Minister Derek Mombourquette, OpenHydro, Preston Mulligan, Sean Myles, Shaina Luck, Stacy Pineau, tidal turbine, Yarmouth Ferry numbers, Yvette d'Entremont

Three buses a day now connect Halifax and the South Shore. Let’s make sure the service works.

September 13, 2018 By Erica Butler

Well, I’ll be darned. While Saskatchewan mourns the loss of its extensive regional bus service (shut down by an austerity budget in 2017), and while Greyhound pulls out what remains of its routes in western Canada, Nova Scotia is testing out subsidized regional bus transit. That’s a very good thing. If we learned anything from...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Communities Culture and Heritage (CCH), Ed Halverson, Erica Butler, Halifax to South Shore bus, Maritime Bus, Nova Scotia Community Transportation Network, Nova Scotia Transportation and Infrastrucutre Renewal (NSTIR)

Poo in the water, and other calamities

Morning File, Friday, August 24, 2018

August 24, 2018 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

Good morning, folks. Erica Butler here at the Morningfile keyboard today. News 1. Burnside jail “The prisoner protest at the Burnside jail is in part sparked by the move to the direct supervision model,” reports El Jones: Both staff and prisoners say that the change to new day rooms has been disorganized, that there is […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Afua Cooper, beach closures, Brett Bundale, Canadian Coalition for Firearms Rights, Cape Sharp Tidal, cow patty bingo, Energy Minister Derek Mombourqeuette, Erica Butler, Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy (FORCE), Garron Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Graeme Benjamin, gun lobby, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jagpreet Kit Singh, Jeff Waugh, Justice Joshua Arnold, Louis Reznick, monument to the Maroons, Naval Energies, Neeta Kumar-Britten, OpenHydro, Project Sunshine new report, Sea King helicopters, Smiling Goat written decision, Starfish Properties, Taryn Grant, tidal turbine, Tom Ayers

News from the “under-explored global petroleum province”

Morning File, Tuesday, August 21

August 21, 2018 By Erica Butler Leave a Comment

Hi there. It’s Erica Butler at the Morningfile wheel again today. News 1. Justice department asked to please release documents, three years later The Nova Scotia justice department has been asked to release documents related to the death of Clayton Cromwell, who died of a methadone overdose in 2014 in custody at the Central Nova […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: basic income pilot Ontario, Catherine L. Mah, Catherine Tully, Clayton Cromwell, Councillor Sam Austin, Devin Maxwell, Dexel Developments towers Spring Garden Road, Erica Butler, Harold and Michelle MacKay, John Gallant, Matt Higgs, Michelle Littlefield Bielaski, Morocco, motorcycle vehicle collision Main Street Dartmouth, Northern Pulp cleanup, Offshore Energy Research Association, Open Hydro, Premier Doug Ford, Saudi medical students exodus, shark video, Sherri Borden Colley, Steve Tonner, WingFest, Zane Woodford

Racist rallies and invasive species in Nova Scotia

Morning File, Monday, August 20, 2018

August 20, 2018 By Erica Butler 9 Comments

Hi, I’m Erica Butler, your Examiner transportation columnist, filling in for Tim today and tomorrow. News 1. Film industry Writes Stephen Kimber: IATSE Local 849, the union that represents most film technicians in the province, has statistics showing its members worked 40,687 days in 2014, earning $11,120,665 in gross pay and pensions. In 2017, those […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Rankin, Brian Hill, Bruce Wark, Cape Sharp Tidal, child refugees in Canada, Erica Butler, invasive chain pickerel, Jenny Cowley, Kejimkujik National Park, National Citizens' Alliance (NCA), Paul Withers, Rebecca Lau, Silas Brown, tidal turbine

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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.

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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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