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Hubbards residents cite ‘dangerously close calls’ along Highway 3, call for safer streets

July 12, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

Hubbards residents concerned by the frequent “dangerously close calls” between pedestrians and vehicles are advocating for safer streets via a newly formed community group. Melanie McIvor created the Hubbards Streetscape Project Facebook group on June 12 with a stated mission of advocating, planning and delivering on a safer community.  Within one week, the group’s membership […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Erin DiCarlo, Gordon Tate, Highway 3, Hubbards, Hubbards Streetscape Project, Integrated Mobility Plan, Matthew Morash, Melanie McIvor, Nova Scotia Main Streets Initiative report, provincial roads, rural active transportation network, Stephanie Blois

Halifax Transit operator taken to hospital with COVID-19 symptoms, Sackville Terminal closed

July 6, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. One Halifax Transit driver was taken to hospital Monday morning after feeling COVID-19 symptoms, two other drivers were being tested, and the Sackville Terminal was temporarily closed. Ken Wilson, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508, the union representing Halifax Transit operators, confirmed the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Brett Ruskin, bus driver, contact tracing, coronavirus, COVID-19, Erin DiCarlo, Halifax Transit, Ken Wilson, pandemic, Sackville Terminal

Halifax to measure ‘citizen satisfaction and public confidence’ in police

July 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The municipality is hoping to find out what citizens think of the cops with a new survey, and it’s looking for a polling firm to do the work. Halifax posted a request for proposals (RFP) Tuesday looking for a contractor for a standing offer to “allow HRP and Halifax District RCMP to establish an ongoing […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: citizen survey on policing, Corporate Research Associates, Erin DiCarlo, Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, Margaret Brigley, Narrative Research, RFP policing survey

Speed humps coming to some Halifax-area school zones

June 15, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city is planning to install speed humps on 10 streets around seven schools in Halifax and Sackville this summer, but a large portion of the municipality is left off the map. Halifax regional councillors wanted to speed up efforts to slow down traffic across the municipality during this year’s original, pre-COVID-19 budget process. They...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Paul Russell, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Steve Craig, Councillor Tim Outhit, Erin DiCarlo, School Zone Speed Humps, speed hump, traffic calming measures

How Halifax got its hands on 100,000 N95-equivalent masks as the pandemic hit Nova Scotia

June 8, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. On March 17, when Nova Scotia had just had its first confirmed case of COVID-19, Halifax placed an order for 100,000 masks. Amid a global shortage, the city found a connection through a seemingly unlikely source — a lighting company based in Bedford, Nichent Energy […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erin DiCarlo, masks, N95 masks, Nichent Energy Inc, pandemic, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Terry Klironomos

Another COVID-19 case at Halifax Transit’s Burnside transit garage

May 4, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Update, May 5: the worker who reported that they had tested positive had in fact tested negative. Transit management corrected the record on Tuesday, May 5. There’s been another case of COVID-19 at Halifax Transit’s bus garage in Burnside. Ken Wilson, president of the Amalgamated […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Erin DiCarlo, false positive, Halifax Transit Burnside garage, pandemic

Halifax Transit moving forward together, but without some Beaver Bankers

Morning File, Thursday, December 5, 2019

December 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. 198 workers out of a job as Web.com closes Yarmouth location Almost 200 employees at Web.com in Yarmouth were told yesterday that their location is shutting down next year. The company offers internet services to businesses and has locations in New Glasgow and Halifax. The Yarmouth location has been operating for 18 years. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beaver Bank bus route, Bryony House, bus route plan, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Debert Court, Dion Mouland, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dominique Amit, Erin DiCarlo, Fadila Chater, Halifax Transit, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Jenna Young, Katherine VanBuskirk, Ken Wilson, Kevin Chapman, Kristin Gardiner, logging scars, Lyle Mailman, Maria MacIntosh, Matt Dagley, Mayor Pam Mood, Melissa Walton, Moving Forward Together (MFT), National Housing Co-Investment Fund, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Ocean View, Sandy Ross, Shannex, Small History Nova Scotia, Special Care Act, taser, Tina Comeau, Web.com, Wildlands League

“Choices made now are critical”

Morning File, Thursday, September 26, 2019

September 26, 2019 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

News 1. Coal plants and the Greens Green Party leader Elizabeth May was in Halifax yesterday, and reporter Jennifer Henderson went to ask some questions; Henderson writes: “By 2030, the Canadian grid will be de-carbonized,” May declared, “from coast to coast to coast. Our ‘Mission Possible’ platform accelerates this shift to zero carbon emissions, which […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: accessibility, armoured vehicle, Barrington Street bus lane, Barrington Street multi-use trail, Councillor Lindell Smith, Erin DiCarlo, fishing, Gus Reed, Haley Ryan, Halifax Transit tickets, Hope Blooms, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), James McGregor Stuart Society, malnutrition, Mamadou Wade, Michael Tutton, Minister Leo Glavine, Murray Warrington Park, Stephen Archibald and Lunenburg, transit fare hike, Trapeze Software, Zane Woodford

Child care workers go round and round with bus complaints

Morning File, Friday, September 20, 2019

September 20, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 3 Comments

News 1. Blackface Writes El Jones: When the furor over Trudeau’s Blackface photos dies down, to be referred to as an “embarrassing incident” or “controversial,” Black people like Abdilahi Elmi will still be facing deportation. Muslim Canadians will still be on the no-fly list. White nationalist editorials will still be commissioned by major newspapers under […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotians, Africville, anti-Black racism, Boat Harbour, bus drivers refusing service, Chad Lindsay, charity, charity and social media, Count Me In, Emma Davie, Erin DiCarlo, food banks, Francis Campbell, Halifax Transit, International Decade for People of African Descent, Joseph Farrow, Julianne Harnish, Kate Gilmore, Lisa Cameron, Minister Tony Ince, Northern Pulp environmental assessment, piano lessons, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), political speed dating, Premier Stephen McNeil, Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT), sexual assault, The Nook

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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