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Halifax Pavilion to be used as temporary shelter, other housing projects secure funding

by Zane Woodford March 1, 2022October 20, 2022

A former all-ages music venue in Halifax is being converted into an overnight shelter, but only for a few weeks. In a news release on Tuesday, the provincial Department of Community Services announced that the municipally-owned building on Cogswell Street on the Halifax Common will be used as a 25-bed shelter, open from 9pm to […]

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City Hall

Committee recommends adoption of Halifax Common plan despite calls for more consultation

by Zane Woodford January 20, 2022October 20, 2022

A member of the Blue Jays coaching staff signs autographs at a Spring Training game

Morning File

What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

by Philip Moscovitch January 10, 2022January 25, 2023

A rendering of the provincial government's new plans for the Summer Street parkade. It is a nine story concrete parking structure.

City Hall

Province changes QEII hospital parkade plans again, further encroaching on Halifax Common

by Zane Woodford September 18, 2020October 20, 2022

Pathways on the Halifax Common are open for social distant transportation, but the park remains closed. A sign informs the public of the restrictions.

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You can walk the Halifax Common, but other active transportation paths still closed, says city

by Erica Butler April 15, 2020October 20, 2022

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

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2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

Tag: Halifax Common

Halifax Pavilion to be used as temporary shelter, other housing projects secure funding

Committee recommends adoption of Halifax Common plan despite calls for more consultation

What is the pandemic doing to sports — and other — reporting?

Province changes QEII hospital parkade plans again, further encroaching on Halifax Common

You can walk the Halifax Common, but other active transportation paths still closed, says city

Halifax council approves next budget with 6.3% hike on average tax bill

Cookbooks, and what they say about us

The failure to address gender-based violence is much bigger than Brad Johns

Nova Scotia Power president Peter Gregg gets a 65% raise, now makes $1.73 million

Sam Austin wants municipality to ask Nova Scotia for response on infilling at Dartmouth Cove