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Halifax council votes to plan for Centennial Pool replacement, support universal basic income, and more

June 28, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

When Halifax finally builds a competition-ready pool, it might not be on the peninsula. And that’s fine by the area councillors. Coun. Waye Mason brought a multi-faceted motion to council on Tuesday aiming to get staff moving on a “deep dive” into a new 50-metre pool for the municipality: That Halifax Regional Council direct the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Bruno Elliot MacNeil, Canada Games Centre, centennial pool, Cornwallis committee, Cornwallis Street, Coun. Kathryn Morse, Coun. Lindell Smith, Coun. Shawn Cleary, Coun. Waye Mason, Dalplex, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Needham Community Centre, Sportsplex, United Memorial Church, Zane Woodford

Group wants heritage designation for house of Nova Scotia’s first Black doctor

June 28, 2022 By Matthew Byard, Local Journalism Initiative reporter 1 Comment

A local historian says the city should preserve a home where the province’s first Black physician, Dr. Clement Ligoure, operated a clinic and helped victims of the Halifax Explosion. Last Saturday, Development Options Halifax, a group that says it’s working to preserve the city’s historic, cultural and social identity, and design, hosted a tour through […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, Featured Tagged With: African Nova Scotian, anti-Black racism, Atlantic Advocate, Dr. Clement Ligoure, Friends of the Halifax Common, Halifax Explosion, Halifax Regional Municipality, No. 2 Construction Battalion, Racism, William Breckenridge

Atlantic Gold’s parent company hints it may halt its Nova Scotia operation

After St Barbara Ltd issued a statement falsely blaming the province for permitting delays, its stock price fell by 14%.

June 25, 2022 By Joan Baxter

St Barbara Ltd, the Australian mining company that owns Atlantic Gold and Atlantic Mining NS, which operates the Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River, is in trouble. This week, St Barbara’s share prices crashed 14% “to a multi-year low,” after the company released a statement that warns of “near-term risk of disruption” at...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Environment, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, Atlantic Mining NS, Australia, Beaver Dam, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, CEAA, Craig Jetson, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, DFO, DNRR, Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association, environmental assessment, environmental charges, Fifteen-Mile Stream, Fisheries and Oceans, gold mine, Halifax Regional Municipality, IAAC, Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, industrial approval, Moose River, Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change, NSECC, open pit gold mine, Papua New Guinea, Simberi, St Barbara Ltd, Steven Dean, tailings, tailings management facility, Touquoy

Committee recommends heritage registration for former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children

June 23, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

A committee of council is recommending heritage registration for the former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. At a virtual meeting on Wednesday, the Heritage Advisory Committee considered the application from Akoma Holdings for the former home at 18 Wilfred Jackson Way in Westphal. The proposed heritage registration is part of Akoma’s redevelopment plan for […]

Filed Under: Black Nova Scotia, City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Adam Barrett, African Nova Scotia Cultural Heritage, Akoma Holdings, Anchor Group Limited, Black Nova Scotians, Brunswick Street Developments Inc., Dalhousie University, Danny Chedrawe, Devon Parris, Edward Street, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Heritage Advisory Committee, Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, Racism, Stephen McNeil, Zane Woodford

Auditor general finds Halifax isn’t doing enough to foster a respectful workplace

June 22, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Halifax’s auditor general says the city is failing to create a respectful workplace culture, and the chief administrative officer suggests the release of her report could make it worse. Auditor General Evangeline Colman-Sadd tabled her office’s Management of Respectful Workplaces Audit at a meeting of council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee on Wednesday. The audit […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Audit and Finance Standing Committee, Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd, CAO Jacques Dubé, City Hall, Coun. Shawn Cleary, Halifax Fire, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, Halifax Transit, HRM, human resources, Management of Respectful Workplaces Audit, respectful workplaces, toxic workplace, whistleblowers, Zane Woodford

Taking the first steps on the drastic plastic problem

Morning File, Wednesday, June 22, 2022

June 22, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 7 Comments

News 1. RCMP Commissioner tried to “jeopardize” mass murder investigation to advance federal gun control efforts The latest string of shootings south of the border, Uvalde and Buffalo chief among them, has stirred up the same debates in the United States this past month. More gun control versus freedom to live (and die) as Americans […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: American Beauty, Baccaro Point, Barrington Municipality, Cineplex, CTV, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax Regional Municipality, health care, housing, Jennifer Henderson, Jonathan MacInnis, Kathy Johnson, Kevin Spacey, Lauren Ferris, Lolita, MACPASS, Mai Rabson, parking, parking meters, plastic bags, plastics ban, SaltWire, shoreline cleanups, single-use plastics, The Canadian Press, Tim Bousquet, Transport Canada, Ukraine, Wi-Fi, Zane Woodford

Transport Canada received nearly 500 comments about Dartmouth Cove, but HRM missed the deadline

June 22, 2022 By Zane Woodford

The federal government received nearly 500 comments about an application to infill part of Dartmouth Cove, but the municipal government missed the deadline. As the Halifax Examiner reported last month, a numbered company owned by Bruce Wood has applied to fill in part of Halifax Harbour at the cove with excavated rock from construction sites,...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bruce Wood, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth Cove, Halifax Regional Municipality, Zane Woodford

Councillors approve new plan for sanctioned tent sites, with Halifax police as ‘final resort’

June 14, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella says his officers won’t remove people tenting in municipal parks if they have no place to go. “The last thing that we want to do, the very last thing that we want to do, is physically remove anyone from their site,” Kinsella told councillors on Tuesday. “I think we’ve […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Policing, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Chief Dan Kinsella, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Zane Woodford

Halifax wins court battle over beach access in Cow Bay

June 6, 2022 By Zane Woodford

The municipality has won its court battle to reopen a public path to a beach in Cow Bay. As first reported by the Halifax Examiner in March, Halifax Regional Municipality went to court seeking an order to restore a right-of-way across Ross Rhyno’s land to Silver Sands Beach: Over the past few years, as coastal...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: beach, Coun. Becky Kent, Cow Bay, Eastern Passage, Halifax Regional Municipality, Justice Denise Boudreau, Richard Harvey, Ross Rhyno, Silver Sands Beach, Zane Woodford

Stormwater charge moving to tax bills, Gray arena, Dartmouth Cove and more: Halifax council round-up

June 1, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

After years of charging residents a flat fee on their Halifax Water bills, councillors moved on Tuesday to put the stormwater right-of-way charge on tax bills instead. The money is supposed to pay for infrastructure to manage stormwater run-off from municipal roads, and the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board ordered the municipality to start […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Cowie Hill, Dartmouth Cove, Gerald B. Gray Memorial Arena, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Water, Hazelview Investments, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, roller derby, stormwater, Transport Canada, Universal Properties, Zane Woodford, Zzap Consulting

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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

A young white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

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