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Point-in-time count shows record number of people unhoused in Halifax

June 1, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

There are more people in Halifax without housing than ever before, and the municipality would need thousands of new apartments to fix the problem. A new point-in-time count, conducted by the Navigator Street Outreach Program, found that on April 7, there were 586 people in the municipality without a safe, permanent home. “There’s so many […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Adsum House, Bedford, Charlene Gagnon, Clayton Park, Dartmouth, Dartmouth Crossing, Eric Jonsson, Halifax, homeless, homelessness, Meghan Oliver, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Navigator Street Outreach Program, Sackville, Sheri Lecker, Spryfield, unhoused, Zane Woodford

Volunteer group asks HRM to use bylaw to allow unhoused people to continue camping in public parks

Bylaw says camping is only allowed in public parks "by permission"

April 1, 2022 By Leslie Amminson Leave a Comment

A volunteer group in HRM is asking the city to invoke part of an existing bylaw that would allow unhoused people to continue camping in public parks. In a media release Friday morning, P.A.D.S. Community Network said they’d met with Mayor Mike Savage and several HRM councillors to discuss Bylaw P-600, which prohibits camping in […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: homeless, People's Park

As winter approaches, residents of People’s Park, volunteers, and neighbours wait for a better housing solution

One volunteer says people "do not want to allow ourselves or the community to get enticed or get distracted" by the city's purchase of new modular units that will only meet the needs of a small percentage of the homeless population.

November 12, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson Leave a Comment

At any given moment, a car might pull up to a small park at the corner of Chebucto Road and Dublin Street in Halifax. The driver will get out and talk to a man standing on the sidewalk. The pair will exchange “hellos” and “how are yous.” Then the driver will pass along food, cash, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Accessible, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, CAO Jacques Dubé, Chebucto Road, Coun. Lindell Smith, Dignified and Safer, Erica Fleck, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, homeless, homelessness, housing, John Griffin, Leslie Amminson, Nick Meagher Park, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Permanent, Rachelle Sauvé, Victoria Levack

And the winner is…

Morning File, Wednesday, August 18, 2021

August 18, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 9 Comments

News 1. Progressive Conservatives win surprise majority There was talk yesterday that the election might be so tight we wouldn’t have a clear winner until today. Instead, the magnitude of the Progressive Conservative triumph was such that it was clearly the party would form the next government within a couple of hours of the polls […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ali Duale, Angela Simmonds, Brunswick Street Mission, Brunswick Street United Church, Chalmers Doane, documentary, Drew Moore, empathy, empathy-based approach, eviction, film, Gary Burrill, homeless, homelessness, Horseshoe Park, Iain Rankin, John N. Smith, Kent Nason, Liberal, Matthew Byard, Metro Turning Point, National Film Board (NFB), NDP, PC, Philip Moscovitch, Ready When You Are, Suzy Hansen, tent, Tim Houston, Tony Ianzelo, Tony Ince, Ukulele, United Church, Vote-splitting, Walter Hayward, Zane Woodford

How not to handle homelessness

Morning File, Wednesday, June 23, 2021

June 23, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 3 Comments

News 1. Halifax police officer testifies he didn’t think Corey Rogers needed medical assistance “One of the officers who arrested Corey Rogers the night he died testified Tuesday that although Rogers was intoxicated and needed to be dragged into his cell, he didn’t think the 41-year-old needed medical attention,” writes Zane Woodford in his continuing […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Goodsell, Bitchute, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Christ Stoodley, Corey Rogers, COVID protocols, COVID-19, Cst Ryan Morris, Cst. Donna Lee Paris, Dr. Robert Strang, drunk tank, Halifax Mutual Aid, Halifax Regional Police, homeless, homelessness, IWK, Jeannette Rogers, Joan Baxter, Justin Murphy, logging, Lord Nelson, mining, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission, Nova Scotia Police Review Board, Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border, police, Police Act Regulations, Premier Blaine Higgs, Premier Iain Rankin, spit hood, Stephen Kimber, temporary shelters, the Coast, Tim Bousquet, Toronto, travel restrictions, Trinity Bellwoods, Tyler Ledden, vaccinations, vaccines, Zane Woodford

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!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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