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Community council approves Beechville development

May 11, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Councillors have approved a development proposal for Beechville nearly six years after it was first proposed. Parkdale Developments Ltd. applied in 2016 to develop its property on St. Margaret’s Bay Road. John R. Fiske, the owner, died in March, and his family has taken over the company. The proposal includes a 39-unit apartment building near...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Coun. Iona Stoddard, Halifax and West Community Council, Halifax Regional Council, housing, Jamy-Ellen Klenavic, John R. Fiske, Parkdale Developments, Raine Mills Road, St. Margaret's Bay Road, Sunrose Consulting, Zane Woodford

Non-resident property tax increase: gone before the ink was dry

On the one hand, I’m not sure what to make of Tim Houston’s full-frontal face plant last week. On the other hand, I know exactly what to make of it. Same old, same old. Still. Again. Always.

May 9, 2022 By Stephen Kimber 7 Comments

On the one hand, I’m not sure what to make of Tim Houston’s full-frontal face plant last week. “So, today I will put my personal pride aside,” our premier declared Thursday as he humble-pied his way through a humiliating and complete run back of his government’s month-old, ink-barely-dry plan to hike taxes on non-resident property […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Economy, Featured, Province House Tagged With: affordable housing, CBC, Chester, deed transfer tax, Halifax, housing, housing crisis, Michael Gorman, non-resident property tax, non-residents, Nova Scotia, Premier Tim Houston, Stephen Kimber

St. Matthew’s United Church looking for proposals to redevelop its downtown site

May 6, 2022 By Suzanne Rent Leave a Comment

St. Matthew’s United Church on Barrington Street is looking to partner with organizations that can help continue its work and legacy in the city, while repurposing the church and land. This week on the church’s Facebook page was a post that said the church was offering its building and the land on which it sits […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Alex Bozikovic, Barrington Street, Halifax, housing, housing crisis, Nova Scotia, redevelopment, Rev. Betsy Hogan, St. Matthew's United Church, Suzanne Rent, United Church of Canada

Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

May 4, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Describing it as the best of a set of bad options, councillors are moving ahead with a revised version of the staff proposal to create designated tent sites for unhoused Haligonians. But significant questions remain about how and when people currently living in municipal parks will be asked to leave, or whether they’ll be forcibly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Tony Mancini, Coun. Trish Purdy, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, housing, Housing and Homelessness Partnership, housing crisis, Jacques Dubé, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, municipal parks, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, unhoused, United Way, Zane Woodford

Rhetoric ramps up over non-resident property tax

Morning File, Tuesday, May 3, 2022

May 3, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Pitch your tent here … or else A Halifax staff report proposes sanctioning overnight tenting in some parks, and evicting people from all others in the municipality. The staff report, by parks and recreation special projects manager Max Chauvin and parks and recreation executive director Maggie MacDonald, comes to council today, Zane Woodford […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Abegweit, Amanda Mull, Canada Fitness Awards, co-operative movement, Confederation Bridge, COVID-19, Diane Marleau, Dr. Deborah Money, employment, Epekwitk, exercise, fitness, Halifax city council, homelessness, housing, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, non-resident landowners, pregnancy, Presidential Fitness Test, PRICED OUT, Raymond Sewell, salaries, SARS-CoV-2, tax policy, taxation, The Atlantic, University of British Columbia, youth employment

Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

May 2, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Municipal staff are proposing the creation of a limited number of city-sanctioned tent sites in response to the housing crisis, but advocates for unhoused Haligonians worry the recommendation will mean forced eviction for people sleeping in municipal parks. In a staff report coming to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday, Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency shelter, Halifax Regional Municipality, housing, housing crisis, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, Mutual Aid Halifax, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

Housing Trust of Nova Scotia changing tack, abandoning development plan and buying hundreds of apartments

May 2, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The Housing Trust of Nova Scotia is changing up its strategy, moving to sell its property on Maitland Street and buy hundreds of existing affordable rental units. The trust, a nonprofit founded by developer and consultant Ross Cantwell in 2009, used to own two nearby properties between Gottingen Street and Maitland Street, with plans for […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Angela Bishop, CBC, Centre Plan, Coun. Sam Austin, Halifax, Halifax Water, housing, housing crisis, Housing Trust of Nova Scotia, Maitland Street, Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board, PRICED OUT, Ross Cantwell, Taryn Grant, Zane Woodford

Banned and challenged: it’s not wokeness gone wild that’s behind books being removed from libraries

Morning File, Wednesday, April 27, 2022

April 27, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Sam Austin blames volunteers for crisis shelter assault Last Saturday morning, members of the anonymous volunteer group Mutual Aid Halifax erected a crisis shelter in Starr Park in Dartmouth. On Monday, Halifax Regional Police say, someone living in the shelter assaulted a local resident who had knocked on the shelter. In a post […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Amy S. Bruckman, Associate Deputy Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, Banned Book Week, Bluenose Inn and Suites, Cape Breton Spectator, CBC, CBRM, child poverty, children and youth, crisis shelters, Elon Musk, Ethan Molick, Georgia Tech, health, homelessness, housing, John Ghosn, libraries, Mary Campbell, Mass Murders, Mutual Aid Halifax, Nora Young, Portapique, Sam Austin, Sara Kirk, Spark, Starr Park, Twitter, Wentworth Park, Wharton University

Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park

April 26, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

The councillor for the area is blaming a group of anonymous volunteers for an alleged assault in a Dartmouth park. Halifax Mutual Aid erected its latest emergency shelter in Starr Park on Prince Albert Road in Dartmouth on Saturday. They’re the same shelters that were first placed on municipal park land in early 2021, and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth, Halifax Mutual Aid, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, MLA Lisa Lachance, P.A.D.S. Community Network, PRICED OUT, Starr Park, Zane Woodford

It’s OK to get rid of books. Really.

Morning File, Friday, April 22, 2022

April 22, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 13 Comments

News 1. Renoviction? What renoviction? The ban on renovictions has been lifted with the end of the provincial health state of emergency. There are new rules in place though around kicking out tenants in order to upgrade properties and jack up the rent. But are landlords following them? In many cases, the answer seems to […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Alexa Yakubovich, Angela Reynolds, Books, Chúk Odenigbo, Civil Eats, Community Planning and Economic Development, Dalhousie Legal Aid, David Hendsbee, domestic violence, Enqore Developments, homelessness, housing, John Ghosn, Lisa Blackburn, mental health, Myriam Gaudet, Nature, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, pandemic, Philip H. Howard, plant-based meat, PRICED OUT, renoviction, Sakura Saunders, Shannon Jones, tenants rights, Unhoused people, violence against women

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PRICED OUT

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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

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Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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