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Women and gender diverse people are disproportionately affected by the housing crisis. Are we doing enough?

June 23, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

A 25-unit affordable housing complex in Lakeside, NS called The Sunflower that will provide housing for women, families, and gender-expansive people is almost complete. But women and gender-diverse people, who are vulnerable in a housing crisis, need more to keep them from facing homelessness and housing insecurity. Cheryl MacIsaac is a program coordinator with Adsum […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT, Women Tagged With: Adsum for Women and Children, affordable housing, Black women, Brenda Parker, Cape Breton University, Catherine Leviten-Reid, Cheryl MacIsaac, COVID-19, feminist cities, gender diversity, housing crisis, housing insecurity, Indigenous women, PRICED OUT, Rapid Housing Initiative, The Sunflower, University of Illinois, women, women and the housing crisis, Women Transforming Cities

Birds of a feather attack together

Morning File, Thursday, October 31, 2019

October 31, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 2 Comments

News 1. Whitman running for mayor Matt Whitman is running for mayor in next year’s municipal election. Zane Woodford with The Star Halifax was at City Hall where Whitman announced his mayoral bid. I am absolutely convinced that my love for this great city, coupled with my determination to do right by you, its citizens, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anjuli Patil, Barbara Darby and Halloween, Chuck Porter, collapsed crane removal, Delilah Saunders, GHG emissions, Halloween costumes, Hope for Wildlife, Hope Swinimer, Indigenous women, Matt Whitman runs for mayor, Maura Judkis, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Ryan Lorde akd Littles the General, Sullivan's Pond geese attack, Sustainable Development Goals Act, Willow Webb

“That Rude Girl”: organizing as a Black woman

March 3, 2019 By El Jones 5 Comments

This week, Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony about SNC-Lavalin dominated Canadian politics. My timeline is filled with articles praising her integrity, her courage, her honesty. And yet, only weeks ago, these same newspapers ran articles quoting colleagues calling her “difficult,” “not a team player,” “hard to work with” — in short, a bitch. In her testimony, Wilson-Raybould […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Audre Lorde, Carrie Best, Desmond Cole, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, Indigenous women, Jody Wilson-Raybould, National Black Canadian Summit, SNC-Lavalin, Women of Colour

On the Money: Morning File, Saturday, December 10, 2016

December 10, 2016 By El Jones 4 Comments

News

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Anthony Morgan, Barry Cahill, Black History Month, Carleton Stanley, Claudette Colvin, David Wheeler, E. Pauline Johnson, Feminista Jones, Harriet Tubman, Indigenous women, James McGregor Stewart, Kirsten West Savali, Malcolm X, Mayann Francis, Naomi Moyer, Todd McCallum, Viola Desmond

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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