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Nickel and dimed: How landlords skirt the law to hang onto damage deposits

September 9, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 2 Comments

When Zaynab moved out of the “downtownish” Sydney home she was renting last year, she expected to get back the $600 security deposit she had given her landlord at the start of the lease. A speech language pathologist who immigrated to Nova Scotia from Boston in 2018 (“I am Muslim, Iranian, and gay, and it […]

Filed Under: Featured, Investigation, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Damage Deposit, housing, Jenna Young, landlords, Michelle Hébert, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PRICED OUT, Residential Tenancies Act, Security Deposit, Tenants, Zach Wells, Zaynab

NSHA working on fix for swamped blood collection appointment line

Patient frustrated by booking system: 'There's no way to leave a message, no online service. Just call over and over until you win the privilege of being on hold for 30-60 mins'

June 17, 2020 By Yvette d'Entremont Leave a Comment

  The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. The Nova Scotia Health Authority says it’s aware of — and working on a solution for — the overwhelmed blood collection appointment line in the Halifax area. Frustrated patients in the NSHA’s Central Zone (which includes Halifax) are reporting the need to make repeated […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Anita Muise, blood collection, coronavirus, COVID-19, Jenna Young, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), pandemic, QEII Health Sciences Centre, social distancing

Halifax Transit moving forward together, but without some Beaver Bankers

Morning File, Thursday, December 5, 2019

December 5, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 8 Comments

News 1. 198 workers out of a job as Web.com closes Yarmouth location Almost 200 employees at Web.com in Yarmouth were told yesterday that their location is shutting down next year. The company offers internet services to businesses and has locations in New Glasgow and Halifax. The Yarmouth location has been operating for 18 years. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Beaver Bank bus route, Bryony House, bus route plan, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Debert Court, Dion Mouland, Doctors Nova Scotia, Dominique Amit, Erin DiCarlo, Fadila Chater, Halifax Transit, Health and Wellness Minister Randy Delorey, Jenna Young, Katherine VanBuskirk, Ken Wilson, Kevin Chapman, Kristin Gardiner, logging scars, Lyle Mailman, Maria MacIntosh, Matt Dagley, Mayor Pam Mood, Melissa Walton, Moving Forward Together (MFT), National Housing Co-Investment Fund, Nova Scotia Business Inc. (NSBI), Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), nursing homes, Ocean View, Sandy Ross, Shannex, Small History Nova Scotia, Special Care Act, taser, Tina Comeau, Web.com, Wildlands League

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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