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Halifax council allows appeal, overturning committee’s decision to approve Cunard block development

September 30, 2020 By Zane Woodford

After a long presentation and a longer debate, regional council decided Southwest Properties’ 16-storey proposal for the waterfront was just too big and strayed too far from the rules. The city’s design review committee approved the plans in July. As the Examiner reported the next day: The site is known as the Cunard lot —...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Coun. Bill Karsten, Coun. Waye Mason, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor David Hendsbee, councillor Matt Whitman, Councillor Stephen Adams, councillor Steve Streatch, Design Review Committee, development Cunard Block, Fran Payne, HRM By Design, Jeanne Cruikshank, Jennifer Chapman, Jim Spatz, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mayor Mike Savage, Southwest Properties, Ted Farquhar, Waterfront Place

People use the internet differently

Morning File, Tuesday, August 4, 2020

August 4, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 21 Comments

News 1. An exercise in obfuscation I wrote this morning: The Halifax Examiner is one of eight media organizations that has been petitioning the court to unseal documents related to the RCMP’s investigation of the April 18/19 mass murders. The documents in question are the “Information to Obtain”s (ITOs) a search warrant, which the RCMP […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: climate change, Cunard Block, Design Review Committee, Develop Nova Scotia, Examiner website, Halifax boardwalk, Halifax waterfront, Jennifer Chapman, Liscombe Lodge, Morning File, sea level rise, Southwest Properties

Halifax’s design review committee approves 16-storey waterfront development from Southwest Properties

July 31, 2020 By Zane Woodford

The city’s design review committee has rejected advice from planning staff and approved an application from Southwest Properties for a 16-storey building on the waterfront. The site is known as the Cunard lot — located on the waterfront along Lower Water Street between Morris and Bishop streets, next to Southwest’s Bishop’s Landing condo development. It’s...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cunard Block, density bonusing, Design Review Committee, Jennifer Chapman, Jim Spatz, land use by-law, Southwest Properties

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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.

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Examiner folk The Halifax Examiner was founded by investigative reporter Tim Bousquet, and now includes a growing collection of writers, contributors, and staff. Left to right: Joan Baxter, Stephen Kimber, Linda Pannozzo, Erica Butler, Jennifer Henderson, Iris the Amazing, Tim Bousquet, Evelyn C. White, El Jones, Philip Moscovitch More about the Examiner.

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