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Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy

Part 4. The provincial government has taken over control of the Port Wallace 'special planning area' to fast-track development, but what about toxic tailings in Barry’s Run and other risks to the area?

April 13, 2022 By Joan Baxter 2 Comments

In March 2020, the Halifax Examiner published the award-winning series, “Port Wallace Gamble: the real estate boom meets Nova Scotia’s toxic mine legacy.” The three articles (available here, here and here) looked at Clayton Developments’ proposed new and massive subdivision for Port Wallace in Dartmouth, and serious concerns about the mercury and arsenic contamination from […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, Politics, Province House Tagged With: affordable housing, Allison Clark, arsenic, Barry's Run, Brynn Budden, City of Lakes, Clayton Developments, climate change, contaminated sites, Dartmouth, Deborah Bayer, Department of Environment and Climate Change, Department of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Doug Skinner, Executive Panel on Housing in HRM, Forest Hills Extension, gold mining, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), health risk assessment, Highway 118, history mine tailings, housing, human health risk assessment, Ikea, John Lohr, Joshua Kurek, Krista Higdon, Lake Charles, Lake Mic Mac, Lake Williams, mercury, Mic Mac Mall, Michael Parsons, mine tailings, Mitchell's Brook, Montague gold mines, Mount Allison University, Nova Scotia Lands, Port Wallace, Port Wallace Holdings, Sam Austin, Shannon Park, Shaw Group, Southdalte Mount Hope special planning area, special planning area, The Parks of Port Wallace, Tim Houston, Tony Mancini, Tracy Barron, traffic congestion, Waverley Road

Renovictions spike, but let’s not forget the plight of landlords

Morning File, Tuesday, April 12, 2022

April 12, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 3 Comments

News 1. Renovictions spike, but let’s not forget the plight of landlords Organizations that support tenants fighting eviction say they have seen an increase in requests for help since the province lifted its renoviction ban, Leslie Amminson reports. Renoviction refers to landlords kicking out tenants, making some upgrades to their units, then putting the units […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Airbnb, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, BeReal, Citations Needed, Cornwallis statue, development, Erin L. Thompson, Hatshepsut, Heidi Stevenson, housing, Joe Webber, John Lohr, Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), Paid sick days, Portapique, PRICED OUT, RCMP, SOLO

‘Anti-democratic’ bill cutting Halifax planning committees moves ahead

April 11, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

A bill described by Halifax’s deputy mayor as “anti-democratic” is moving ahead without changes after a meeting of the legislature’s Law Amendments Committee on Monday. Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr introduced Bill 137 last Wednesday, and it passed second reading at Province House on Thursday. As the Halifax Examiner reported last week, the bill […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT, Province House Tagged With: African Nova Scotia, Bill 137, CAO Jacque Dubé, Coun. Kathryn Morse, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Ecology Action Centre, Executive Panel on Housing, First Nations communities., Halifax, Heritage Advisory Committee, HRM, John Lohr, Kortney Dunsby, Law Amendments Committee, Liberal MLA Lorelei Nicoll, Mayor Mike Savage, MLA Kent Smith, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

What’s a little unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine among friends?

Morning File, Wednesday, August 29

August 29, 2018 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

I’m Philip Moscovitch, filling in for Tim Bousquet this morning. Tim is editing from a diner at an undisclosed location. News 1. Spaceport concerns Last month, Maritime Launch Services — the people who say they want to run a spaceport out of Canso —submitted a 159-page environmental assessment for the project. Federal and provincial government staffers […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam MacInnis, Agave in Public Gardens, Canso spaceport, councillor Lisa Blackburn, Don Mills, Elizabeth McMillan, Frances Willick, John Lohr, Maritime Launch Services, Mobility Cup regatta, Peter MacKay, Philip Moscovitch, Sue Goyette, Taryn Grant, Uber, women's baseball

Is Tory leader wannabe John Lohr a Maxime Bernier in waiting?

Andrew Scheer’s federal Tories seem to be in full split-apart mode. The provincial Progressive Conservatives? Much will depend on their upcoming leadership convention.

August 25, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

Will Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives pull a federal Conservative Party and stagger out of their October 27 leadership convention hopelessly divided between their regular right-wing whingers and their ultra-right-wing whiners? Could PC leadership hopeful John Lohr — he of the Northern-Pulp-protesters-were-paid, free-speech-for-fanatics, let’s-build-more-statues-to-Edward-Cornwallis, frack-yes(!) wing of the party — emerge as the leader of a...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andrew Scheer, Conservative Party of Canada, John Lohr, Maxime Bernier, Nova Scotia Progressive Conservatives

Meet the PC Leadership candidates

June 22, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

More than 200 Progressive Conservatives turned out at Dartmouth’s Alderney Theatre last night to hear from the five people competing to become the next leader of their party and possibly the first Tory Premier since Rodney MacDonald lost to Darrell Dexter of the NDP in 2009. The choice will be made October 27. In the...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Cecil Clarke, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, Jamie Baillie, Jennifer Henderson, John Lohr, Julie Chiasson, PC Leadership hopefuls, Peter MacKay, Tim Houston

John Lohr plays footsies with the reprehensibles: Morning File, Friday, March 9, 2018

March 9, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 25 Comments

News 1. Dirty Dealing, Part 3 “In a study published in 2017, Dalhousie University researchers reported that air levels of three volatile organic compounds (VOCs) near the Abercrombie pulp mill in Pictou County exceeded cancer risk thresholds and ‘are of primary health concern in terms of population risk,’” reports Linda Pannozzo, who goes on to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Bill 72 passed, Design Review Committee, free-speech advocates, John Lohr, Linda Pannozzo, maritime Centre face lift, Michael Gorman, Nova Centre wind, pedestrian struck Nantucket Avenue, Ron Burdock, Stephen Archibald's house, Threats made against schools, wind study, 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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

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.

Listen to the episode here.

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