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A look at Halifax’s foot-dragging around opening up streets to cyclists and pedestrians during COVID-19

May 6, 2020 By Zane Woodford 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Kourosh Rad picked a hell of a time to get into the restaurant business. On Feb. 1, the city planner turned small business owner took over Garden Food Bar and Lounge at the corner of Clyde and Queen streets, near the Halifax Central Library in […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: active transportation, Brad Anguish, Bruce Zvaniga, Brynn Budden, CAO Jacques Dubé, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, councillor Shawn Cleary, COVID-19, Crosswalk Safety Society of Nova Scotia, cycling, Ecology Action Centre (EAC), Halifax Cycling Coalition, HRM Safe Streets for Everyone, Kelsey Lane, Kourosh Rad, street closures, sustainable transportation, Taso Koutroulakis, Traffic, traffic authority, Walk and Roll Halifax

Australian magpies have learned to sound like sirens

Morning File, Friday, January 3, 2020

January 3, 2020 By Erica Butler 5 Comments

News 1. George Elliott Clarke apologizes, but will go ahead with lecture Renowned poet George Elliott Clarke is at the centre of a controversy based out of the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, where he was slated to give the Woodrow Lloyd annual lecture, which he had titled, “‘Truth and Reconciliation’ versus ‘the Murdered and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Australia bush fires, Australian magpies, Canadian traffic laws, councillor Richard Zurawski, diesel buses, electric buses, Francis Campbell, George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Transit, Humboldt truck driver, Jaskirat Sidhu, Kathryn Moore, Kelsey Lane, Pamela George, Parker Donham, pedestrian struck Cogswell Street, pedestrian struck North Park Street, Radheyan Simonpillai, Steven Kummerfield, Vision Zero

Proposed city budget pulls the wheels off bike network

December 5, 2018 By Erica Butler 8 Comments

I really, really wanted to write part two of the update on bikeway projects this week. But perhaps it is wiser to step back for a moment from documenting the planning progress around bike infrastructure, to consider whether or not this municipality actually has the intention to follow through and build what’s being planned. This […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News Tagged With: AAA bikeway network, bike infrastructure, bikeways, CAO Jacques Dubé, Erica Butler, Integrated Mobility Plan (IMP), Kelsey Lane

Trying to get straight answers from the provincial government is an exercise in frustration and futility

Morning File, Thursday, October 4, 2018

October 4, 2018 By Joan Baxter 7 Comments

Joan Baxter here again, filling in for Tim who is in Toronto for Wrongful Conviction Day, and being recognized by Innocence Canada, a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying, advocating for, and exonerating individuals convicted of a crime that they did not commit. He is being awarded the the Tracey Tyler Award for his reporting on the […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Environment, Featured, Journalism Tagged With: Alexander Quon, Allan Smith, Bill No. 57, Bruce Nunn, Chris Schafer, councillor Richard Zurawski, Credit Union Act, credit unions, Douglas Leahey, drive-thrus, Ecology Action Centre, Friends of the Northumberland Strait, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Geoff Regan, government communications offices, Hubert Horan, Ian Fairclough, Jacob Boon, Jason Hollett, Jean Laroche, Joan Baxter, Kelsey Lane, Mary Campbell, Mary Gorman, micro-loans, Mike Toomey, MLA Susan Leblanc, Motor Vehicle Act, Northern Pulp's mill waste, payday loans, Peter Ritchie, Premier Stephen McNeil, Steve Ferguson, Traffic Safety Act, Uber Canada, Uber in Halifax

Halifax might finally solve the Macdonald bridge bikeway access, though the fix could still take years

August 1, 2017 By Erica Butler

There’s been a certain amount of jubilation surrounding the latest city staff report on fixing the access to the Macdonald Bridge Bikeway. A couple of councillors at last week’s Transportation Standing Committee (TSC) meeting joked that it must feel like Christmas for the handful of cycling advocates gathered in the gallery. To be fair, they...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: David MacIsaac, Ecology Action Centre, Eliza Jackson, Kelsey Lane, Macdonald Bridge bike flyover, Macdonald Bridge Bikeway, Transportation Standing Committee (TSC)

The future of cycling in Halifax may be bright, assuming we get around to it

June 15, 2017 By Erica Butler

Last week Halifax’s active transportation team presented their vision for the future of cycling in Halifax to a packed room at the Central Library. There was not much new in the presentation, more a summation of the latest in bike planning soon to be released as part of the Integrated Mobility Plan, which goes to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Andreas Röhl, David MacIsaac, Halifax Cycling Coalition (HCC), Integrated Mobility Plan, Kelsey Lane, protected bike lanes

Cycling Collision Card will help alleviate confusion after accidents

September 27, 2016 By Erica Butler 7 Comments

A friend of mine was hit by a car last year, and because of her modest income, she refused an ambulance ride from the scene to the hospital, where she could be properly assessed for a head injury. Days later she wound up in Emergency anyway, suffering from the tell-tale signs of a concussion. Setting […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Ben Buckwold, Bicycle Nova Scotia, Cycling Collision Card, Dal Bike Centre, Eliza Jackson, Halifax Cycling Coalition, Kelsey Lane

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.

About the Halifax Examiner

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