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Halifax Water makes the case for its accelerated lead pipe removal plan

June 1, 2020 By Zane Woodford

Halifax Water wants to pay to replace every lead pipe in the city over the next 18 years with a plan that’s unrivalled across the country, but the utility heard concerns on Monday that the timeline may still be too slow for some homeowners. The utility made the case for the plan to its regulator,...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bruce Outhouse, Cathie O'Toole, Concordia University Institute for Investigative Journalism, Halifax Water, James Campbell, lead in drinking water, lead pipes, Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board (UARB), StarMetro Halifax, water rates

The Halifax Regional Police have some questions for you

Morning File, Thursday, November 28, 2019

November 28, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 5 Comments

It’s party time! November is subscription drive month, so we’re  having a party to celebrate. Drop into Bearly’s (1269 Barrington Street) on Sunday, December 1 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Subscribers get to party with us for free. If you want to subscribe, you can do so here, or at the door. New Riders […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrea Gunn, Elizabeth McMillan, Eric Durnford, Fight for $15, Gerald Regan's legacy, Gerald Regan's victims, Halifax Regional Police (HRP), Halifax Water, Halifax Workers’ Action Centre, HRP questions, job hunting, Julie Lalonde, lead pipes, living wage, Maggie Rahr, Michael Boudreau, NOT GUILTY: The Trial of Gerald Regan, PR jobs, Robert Cribb, Robert Wright, Sakura Saunders, Shaina Luck, Wendy Krkosek, Zane Woodford

Climate change is killing the right whales

Morning File, Thursday, June 27, 2019

June 27, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 8 Comments

News 1. Why aren’t Cabot Links or Ben Cowan-Dewar registered as lobbyists? “You would have to be completely foolhardy to question the brain trust that has formed to support spending public money to build an airport in Inverness but foolhardy’s my middle name so — hold my beer,” writes Mary Campbell for the Cape Breton Spectator: […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: 4th Estate, Ben Cowan-Dewar, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Boris Worm, Brenda Large, Cabot Links airport, Cesar Lalo, climate change, lead pipes, lobbying, Michael MacDonald, Patrick MacDougall, Richard Woodbury, right whale death, Sean Brilliant, Shelburne School for Boys, William Shrubsall

If you live on the Halifax peninsula or in Dartmouth inside the Circ, you’re probably drinking water out of lead pipes

Morning File, Wednesday, June 26, 2019

June 26, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 13 Comments

News 1. Windsor Exchange Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler takes a look at the promised upgrades to the Windsor Exchange: Transport Canada’s press release makes no mention of transit or active transportation, but seems to keep the focus on moving vehicle traffic and freight: “This work includes realigning the Bedford Highway, upgrading Lady Hammond Road […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: dead right whale, Elizabeth McMillan, Halifax Water, housing affordability, Katelyn MacLeod, Labour Department, lead pipes, Neptune TG, rent in Halifax, workplace deaths, 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.

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