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Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

May 4, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Describing it as the best of a set of bad options, councillors are moving ahead with a revised version of the staff proposal to create designated tent sites for unhoused Haligonians. But significant questions remain about how and when people currently living in municipal parks will be asked to leave, or whether they’ll be forcibly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Tony Mancini, Coun. Trish Purdy, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, housing, Housing and Homelessness Partnership, housing crisis, Jacques Dubé, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, municipal parks, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, unhoused, United Way, Zane Woodford

Rhetoric ramps up over non-resident property tax

Morning File, Tuesday, May 3, 2022

May 3, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 14 Comments

News 1. Pitch your tent here … or else A Halifax staff report proposes sanctioning overnight tenting in some parks, and evicting people from all others in the municipality. The staff report, by parks and recreation special projects manager Max Chauvin and parks and recreation executive director Maggie MacDonald, comes to council today, Zane Woodford […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Abegweit, Amanda Mull, Canada Fitness Awards, co-operative movement, Confederation Bridge, COVID-19, Diane Marleau, Dr. Deborah Money, employment, Epekwitk, exercise, fitness, Halifax city council, homelessness, housing, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, non-resident landowners, pregnancy, Presidential Fitness Test, PRICED OUT, Raymond Sewell, salaries, SARS-CoV-2, tax policy, taxation, The Atlantic, University of British Columbia, youth employment

Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

May 2, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Municipal staff are proposing the creation of a limited number of city-sanctioned tent sites in response to the housing crisis, but advocates for unhoused Haligonians worry the recommendation will mean forced eviction for people sleeping in municipal parks. In a staff report coming to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday, Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency shelter, Halifax Regional Municipality, housing, housing crisis, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, Mutual Aid Halifax, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors cool to decriminalizing sheltering in parks

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax councillors aren’t ready to allow unhoused people to camp in parks without the threat of criminalization. Sakura Saunders, a member of the P.A.D.S. Community Network, made a presentation to council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee’s meeting on Thursday, asking councillors to allow camping in municipal parks using Bylaw P-600. The bylaw bans camping […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Bylaw P-600, Community Planning and Economic Development Committee, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Sam Austin, Halifax Regional Council, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Sakura Saunders, 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

A young man wearing a purple jean jacket and sporting a moustache lies on the green grass surrounded by pink plastic flamingos

Episode 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

Listen to the episode here.

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