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Property owner applies to infill Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 5 Comments

The federal government is seeking public feedback on a proposal to infill the Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove, and the councillor and MP for the area aren’t impressed. 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd., owned by Bruce Wood, applied in March to fill its 2.7-hectare water lot, PID # 00114132 or 1 Parker St., with rock from […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd, Bruce Wood, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth Cove, Fisheries Act, King’s Wharf, Mill Cove, MP Darren Fisher, pyritic slate, Zane Woodford

Federal and provincial governments to hold public inquiry into Nova Scotia mass shootings

July 28, 2020 By Zane Woodford and Yvette d'Entremont 1 Comment

There will be a public inquiry into April’s mass shooting in Nova Scotia after all. Following significant public protest, statements from multiple Liberal MPs in opposition to an independent review, and a challenge from Nova Scotia Justice Minister Mark Furey, federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair announced his government is launching a public inquiry. “We […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Desmond Fatality Inquiry, Justice Minister Mark Furey, mass shooting inquiry, Michael Tutton, Minister Bill Blair, MP Andy Fillmore, MP Bernadette Jordan, MP Darren Fisher, MP Kody Blois, MP Lenore Zann, MP Mike Kelloway, MP Sean Fraser, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Nova Scotia Federal Liberal Caucus, PC leader Tim Houston, Portapique mass shooting murder spree, Premier Stephen McNeil, Public Inquiry, Yvonne Colbert

Racism, cops, media, and performative bullshit

Morning File, Monday, June 1, 2020

June 1, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Sure, budget surpluses are great, but have you ever experienced investments in long-term care? Stephen Kimber’s column this week points out one of the many obvious but under-discussed aspects of how COVID-19 has caused so much death and suffering for people in long-term care homes: that the state of LTCs is the direct […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alexa MacLean, Alexandra Cox, Amy Goodman, Andrew Powell, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, armoured vehicle, Baseball by the Book podcast, Bishop, Councillor Tim Outhit, Darcy Dobson, Dodger Stadium, Elina Shatkin, Eric Nusbaum, Jane C. Hu, journalist attacked, Justice for Regis, Justin Brake, Justin McGuire, Kate MacDonald, La Loma, Los Angeles, militarization of police, Minister Catherine McKenna, MP Darren Fisher, New glasgow police, Omar Jimenez, Palo Verde, Peter MacKay, police violence, public toilets, public washrooms, racial justice, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, riot gear, Roz Wyman, targeting of journalists, un-Canadian

Opposition to Canso spaceport grows

“The government of Nova Scotia and the government of Canada are partnering with a dubious, nearly-bankrupt Ukrainian company using Cold-war technology," says Michael Byers, an expert in space law.

August 5, 2019 By Joan Baxter 5 Comments

I hadn’t even made it into Canso when I happened upon the first person willing and eager to speak her mind on the proposed spaceport that Maritime Launch Services wants to construct in the picturesque community at the very end of Highway 16, an area that boasts spectacular coastline, one ocean-side provincial park and another […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Action Against Canso Spaceport (AACS), Alicia Rhynold, Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), Canso Area Development Association (CADA), Canso spaceport, Chris Surette, Chrystia Freeland, Divya Shah, Don Bowser, Geraint Breeze, Harold Roberts, hydrazine, Jan-Sebastian La Pierre, Jean-Frédéric Lafaille, Jim Geddes, John Hearn, John Isella, June Jarvis, Karen McKendry, Katherine O'Halloran, Marie Lumsden, Maritime Launch Services (MLS), Michael Byers, Minister Catherine McKenna, Minister Gordon Wilson, Minister Lloyd Hines, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Alaina Lockhart, MP Darren Fisher, MP Roger Cuzner, MP Sean Fraser, Ray White, spaceport lobbying, Steve Matier, Sussex Strategy Group, United Paradyne, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

Anthony Leblanc rolls into to town and all the public consultation about Shannon Park is thrown out the window

Morning File, Monday, April 1, 2019

April 1, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 5 Comments

News 1. Street checks Saturday, young people in Halifax’s Black community led a conversation at the North Library about Scot Wortley’s report on street checks and the effects of street checks on them. After the conversation, there was a march from the library to the police station (and then on to Province House) demanding an […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alison Auld, Anthony Leblanc, APTN, Canada Lands, Canadian Press (CP) layoffs, Christie Blatchford, Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Justice Derek Green, Justin Brake, Mary Campbell, Michael Tutton, Minister Margaret Miller, MP Darren Fisher, Northern Pulp, Philip Croucher, public consultation, public engagement, Saltwire Network, Shannon Park, Sport Nova Scotia, stadium, street checks, The Blatchford Bad Writing Hall of Fame

The stadium proposal deconstructed

Morning File, Monday, October 29, 2018

October 29, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Stadium Tuesday, Halifax council will take up the proposal for a football stadium at Shannon Park. Specifically, council is being asked to direct staff to undertake a business case analysis of the stadium proposal and to identify financing options and legislative changes that would be required to make the proposal a reality. There’s […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andrew Barroway, Anthony Leblanc, Bruce Bowser, Canada Lands, CFL stadium proposal, Chris Miller, Clayton Developments, container ports modernization, Darrell Jackson, David Baker, Denise Schofield., Dennis Welch, Gary Bettman, Gary Drummond, Jerry Blackwood, Joanna Cagan, Kelly Denty, Maritime Football League Partnership (MFLP), Millbrook First Nation, MP Darren Fisher, Neil deMause, Nova Centre, Pam Berman, Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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