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‘The gymnastics of my mind’: Living with serious mental illness

Morning File, Tuesday, July 26, 2022

July 26, 2022 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. MLAs block colleague who just gave birth from attending emergency session virtually The Houston government is holding an emergency session of the legislature to vote against a recommendation that MLAs get a 12% pay increase, which seems like a ridiculous piece of performative theatre. And Cape Breton Centre-Whitney Pier MLA Kendra Coombes won’t […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: abortion access, Amanda Tetrault, Barb MacQuarrie, Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children, Christine Qin Yang, documentary, domestic violence, James Charlton, Kendra Coombes, Leonard Cohen, Lisa Blackburn, Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr, Naomi Walker, National Film Board of Canada, New Armdale Westside, non-profit housing coops, Philip Tetrault, Pierre Tetrault, Poetry, psychosis, Schizophrenia, Shane Upshaw, This Beggar's Description, Upshaw's Roller Dome, women, Workplace Accommodations

Federal, provincial governments pledge millions to preserve Nova Scotia co-op, nonprofit housing

July 25, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The provincial and federal governments are spending millions to try to preserve co-operative and nonprofit housing units in Nova Scotia. The governments announced $13 million in forgivable loans, split 50-50, during a news conference on Monday. “This will help preserve a total of 145 community housing units in communities in Dartmouth, Wolfville, Sydney, Lower Sackville, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT, Province House Tagged With: co-operative housing, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada, Compass Nova Scotia Co-operative Housing Ltd, Dartmouth, Evangeline Court Housing Co-operative Limited, Fresh Start Housing Co-operative Limited, Gimme Shelter, Halifax, housing, housing crisis, Lower Sackville, Maitland Street, MP Darren Fisher, Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr, Needham Housing Co-operative Ltd., New Armdale Westside, Nikki Jamieson, nonprofit housing, Nova Scotia, PRICED OUT, Spanish Bay Cooperative Housing, Spryfield, Sydney, Tim Ross, Wolfville, 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

Episode 89 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.
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To sleep, perchance to dream — in this humidity?! Shakespeare By The Sea’s production of Hamlet — its first staged tragedy since 2019 — opens on August 5, and director Drew Douris-O’Hara and the man himself, Deivan Steele, stop by the show before rehearsal to chat. Topics include: climate change’s effect on outdoor theatre, the timelessness of Shakespeare’s most popular work, the failure of funding models in all times (not just during COVID), and the resilience of squirrels.

Listen to the episode here.

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