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A person wearing blue pants and shirt and high viz gloves blows leaves with a gas powered leaf blower.

Deputy mayor proposes Halifax ban or restrict gas powered leaf blowers

by Zane Woodford December 1, 2022October 20, 2023

Sam Austin brought a motion to council’s environment committee for a staff report on the ‘inefficient and noisy’ machines.

A collage of various housing options in HRM, including co-ops, apartment buildings, shelters, and tents — Credit: Halifax Examiner. All rights reserved.

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.

Credit: Ricardo Weibezahn - ICIJ

DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.

Nine images illustrating the locations, maps, and memorials of the mass shootings

2020 MASS MURDERS

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, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Tag: noise

Deputy mayor proposes Halifax ban or restrict gas powered leaf blowers

Nova Scotians urged to participate in national survey to help better understand grief

Eastern Shore residents want more services, funding from Halifax Regional Municipality

Our transportation system is ridiculous

Judge rejects Witness Protection Program’s request for a retroactive publication ban on Halifax Examiner articles, but gives the WPP everything else it asked for

Staff at Nova Scotia transition houses in talks to achieve wage equity