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Coincidence or just habitus?

Morning File, Tuesday, November 2, 2021

November 2, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

It’s November, which means it is subscription drive month at the Examiner! We can’t promise you an end-of-the-month party with dancing and live music because, you know. But we can promise you that if you sign up your subscription will help fund a year’s worth of thoughtful, in-depth reporting. So go ahead and subscribe here. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: COVID, Demolition, Department of Public Works, District 11, Jennifer Henderson, John Charles, Law Amendments, Law Amendments Committee, Patty Cuttell, Philip Moscovitch, Prospect Village, Tim Bousquet

Residents of Prospect Village got “no warning, and no communication” about upcoming demolition of house

Public Works bought the house in 2020 after saying it was a hazard to motorists and snowplow drivers. But documents from a freedom of information request show the department paid $11,000 over asking for the property deemed "in fair to poor condition at best" and wasn't a serious risk to drivers after all.

November 1, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch Leave a Comment

A temporary fence went up Monday morning around an old house at the entrance to Prospect Village — a sign that the building’s demolition is imminent. The Halifax Examiner previously reported that the Department of Transportation and Active Transit (since renamed Public Works) had purchased the vacant house, intending to tear it down. A story […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Department of Public Works, District 11, Gary Rafuse, Guy Deveau, Halifax, Heritage, Iain Rankin, John Charles, Patty Cuttell, Planning, Prospect, Prospect Village, Transportation and Active Transit (TAT), Troy Davidson

Selling your credibility is a bad idea

Morning File, Tuesday, November 3, 2020

November 3, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 11 Comments

Every November, the Halifax Examiner holds its annual subscription drive. Your subscriptions are what keep this enterprise going. The breaking stories, the opinion pieces, the first-person essays, the sharp commentary, the Morning Files — none of this would happen without your subscriptions. There are no ads, there is no branded content, there are no grants. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: affordable housing, Angela Rasmussen, Atlantic Tennis Centre, Bob Murphy, branded content, Bridgewater, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Chad Roy, Corey Rogers, coronavirus, COVID-19, David Pugliese, Elizabeth McSheffrey, Jeannette Rogers, Kelly Crowe, Linden MacIntyre, Lisa Brosseau, Marina Oleinikova, masks, Michael Gorman, military propaganda, Minister Suzanne Lohnes-Croft, Misha Lanin, Owls Head, painted airbrushed cars Russia, Patty Cuttell, rural housing, Simon Houpt, sponsored content, Tandem, Taryn Grant, Theresa Blackburn, Tony burman, Yulia Shehirina

Judicial recount confirms Patty Cuttell won Halifax regional council’s District 11 seat

November 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

A judicial recount has confirmed Patty Cuttell won the race for Halifax regional council’s District 11. “I am very excited to announce that the recount is complete and the election results hold,” Cuttell tweeted Monday afternoon. “I remain Councillor Elect for District 11. And I can’t wait to get started. Swearing in is planned for […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Bruce Holland, District 11, Halifax Regional Council, Judge Paul Scovil, Patty Cuttell, vote recount

Runner-up to request recount in tight Halifax council race

October 20, 2020 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The second place finisher in last weekend’s council race for District 11 plans to ask for a judicial recount, but he isn’t getting his hopes up. Bruce Holland received just 28 fewer votes than Patty Cuttell in the 12-way race for District 11 – Spryfield-Sambro Loop-Prospect Road. Cuttell received 1,662 votes, and Holland received 1,634. It […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Bruce Holland, District 11, Patty Cuttell, vote recount

Can we have a fuller conversation about racism?

Morning File, Monday, October 19, 2020

October 19, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Arrests in violent attacks The RCMP announced two arrests over the weekend related to the violence in Southwest Nova Scotia. The first arrest was related to the attack on Chief Michael Sack: RCMP charge man with assault of Chief Sack  October 17, 2020, New Edinburgh, Nova Scotia…Meteghan RCMP have laid charges in relation […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adam LeRue, anti-Indigenous racism, archaeology, Chief Michael Sack, Chris Gerald Melanson, Const. Kenneth O’Brien, COVID-19, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, Elizabeth McSheffrey, exposure advisory, Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan, Great Lakes, Indigenous fishers, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller, Keith Matheny, lobster fishery, Meteghan, Mi'kmaq fishers, Michael Burton Nickerson, moderate livelihood fishermen, Patty Cuttell, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, Racism, Saulnierville, Straits of Mackinac, women on Halifax council

Following delay in Halifax election results, Patty Cuttell unofficially wins District 11 by 28 votes

October 18, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Patty Cuttell is the unofficial winner in District 11 — Spryfield-Sambro Loop-Prospect Road, beating runner-up Bruce Holland by just 28 votes. Cuttell’s was one of six districts with delayed results after the municipality stopped reporting late Saturday night, but it was the only one too close to call. According to the now-complete unofficial results, Cuttell […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Halifax council election, municipal election, Patty Cuttell

Women win big in Halifax election, full unofficial results delayed in some districts

October 17, 2020 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Just two years after guys named Steve outnumbered women on regional council, Haligonians have opted for near gender parity. At least seven women were elected to serve as councillors in Halifax Regional Municipality for the next four years, according to unofficial election results tallied Saturday night. Just after 11 p.m., Halifax announced it wouldn’t be […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Becky Kent, Cathy Deagle Gammon, councillor Bill Karsten, Councillor Lindell Smith, Councillor Lorelei Nicoll, Councillor Russell Walker, councillor Steve Streatch, Deputy Mayor Lisa Blackburn, Iona Stoddard, Kathryn Morse, Maggie-Jane Spray, Mayor Mike Savage, municipal election, Pamela Lovelace, Patty Cuttell, Trish Purdy, women on Halifax council

Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 11 — Spryfield-Sambro Loop-Prospect Road

September 29, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax’s longest-serving councillor gave plenty of notice that he wouldn’t be running for a ninth term. Coun. Stephen Adams, first elected in 1991, made the announcement a full year before this fall’s election, and 12 candidates have stepped up to take his place in District 11. The Halifax Examiner posed the same five questions to […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Elections, Featured, News Tagged With: accessible housing, affordable housing, Ambroise Matwawana, Bruce Cooke, Bruce Holland, candidate questionnaire, climate crisis, Dawn Edith Penney, District 11, HalifACT 2050, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Transit, Hannah Munday, Jim Hoskins, Kristen Hollery, Lisa Mullin, living wage, Matthew Conrad, Patty Cuttell, Pete Rose, Stephen Chafe

Pedestrian safety: Drivers need to do better

Morning File, Tuesday, February 26, 2019

February 26, 2019 By Suzanne Rent 11 Comments

Hi, I’m Suzanne Rent and I’m filling in for Tim this morning. You can follow me on Twitter @Suzanne_Rent News 1. Cogswell plan needs more input, group says Council will vote today on design plans for the Cogswell Interchange, reports Francis Campbell at The Chronicle Herald. The plan includes commercial and residential space, green and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Khasnabish, April MacIntyre, Barho fire, Carolyn Ray, Cogswell Interchange, Councillor Jennifer Watts, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Steve Adams, Councillor Steve Craig, councillors running for other offices, crosswalk safety, Dr. Daria Manos, Francis Campbell, Heads Up Halifax, Jean Laroche, Kate Watson, living wage, lung cancer, Matthew Gerald Kennedy, online hatred, panel on intercultural learning, Patty Cuttell, Province House mysterious vault, Sarah Ritchie, Scott Brison, wave of death

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 white woman with dark hair and a purple shirt lies on a large rock at dusk, looking up at the sky and playing her banjolele.

Episode 85 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Logan Robins (writer/director/composer) and Katherine Norris (star/composer) of the Unnatural Disaster Theatre Company are on the show this week ahead of their provincial tour of HIPPOPOSTUMOUS, Robins’ musical exploration of invasive species, colonization, environmentalism, and history. Hear how Pablo Escobar’s personal hippos have invaded and are ruining a section of Colombia, why Robins was intrigued to make a show about it, and all the places you can catch it this July. Plus Norris cracks out the banjolele to perform one of the show’s songs. And the new jam from Beauts!

Listen to the episode here.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

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