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How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital

January 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armoyan Group, Bengal Lancers, Centre Plan, councillor Waye Mason, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Partners for Care, Paula Bond, QE2 redevelopment, QEII redevelopment, Victoria General Hospital (VG), Wanderers Grounds

Health Authority craps on healthy transportation

The Nova Scotia Health Authority sent a letter to Halifax council opposing the South Park Street bike lane.

March 14, 2018 By Erica Butler

The Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA) has taken a surprise position on the expansion and improvement of the South Park Street bike lane: they’re against it. At least they are against the disruption to available on-street parking that it might cause. In a letter to city council dated March 5, 2018 (the day before council...

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Filed Under: Education, Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Erica Butler, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), parking spots Spring Garden area, Paula Bond, South Park Street Bike Lane

P3 or not P3

Plans for a VG replacement are heading towards the P3 cliff, and no one's at the wheel.

March 1, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The provincial government is paying Deloitte half a million dollars to recommend whether the Province should use some type of a public-private-partnership (P3) to finance, build, and maintain two new outpatient centres. The outpatient centres will be part of the overall re-development of the QE2 Health Sciences Centre to replace services, 200 patient beds, and...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Deloitte, Denise Perret, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Janet Knox, Jeff Conrad, Jennifer Henderson, John O’Connor, Kasian Architecture, MLA Dave Wilson, MLA Tim Houston, new outpatient centres, Paula Bond, Victoria General (VG) replacement

Community Outpatient Centre Announced

April 20, 2017 By Jennifer Henderson 4 Comments

The province’s purchase of 15 acres in the Bayers Lake Business Park to build a new Community Outpatient Centre was supposed to be a good news announcement for the McNeil government today. Certainly for those interested in seeing a replacement for services housed in the leaky and decrepit Victoria General Hospital — where you can’t drink the […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Besim Halef, Community Outpatient Centre announcement, Gary Burrill, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Paula Bond, Premier Stephen McNeil

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Mo Kenney. Photo: Matt Williams

Episode #18 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Mo Kenney’s new record Covers is a perfect winter companion — songs from across the rock spectrum that she’s pared down to piano or guitar and turned them into sad ballads. She joins Tara to talk about choosing and arranging them, and opens up for a frank discussion of the alcohol dependency it took a pandemic for her to confront. Plus: Movies are back (again).

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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.

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