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Transportation committee pushes back on buttons at Halifax intersections

September 18, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Pushing back against the municipality’s traffic authority, council’s Transportation Standing Committee wants to rid much of the city of pedestrian push buttons in the next year. The committee met in person at Halifax City Hall on Thursday to discuss a list of information reports that were deferred from a council meeting earlier this month. Among […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: beg buttons, Brad Anguish, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, pedestrian push buttons, right turn on red, speed hump, Taso Koutroulakis, traffic authority

Breaking down street barriers for people who are blind and partially sighted

Morning File, Monday, September 14, 2020

September 14, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 4 Comments

News 1. QAnon knows no borders Joan Baxter reports on QAnon, a global movement that promotes conspiracy theories, which has followers here in Nova Scotia. QAnon only started a few years ago with one post on the 4chan internet channel. Baxter took a look around to check out some of the post QAnon and its […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: automated pedestrian signals (APS), Brandi Shaw, COVID-19, Education Minister Zach Churchill, gender reveal parties, Graham Driscoll, Jean Laroche, Jenna Karvunidis, Laurie Graham, Michael Gorman, Milena Khazanavicius, Minister Chuck Porter, Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Nova Scotia Power (NSP), partially sighted, pedestrian push buttons, pedestrian safety, people who are blind, QAnon, Rene Ross, Suzanne Humphries, Unmask Our Children, Walk and Roll, Yarmouth

The Abdi siblings speak out

Morning File, Wednesday, September 2, 2020

September 2, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. In a lawsuit, Fatouma and Abdoul Abdi allege years of abuse while they were children in care Remember Abdoul Abdi? The Government of Canada wanted to deport him after he was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to prison. Abdi was not a citizen, and under rules brought in under the federal immigration […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi, affordable housing, Back to school, backyard secondary suites, beg buttons, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, comments moderation, councillor Richard Zurawski, councillor Waye Mason, COVID-19, deportation policy, Eric Jury, Fatouma Abdi, high speed internet, Immigration, legislature, Minister Jason Kenney, Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, pedestrian push buttons, Shannon Johnson, sloganeering, St Joseph Cemetery, war

Halifax councillor unsatisfied with staff reports on pedestrian push buttons and other road safety measures, points to internal transportation ‘crisis’

September 2, 2020 By Zane Woodford 5 Comments

Nearly two years after he asked for a report on eliminating pedestrian push buttons in Halifax, what Coun. Waye Mason got back doesn’t even answer the question he asked. And it’s one of multiple information reports to council on Tuesday that Mason and other councillors believe show the municipality needs to change the way it […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: beg buttons, Brad Anguish, councillor Shawn Cleary, councillor Waye Mason, HRM Safe Cities for Everyone, intersections, Jacques Dubé, Jill Morrison, pedestrian push buttons, right turn on red, Roddy MacIntyre, traffic authority, traffic signal

The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Brian Borcherdt. Photo: Anna Edwards-Borcherdt

Brian Borcherdt came of age in Yarmouth in the 1990s. When he arrived in Halifax, the city’s famous music scene was already waning, and worse, the music he made was rejected by the cool kids anyway. After decades away from Nova Scotia, he and his young family have settled in the Annapolis Valley, where he’ll zoom in to chat with Tara about his band Holy Fuck’s endlessly delayed tour, creating the Dependent Music collective, and the freedom and excitement of the improvised music he’s making now. Plus: Bringing events back in 2021.

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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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