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City camping: Toronto teaches Halifax another lesson about tents, parks, and homelessness

Morning File, Tuesday, May 17, 2022

May 17, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 5 Comments

News 1. Defund the police report: four months after publication, Halifax still moving slow on recommendations In January, El Jones’ Subcommittee to Define Defunding the Police tabled its report. The report outlined 36 recommendations for policing in Halifax. Generally, it was suggested better oversight, less police involvement in mental health response and traffic enforcement, more […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File, PRICED OUT Tagged With: camping in parks, Ethan Lycan-Lang, gas prices, homelessness, People's Park, Toronto

Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks

May 4, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Describing it as the best of a set of bad options, councillors are moving ahead with a revised version of the staff proposal to create designated tent sites for unhoused Haligonians. But significant questions remain about how and when people currently living in municipal parks will be asked to leave, or whether they’ll be forcibly […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Coun. Tony Mancini, Coun. Trish Purdy, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pamela Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Police, housing, Housing and Homelessness Partnership, housing crisis, Jacques Dubé, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, municipal parks, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, unhoused, United Way, Zane Woodford

Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks

May 2, 2022 By Zane Woodford 1 Comment

Municipal staff are proposing the creation of a limited number of city-sanctioned tent sites in response to the housing crisis, but advocates for unhoused Haligonians worry the recommendation will mean forced eviction for people sleeping in municipal parks. In a staff report coming to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday, Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency shelter, Halifax Regional Municipality, housing, housing crisis, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, Meagher Park, Mutual Aid Halifax, P.A.D.S. Community Network, People's Park, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

Halifax councillors cool to decriminalizing sheltering in parks

April 21, 2022 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Halifax councillors aren’t ready to allow unhoused people to camp in parks without the threat of criminalization. Sakura Saunders, a member of the P.A.D.S. Community Network, made a presentation to council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee’s meeting on Thursday, asking councillors to allow camping in municipal parks using Bylaw P-600. The bylaw bans camping […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News, Politics, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, Bylaw P-600, Community Planning and Economic Development Committee, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Sam Austin, Halifax Regional Council, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Maggie MacDonald, Max Chauvin, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Sakura Saunders, Zane Woodford

Volunteer group asks HRM to use bylaw to allow unhoused people to continue camping in public parks

Bylaw says camping is only allowed in public parks "by permission"

April 1, 2022 By Leslie Amminson Leave a Comment

A volunteer group in HRM is asking the city to invoke part of an existing bylaw that would allow unhoused people to continue camping in public parks. In a media release Friday morning, P.A.D.S. Community Network said they’d met with Mayor Mike Savage and several HRM councillors to discuss Bylaw P-600, which prohibits camping in […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: homeless, People's Park

Volunteer network says it won’t help dismantle People’s Park after CAO Dubé asks for group’s help to “peacefully” close park

March 17, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson 1 Comment

An encampment at a Halifax park, where unhoused people have lived in makeshift shelters since August, could soon be dismantled. People have been living in tents in Meagher Park, on the corner of Chebucto Road and Dublin Street, all fall and winter. Known to volunteers, residents, and community members as “People’s Park,” the site became […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: People's Park

Halifax Pavilion to be used as temporary shelter, other housing projects secure funding

March 1, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

A former all-ages music venue in Halifax is being converted into an overnight shelter, but only for a few weeks. In a news release on Tuesday, the provincial Department of Community Services announced that the municipally-owned building on Cogswell Street on the Halifax Common will be used as a 25-bed shelter, open from 9pm to […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Department of Community Services, George Dixon Centre, Halifax, Halifax Common, Halifax Regional Council, housing, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, PRICED OUT, Zane Woodford

Living on the streets can kill

Morning File, Tuesday, December 14, 2021

December 14, 2021 By Philip Moscovitch 5 Comments

News 1. Omicron is here — and some restrictions are coming back At least 40 Nova Scotians with COVID-19 have tested positive for the Omicron variant, and the StFX super-spreader event has led to positive cases at a seniors’ residence and at Dalhousie University. Yesterday, 114 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Nova Scotia. […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Becky Kent, Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang, City of Toronto, COVID-19, Dan Kinsella, El Jones, Halifax Regional Police, homelessness, knkx, merkle hotel, Omicron, People's Park, Philip Moscovitch, RCMP, RCMP Chief Supt. Janis Gray, tacoma, Tim Bousquet, Tony Mancini, vaccination, will james, Zane Woodford

“Call back the house until everybody’s got one:” Protestors demand province call emergency session of legislature to deal with housing crisis

November 28, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson 2 Comments

This article was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson. “Call back the house until everybody’s got one.” That was the chant repeated by a crowd of demonstrators gathered outside Province House in Halifax Sunday afternoon. Wrapped in scarves, toques, and winter coats, dozens of people blocked off part of George Street, demanding the provincial […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: affordable housing, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, emergency housing, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, housing crisis, Leslie Amminson, Nick Meagher Park, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, PADS Community Network, People's Park, Premier Tim Houston, PRICED OUT, Province House, Rachelle Sauvé, Solutions for Housing and Homelessness Plan, Victoria Levack

As winter approaches, residents of People’s Park, volunteers, and neighbours wait for a better housing solution

One volunteer says people "do not want to allow ourselves or the community to get enticed or get distracted" by the city's purchase of new modular units that will only meet the needs of a small percentage of the homeless population.

November 12, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang and Leslie Amminson Leave a Comment

At any given moment, a car might pull up to a small park at the corner of Chebucto Road and Dublin Street in Halifax. The driver will get out and talk to a man standing on the sidewalk. The pair will exchange “hellos” and “how are yous.” Then the driver will pass along food, cash, […]

Filed Under: Featured, News, PRICED OUT Tagged With: Accessible, Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, CAO Jacques Dubé, Chebucto Road, Coun. Lindell Smith, Dignified and Safer, Erica Fleck, Ethan Lycan-Lang, Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Regional Police, homeless, homelessness, housing, John Griffin, Leslie Amminson, Nick Meagher Park, Nova Scotia, P.A.D.S. Housing Network, People's Park, Permanent, Rachelle Sauvé, Victoria Levack

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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.

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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

Two young white women, one with dark hair and one blonde, smile at the camera on a sunny spring day.

Episode 79 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer are the Minute Women, two Haligonians who host a podcast of the same name about Canadian history as seen through a lens of Heritage Minutes (minutewomenpodcast.ca). In a lively celebration of the show’s second birthday, they stop by to reveal how curling brought them together in podcast — and now BFF — form, their favourite Minutes, that time they thought Jean Chretien was dead, and the impact their show has had. Plus music from brand-new ECMA winners Hillsburn and Zamani.

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