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Business case for P3 Outpatient Centre is finally made public

November 4, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

Some new light was shed today on the province’s controversial decision to choose a public-private-partnership (P3) model to build new healthcare facilities to replace the crumbling Victoria and Centennial buildings at the VG site of the QE2 Health Care Centre.  Last July, the former auditor general reported the secret process used to determine if P3...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bayers Lake Community Outpatient Centre, Deloitte, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, EllisDon, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Lisa Roberts, MLA Susan Leblanc, P3, QE2 Redevelopment Project, Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR), Value For Money analysis

Grieving alone, together

Morning File, Tuesday, April 21, 2020

April 21, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 12 Comments

News 1. The latest on COVID-19 and Northwood Yesterday saw the largest number of new cases of COVID-19 reported in Nova Scotia since the pandemic began. Of the 46 new cases, 36 are at the Northwood long-term care facility in Halifax. Northwood residents and staff now represent 151 of the province’s 721 confirmed cases. Jennifer […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aaron Derfel, Andrew Rankin, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 in prison, Farrah Khan, fraud risk report, Jacinda Ardern, James N. Meindl, Joachim Stroink, Jonathan W. Ivy, mass killing spree Nova Scotia, mass shooting, mass tragedy, murder rampage, murder spree Nova Scotia, nursing homes, pandemic, Patrick White, peepers, QE2 Redevelopment Project, RCMP press conference, shooting rampage Nova Scotia, sunset photos

It’s the People’s Arena: we paid for it, we own it

Morning File, Thursday, October 11, 2018

October 11, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 11 Comments

News 1. P3s explained Does the McNeil government’s announcement that the QEII New Generation project will be financed by a P3 (public-private partnership) arrangement leave you scratching your head in confusion? It should. So many arguments are tossed out to justify the decision, but none of those are explained in detail or backed up by hard […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Aiden R. Vining, Anthony E. Boardman, Dexel Developments proposal, Hebron Hospitality Group Inc, Jacob Boon, Jagsprett (Kit) Singh, Lafarge cement plant burning tires, Mary Campbell, naming rights, P3s explained, QE2 Redevelopment Project, Smiling Goat Café, the People's Arena, Weedmaps, Westwood Developments

Access denied: the Nova Scotia Health Authority refuses to share the results of its transportation survey

May 3, 2018 By Erica Butler 4 Comments

Last November, the QE2 Redevelopment Project very wisely conducted a survey of its staff, asking about how they get to and from work. I heard about the survey from a QE2 staffer, and immediately decided to ask for a look at the results. In Halifax, we don’t have too much in the way of detailed […]

Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: Catherine Tully, Erica Butler, FOIPOP Act, Fola Adeleke, Kristen Lipscombe, Nicole de Gier, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), QE2 Employee Transportation Survey, QE2 Redevelopment Project, staff transportation survey

PRICED OUT

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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!

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