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Mount Uniacke residents oppose proposed quarry expansion

May 10, 2022 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

Residents in Mount Uniacke say they are concerned about a proposed expansion of a four-hectare local quarry they never wanted in their community. Stephen Marsh has lived in Mount Uniacke for more than 50 years, and was one of the residents who opposed the construction of original quarry back in 2015. The quarry, which is […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: aggregate, Andrew Rodgers, Damon Conrad, Mount Uniacke, Northumberland Capital Corporation Inc., quarry, Sackville Rivers Association, Stephen Marsh, Suzanne Rent

Pollution and weeds plague Dartmouth’s lakes

August 23, 2019 By Jennifer Henderson

On a hot steamy night more than 150 Dartmouth residents turned up at a “Save Our Lakes” meeting hosted by Claudia Chender and Susan Leblanc, the representatives for Dartmouth South and Dartmouth North in the legislature. Top among the concerns expressed at the Micmac Aquatic Club last night is the fact that no level of...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: algae, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Bob Rutherford, Cameron Deacoff, Councillor Sam Austin, Dartmouth lakes, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Lake Banook, Lake Banook weeds, Lake MicMac, Little Albro Lake, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Morris Lake, Norman Steele, Nova Scotia Department of Environment, Oat Hill Lake Neighbourhood Association, Sackville Rivers Association, Walter Regan

The development boom’s echo: filling in Halifax Harbour

November 16, 2016 By Chris Lambie

In Halifax schools, children learn that the city has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It’s one of those motherhood statements that people repeat as a mantra when visitors come calling or businesses look at setting up shop here. So why are we filling it in? Since 2011, the Halifax Port Authority has...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Investigation, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Africville, Andrew Hebda, Bedford Basin, container ships, container terminal, DeWolf Park, Fairview Cove, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Frances Fares, Halifax Port Authority, Halifax Water, Irvine Carvery, King’s Wharf, Lane Farguson, Mark Currie, pyritic slate, Sackville Rivers Association, Sandra Banfield, Save the Bedford Waterfront Society, Sawmill River, Tony Henderson, Walter Regan, Waterfront Development Corporation

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!

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