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Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 9 — Halifax West-Armdale

September 28, 2020 By Zane Woodford 3 Comments

Confirmed in a recount, Shawn Cleary beat the former councillor for District 9, Linda Mosher, by little more than 100 votes in 2016. Cleary is hoping to win again, and the district, which includes the west end and crosses the rotary into Armdale, has four other candidates vying for the seat in this election. The […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: accessible housing, affordable housing, Bill Carr, candidate questionnaire, climate crisis, District 9, Gerry Lonergan, HalifACT 2050, Halifax Police budget, Halifax Transit, living wage, Shaun Clark, Shawn Cleary, Stephen Foster

Taxing Issues

Morning File, Wednesday, March 20, 2019

March 20, 2019 By Philip Moscovitch 6 Comments

News 1. John Risley’s South African Adventure Out from behind the paywall: Tim’s epic piece on how Nova Scotia billionaire John Risley wound up in bed with an arms dealer suing the South African government over an apartheid-era contract. The short version: After his racing career, Portuguese Formula 1 driver Jorge Pinhol became an arms […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Cooke, Andrew Metledge, Anmet Holdings Ltd, club sandwiches, digital subscriptions tax credit, donair spice dispute, Donkin coal mine infractions, Eat This Town, Fenwick Tower redevelopment, gas prices, gas tax, Jean Laroche, Jeff mahoney, John Risley’s South African Adventure, Johnny Dibb, Lindsay Nelson, Mayor Mike Savage, Phil’s new printer, Sancton Access Inc, Shawn Cleary, Templeton Properties, Tom Ayers, volunteer tax clinics, Will Martin, Wyatt Gillis

Halifax council passes stupid and overreaching cannabis restrictions

Morning File, Wednesday, July 18, 2018

July 18, 2018 By Tim Bousquet 19 Comments

News 1. Government drops effort to deport Abdoul Abdi The news was announced by Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale via a tweet at 9pm last night: The Government of Canada respects the decision filed on July 13 by the Federal Court concerning Abdoul Abdi. The Government will not pursue deportation for Mr. Abdi. — Ralph Goodale […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Abdoul Abdi deportation dropped, Agricola Street Improvement Plan, Amanda Debison, Anjuli Patil, Benjamin Perryman, cannabis restrictions, CAO Jacques Dubé, city support for stadium, councillor Matt Whitman, councillor Richard Zurawski, Councillor Sam Austin, Councillor Tim Outhit, Grafton Street glory Hole, Hanita Koblents, Highway 104 twinning project, Leanne Hayes, Maritime Football Ltd, Mayor Mike Savage, Minister Ralph Goodale, Shawn Cleary, Steve Craig, Wrights Cove Transit Terminal, Yvette d'Entremont

The battle over on-street parking on Almon Street

May 10, 2017 By Erica Butler

The city is considering adding bike lanes and sharrows along Almon Street in hopes of creating an east-west safe corridor across the peninsula for active transportation. The proposal would see painted bike lanes along both sides of Almon between Agricola and Connolly Streets (about 1.2km) and painted sharrows for sections at either end of the...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: Halifax Cycling Coalition, parking on Almon Street, Shawn Cleary

The power of poetry: Morning File, Wednesday, April 26, 2017

April 26, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Cornwallis Two weeks ago, Halifax poet laureate Rebecca Thomas read her poem “Not Perfect” before city council: The reading had two effects. The first was that councillor Shawn Cleary was moved to ask that Halifax council revisit the issue of renaming Cornwallis Street and removing the statue of Cornwallis in the south end. (Councillor […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "Not Perfect" poem, Craig Jackson, Dr. Alan Drummond, Edward Cornwallis removal, Environmental Bill of Rights, Environmental Racism, Halifax Regional Council, Jack Webb, Lindell Smith, Louise Delisle, Michael Tutton, Mother Canada, Paul Withers, Randy Billings, Rebecca Thomas, Rick Davis, Shawn Cleary, Shelburne dump, softwood lumber tariff, Steve Streatch, Waye Mason, Westlock County Alberta, Yarmouth ferry season extension

Council pay and publicly financed election campaigns: Morning File, Thursday, March 23, 2017

March 23, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 17 Comments

News 1. Council pay and publicly financed election campaigns On Tuesday, Halifax councillor Shawn Cleary tried to revisit the ever-contentious issue of council pay, asking for a freeze on councillors’ salary until the issue can be studied again, but his motion was voted down. I had already left the meeting, but as Jacob Boon reports for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Calvin Lawrence, council pay, Graham Steele, Jacob Boon, James Mirtle, Joyce Ross, justification for paywall, online advertising, Opposition leaders, publicly financed election campaigns, rejecting advertising, Russell Walker, Saint Thomas United Baptist Church, Shawn Cleary, subscription model, The Athletic

Snow, sidewalks, and setting our sights a little higher

Winter sidewalk clearing is under-prioritized in Halifax, and this spring we'll have a chance to change that.

February 23, 2017 By Erica Butler 6 Comments

According to the 2011 sort-of-census, over 77 per cent of people in downtown Halifax get to their jobs by walking, biking, or using transit. In the university district, it’s about 72 per cent. And in the near north end, where I live, it’s about 69 per cent. That’s a whole heck of a lot of […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured Tagged With: Dalhousie snow removal, HRM’s Sidewalk Clearing Timelines, Shawn Cleary, sidewalk snow clearing, Waye Mason

Morning File, Tuesday, January 10, 2017

News, views, and snowshoes from Mainland Nova Scotia's greatest municipality

January 10, 2017 By Katie Toth 2 Comments

Tim is goofing off this morning. Today’s guest writer is Katie Toth. News 1. Hospital accused of turning away Lionel Desmond insists it’s never denied care According to new reporting by Melanie Patten for CBC News, one doctor at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish says it’s never denied care in its emergency rooms. Lionel Desmond’s family […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: corgi, Flapjack the Corgi, Haley Ryan, Halifax Regional Police, Lionel Desmond, Mathew Kahansky, Melanie Patten, pancakes, Police Commission, Racism, Rebecca Dingwell, Shawn Cleary, St. Martha's Hospital, Tim Outhit, Tristan Cleveland

Halifax councillors need to make a living wage ordinance a priority: Morning File, Monday, November 21, 2016

November 21, 2016 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

November Subscription Drive Click here to purchase a subscription to the Halifax Examiner. News 1. Just how low, and how bad, can the Chronicle Herald get? In a bid to restart negotiations between the Chronicle Herald management and its striking newsroom employees, the union sent the company a request for a meeting. But the company […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: BAE, Ben Eoin, candidates' answers, Chronicle Herald strike, conquered people, Danish warship HDMS Peter Willemoes, Danny Paul, David Pugliese, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Dennis Kutchera, Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation, Freedom of Information, Georgina MacLeod, Halifax Transit, Imperial Cleaners, IMTB, Irving Shipbuilding, It's More Than Buses, Joan Weeks, John Demont, Lisa Blackburn, living wage, living wage ordinance, Mark Cunningham, Marlene Usher, Mary Campbell, Michael Merritt, Mike Savage, Moving Forward Together, Port of Sydney, Richard Zurawski, Sackville Sports Stadium, Sam Austin, Sean Previl, Shawn Cleary, Stephen Kimber, Steve Streatch, Waye Mason

Examineradio jumps the shark: Examineradio, episode #87

November 11, 2016 By Russell Gragg 8 Comments

This week is a special Halifax Examiner Subscription Drive episode. We look back on some of the highlights of nearly two years’ worth of this podcast and radio show, including interviews with former MPs Megan Leslie and Peter Stoffer, Toronto Star journalist Alex Boutilier and lawyer-turned-author Philip Slayton. Oh, and Mayor Mike Savage. Plus, Tim […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Donald fucking Trump, Examineradio, Lindell Smith, Lisa Blackburn, podcast, Sam Austin, Shawn Cleary

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The Tideline, with Tara Thorne

Phyllis Rising — Rebecca Falvey (left) and Meg Hubley. Photo submitted

Episode #19 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne is published.

Meg Hubley and Rebecca Falvey met as theatre kids at Neptune and have been friends ever since. As Phyllis Rising — that’s right, Mary Tyler Moore hive — they’re making films, plays, and are in production on The Crevice, a three-part sitcom streaming live from the Bus Stop in March. They stop by to talk with Tara about its development, their shared love of classic SNL and 90s sitcoms, and the power of close friendship. Plus: A new song from a new band.

This episode is available today only for premium subscribers; to become a premium subscriber, click here, and join the select group of arts and entertainment supporters for just $5/month. Everyone else will have to wait until tomorrow to listen to it.

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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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