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Halifax shelter moving from Commons; province spending $195k to keep beds open at new location

April 1, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

  The province is spending $195,000 to extend the operation of an overnight emergency shelter in Halifax for another three months. On Thursday, the Department of Community Services announced it will pay to add 25 new overnight beds to the Brunswick Street Mission in downtown Halifax. These beds will be available nightly from April 1 […]

Filed Under: Featured, PRICED OUT Tagged With: homeless housing, shelter

Report: living wage in Halifax now $22.05/hour

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia office says the most expensive items in each region are shelter, food, and child care.

November 3, 2021 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternative released its latest report on living wages in Nova Scotia this morning. This year, CCPA-NS includes new living wage calculations for five economic regions: Annapolis valley (Annapolis, Kings, and Hants counties); Cape Breton (Cape Breton, Inverness, Richmond and Victoria counties); Halifax (Halifax County); Northern (Antigonish, Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Adsum House, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Nova Scotia (CCPA-NS), Cape Breton, child care, Cyclesmith, food costs, Halifax, living wage, Nova Scotia, shelter

Sleeping on HRM streets: “This year is by far the worst I’ve seen”

Morning File, Wednesday, September 9, 2020

September 9, 2020 By Suzanne Rent 1 Comment

News 1. Were it not for COVID, “we probably would have got by for hundreds of years” with double rooms in nursing homes: deputy minister Jennifer Henderson reports on Tuesday’s meeting of the legislature’s Health Committee, the first meeting in six months, to talk about the pandemic and preparedness. Chief medical officer Dr. Robert Strang […]

Filed Under: COVID, Featured, Morning File Tagged With: affordable housing, Back to School plan, COVID-19, Eric Jonsson, exposure Canada Games Centre, homelessness, homeschooling, Justine Taylor Hyslop, Krystal Acker-West, Navigator Street Outreach Program, Public Health, shelter, sleeping rough

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

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.

Listen to the episode here.

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