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Nova Scotia makes it easier to be a taxi or ride-hailing driver in response to Uber lobbying

September 24, 2020 By Zane Woodford 7 Comments

The provincial government is making it easier to be a taxi or Uber driver, loosening the requirements to obtain the licence needed to be a driver for hire. In a news release Thursday, titled “Province Reduces Burden on Ride Hailing Services,” the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal announced it’s “establishing a modernized, restricted Class […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: lobbyists, ride-hailing companies, ride-hailing regulations, transportation, Uber in Halifax

Crashing on Annie Liebovitz’s Sofa: Examineradio #122

July 28, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week, we’re joined by Halifax Examiner transportation columnist Erica Butler, who digs into the province’s recent announcement of more than $65m in funding to twin portions of Highway 103, as well as the inaccessibility of Africville Park. Plus, 2,000 images from famed photographer Annie Liebovitz remain shuttered (see what I did there?) in a warehouse somewhere in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: Examineradio, podcast, transportation

Lengthy, limited local street bikeways policy coming soon to a city near you

November 1, 2016 By Erica Butler

The good news is Halifax will be getting into the local street bikeway business. The bad news: the process we have created to get there could put our first actual local street bikeway years away. Local street bikeways are designated bike-friendly routes through a city that make use of less busy, lower speed streets to...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: 2014 AT plan, bikeways, transportation

If you don’t pay attention, the future of HRM transportation will be decided without your input

Halifax's new 15-year transportation plan could change the priorities on our streets

October 19, 2016 By Erica Butler

People are rightly up in arms about the recent poor turnout for our municipal election, but let me throw another log on the fire of concern over citizen apathy: The first round of consultations for the Integrated Mobility Plan have come and gone, and a whopping 300 of us participated. Actually, it’s probably worse than...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Subscribers only Tagged With: IMP, Integrated Mobility Plan, NovaTRAC survey for 2016, regional plan, transportation

How safe is cycling?

A personal look at the risks and benefits of riding in the city

August 23, 2016 By Erica Butler 10 Comments

Everyone’s transportation choices are made based on a unique set of factors: where you live vs where you need to be on a regular basis; how much (or little) money you have to burn; what kind of cargo you normally have in tow; what kind of physical challenges you do or don’t have; etc. Me, […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: cycling, transportation

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

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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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