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Councillor vs cars: Guess who wins

Morning File, Wednesday, July 29, 2020

July 29, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 8 Comments

News 1. Feds and province change course, call inquiry After several days of outrage and demonstrations, including a sizable one in Bridgewater that began at provincial justice minister Mark Furey’s constituency office, the provincial and federal governments announced yesterday that there will be a full public inquiry into the mass murders of April 18 and […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Cayle Eagles, Councillor Mercedes Brian, far right Germans Cape Breton, Glen Assoun podcast, Glen Matthews, Halifax Regional Police Code of Ethics, Kayla Borden, Kirk Starratt, mass shooting inquiry, Mayor Jeff Cantwell, Mining Association of Nova Scotia (MANS), MP Lenore Zann, parking, Paul Wells, Peter Herbin, Stay Healthy Main Street, Traffic, Uncover: Dead Wrong podcast, Wolfville, Wolfville Business Development Corporation

HRM: 5,490 square kilometres, 20 public toilets

Morning File, Wednesday, July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020 By Philip Moscovitch 4 Comments

News 1. Council needs to step up on fighting anti-Black racism, says Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard In a half-hour presentation to council yesterday, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard called on the city to go beyond statements and act on combating racism, Zane Woodford reports: The presentation, titled “Unpacking Anti‐Black Racism in the HRM: Creating Sustainable Change […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: abolish nuclear weapons, Ashoka Mukpo, Carolyn Ray, Councillor Lindell Smith, councillor Tony Mancini, defund police, depression, domestic violence, factory farming, food systems, Ian Mosby, Joseph Rotblat, living wage policy, Marcus Gee, mental health, mental illness, municipal public toilets, Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), public toilets, Pugwash Peace Conferences, school reopening, Shannon Proudfoot, Stephen Augustine, Thinkers Lodge Pugwash, Uncover: Dead Wrong podcast, World Bank

Halifax council’s shameful rejection of a living wage policy

Morning File, Monday, July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Rents “A Dartmouth woman recently got a rent increase of 45% for what she believes is retaliation for making complaints about safety and maintenance issues in the building where she lives,” reports Suzanne Rent: Kimberly Rankin has lived at 6 Nivens Avenue in north end Dartmouth since January 2019. But this year, she […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Alex Kronstein, Atlantic bubble, coronavirus, councillor Tony Mancini, COVID-19, Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention Program (EIBI), Highfield Park, Highfield Park Residential Inc., Kimberly Rankin, living wage policy, long term care (LTC), North Dartmouth rental market, Northwood, pandemic, Robert Frank, royal Society of Canada, Uncover: Dead Wrong podcast, Yvette d'Entremont

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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