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UARB overturns Halifax councillors’ Middle Sackville development decision

May 5, 2022 By Zane Woodford

The provincial Utility and Review Board (UARB) has overturned a decision by Halifax regional councillors to deny a development application in Middle Sackville. In November 2021, the North West Community Council — comprising councillors in districts 1, 13, 14, 15, and 16 — considered the application for a four-storey, 52-unit apartment building at the corner...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: alifax Regional Centre for Education, Coun. Cathy Deagle-Gammon, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, Coun. Paul Russell, Coun. Tim Outhit, Cresco Holdings Ltd., Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, Halifax Regional Council, Marzieh Ansari Shourijeh, Middle Sackville, North West Community Council, Paul Sampson, Sackville Heights Elementary School, Sackville Municipal Planning Strategy, Sunset Plaza Inc., Utility and Review Board, Zane Woodford

Dartmouth development to include affordable and accessible housing, but it needs help from government

September 16, 2020 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Plans for an affordable and accessible housing development in Dartmouth are nearing completion, but there are still significant financial hurdles in the way — indicative of the difficulties of building non-market housing in the Halifax area. Affirmative Ventures released the design for its Main Street development through project planner David Harrison this week. The plan […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: accessible housing, Affirmative Ventures, affordable housing, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Centre Plan, councillor Tony Mancini, David Harrison, density bonusing, Halifax Water fees, Main Street Centre, National Housing Co-Investment Fund, non-profit housing, Utility and Review Board

The Northern Pulp saga is a “really, really, really, really difficult time” for Pictou Landing First Nation

Morning File, Friday, December 20, 2019

December 20, 2019 By Tim Bousquet and Joan Baxter 7 Comments

News 1. A “really, really, really, really difficult time” Joan Baxter wrote this item. About 300 people gathered yesterday in the school gymnasium at Pictou Landing First Nation for a rally to support the Boat Harbour Act. That legislation, passed in 2015 by Premier Stephen McNeil’s Liberal government with support of the Progressive Conservatives and NDP, […]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: A’se’K, Boat Harbour Act, Brian Baarda, Chief Andrea Paul, Clean the Mill, convention centre hotel, Derek Ross, Dr. Richard Strauss, Elizabeth McMillan, Forest Nova Scotia, Haley Ryan, Jaddus Joseph Poirier, Linda Little, Lt. Derek de Jong, Michael Patrick McNutt, Murray Prest, Northern Pulp, Nova Centre, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association, Paper Excellence, Philip Croucher, Pictou Landing First Nation (PLFN), Premier Stephen McNeil, Ralph Francis, Renee Ross, Scott Maritimes, Star Halifax, Stirling McLean, Sutton Place Hotels, Taryn Grant, Unifor, Utility and Review Board, Wade Prest, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

EfficiencyOne wants to run Nova Scotia Power’s smart meter conservation program

Nova Scotia Power has "a disincentive to make meaningful investments in energy efficiency programs" writes the province's energy conservation agency in a submission to the UARB.

January 23, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

The way Nova Scotia Power measures electricity consumption relies on a worker coming to your home to read the meter once every month or two. In the rest of Canada, the meters have gone digital and are using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to allow two-way communication via a wireless network to provide a continuous flow...

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Filed Under: Environment, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: EfficiencyOne, Jennifer Henderson, Nova Scotia Power smart meters, Utility and Review Board, Zigbee

Are the smart meters Nova Scotia Power wants to install on our houses smart enough?

Energy consultant Peter Ritchie claims the utility is dumbing down its tech upgrade so consumers won't conserve power.

January 19, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

Are smart meters Nova Scotia Power is proposing to install on every home over the next few years as smart as they should be? Will ratepayers get the best bang for their buck ($133 million to automate meter-reading and provide them with online read-outs of daily energy consumption), or is the utility missing an opportunity...

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Filed Under: Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Bruce Outhouse, Emera, Jennifer Henderson, John Merrick, Nova Scotia Power smart meters, Peter Ritchie, Tiffany Chase, Utility and Review Board, Zigbee

PRICED OUT

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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 80 of The Tideline, with Tara Thorne, is published.

Singer-songwriter Willie Stratton has wandered a number of genre paths, starting with raw acoustic folk as a teen phenom, moving through surf rock as Beach Bait, and landing in a Roy Orbison-style classic country on his new album Drugstore Dreamin’. Ahead of his release show at the Marquee on Friday, he stops in to explain why mixing influences makes the best art, how he approaches the guitar, and what he likes about his day job as a barber.

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