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How the proposed Summer Street parking garage fits into province’s plan to replace the Victoria General Hospital

January 30, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson

The largest infrastructure project in the province’s history got the once-over from the legislature’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday. It will be at least the end of 2026 before the patients putting up with what some doctors have described as “third world conditions” in the leaking Victoria General Hospital will be moved out. The bad news...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Armoyan Group, Bengal Lancers, Centre Plan, councillor Waye Mason, Deputy TIR Minister Paul LaFleche, Gary Porter, Halifax Infirmary, John O’Connor, MLA Claudia Chender, MLA Susan Leblanc, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Partners for Care, Paula Bond, QE2 redevelopment, QEII redevelopment, Victoria General Hospital (VG), Wanderers Grounds

Parking in the park: Halifax council wants public presentation on controversial Halifax hospital parkade

January 28, 2020 By Zane Woodford

After the provincial government released a tender for its controversial hospital parkade, regional council wants a presentation on the plan to build on the city’s land. The province wants to build a seven-storey, 900-space parkade next to the Museum of Natural History on Summer St. as part of the QEII Hospital project. The new parkade...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bengal Lancers, councillor Waye Mason, Museum of Natural History, parking garage Summer Street, Wanderers Grounds

The Hendsbee Facepalm. Examineradio, episode #117

June 23, 2017 By Russell Gragg Leave a Comment

This week we speak with James Covey of the Halifax Wanderers Supporters Group about the viability of professional soccer in Halifax and city council’s approval of a “pop-up” stadium on the Wanderer’s Grounds. Premier McNeil dismisses The Coast’s scathing article on the treatment of former Liberal staffer Michelle Coffin, claiming he didn’t even bother to read […]

Filed Under: Featured, Province House Tagged With: David Hendsbee, Examineradio, Indigenous, Kyley Harris, living wage, Maggie Rahr, Michelle Coffin, podcast, Premier Stephen McNeil, soccer, Wanderers Grounds

Half as big as the Nova Centre, but twice as ugly: Morning File, Thursday, January 19, 2017

January 19, 2017 By Tim Bousquet 12 Comments

News 1. Queen’s Wharf Not only are Waterfront Development and the Armour Group despoiling the waterfront, they’re changing the perfectly good historic name of Queen’s Wharf into some BS marketing-schemed “Queen’s Marque.” Anyway, construction of the monstrosity began this week, and immediately the bulldozers started revealing and demolishing ancient wharf structures buried in the fill. Waterfront Development assures me […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Armour Group, Charles W. Sampson, Craft beer, Dan Leger, Erin Moore, How to ride the bus, Jillian Ellsworth, Kieran Leavitt, Pedestrian struck Kearney Lake Road, Peter Ziobrowski, Queen’s Marque, Request for Proposal, Wanderers Grounds, Waterfront Development Corporation, website analytics, Zane Woodford

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 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.

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