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A look back at Halifax’s old streets

Morning File, Wednesday, October 27, 2021

October 27, 2021 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 4 Comments

News 1. Pandemic update: 100th Nova Scotian dies from COVID-19 A woman in her 70s has become the 100th person to die from COVID-19 in Nova Scotia. The woman lived in Nova Scotia Health’s Western Zone where a recent outbreak of the disease occurred at Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville, but the Department of Health […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Atlantic Gold, baseball, Centre Plan, COVID-19, Dr. Iain McGilchrist, Fart Proudly, Granville Street, Hollis Street, infilling, Joseph S. Rogers, L.B. Benson, Liberal leader Iain Rankin, Livery Stables, Major League Baseball, Melville island, NDP leader Gary Burrill, Northwest Arm, Nova Scotia Salmon Association (NSSA), protests banned at hospitals, right-side brain thinking, St Barbara, YMCA

“Those who are in a shelter or without shelter cannot self-isolate”: Halifax deals with homeless population during COVID crisis

March 26, 2020 By Jennifer Henderson 6 Comments

The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Amid a public health emergency that relies on people keeping six feet apart to halt the spread of COVID-19, a team is putting on a full court press to deal with one group of citizens. Housing Nova Scotia, the Halifax Regional Municipality, the YMCA, and […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Province House Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, homelessness, Housing Nova Scotia, Krista Higdon, Linda Wilson, Maggie-Jane Spray, Meghan Laing, Metro Turning Point, Out of the Cold emergency shelter, Salvation Army, Shelter NS, YMCA

Puzzling developments with Cape Breton’s non-existent container terminal

Morning File, Monday, January 20, 2020

January 20, 2020 By Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson 2 Comments

News 1. Walmart incident “When a young black woman accused the Halifax police of racially profiling and abusing her in connection with an alleged shoplifting incident at Walmart last week, officials did what officials do,” writes Stephen Kimber. “They obfuscated, they passed the buck, they pretended to take it seriously.” Click here to read “Can […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Brookfield Asset Management, Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway (CBNS), Desmond Cole, Egyptian artifacts, Emma Davie, facebook, Frank McKenna, Genesee & Wyoming, Geoff MacLelllan, Jack Julian, Jim Pomeroy, King's Co-op Bookstore, Marla MacInnis, Mary Campbell, mummies, Museum of Natural History, new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (AGNS) RFP, Nova Scotia Health Authority, Paul MacKay, Peter Bigelow, racial profiling, Russian Internet Research Agency, Santina Rao, Sydney container terminal, YMCA

Halifax in two acts: The Hotel Barmecide

Morning File, Monday, October 28, 2019

October 28, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 7 Comments

News 1. Crowns Writes Stephen Kimber: After a crazy week of blind-siding legislation, insults, distortions, bluster, meaningless committee hearings and more fact-free moments than you’d find in a Trumpian White House, the province and its Crown attorneys are right back where they began — at the bargaining table. Well, not exactly as illustrated… Click here […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: AIDAdiva, Air Canada, Bill 213, crane incident, crown attorneys, Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act (EGSPA), GHG emissions, Gus Reed, illness on cruise ships, John McPhee, Mark Parent, norovirus, Nova Centre hotel, shit wages, Sutton Place Hotel, YMCA

A mega development on Lake Banook shows that the Centre Plan is a cruel joke

Morning File, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

April 10, 2019 By Tim Bousquet 9 Comments

News 1. Mercury, Canso Chemicals, Northern Pulp Mill Facilities associated with Northern Pulp Mill’s proposed effluent pipe are immediately adjacent to a mercury-contaminated toxic waste site left over from the Canso Chemicals operation. Joan Baxter explains: The Canso Chemicals plant opened in 1970, and for the next 22 years used large amounts of mercury to […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Andy Filmore, Anthony Leblanc, Bob Bjerke, Canso launchpad, Centre Plan, Councillor Sam Austin, Don Bowser, Glory Hole, HRM By Design, Joe Ramia, Lake Banook development, Maritime Launch Services, Nova Centre, Queen’s Marque, South Barrington Historic District, stadium, YMCA, Yuzhmash, Yuzhnoye

YMCA drops plans for daycare from its new building

Daycare was one of the promised “social and community benefits” that convinced Halifax city council to approve the oversize development.

December 3, 2018 By Jennifer Henderson

At the earliest, it will be this time next year before the shiny new YMCA rising at the corner of South Park and Sackville Streets can open its doors to members. President and CEO of the Greater Halifax YMCA, Brian Posavad, tells the Halifax Examiner that, “like the rest of the projects in Halifax right...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Bette Borg-Watson, Brian Posavad, Jennifer Henderson, Jim Pomeroy, SouthWest Porperties, Y daycare, YMCA

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.

Check out some of the past episodes here.

Subscribe to the podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your device — there’s a great instructional article here. Email Suzanne for help.

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