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Public importance of private woodlots

Morning File, Wednesday, May 25, 2022

May 25, 2022 By Ethan Lycan-Lang 2 Comments

News 1. Public importance of private woodlots This item was written by Ethan Lycan-Lang. There’s been a lot of discussion about how we manage our forests in this province; forests that are both disappearing and deteriorating in health. Ask most biologists, environmentalists, and non-industry foresters and they’ll tell you “discussion” is all there’s been when […]

Filed Under: Featured, Morning File Tagged With: Andy Kekacs, bike lane, Claudia Chender, CoVaRR-Net, COVID-19, Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Ecology Action Centre, Emera, Ethan Lycan-Lang, forestry, Globe and Mail, Karen Gatien, Karla Jessen Williamson, Lahey report, Moira MacDonald, Northern Pulp, Not Just Bikes, Nova Scotia Power, Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners, Patricia Amero, private woodlots, Raymond Plourde, residential schools, Silvicultural Guide for the Ecological Matrix, Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Toronto Islands, urban design, vaccine hesitancy, Western Woodlot Services Cooperative, William Lahey, Yvette d'Entremont, Zane Woodford

Nova Scotia Crowns push ahead with 2023 jury trial for Randy Riley

May 24, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The Crown is refusing Randy Riley’s request for a trial by judge alone, pushing ahead with a jury trial in September 2023 — well after the time limit prescribed by the court system. In 2018, Riley was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2010 killing of Chad Smith. In 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada […]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Chad Smith, Crown attorney Peter Craig, Crown prosecutor Paul Smith, El Jones, Randy Riley, Tim Bousquet, Vetrovec warning, Zane Woodford

Developer wants to clear trees early at fast-tracked Dartmouth development sites

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 4 Comments

Clayton Developments has applied to “enable early tree removal and earthworks” at two of its special planning areas in Dartmouth — the Port Wallace and Eisner Cove lands. The provincial government’s housing task force identified the two properties as special planning areas in March, along with seven others in the Halifax area. That means they […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Politics, Province House Tagged With: A.J. Legrow Holdings, Andrew Bone, Bill Zebedee, Clayton Developments, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth, Eisner Cove, Halifax Regional Council, Housing for the Halifax Regional Municipality Act, Housing Minister John Lohr, Jared Dalziel, Joan Baxter, Lake Charles, Mount Hope Avenue, Port Wallace, Southdale, special planning area, Zane Woodford

Property owner applies to infill Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 5 Comments

The federal government is seeking public feedback on a proposal to infill the Halifax Harbour at Dartmouth Cove, and the councillor and MP for the area aren’t impressed. 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd., owned by Bruce Wood, applied in March to fill its 2.7-hectare water lot, PID # 00114132 or 1 Parker St., with rock from […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News Tagged With: 4197847 Nova Scotia Ltd, Bruce Wood, Coun. Sam Austin, Dartmouth Cove, Fisheries Act, King’s Wharf, Mill Cove, MP Darren Fisher, pyritic slate, Zane Woodford

Halifax chief administrative officer Jacques Dubé resigns

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford 7 Comments

Halifax’s chief administrative officer is resigning. Jacques Dubé will leave the role at the end of 2022, the municipality announced in a news release on Wednesday. Dubé will “continue his duties over the next six months and assist with the eventual transition process,” the municipality said. Mayor Mike Savage praised Dubé in the release. “Jacques’ […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Amanda Whitewood, Bob Bjerke, CAO Jacque Dubé, Clayton Developments, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Mayor Mike Savage, Richard Butts, Zane Woodford

Halifax council round-up: Reprieve for Rankin, development study next to Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, and more

May 18, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Former Halifax councillor Reg Rankin will keep his publicly-funded salary for at least six more months. Regional council voted on Tuesday to defer a decision to cut Rankin’s salary as the part-time executive director of the Otter Lake Community Monitoring Committee (CMC), the independent body that oversees operations at the city dump. Last month, council...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Environment, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, Coun. Patty Cuttell, Coun. Shawn Cleary, Coun. Waye Mason, Deputy Mayor Pam Lovelace, deputy traffic authority, District 13 — Hammonds Plains-St. Margarets, electric buses, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Transit, Halifax Waste/Resource Society, Heritage Advisory Committee, Nova Bus Ltd., Otter Lake Community Monitoring Committee, Otter Lake Landfill, Reg Rankin, Rocking Stone, Shawn Wadden, Transportation Association of Canada, Transportation Standing Committee, Zane Woodford

Halifax council hikes taxi fares 16%

May 17, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

Taxi fares are up after a vote by Halifax regional council on Tuesday. For the first time in 10 years, council has adjusted the fares taxi drivers are permitted to charge for transporting passengers in the municipality. On average, the fare will rise 16.1%, but shorter trips will see a higher increase than longer trips. […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News Tagged With: Andrea MacDonald, Coun. David Hendsbee, Coun. Waye Mason, Dave Buffett, gas prices, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax Taxi Drivers Association, taxi fares, Zane Woodford

Halifax police board moving slowly on defunding report recommendations

May 16, 2022 By Zane Woodford 2 Comments

Four months after El Jones’ Subcommittee to Define Defunding the Police tabled its report with the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners, the board has yet to move on the recommendations. Jones presented the report, Defunding the Police: Defining the Way Forward for HRM, to the board in January, as the Halifax Examiner reported: “We have disinvested […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Policing, Politics Tagged With: Committee on defunding the police, Coun. Lindell Smith, Coun. Lisa Blackburn, defund the police, El Jones, Halifax Regional Police, Zane Woodford

Halifax council to consider hiking taxi fares for the first time in 10 years

May 13, 2022 By Zane Woodford Leave a Comment

The first increase to taxi fares in a decade could help the city’s drivers stay on the road, according to the president of the Halifax Taxi Drivers Association. In a report coming to Halifax regional council on Tuesday, Andrea MacDonald, HRM’s acting director of buildings and compliance, wrote that the municipality hasn’t raised taxi fares […]

Filed Under: City Hall, Economy, Featured, News Tagged With: Andrea MacDonald, cab fares, Casino Taxi, Dave Buffett, gas prices, Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Taxi Drivers Association, taxi, Zane Woodford

Community council approves Beechville development

May 11, 2022 By Zane Woodford

Councillors have approved a development proposal for Beechville nearly six years after it was first proposed. Parkdale Developments Ltd. applied in 2016 to develop its property on St. Margaret’s Bay Road. John R. Fiske, the owner, died in March, and his family has taken over the company. The proposal includes a 39-unit apartment building near...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, News, Subscribers only Tagged With: Coun. Iona Stoddard, Halifax and West Community Council, Halifax Regional Council, housing, Jamy-Ellen Klenavic, John R. Fiske, Parkdale Developments, Raine Mills Road, St. Margaret's Bay Road, Sunrose Consulting, Zane Woodford

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2020 mass murders

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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.

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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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