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5 days ago · In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated. Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong.
Halifax's emergency system caused confusion, frustration, wildfire ...
Oct 16, 2023 · Halifax Regional Municipality’s emergency management systems have been “underfunded and under-resourced” as the municipality has grown, a new report has found. The new report titled Upper Tantallon Wildfire: Lessons Learned, which will be presented to Halifax regional council on Tuesday, also found a scarcity of evacuation routes and poor ...
The end of SaltWire: What happened and what happens next?
Mar 12, 2024 · What happened. On Monday, a private equity firm called Fiera Private Debt started the legal process to dissolve SaltWire. At stake are the jobs and livelihood of hundreds of reporters, printers, delivery drivers, and related staff across three provinces. SaltWire was created by the owners of the Halifax Herald in 2017 specifically to purchase ...
The province substantially increases funding for and eligibility to …
Dec 14, 2022 · The province is substantially increasing funding for and eligibility to the Heating Assistance Rebate Program (HARP). An additional one-time increase of $100 million is being dedicated to the program. And the maximum payment to eligible households is increasing from the present $200 to $1,000. Additionally, the eligibility threshold is …
New grant to help Nova Scotians switch from oil to heat pump; …
Nov 22, 2022 · The federal price on fuel, known as the carbon tax, will be introduced in Nova Scotia next year. It’s estimated to add between $400 and $1500 a year for households at a time when the price of furnace oil has nearly doubled since last year.
Hurricane Fiona relief programs still taking applications; Nova …
Nov 28, 2022 · All of the programs above are still taking applications, as is the Seniors Care Grant program that provides $250 to low-income seniors. Small businesses can receive a one-time grant of $2,500 if their business was forced to close or sustained damage from the hurricane.
The Borealization of Acadia - Halifax Examiner
Jul 2, 2020 · The Borealization of Acadia. Due to climate change, warm weather-friendly trees should be dominating our forests; instead, cold-weather species are taking over. We now understand why — thanks to a phone call from the Irving company to lean on a professor’s dean. by Joan Baxter July 2, 2020. A new study shows that since European settlement ...
HRMFireNews - Halifax Examiner
Aug 10, 2023 · HRMFireNews is a free service which follows and reports on fire and emergency news in the Halifax Regional Municipality. The page was started in 2015 by an anonymous member of the public in response to a perceived lack of public information on fires and emergencies in HRM. The purpose of the page was and continues to be to increase the level of ...
People evacuated due to Tantallon fire, now counted at 16,000, to ...
May 29, 2023 · 16,000 out of their homes to receive $500. Meldrum said on Monday morning it was too early to say how the fire started, or how big it was. The Department of Natural Resources was surveying the fire from the sky to estimate its size, and on Monday afternoon, Tingley said the fire was 780 hectares. In terms of the scale of the evacuation, the ...
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About Us. The Halifax Examiner is an independent, adversarial news site devoted to holding the powerful accountable. We pry the lid off Halifax City Hall and offer a fresh look into Province House. We expose grifters, bullshitters, and business interests putting profit over people and the environment. We keep an eye on the police, and amplify ...