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WEB3 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 …
Paper Excellence's very big deal - Halifax Examiner
WEBJul 26, 2021 · It is a Very Big Deal. At 10am on Thursday, July 29, at a special virtual meeting, shareholders of Domtar, a giant in the North American pulp and paper industry, will vote on whether to accept the sale of all the corporation’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock to Paper Excellence for US$55.50 per share in an “all-cash transaction” worth about US$3 billion, or CN$3.77 billion.
Nova Scotia Community College building three student residences …
WEBNov 7, 2022 · Construction is underway on hundreds of new homes for students at three Nova Scotia Community College campuses. The provincial government is spending $112 million to build student residences with 350 beds: 200 at NSCC’s Ivany Campus in Dartmouth, 100 at its Akerley Campus in Dartmouth, and 50 …
Halifax needs to pick a site soon for new $100-million police ...
WEBSep 21, 2023 · Listed starting in 2025-2026 is the new headquarters, at $500,000. There’s another $1.5 million budgeted for 2026-2027, $8 million in 2027-2028, and then $90 million listed between 2028-2029 and 2032-2033. Crystal Nowlan, director of asset management, said the current plan would see the new headquarters built by the end of 2028-2029.
The end of SaltWire: What happened and what happens next?
WEBMar 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 ...
Introducing… the Halifax Examiner
WEBJun 18, 2014 · A note about the name “Halifax Examiner.”. When I started my career, I lived in a town called Chico, California. Not really knowing what I was doing, I started my own weekly paper called the Chico Examiner. The name “Examiner” was intended to mean just that—I didn’t want to simply chronicle the news, or just report, herald, post, or ...
Nova Scotia whale sanctuary ‘charting path’ to final site …
WEBDec 7, 2023 · Credit: Mike Doherty/Unsplash. The group creating a Nova Scotia-based coastal refuge for captive whales from entertainment parks says results from a recent study will help it “chart a path to final site development.”. The Whale Sanctuary Project posted the update on its website Tuesday, explaining it had received results from environmental ...
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Living wage in Halifax now $23.50, reports Canadian Centre for …
WEBSep 7, 2022 · Almost half of workers in Nova Scotia aren’t making a living wage, according to the latest report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. A worker in Halifax needs $23.50 an hour to meet the rising cost of living, Christine Saulnier of CCPA-NS concludes in the report. That’s up from $22.05 last year. The figure […]
Nova Scotia to extend rent control to end of 2025, increase annual …
WEBMar 22, 2023 · The provincial government is extending the cap on rent hikes to the end of 2025 and increasing the amount landlords can raise rent to 5%. Colton LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Service Nova Scotia and the Residential Tenancies Act, introduced amendments to the Interim Residential Rental Increase Cap Act on Wednesday.. The current rent cap of 2% expires at the end of 2023.