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How Halifax city hall screws up: secrecy, lack of clear processes and the pathetic search for civic validation 

The concert scandal, The Oval naming kerfuffle and the flawed pursuit of a stadium have some common themes.

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At its Tuesday meeting, Halifax council tackled a couple of high-profile issues---naming rights to The Oval and the quest for a new stadium. I was there as usual, but my recent investigation of the city's concert scandal, published Monday night, was still weighing on my thoughts, so I was viewing the proceedings through that lens.

While the particular issues have their own flavours, I can't help but see some underlying themes that connect the three, at least to some degree. They are:

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