Halifax’s standing committee, budget committee and regional council met this week. All three entities are made up of the same people: 16 councillors and the mayor. But each is tasked with different objectives within HRM. You can follow along with everything that happened at the meeting here: The meeting began with the committee of the […]
Caora McKenna
Caora was City Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from city hall to police and housing issues. She started with The Coast in 2017, when she was the publication’s Copy Editor.
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First look: The Blue Mountain Birch Cove Wilderness Connector
Last month The Nova Scotia Nature Trust, Nova Scotia’s private land conservation organization, secured the purchase of the Blue Mountain Wilderness Connector, a 220 hectare (545 acre) property that connects two swaths of undeveloped wilderness land. The Coast headed out with Joanna Skomoroski, the NSNT’s stewardship coordinator and Tanya Colburne, director of philanthropy and engagement, to give […]
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Strang and McNeil give final COVID-19 update of 2020
Correction: This meeting was not the final update of 2020. To read about the final update, click here. At today’s COVID-19 press teleconference chief medical officer Robert Strang and outgoing premier Stephen McNeil said Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night—sort of. Strang gave some clarification around last week’s announcement which saw […]
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Mills Brothers window displays remembered as building awaits redevelopment
It’s been a few years since Spring Garden road was full of onlookers making their way to the block between Queen and Birmingham Streets to peep in the iconic window displays of the Mills Brothers stores. And more than half a century since the window display was the only one in Canada to win a […]
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Halifax Regional council talks budget at its last meeting of 2020
Halifax Regional Council this week kicked off with a budget committee meeting. The budget committee is the same as regional council except it has slightly different rules and it discusses just one thing: the budget. HRM’s budget is its road map for spending throughout the year. It lists the municipality’s priorities on paper and dictates […]
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Halifax Regional Police is all-in on body cameras, but police board isn’t so sure
Halifax’s board of police commissioners didn’t make it through all the items on its agenda again this week, and all the things that did get discussed also got deferred. So technically there’s nothing concrete to report but there are things worthy of reporting nonetheless. The commissioners voted to defer a decision on body-worn cameras to their […]
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The coronavirus vaccine, explained
With approval from Health Canada this week and the first shipment of vaccines shipment making landfall in Nova Scotia next Tuesday, the third phase of the coronavirus pandemic is nearly underway. The first phase brought panic and uncertainty: It saw snap-decision lockdowns, confusion over transmission and mounting fear. The second phase saw public health mitigation […]
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Halifax’s indoor skatepark movement is just getting started
Tayvon Clarke’s best trick on his skateboard is a backside heel flip. To do it he combines a backside 180—which is already a combo of an ollie and a 180-degree turn—and a heelflip, where the heel hits the board and causes it to spin 360 degrees lengthwise. It requires—like all parts of skateboarding—hours and hours […]
