BEECHVILLE-LAKESIDE-TIMBERLEA (BLT) TRAIL Getting there: Once Metro Transit gets with the program and puts bike racks on all its buses, you will be able to take route 21 to Lakeside Park Drive, then walk up the street to the trailhead. Until then, you’ll either be driving or riding along St. Margaret’s Bay Road (Highway 3 […]
Erica Butler
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Hammering away
For going on 10 weeks, members of the Carpenters, Millwrights and Allied Workers Union have been regularly picketing a construction site at the old YWCA lot on the south end of Barrington Street, protesting the contractor’s use of non-union labour to build a new seven-story luxury apartment complex at the site. “We believe that the […]
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Spry eyes
What do four short films about a disappearing brook, a haunted house, a quest for hidden art and a host of community heroes have to do with one another? Location, location, location. All are centred in and around Spryfield—the sometimes urban, sometimes rural borough of HRM located just past the Armdale Rotary along the Herring […]
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Planting ideas
Universities are society’s bastions of good sense, chock full of learned (and learning) minds, busying themselves thinking up the best and brightest of ideas to make the world a better place. It only seems natural, then, that some of those ideas would find their way out of the lecture halls and into the daily life […]
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School shuffle
Changes are afoot in the world of high and higher education in the SuperCity. At the end of May, the Nova Scotia Community College will close down its Bell Road campus for good, and send the wrecking ball in to flatten the 55-year-old school. The NSCC is spending the next two years and about $50 […]
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The wheel world
It’s been four years now since Halifax passed its Blueprint for a Bicycle-Friendly HRM and progress has been, well, like riding a one-speed straight up Duke Street. That is to say, slow and painful. There’s a handful of bike lanes, curiously placed around the region with little-to-no continuity for practical, day-to-day cycling. There’s a bike […]
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Good to grow
After almost five years of consultation and studies, the final draft of the municipality’s new Regional Plan is online and ready for one last blast of public scrutiny. A public hearing on the plan—the very last stage before city councillors decide whether to approve it, amend it or reject it—will open Tuesday afternoon at city […]
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Clinical trials
You may have noticed your tax dollars hard at work on television these days touting something called “primary health care.” Health Canada is spending about $9.5 million on a national awareness campaign designed, it seems, to coin the phrase without ever really explaining what it means. Meanwhile, without the aid of television ads, Metro residents […]
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A taxing problem
Sheila Fraser may very well be Canada’s most popular civil servant. After filing her February 2004 Auditor General’s report outlining, among other things, the shameful and probably criminal pilfering of public funds that we’ve come to know as “the sponsorship scandal,” Fraser started receiving cards and letters of thanks from Canadians. A couple from Cape […]
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Bribezillas
In an interview with Chronicle-Herald reporter Michael Lightstone last month, HRM councillor Dawn Sloane revealed that, four years ago, a local developer offered her a roll of bills in a private meeting. After the story ran, further coverage revealed that two other HRM councillors had been offered bribes during their tenure, all by local, as […]
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Snow day
Peninsular Halifax is catching up with the Joneses. For years, Haligonians on the peninsula and in parts of Spryfield and Armdale have been hacking away at their sidewalks with shovels and picks, while their Dartmouth and Bedford neighbours wait cozily inside for city staff or contractors to come clear the way for pedestrians. But that […]
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Last chance
After four years of work and consultation, SuperCitizens have about six weeks left to submit final comments on the regional plan. “We’re asking for any input up until January 31,” says Peter Duncan, the regional plan team’s manager of environmental assets. The six weeks is an extra review period added at the request of the […]