A new noise reduction bylaw is heading to council for approval, thanks to a city committee meeting Thursday. The Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee’s motion, if approved by council, will only allow construction noise from 7am to 8pm weekdays, 8am to 7pm on Saturdays, 9am-7pm Sundays. Rock breaking would only be allowed Monday […]
Matt Stickland
Matt spent 10 years in the Navy where he deployed to Libya with HMCS Charlottetown and then became a submariner until ‘retiring’ in 2018. In 2019 he completed his Bachelor of Journalism from the University of King’s College. Matt is an almost award winning opinion writer.
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City council opens some parks for unhoused Haligonians to sleep in
Halifax city council voted at its Tuesday meeting to allow people without a home to sleep in parks legally. This change was specifically presented to council because changing the bylaw for park use “is the only legislative or administrative option that we have,” said Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special projects manager in his presentation. […]
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Halifax speeds up the process to slow down streets
Speed bumps and other methods of making cars drive slower—known as traffic calming measures—were a major topic of discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of Halifax Regional Council. Right now the city has a long list of streets awaiting traffic calming, and council was considering administrative changes designed to address that backlog. The city’s current legislation that […]
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Parking tickets going up to $45 and more council business
The two biggest things on council’s agenda this week were making cars driving slower and letting unhoused Haligonians sleep in Halifax parks. Here is the other stuff is from Halifax Regional Council’s regular meeting of June 14, 2022. Thanks to the budget debates earlier this year, council decided to raise the fine for parking tickets […]
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A Titanic fraud?
One of the fun things about working for The Coast is that sometimes we get to write stories like “Hey, do you think there are enough funny tweets about that Titanic hotel to do something with?” Related And there are, there are some absolute bangers, like these: For a lot less than $300 million, I […]
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What cruise ships do with all that poo
When The Coast posted a picture of the massive Halifax-bound cruise ship Oasis of the Seas to our Instagram page, the number one question we got was about number two. So what happens to poop on a cruise ship? Glad you asked. They have to follow the same rules I had to follow as a […]
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HRM’s environmental policies take a back seat to development
The city’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee met last Thursday and got a presentation from Our HRM Alliance. The alliance is a group focused on preventing climate change, and it’s noticed that Halifax Regional Municipality’s big planning documents are announced with much fanfare but then poorly implemented, if at all. “The problem that we were […]
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Province’s latest housing scheme barely passes muster
On May 31, 2022, the media were invited to an announcement where the provincial minister of municipal affairs and housing, John Lohr, unveiled the PC government’s latest plan to help ease the housing crisis. The policy, titled Land For Housing Initiative, is quite simple. The province owns at least 50,000 parcels of land—maybe as many […]
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How cop Nicole Green’s pursuit of justice leaves injustice in its wake
When a non-lawyer watches the legal system in action, a vague sense of injustice lingers in the aftermath. It’s often hard to nail down exactly what’s causing the malaise. There’s always a hint—a certain je ne sais quoi d’injustice. And, unsurprisingly, the same malaise that permeates courtroom proceedings also crept its way into the recent […]
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On the final day of cop Nicole Green’s hearing, race enters the discussion
Friday was the last day of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board convened for Nicole Green, the Halifax Regional Police constable who tasered a man on Quinpool Road in December 2019. The three-day hearing was for both sides to present evidence about whether or not Green was justified in tasering a man The Coast is […]
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Taser cop Nicole Green was scared of being attacked with an alleged pen
Today was the second day of the Nova Scotia Police Review Board hearing where Halifax Regional Police constable Nicole Green is attempting to clear her name. Green made a violent arrest on Quinpool Road in December 2019, tasering a man we are calling Fred, and an HRP investigation determined she used inappropriate force, earning Green […]
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Cop tasers innocent man, gets lightly punished, appeals to erase that punishment
At a Best Western hotel this morning in Dartmouth, after some tech delays, a panel of three white adjudicators listened to two white lawyers argue about whether or not a white cop, Halifax Regional Police constable Nicole Green, was justified in her tasering of an unarmed Black man. The HRP had already decided Green was […]
