Matt Stickland

District 15 used to be the only district in the HRM made up entirely of one community, Lower Sackville. With the recent district boundary changes, District 15 picked up the Beaverbank and Kinsac communities from the neighbouring District 14. Lower Sackville got its name from its founding as a fort named after Lionel Cranfield Sackville. […]

Halifax’s District 8 did not have a good 20th century. The district, which covers most of Halifax’s north end, is now home to some of Halifax Regional Municipality’s coolest locations, like Agricola Street and the Hyrdostone District, and part of the currently under-construction Cogswell District. But in order for Halifax to be able to build […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality is a vast place about the size of Prince Edward Island. It is a patchwork quilt of small communities, which used to be organized into independent towns, counties and villages. But when amalgamation happened in 1996, all of those communities were slammed together in the larger regional municipality, a single politicial […]

The race in Halifax’s District 7, known as Halifax South Downtown, is wide open after long-term incumbent councillor Waye Mason effectively resigned his seat by throwing his name in the hat for mayor. And despite the name, the downtown district has a wide range of residential communities. There are a couple of universities, relatively dense […]

The boundary changes in District 6 will see the district move outside the circumference of the circumferential highway. The district used to have a little bit of the Centre Plan area, mainly North Dartmouth, but as the city has grown, this district has expanded North and East. District 6 includes the Burnside Industrial Park, Shubie […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality’s District 10 has a strong claim to the title of the most changed district since amalgamation. The district’s history dates back to when non-British Protestants first colonized it in the 1750s. At the time, the British, who were establishing the colony of Halifax, called this part of District 10 the Dutch […]

  In official Halifax Regional Municipality jargon, the geographic description for District 4 is “Cole Harbour – Preston – Westphal – Cherry Brook.” A disjointed name for one of the most disjointed voting areas in the October 19 election. If you have a mental map of this region east of Dartmouth, some landmarks probably don’t […]

Halifax’s District 2 is one of the HRM’s longest. It starts at Ross Road just outside Cole Harbour, and a brisk 1.5 hour drive down the Eastern Shore will take you to the district’s end down by Sheet Harbour. This district, like most predominantly rural districts, is starting to buck against the city and its […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality’s District 3 is an unusual mix of communities. Within the district stretching from south Dartmouth to the beaches beyond Eastern Passage, there are four distinct subdivisions of the population, but they only get to elect one candidate as councillor in the October 19 municipal elections. Driving away from downtown Dartmouth on […]

District 1 is a massive area, ranging north and east from the Sackville outskirts of the urban core to the far edges of our PEI-sized Halifax Regional Municipality. It boasts rural farming communities and, closer to the core, “downtown” Fall River—once a bustling community hub turned parking lot, which in turn has become an THE […]

One of the fastest-growing places in the Halifax Regional Municipality is downtown Dartmouth. The Darkside councillors like to joke that Dartmouth’s unofficial animal should be the crane. Not the bird, but the ones littering the skyline building high-density residential housing around the Dartmouth entrance to the Macdonald Bridge. After the most recent electoral district boundary […]

At City Hall, council chambers are getting renovated to become more accessible, so Halifax’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee met virtually on Thursday Sep. 19. The meeting was dominated by RadStorm’s plan to buy their 2177 Gottingen Street building, and their request for Halifax’s municipal government to pitch in with some funding. RadStorm […]