Michael Fleury

The next version of Metro Transit’s Go Time is estimated to depart in… 10… months. Thank you for calling. Goodbye. Go Time, Metro Transit’s primary means of conveying arrival and departure information to the bus-going masses, is getting an overhaul. The new system is scheduled to be up and running by September 2007. It will […]

Dalhousie University professor Boris Worm was in a hockey rink when he first realized that vast species of fish and marine biodiversity—all of the world’s currently fished seafoods—could be lost by 2050. “I was overseeing a student exam—a part of my job that I don’t enjoy at all,” Worm recalls. “To distract myself, I was […]

If you’re from Glasgow. If you know someone from Glasgow. If your parents are from Glasgow. If you’re going there for a visit. If you’re going there for forever. If you find a way to post this column on a Glasgow message board. If you have any kind of Glaswegian connection—any at all—please pass along […]

The Midtown Tower hotel proposal for the corner of Market and Grafton has seen its share of ups and downs—appropriate, given that the argument over the proposed building has been primarily about height. On Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeals upheld a decision that the 17-storey tower was indeed too tall for its proposed […]

Construction may have already started, but Tuesday marked the official unveiling of the design for the new Nova Scotia College of Art and Design building, being built on the waterfront near Pier 21. The project is part of the Halifax Port Authority’s Seawall Redevelopment project. “The building is a work of art in itself,” says […]

We teased you last week about providing an update (report card?) on council’s list of 12-ish most urgent priorities, which were established at council last October and then brought up again at council in the past couple of weeks. Actually, we were going to write about this last week, but then that whole Sunday shopping […]

On Wednesday afternoon the Nova Scotia Supreme Court provided the dynamite, and Rodney MacDonald blew up the dam. The leaky provincial ban on Sunday shopping was effectively abolished on Wednesday when the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruled in favour of Sobeys and Atlantic Superstore, who were legally challenging what they considered an unfair restriction on […]

When throwing a house party, there is usually a direct correlation between how many guests you invite, and how shitty your house looks the next day. If you invite 10 people, someone might break a beer bottle or two. If you invite 30 people, your older, flimsier furniture may be at risk. If you invite […]

Patience is a virtue—just ask any Halifax skater, biker or blader who’s been waiting for the new skatepark being constructed on the Halifax Common. After what must have been a tantalizing summer of watching the park gradually take shape, the $500,000 project is finally near completion. “I’d say by the middle of October, people will […]

Three urban planners from the city-driven planning project HRM by Design dropped by The Coast on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Regional Centre (roughly, downtown Dartmouth and the Halifax peninsula). The group, made up of HRM’s Urban Design project manager Andy Fillmore and two representatives from the Toronto-based design firm Office for Urbanism, […]

Remember 2004? What a year. Paul Martin was our prime minister, Pluto was still a planet…such an innocent time. Here at home, Metro Transit announced that they were planning to convert their entire bus fleet over to biodisel fuel. Back then, those crazy 04’ers with the city’s Real Property and Asset Management released a statement […]