Michael Fleury

Last weekend, residents in the north end were treated to a fresh wave of unfriendly graffiti, all following an anti-gentrification theme. “You can visit anytime but you’re not invited to live here,” read one message, spray-painted on the side of a house on Bauer Street. “Can’t afford this,” read another, left on the side of […]

Rob Lewis, Aaron Jackson, Benjamin Jordan, and Carlos Coppen set out from Halifax with the goal of longboarding all the way across the country to Vancouver (that’s 8000km or so, in case you were wondering). Their cross-Canada journey, dubbed Push for the Cure, is designed to raise money and awareness for the fight against breast […]

Catherine Meade, a local track and field athlete and lawyer, was featured in our Pride Guide (July 20) as she prepared to attend Montreal’s Outgames, a multi-sport competition with a particular focus on gay and lesbian athletes. Meade, along with a strong local contingent of Halifax athletes, has now returned home. “Almost everyone came home […]

After months of speculation and argument over how to best use the lot near Spring Garden and Queen—the former location of the Halifax infirmary—some parts of the site began to take shape this past week: A brand new parking lot has been installed near the corner of Queen and Morris, taking up a sizable chunk of the vacant property.The question is, for how long? Despite early reports that the lot would operate on an interim basis (a story in last Friday’s Chronicle-Herald quoted a spokeswoman from the Department of Transportation and Public Works who described the parking set-up as “temporary”),

1955: The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge opens. 1970: The A. Murray Mackay Bridge opens. Then for a long time, nothing happens. Until this week. The Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission made a number of announcements this past week, all relating to updating their services and whisking people over the harbour with greater efficiency (Faster! Better! More often!). The biggest news in the immediate future: bridge tokens will be gradually phased out by 2008, in order to encourage more drivers to get on board with MACPASS, the electronic bridge toll system that causes people to hurtle towards those automatic restraining barriers with reckless,

Responding to a reader-generated tip (and following up on Bruce Wark’s June 22 cover story on “Halifax’s dirty little secret”), we put in a call to the Halifax Regional Police Department this week to look into some unusual police activity in the area surrounding that locally famous (infamous?) intersection, Pizza Corner. The tip, which came […]

Halifax Regional Police have been disappointed with the results of their most recent gun amnesty program. Since June 26, the program—which offers “law-abiding citizens the opportunity to turn over unregistered/unwanted guns and ammunition without penalty”—has only netted 21 firearms. To date, the police have collected a variety of weapons, including antiques (a rifle likely dating […]

More than 20 Metro Transit buses will be replaced after city council approved spending almost $9 million to pay for 25 new mass transit vehicles. Paul McDaniel, general manager of Metro Transit, said the aging bus fleet is in dire need of the upgrade. The oldest Metro Transit buses, some of which have been in […]

A hearty welcome goes out this week to Rio, the new Halifax police horse who will be formally sworn in on Canada Day. The CBC is currently running a contest to rename Rio, so as of Friday, our pithy Duran Duran-inspired headline will be officially out of date. Rio will replace Halifax’s current lone police […]

Nova Scotia’s anti-Sunday shopping law: Law, or meekly-enforced suggestion? Discuss. Personally, we’re inclined to go with “suggestion” after the events of last week. The Atlantic Superstore on Barrington Street first skirted the Sunday shopping ban on June 11, and consequently kicked the floodgates wide open—as in, province-wide. Last week, Sobeys responded to the Superstore venture […]

We promise not to go on at length about the provincial election. Honest. Everybody knows the results by now anyway; the Conservatives won another minority, R-Mac still presides. Yeah, yeah, fine. But still, we feel the need to mention: of all the stories to emerge on election night, you gotta feel for former Waverley-Fall River-Beaver […]