These first-time voters are excited for HRM’s election (even if no one else is)
By Moira Donovan
Wood Street Secure Care rejects appeal saying placements aren’t given enough cultural consideration
Concerns that an Indigenous youth wouldn't have culturally appropriate support defeated.
Tags: City, Wood Street
Develop Nova Scotia's inaccessible information
The former Waterfront Development Corporation requires a FOIPOP for innocuous set of public meeting minutes.
Tags: City, FOIPOP, Freedom of Information, Develop NS
City hall loosens requirements for criminal record checks
Halifax makes changes to workforce regulations as use of the discriminatory practice continues to increase in the private sector.
Tags: City, Justice, Criminal Record Checks
Record of employment
Criminal record checks are an increasingly common part of job hunting, but for former inmates looking to reenter society, they're also a discriminatory barrier to finding employment.
Tags: City, Prison, Justice, Employment, Labour
Refugee mental health care adds insult to injury
Lack of funding and a Kafkaesque bureaucracy makes Canada's refugee counselling painfully inadequate.
Tags: City, Mental Health, Refugees, Syria
Halifax’s Auditor General drops 2024 audit plan
By Matt Stickland
Every big show coming to Halifax (and beyond) in 2024
By Team Coast
Everything you need to know about the 2024 Halifax Burger Bash
Cruise season is back in Halifax—with newer anti-pollution rules. But how much has changed?
By Martin Bauman
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