Update, 2:30 Friday: This afternoon, owners of cars parked on Granville Mall were told to move them, or be ticketed. Regular parking enforcement resumes. Victoria Page, owner of Gallery Page and Strange in Granville Mall, emailed The Coast pictures of what she says has been a regular occurrence over the past two weeks: vehicles parking […]
Tim Bousquet
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Inter-change of opinion
A new citizens’ group called the Strategic Urban Partnership has formed, and is pushing the the city to implement the planning goals established in HRM By Design—
including the demolition and redevelopment of the Cogswell Interchange. To that end, in May SUP is hosting The Cogswell Shake-Up, a public meeting where citizens will be asked what […]
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Compassionate Use Club busted
Two weeks ago, the Halifax RCMP arrested three people associated with Halifax Compassionate Use Club, which connects medical marijuana users to growers. Chris Enns, who is president of the club, was charged with trafficking in marijuana, hash and mushroom, and with growing marijuana. He was arrested at the Compassionate Use Club on Highway 7 in […]
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Public access victory: Police blotter to be made public
In a huge victory for public information, the Halifax police department will soon be the first city in Canada to make the daily police blotter public, so that anyone can see details of each and every police call, including where and when it happened, and what transpired. The Coast has long argued that the police […]
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This week at city council
Nearly four months into the year, and six months since the election, and this week Halifax council finally got around to taking some substantive action. This isn’t some newfound commitment to political activism, but rather an accident of calendar. A new city budget will have to be passed in April, and there’s a lot of […]
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Bedford Reef centre of dispute over waterfront development
Correction, March 22, 1pm: Sandra Banfield has contacted The Coast to say she was approached about running for office by Jamie Baillie, the leader of the provincial PC Party, and not by Peter Christie, as was originally reported. The political scene is never boring in Bedford, as the town lurches from one brouhaha to the […]
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Day 5: Moosehead vs Corona and Chicken Wings vs Peanuts
It’s Day 5 of March Madness, and Halifax is covered in a blanket of yuck. What better way to avoid the mess than to lose ourselves in beer and bar food, eh? If you have no idea what this is about, read here. Taking inspiration from the intensity of the NCAA, and the creativity of […]
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Twitterdee and Twitterdumb
Halifax councillors are mostly failing at their use of social media. Take councillor Matt Whitman. Whitman represents the Tantallon and Hammonds Plains Road areas, and bills himself as the “inventor of reverse networking.” As he explains on his website, “reverse Networking is promoting others rather than myself. If I say I am the best whatever, […]
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Judge approves settlement between Thibeault heirs and Peter Kelly
Eight years, three months and four days after Mary Thibeault died, Peter Kelly is now free of her estate. Today, justice Peter Rosinski signed an order accepting Kelly’s accounting of the estate and discharging Kelly of all further responsibilities. The heirs’ lawyer, Larry Graham, has issued the following press release: Mediated Confidential Settlement – Estate […]
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Is your bus driver stoned?
Metro Transit has this week kicked off a PR campaign to convince people to ride the bus. It may be something of an uphill battle, as even mayor Mike Savage hasn’t used a bus since he’s been elected, says Savage’s spokesperson, Shaune MacKinlay. Savage has taken the ferry across the harbour to attend meetings at […]
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Peter Kelly and other Thibeault heirs come to agreement
There was a hearing at Probate Court scheduled for today, expected to last all day, to hear the heirs’ challenge to former mayor Peter Kelly’s accounting of the Mary Thibeault estate. But at the last moment the hearing was cancelled, because the heirs and Kelly have come to a settlement. That settlement, however, still must […]
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This week at city council
The potentially biggest news on Tuesday’s council agenda was the proposed purchase of 22 new buses but, alas, that’s been delayed two weeks, so we’ll get to that in more detail when it comes back. Here’s the short version. Stormwater The only issue of real substance left on the agenda was the decision of what […]