The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Giovanni (John) Abati Website Twitter: None Facebook: None Email none Richard MacLean Website Twitter Facebook Email Linda Mosher Council report card Website Twitter Facebook Email John Wimberly Websitee Twitter: None Facebook Email none 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human […]
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Who is running for council in District 10: Birch Cove—Rockingham—Fairview?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Kurt Bulger Website: None Twitter Facebook Email John Thibeau Website Twitter Facebook Email Russell Walker Council report card Website: None Twitter Facebook Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the politician: We sent the candidates a questionnaire, asking […]
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Who is running for council in District 11: Spryfield—Sambro—Prospect Road?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Steve Adams Council report card Website: None Twitter: None Facebook Email Peter Grabosky Website Twitter Facebook Email Jim Hoskins Website Twitter: None Facebook Email Tom Lavers Website Twitter: None Facebook Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the […]
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Who is running for council in District 12: Timberlea—Beechville—Clayton Park West?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates P. Rano Khokhar Website Twitter: None Facebook Email Reg Rankin Council report card Website Twitter Facebook: None Email Bruce E. Smith Website Twitter Facebook Email Mary Wile Council report card Website: None Twitter: None Facebook: None Email 20 questions from The […]
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Who is running for council in District 13: Hammonds Plains—St. Margarets?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Peter Lund Council report card Website Twitter: None Facebook Email Doug Poulton Council report card (2008) Website: None Twitter: None Facebook: None Email Matt Whitman Website Twitter Facebook Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the politician: We […]
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Who is running for council in District 14: Upper/Middle Sackville—Beaver Bank?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Brad (BJ) Johns Council report card Website: None Twitter Facebook Email Laurie Sauers Website Twitter Facebook Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the politician: We sent the candidates a questionnaire, asking questions that are more personal than […]
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Who is running for council in District 15: Lower Sackville?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Steve Craig Website Twitter Facebook Email Janet Langille Website: None Twitter: None Facebook Email Stephen Taylor Website Twitter: None Facebook Email Curt Wentzell Website Twitter Facebook Email Ian Wilson Website: None Twitter: None Facebook: None Email no text no text 20 […]
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Who is running for council in District 16: Bedford—Wentworth?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Tim Outhit Council report card Website Twitter Facebook Email Mark Ward Website: None Twitter: None Facebook: None Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the politician: We sent the candidates a questionnaire, asking questions that are more personal […]
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Halifax Pride guide
Halifax’s annual pride parade started in 1987, when a brave group, some wearing bags over their heads, walked through downtown. In the quarter century since, the parade has grown into a week-plus series of events, and a celebratory mood has come to define the community-wide festival. See our complete coverage of Pride 2012, here.
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Province is paying half of $200,000 “public consultation” costs for Nova Centre
The people hired to lead the public consultations for design of the new convention centre complex are either pragmatists trying to make the best of a bad situation, or “pretend ‘progressives’ who are cashing in,” as commentator Adrath Whynacht put it on mediacoop.ca. There was never a true public consultation about whether the Nova Centre […]
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How this city works
Today I’m at at Utility and Review Board hearing, following an appeal Olympic International Realty Ltd. has filed against a 2006 Northwest Community Council decision related to phased development in the Paper Mill Lake. It doesn’t get much more obscure than this, and the story gets quite convoluted. I won’t now get into this in […]
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Tony Robbins was in Halifax
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins is in the news this week, as nearly two dozen attendees at Robbins’ “Unleash the Power Within” event in San Jose, California suffered second- and third-degree burns on their feet while participating in a firewalking exercise. Back in 2008, Robbins brought his show, which is a sort of camp meeting for […]
