Tim Bousquet

The Five Bridge Lake area will be accorded official wilderness status tomorrow, The Coast has learned. The area is designated on this map: The total area to be protected is larger than that proposed, and will exceed 25,000 acres, but we don’t yet have exact boundaries. We’ll have more after tomorrow’s announcement, at 1pm.

With lots of qualifiers and making sure there are “off ramps” to reverse direction, if needed, Halifax council Tuesday night agreed in concept to spending $20 million for a potential $60 million stadium, so long as the provincial and federal governments pay the other $40 million. Never mind that there’s no actual plan for a […]

In last week’s Coast, freelancer Mairin Prentiss has an article examining the “Ships Start Here” PR campaign. This gives me the excuse to express my reservations about not just the PR campaign, but the ship building contract itself. First, some background. There are actually two ship building contracts at play, as detailed on the federal […]

A “connector road” between Highway 103 and old route 3, halfway between the Tantallon and Hubbards exits—so-called Exit 51/2—would increase pressure for development in the rural area, says Sean Kirby, a local resident who leads opposition to the roadway. And that’s a sentiment that seems to have been shared by a planner for HRM. One […]

StarShipsStartHere.ca Highlighting a series of possibly Photoshopped images of the alien invasion of HRM, with starships above our city skyline, and unlikely characters in various local tourist meccas. Melon Design Melon’s facebook page has a series of pictures parodying the official campaign, including “Lips Start Here,” a collagen injection promotion; “Whips Start Here,” celebrating the […]