We reported last month that the Shubenacadie Canal Commission was looking for a vendor for their space at the Fairbanks Centre in Shubie Park. And today we’re happy to report the Commission has found a vendor. Here’s the press release: Cafe Brea Chosen as Vendor for Shubie Park Dartmouth Dartmouth, NS – Monday, June 10th, […]
Tim Bousquet
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Altered views from Dartmouth
Halifax council will soon consider revising the protected viewplanes of the Halifax Harbour from the Dartmouth side of the harbour. The proposed changes would remove viewplane protections from much of downtown Dartmouth, and raise height limits on developments below the remaining viewplanes. Some property owners, however, are crying foul. They say the city is privileging […]
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It’s time to do away with councillor slush funds
This is interesting. Councillor Waye Mason this morning announced a “participatory budgeting process to distribute $92,000 in capital funding to the community.” Mason is referring here to the money budgeted to each council district for discretionary spending on capital projects in the district. Traditionally, the councillors themselves have decided where the money goes. Before the […]
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The Coast obtains a heavily redacted copy of the province’s contract with IBM
Last year, the province signed a 10-year contract with IBM. The deal outsourced the province’s SAP operation to the company. SAP is an acronym for Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung, a German-created software system that companies, organizations and governments use for planning and managing finances. Before the deal with IBM, the province had an SAP division with […]
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Why Halifax will never fulfil its mega-port Gateway dreams
The Halifax Port Authority held its annual meeting this morning at Pier 21, to release its annual financial statements, discuss the state of the industry and take questions from the public. I attended out of curiosity, and because I was alerted that investors in the Seaport Market would raise some issues. The port’s senior vice-president, […]
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Wanted: Shubie Cafe
In January, in The Coast’s annual “Fix the city” issue, we called for more concession stands and cafes in public parks. Now, one community group is taking up the challenge. The Shubenacadie Canal Commission is a non-profit organization charged with stewarding and promoting the Shubenacadie Canal, which stretches from downtown Dartmouth to the Bay of […]
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David Hendsbee
2013 grade: C- 2012 grade: F 2011 grade: C- 2010 grade: D 2009 grade: C 2008 grade: D 2007 grade: D+ Cell: 483-0705 Last year, David Hendsbee distinguished himself as the worst of a sad lot of councillors, pointlessly attacking the harmless Occupiers at Grand Parade while defending the chief grifter in the mayor’s office. […]
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Bill Karsten
2013 grade: C- 2012 grade: D 2011 grade: C+ 2010 grade: C+ 2009 grade: C+ 2008 grade: C 2007 grade: C- Cell: 476-1855 In what was undoubtedly the meanest and most contested council election last year, Bill Karsten defeated Jackie Barkhouse by just 68 votes. The contest was so close that Karsten had to sit […]
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Lorelei Nicoll
2013 grade: B 2012 grade: C- 2011 grade: C 2010 grade: C 2009 grade: C- Cell: 478-2705 Slowly, ever so slowly, Lorelei Nicoll is coming into her own. She’s whatever the opposite of brash is, inoffensively finding her way through the thicket of loud and stupid that is Halifax council. For too long, Nicoll seemed […]
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Barry Dalrymple
2013 grade: C+ 2012 Grade: F 2011 grade: F 2010 grade: D- 2009 grade: D Cell: 222-0740 Barry Dalrymple hasn’t been our favourite councillor. After getting elected, he earned a D in 2009, a D- in 2010 and then fell into seemingly permanent F mode for 2011 and 2012. Dalrymple is still needlessly cantankerous (purposefully […]
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Gloria McCluskey
2013 grade: B+ 2012 grade: C- 2011 grade: C+ 2010 grade: B+ 2009 grade: B- 2008 grade: B 2007 grade: C Cell: 476-1667 Gloria McCluskey is, has always been and always will be, well, Gloria McCluskely. A force unto herself, McCluskey has come to define Dartmouth Centre, for better and for worse. The “better” is […]
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Russell Walker
2013 grade: D 2012 grade: F 2011 grade: D 2010 grade: B 2009 grade: B- 2008 grade: C- 2001 grade: D Cell: 497-7215 Old cranky dude living in Fairview gets reelected to council every four years, just to demonstrate the poor state of political education in Fairview, apparently. Except for the Solar City issue, Russell […]