One of the year’s biggest, most consistently fascinating volunteer-led events returns this weekend—and just in time for the good weather. On Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5, nearly 20 Jane’s Walks will take place all over Halifax and Dartmouth as part of a global place-making initiative. The walks are named for the late urbanist […]
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Ready for a vacation to Cuba? Transat is ready for you
White, sandy beaches, crystal blue waters and clear sunny skies shouldn’t just be dreams that follow you to your work desk all winter—with Transat, they don’t have to be. As one of Canada’s largest tour operators, Transat is currently offering all-inclusive packages this winter in some of the most striking locations in Cuba—Varadero, Holguin, Cayo […]
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Road salt lowers the risk of deadly collisions—but it’s also killing Halifax’s lakes. What’s the answer?
As Halifax heaves a final sigh of winter this weekend—with up to 20 centimetres of wet and heavy snow expected to fall—the city’s contracted road and sidewalk crews will, almost assuredly, be waiting for one last call to spring into action, plows, shovels and piles of salt at the ready. It’s been a busy winter […]
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Everything you need to know about HRM’s March 19 council meeting
Halifax’s budget season is in the break between the normal budget debates and the budget playoffs (the Budget Adjustment List debates), so council got back to normal business this week in a relatively quick city council meeting. So without further ado, here’s what happened at the Tuesday, March 19 council meeting. Things that passed The […]
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A new speed limit exposes design failures
The roads of Downtown Dartmouth just got official recognition that they’re a bit safer for everyone than the HRM’s standard street. This is a result of the city successfully petitioning the provincial government to lower the speed limit in Dartmouth’s downtown core. The provincial government was happy to reduce the posted speed from 50kmh to […]
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HRM clears out Grand Parade tent encampment amid calls for better shelter options
Update: In a statement released on Thursday, Mar. 14, the HRM says the Grand Parade is now vacant. The municipality adds that “the one remaining individual” who had remained at the public square earlier in the week “accepted an indoor housing option from the Province of Nova Scotia” on the evening of Mar. 13. The […]
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Nova Scotia’s forests actually generate carbon now
Halifax’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee had a sobering meeting on Thursday, Mar. 7 about the work required to prevent the dire future currently in store for humanity. First on the agenda was a presentation from Donna Crossland, who’s been working to prevent the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid in Nova Scotia. This invasive […]
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How a Dartmouth speed change exposes HRM council’s political failures…
Will be live tomorrow. If you are seeing this, you’ve followed a newsletter link that wasn’t working. This will be fixed in time for tomorrow’s newsletter, but we’ve had some St. Patrick’s weekend scheduling issues.
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Police reform takes big little step forward in Halifax
The city of Halifax made a major advance in the agonizingly slow process of police reform on Wednesday, Feb. 28, when councillors had the city’s first ever Department of Community Safety budget debate. The issue of police reform has been a hot topic in Halifax in recent years, with the Wortley Report, the Defunding the […]
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“I never dreamt it would be possible”: Atlantic Lottery players are winning every day, and you could be next
It was Derrek Barton’s birthday when he stopped at his local convenience store in Harvey, New Brunswick to buy milk and his usual Lotto 6/49 tickets—a weekly routine he didn’t think much of at the time. That is until a few days later, rumours began to circulate about someone in York County winning a $1-million […]
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Halifax councillors ponder Parks and Recreation cuts
On Wednesday, a cold and blustery Valentine’s Day, the city’s Parks and Recreation budget got a little bit of love and a special valentine from deputy mayor Cathie Deagle Gammon. But before Cupid could hit Parks and Rec with a budgetary arrow, the Budget Committee meeting, as always, started with public engagement. The city heard […]
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Good Goverance is making a comeback in Halifax
Last Thursday, Feb. 15, the city of Halifax did something it hasn’t done in a while: adapted quickly to changing circumstances. The city has done this once before in recent memory, in response to COVID, and as it happens those COVID-centric amendments were one of the many things that changed with Halifax’s five-year strategic plan […]