Halifax Transit got a little bit of good news on Thursday Nov. 2, with the launch of an electronic payment app called HFXGO. It can be downloaded in the Apple store or the Google one. Bus tickets bought with the app can expire before being used—that is a requirement of the software—but if you have […]
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8 things to see and do in Halifax this weekend (Nov. 3-5, 2023)
The first November chill hasn’t slowed a hot weekend for Halifax happenings. Around the HRM, you’ll find a Halloween pillowcase’s worth of tricks and treats to get up to—from back-to-back evenings of Mooseheads hockey to library jam sessions to a night with one of Canada’s biggest names in country music. Allow The Coast to be […]
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Halifax admits failure on pedestrian safety, lowers safety standards
Thursday was a big meeting for Halifax’s Transportation Standing Committee. The committee got a handful of updates about how poorly the city’s Integrated Mobility Plan has been implemented since being adopted in 2017. The city got an update on its Strategic Road Safety Framework, which was brought forward by councillor Patty Cuttell as an information […]
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Police take request for 24 new hires to the public
The Board of Police Commissioners met virtually on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 25, to get public feedback on the police budget priorities. Halifax Regional Police made the same budget asks at this meeting as they did at last Wednesday’s BOPC meet—which keen readers may remember we described with the headline ”Talk of hiring 24 new cops […]
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Two ideas for expanding democracy are heading to council
On Monday, the city’s Executive Standing Committee met to get a report on electoral reform. When the city did the public consultation for the required-every-eight-years District Boundary Review, they heard about the things we citizens might want to change about our democracy. Based on our feedback, staff explored potential changes to lowering the voting age, […]
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Everything you need to know about HRM council’s Oct. 17 meeting
Big news to start off this regular Tuesday meeting: John Lohr is the new mayor of Halifax! Okay, this is an abbreviation of the civics lesson required to bring everyone up to speed about the change to today’s agenda: The addition of agenda item 18, Information Item 6 – Memorandum from the Chief Administrative Officer […]
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Talk of hiring 24 new cops is a waste of time
On Wednesday Oct. 18, Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners had the first meeting in their budget pre-season. It’s largely unclear what the point of this meeting was, but we’ll get to that later. The meeting started with Halifax Regional Police giving their first budget presentation of the 2024 budget season, asking for a grand total […]
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Watersheds board pushes back against “developer’s language”
The Regional Watersheds Advisory Board met on Thursday Oct. 12, for what was supposed to be a pretty routine meeting. They elected a chair and vice chair. They got a report on last spring’s edition of Bedford West’s water quality monitoring, although the samples weren’t taken in the spring because of the fires and consultant […]
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Police plan to do better by women hits chief-shaped roadblock
Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners met on Wednesday, and learned that former police chief Dan Kinsella’s sudden retirement is negatively impacting women who have been the victims of violent crimes. That’s because the city, in a proven effort to make the legal system a bit less dismissive of assaulted women, wants to automatically review any […]
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Everything you need to know about HRM Council’s Oct. 2 meeting
Public spaces like the Convention Centre, the Halifax Metro Centre (currently known as Scotiabank Centre) and the new stadium being proposed for the Wanderers Grounds live in a weird place in this day and age. They are built and exist with public money, and yet don’t give the HRM much direct benefit in return. Most […]
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Everything you need to know about HRM council’s Sept. 26 meeting
There are now 21 tents in Grand Parade; this is an increase of four tents from the last council meeting. Speaking of the housing crisis, it dominated most of Tuesday’s council meeting since the federal Liberals, finally, decided to start using their power. What this looks like for the HRM is an increased amount of […]
