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Rob Lewis, Aaron Jackson, Benjamin Jordan, and Carlos Coppen set out from Halifax with the goal of longboarding all the way across the country to Vancouver (that’s 8000km or so, in case you were wondering). Their cross-Canada journey, dubbed Push for the Cure, is designed to raise money and awareness for the fight against breast […]

Catherine Meade, a local track and field athlete and lawyer, was featured in our Pride Guide (July 20) as she prepared to attend Montreal’s Outgames, a multi-sport competition with a particular focus on gay and lesbian athletes. Meade, along with a strong local contingent of Halifax athletes, has now returned home. “Almost everyone came home […]

Once upon a time—back when he was running for mayor of the amalgamated municipality—Peter Kelly couldn’t get enough of commuter rail. He banged the drum for a high-speed link from his Bedford home base to downtown, talking about it at every chance and staging photo-ops on trains. Then, as silently as his two Metro election victories have been resounding, the commuter train disappeared from the city’s agenda. In its place, a ferry.At Tuesday’s regular council meeting, the plan for a high-speed ferry was approved in principle (we’ll move forward if Ottawa and the province will help pay). Two boats, costing

After months of speculation and argument over how to best use the lot near Spring Garden and Queen—the former location of the Halifax infirmary—some parts of the site began to take shape this past week: A brand new parking lot has been installed near the corner of Queen and Morris, taking up a sizable chunk of the vacant property.The question is, for how long? Despite early reports that the lot would operate on an interim basis (a story in last Friday’s Chronicle-Herald quoted a spokeswoman from the Department of Transportation and Public Works who described the parking set-up as “temporary”),

1955: The Angus L. Macdonald Bridge opens. 1970: The A. Murray Mackay Bridge opens. Then for a long time, nothing happens. Until this week. The Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge Commission made a number of announcements this past week, all relating to updating their services and whisking people over the harbour with greater efficiency (Faster! Better! More often!). The biggest news in the immediate future: bridge tokens will be gradually phased out by 2008, in order to encourage more drivers to get on board with MACPASS, the electronic bridge toll system that causes people to hurtle towards those automatic restraining barriers with reckless,

Responding to a reader-generated tip (and following up on Bruce Wark’s June 22 cover story on “Halifax’s dirty little secret”), we put in a call to the Halifax Regional Police Department this week to look into some unusual police activity in the area surrounding that locally famous (infamous?) intersection, Pizza Corner. The tip, which came […]

Halifax Regional Police have been disappointed with the results of their most recent gun amnesty program. Since June 26, the program—which offers “law-abiding citizens the opportunity to turn over unregistered/unwanted guns and ammunition without penalty”—has only netted 21 firearms. To date, the police have collected a variety of weapons, including antiques (a rifle likely dating […]

More than 20 Metro Transit buses will be replaced after city council approved spending almost $9 million to pay for 25 new mass transit vehicles. Paul McDaniel, general manager of Metro Transit, said the aging bus fleet is in dire need of the upgrade. The oldest Metro Transit buses, some of which have been in […]

A hearty welcome goes out this week to Rio, the new Halifax police horse who will be formally sworn in on Canada Day. The CBC is currently running a contest to rename Rio, so as of Friday, our pithy Duran Duran-inspired headline will be officially out of date. Rio will replace Halifax’s current lone police […]