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If you are reading this before October 19, 2024, polls are now open, and you can vote in Halifax’s municipal election. How do you vote? I’m so glad you asked. Click RIGHT HERE for all the information you need on how to cast a ballot in this municipal election. This district, like its neighbour District […]

The new boundaries for this upcoming municipal election will see a changed District 12, one with slightly more people than it should have. If District 12 were to be further divided it would require breaking up some “communities of interest.” And the city has been doing a lot of work in recent years figuring out […]

Halifax’s District 16 is up for grabs after longtime, twice-acclaimed incumbent Tim Outhit decided not to reoffer. This district, according to the city, is “made up of well-established suburban neighbourhoods lying on the northwestern end of the Bedford Basin.” This district features many things, like a splash pad, a boardwalk along the basin, and a […]

  District 14 was held most recently by Lisa Blackburn who is leaving municipal politics, leaving her seat empty. This district still spans the north western communities in the HRM including places like the Plains of Hammonds, upper and regular, and the Sackvilles middle and upper. This district is also home to Lucasville, one of […]

  If you’ve never looked at District 13 on a map and have only been paying attention to municipal politics since the summer of last year, you might have the impression that District 13 consists of Upper Tantallon and Hubbards and that’s pretty much it. But in reality, District 13 is a massive coastal district, […]

District 15 used to be the only district in the HRM made up entirely of one community, Lower Sackville. With the recent district boundary changes, District 15 picked up the Beaverbank and Kinsac communities from the neighbouring District 14. Lower Sackville got its name from its founding as a fort named after Lionel Cranfield Sackville. […]

Halifax’s District 8 did not have a good 20th century. The district, which covers most of Halifax’s north end, is now home to some of Halifax Regional Municipality’s coolest locations, like Agricola Street and the Hyrdostone District, and part of the currently under-construction Cogswell District. But in order for Halifax to be able to build […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality is a vast place about the size of Prince Edward Island. It is a patchwork quilt of small communities, which used to be organized into independent towns, counties and villages. But when amalgamation happened in 1996, all of those communities were slammed together in the larger regional municipality, a single politicial […]

The race in Halifax’s District 7, known as Halifax South Downtown, is wide open after long-term incumbent councillor Waye Mason effectively resigned his seat by throwing his name in the hat for mayor. And despite the name, the downtown district has a wide range of residential communities. There are a couple of universities, relatively dense […]

The boundary changes in District 6 will see the district move outside the circumference of the circumferential highway. The district used to have a little bit of the Centre Plan area, mainly North Dartmouth, but as the city has grown, this district has expanded North and East. District 6 includes the Burnside Industrial Park, Shubie […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality’s District 10 has a strong claim to the title of the most changed district since amalgamation. The district’s history dates back to when non-British Protestants first colonized it in the 1750s. At the time, the British, who were establishing the colony of Halifax, called this part of District 10 the Dutch […]