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  In official Halifax Regional Municipality jargon, the geographic description for District 4 is “Cole Harbour – Preston – Westphal – Cherry Brook.” A disjointed name for one of the most disjointed voting areas in the October 19 election. If you have a mental map of this region east of Dartmouth, some landmarks probably don’t […]

Halifax’s District 2 is one of the HRM’s longest. It starts at Ross Road just outside Cole Harbour, and a brisk 1.5 hour drive down the Eastern Shore will take you to the district’s end down by Sheet Harbour. This district, like most predominantly rural districts, is starting to buck against the city and its […]

The Halifax Regional Municipality’s District 3 is an unusual mix of communities. Within the district stretching from south Dartmouth to the beaches beyond Eastern Passage, there are four distinct subdivisions of the population, but they only get to elect one candidate as councillor in the October 19 municipal elections. Driving away from downtown Dartmouth on […]

District 1 is a massive area, ranging north and east from the Sackville outskirts of the urban core to the far edges of our PEI-sized Halifax Regional Municipality. It boasts rural farming communities and, closer to the core, “downtown” Fall River—once a bustling community hub turned parking lot, which in turn has become an THE […]

One of the fastest-growing places in the Halifax Regional Municipality is downtown Dartmouth. The Darkside councillors like to joke that Dartmouth’s unofficial animal should be the crane. Not the bird, but the ones littering the skyline building high-density residential housing around the Dartmouth entrance to the Macdonald Bridge. After the most recent electoral district boundary […]

At City Hall, council chambers are getting renovated to become more accessible, so Halifax’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee met virtually on Thursday Sep. 19. The meeting was dominated by RadStorm’s plan to buy their 2177 Gottingen Street building, and their request for Halifax’s municipal government to pitch in with some funding. RadStorm […]

Halifax will have a new mayor after October 19’s election day, and there are lots of candidates to choose from. But on an unseasonably warm Monday, September 16 afternoon, Halifax’s voters got to see just three of them debate. The mayor’s field for the municipal election sits at 16 people long. The debate featured just […]

Picture this: You’re about to board a cruise ship for a two-week vacation. You’ve worked your butt off for months to be able to save up the money and you can’t wait to start enjoying the fruits of your labour. But before the guy hands you the key to your room, he pulls out a […]

In October, Haligonians will go to the polls to elect a new council. For democratically engaged citizens in the HRM, voting has a few parts. There are some easy parts like knowing where and when to vote. That’s the easy part because the city creates websites informing everyone that voting happens between October 8 and […]