Seventy-six days. That’s all that remains before the whistle blows and the Northern Super League kicks off its first match, one that will mark the arrival of Canada’s first-ever professional women’s soccer league—and for Halifax, the first pro women’s soccer team in Halifax Tides FC. The weeks, days and hours are bleeding away so quickly […]
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NSCAD president Peggy Shannon leaving post two years early
On Nov 14, students, staff and faculty learned that Peggy Shannon, the current president of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, would be leaving the job “soon” to “round out her career at another art school,” specifically the Kansas City Art Institute, and to reunite with her family in the US. NSCAD’s board […]
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Council kills Windsor Street Exchange redesign plan
At Halifax Regional Council’s Tuesday, Jan 28 meeting, by a tight vote of 8 to 6, councillors made a tough decision to do the right thing. For the past six years or so the city has been working on a plan to re-do the Windsor Street Exchange. At first it was supposed to be a […]
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Tents, vigils, signs and teach-ins: (un)rest take visitors inside student-made university
“We will not rest until liberation. Al Zeitoun forever.” The student-creators of Al Zeitoun University shared this line on July 29—the day their camp was dismantled by security guards and police after 78 days on Dalhousie University’s campus. The pro-Palestine student encampment was built by a coalition of students from five Halifax universities. The Students […]
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Will Halifax’s city council prevent wasting another year?
Tuesday’s meeting of Halifax Regional Council is shaping up to be consequential for this city. It could be the TSN turning point. It could be like Boston’s Nathan Horton scoring a goal with just over 10 minutes left in game seven against the Leafs. It could also be a dud. It’ll really depend on council’s […]
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Transport committee preps for a parking tax on big cars
Thursday, Jan 24th’s Transportation Standing Committee meeting was one for the record books—but only because the city keeps records of all municipal meetings. The meeting started off with a few public speakers. A few folks said they don’t want to see Robie Street widened: They suggested that three lanes is enough, and that the HRM […]
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The city you love is dying: Halifax’s sustainability crisis explained
The warning signs have been there for a while, but it’s becoming harder to deny that Halifax is dying. Not some glamourous death, a noble sacrifice for the greater good. Nor is it something expected after a prolonged and public illness. No, it’s a far more embarrassing death; We’ve been bitten by a zombie, and […]
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Halifax Water lifts boil advisory for 200,000 Haligonians
Two days after Halifax Water issued a boil-water advisory for roughly 200,000 residents across the HRM, the utility says it’s safe to drink water from the tap again. The advisory, which initially covered all residents serviced by the Pockwock water treatment facility—and included all of peninsular Halifax, along with large swaths of Bedford, Middle and […]
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When will MP Andy Fillmore be replaced?
As a politician, Andy Fillmore has good timing. Back in 2015 he ran for the federal Liberal Party in the Halifax riding, winning to become a member of parliament on the same “sunny ways” wave of Liberal popularity that swept Justin Trudeau into the prime minister’s office. After a couple more election wins—each time, on […]
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The Grand Parade podcast: Did HRM staff try to pull a fast one on council?
Last week, when Halifax Regional Municipality staff gave councillors an update on how the city’s key priorities are progressing (short answer: poorly), they did so rather subtly: Not with a presentation, where councillors could ask pointed questions about the city’s lack of progress toward its goals, but instead in the form of an information item […]
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Author, poet, scholar Kenny Fries presents “Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust”
“We need to have these conversations more,” says Michelle Mahoney, the first accessibility officer at the University of King’s College. Mahoney is talking about a new lecture series that begins Tuesday, Jan 21 at UKing’s, called “Representations of Disability in Historical, Scientific and Artistic Perspectives.” The series is meant to “challenge stereotypes, highlight marginalized voices […]
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Every woman killed since Brad Johns said domestic violence wasn’t an epidemic in Nova Scotia
In the nine months since former Nova Scotia justice minister Brad Johns told a pool of reporters that he didn’t consider domestic violence to be an epidemic, 10 women have been killed in the province. In nine of those deaths, the accused killers are the women’s husbands, boyfriends or sons. Last week’s grisly discovery of […]
