[Image-1] There was “shock and awe” at City Hall on Wednesday afternoon, as an emergency meeting of HRM Regional Council convened to condemn the provincial government’s swiftly-enacted controls over how Halifax runs the Otter Lake landfill. On May 4, Timberlea-Prospect MLA Iain Rankin submitted a private member’s bill to maintain the Otter Lake landfill’s current allowable […]
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Queen’s Marque earns high praise from Design Review Committee
[Image-1] It’s early in the planning approval process, but Scott McCrea’s ambitious $200-million waterfront development seems to have hit the ‘marque’ with HRM’s Design Review Committee. On Thursday afternoon, Armour CEO Scott McCrea presented his Queen’s Marque project to the city’s panel of engineers, architects and urban planners. It went OK. “I have to resist […]
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Halifax votes to keep honouring Edward Cornwallis
[Image-1] A vigorous debate on whether to examine the naming of public assets after Edward Cornwallis ended Tuesday night with HRM Regional Council boldly deciding to maintain the status quo. At hand was a request from Halifax South Downtown councillor Waye Mason for a staff report on a public engagement process to advise council on […]
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Halifax Transit drops $17 million on new buses
An influx of new buses will make Halifax Transit more accessible and more environmentally friendly—at a cost of nearly $17 million to the municipality. On Tuesday, HRM Regional Council awarded Nova Bus Ltd a contract to supply up to 100 new Halifax Transit buses to the municipality over the next five years. Halifax will pay […]
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Cecil Clarke talks Nova Scotia’s future
[Image-1] Politicians and bureaucrats are gathering this weekend May 4 to 6 in a Greenwich inn for the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities’ seasonal meeting. Items on the agenda include the “strategic” spending of infrastructure money collected from taxpayers, and a report from the organization’s current president, mayor Cecil Clarke of the Cape Breton Regional […]
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Liz Rowley’s grand Canadian tour
[Image-1] This May Day, Liz Rowley will be standing at Grand Parade in solidarity with labourers and against capitalism. Rowley has a long history of social activism. She also happens to be the new leader of the Communist Party of Canada. “It’s a whole different agenda here that we’re fighting for—a people’s agenda. We want […]
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Council approves $85,577 to review firefighter response times
[Image-1] It was a familiar site inside City Hall on Tuesday, as council once again questioned the plans of Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency chief Doug Trussler. At issue was a proposed external service standards review, which will be undertaken by Pomax Consultants (the only company who bid on the tender), at a cost of […]
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The Champs-Élysées of Halifax?
[Image-1] UPDATE: Council unanimously approved the new plans at Tuesday’s meeting. This article has been updated to reflect that vote. Big changes could be are coming to some of the downtown’s busiest streets. A staff report before council on Tuesday recommends HRM move forward with the detailed design work and tendering process for a […]
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Jamie Baillie calls for more support for survivors of sexual assault
[Image-1] Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative leader Jamie Baillie is trying to tighten the province’s sexual assault legislation. The PC Caucus is introducing two bills this week at Province House to try and improve the protection of victims’ rights, and to change the rules of reporting sexual assaults at Nova Scotia’s university and college campuses. “They’re […]
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Avalon Sexual Assault Centre launches crowd-funding campaign
[Image-1] The Avalon Sexual Assault Centre is launching a crowd-funding campaign in order to raise money for prevention and critical intervention services for Nova Scotians. This one-month campaign is in response to both an increase in demands for services and an increase in people wanting to help out at the centre. “We continue to see an […]
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Hundreds gather in Halifax to march against violence
[Image-1] Over 600 people took to the streets of Halifax on Sunday afternoon in an effort to “stop the violence” that has left three men dead in less than a week. Stop the Violence founder Quentrel Provo organized the day’s event. Walking alongside several young children and a heavy police escort, Provo personally led the […]
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Lil MacPherson to run for mayor against Mike Savage
[Image-1] Thirteen years ago, Hurricane Juan was the catalyst for Lil MacPherson to open a restaurant dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Now a different environmental crisis is inspiring the co-owner of the Wooden Monkey to once again take action, as she announces her candidacy for mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality. “I just see all these […]
