The idea that Canada began 150 years ago is just one side of the narrative. Solidarity Halifax is standing with the Indigenous community in challenging that narrative through its Expose 150 event. “I think it’s really important for people to recognize the full historical context of the celebration,” says Chelsea Fougere, convener of Solidarity Halifax’s […]
Angus L. Macdonald Bridge
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Joyce MacIsaac, bridge ambassador
Joyce MacIsaac has the blinds open in her toll booth on the A. Murray MacKay Bridge. She’s doling out quarters and counting the axles on semi-trailers and watching, watching, watching…always watching: cars, passengers, lanes, drivers pulled over talking on cell phones, cargo vans rumbling at her down Highway 111, dogs popping their heads out of […]
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To a safer Macdonald bridge
Construction starts next week to extend euphemistically named “safety barriers” across the length of the Macdonald Bridge, along both the pedestrian walkway on the south side of the bridge and the bicycle lane along the north side of the bridge. The new barriers will match the existing barriers that extend only so far as the […]