Happy Right to Know Week! As I reported last week, mayor Peter Kelly has proclaimed September 26-30 Right to Know Week: “Halifax Regional Municipality is dedicated to the principle of open and transparent government and is accountable to the citizens it serves.” No doubt the proclamation came at the behest of the Canadian Association of […]
Carl Yates
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How the sewage plant broke
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Halifax’s new sewage treatment plant was turned on in February 2008, and it seemed to fulfill its promised intentions immediately. All you had to know was that parts of the […]
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Council’s disaster tourism
Last Friday, city officials gave reporters a tour of the Halifax Wastewater Treatment Plant. It was the first public look at the plant since if failed the morning of January 14. The tour was led by mayor Peter Kelly, Carl Yates of the Water Commission and plant manager Rory MacNeil (pictured above). Councillor Jerry Blumenthal […]