Gone are the days of the Ecology Action Centre’s No Flyers Please stickers giving distributors enough guilt to keep their half-price blenders and donair-pizza-quiche flyers out of your mailbox or the end of your driveway. In an attempt to curb “nuisance litter” and ensure those who have opted out don’t get unwanted flyers, Halifax Regional […]
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Council looks at options for curbing “driveway spam”
Halifax wants to install some real-life spam filters for unwanted flyer deliveries. On Thursday HRM’s Environment and Sustainability committee approved a staff recommendation to strengthen regulations on how printed commercial advertisements can be distributed to the city’s doorsteps. The motion—which still needs final approval from Regional Council—would create a new bylaw banning bagged commercial leaflets […]
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City councillor wants new flyer delivery regulations in HRM
[Image-1] “The system now is broken,” says Matt Whitman, about flyer delivery in the municipality. The Hammonds Plains-St. Margarets councillor is looking to regulate the city’s flyer delivery rules; changing the current system from opt-out to opt-in. Whitman will be asking for a staff report on options at HRM’s next Regional Council meeting. “I think […]