Monday, Oct. 3, is as per usual, a busy day at Triple A Convenience and Pizzeria. Owner John Amyoony greets his steady flow of customers by name and asks them how their day is going while drizzling donair sauce on slices of pizza bigger than a human head. Today is different though, because he’s also […]
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What the law says about the war on pizza
At its heart, the war on pizza is a fight that councillor Waye Mason has picked with two small businesses in his district. The two businesses—Jubilee Junction Convenience and Takeout, and Triple A Convenience and Pizzeria—are convenience stores located across from each other at the corner of Jubilee Road and Preston Street, near Dalhousie’s main […]
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Everything you need to know about council’s September 13 meeting
Bit of a short meeting of Halifax Regional Council today. Not much on the agenda, and the stuff that was on the agenda largely passed with only minor debate. For a recap of the meeting, as well as notable debates and the latest councillor ratings, please read on. The rest of this space will be […]
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Everything you need to know about Halifax Regional Council’s August 23rd meeting
There will be no notable debates or council ratings this week. This Tuesday, instead of watching council, I was attending the funeral of a friend. Kathleen Jones, you will be missed. There’s always latent anger with funerals. Especially ones for people who were “supposed” to die after the people who attended their funeral. So if […]
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Everything you need to know about Halifax Regional Council’s August 9 meeting
Council is back for a meeting that almost didn’t happen. In this meeting, councillors reviewed a major policy document, allowed rooming houses, talked about parking (natch), and gave some money to community groups. Although the regional plan review is large, it is not yet law, and the issues it will inevitably cause won’t really be […]
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Everything you need to know about Halifax Regional Council’s July 12 meeting
Marathon meeting of council on Tuesday. Councillors have a break coming up—there would normally be another meeting in two weeks, on July 26, but it’s been cancelled—so this week our fearless city leaders had hours of gruelling debate and managed to get most of it done. Not enough to skip the August 8 meeting too, […]
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How the city blew its budget for modular housing
August 18, 2021, was a defining moment for Halifax. That was the day city hall decided to evict houseless people from public lands, sending municipal workers and police out at dawn to tear down shelters and tents. And it was that Wednesday afternoon hundreds of citizens amassed at the former Halifax Memorial Library, hoping to […]
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City council opens some parks for unhoused Haligonians to sleep in
Halifax city council voted at its Tuesday meeting to allow people without a home to sleep in parks legally. This change was specifically presented to council because changing the bylaw for park use “is the only legislative or administrative option that we have,” said Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special projects manager in his presentation. […]
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Halifax speeds up the process to slow down streets
Speed bumps and other methods of making cars drive slower—known as traffic calming measures—were a major topic of discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of Halifax Regional Council. Right now the city has a long list of streets awaiting traffic calming, and council was considering administrative changes designed to address that backlog. The city’s current legislation that […]
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Parking tickets going up to $45 and more council business
The two biggest things on council’s agenda this week were making cars driving slower and letting unhoused Haligonians sleep in Halifax parks. Here is the other stuff is from Halifax Regional Council’s regular meeting of June 14, 2022. Thanks to the budget debates earlier this year, council decided to raise the fine for parking tickets […]
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Halifax will repaint Black Lives Matter murals again in 2022
Two years ago this week, George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer. He wasn’t the first person of colour to be killed by police, and he wasn’t the last. But something about Floyd’s death was different—it gave a visible push to the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement, one that made waves […]
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Halifax considers taking over housing from the province
On Tuesday, Halifax Regional Council met to discuss a motion on whether the municipality should do more when it comes to housing, among other things. The four-part motion originated from a report council requested back in January 2018 by downtown Halifax councillor Waye Mason. Two city staff, Jill MacLennan from planning and development and Scott […]