[Image-1] What’s wrong? There’s a drought of drinking fountains at the Alderney Ferry Terminal. Thirsty travellers are perfectly free to enjoy a refreshing drink at the Halifax and Woodside terminals. Only Alderney remains inexplicably dry. The only option for paying customers on the Dartmouth side who want H2O is the lukewarm, fecal-infused liquid coming from […]
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Here’s your new transit network (probably)
[Image-1] Every route in the existing Halifax Transit network is changing. Whether that helps or hinders individual riders, remains to be seen. Today the transit authority unveiled its Moving Forward Together plan, which details the changes alongside a colourful new route map. The site unfortunately seems to be missing any sort of trip planner, which […]
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Fed up with winter Transit
[Image-1] Submitted to letters@thecoast.ca… I have been living in Halifax for the past five months and until yesterday, I’ve had nothing but good things to say about the city. Back in January I had read an article about Gerry Post who was sharing his opinion on issues he has had with Halifax Transit. I myself […]
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I should not be limited because I am in a wheelchair
[Image-1] I am writing to express my frustration with the restrictive nature of the Access-A-Bus-service. This service is offered to persons with physical and intellectual disabilities who seek accessible transportation. My application for an extension for the Access-A-Bus service was initially denied on the grounds that I am “deemed able to utilize the conventional low-floor […]
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Here are last year’s city council attendance records
Last week saw Halifax Regional Council assemble amid snowstorm and sickness to hash out municipal matters. It seemed like every second councillor had some sort of flu, with mayor Mike Savage in particular barely able to speak. So no judgments on anyone’s dedication as we present HRM council’s attendance records for 2014. It’s Brad Johns […]
Posted inArts + Music
Who’s getting HRM’s arts funding and why
First of all, yahoo for arts funding. Second of all, yahoo for detailed reports from the city explaining which arts organization are recommended to receive exactly how much (or nothing at all) and why. Click here for the full report, it’s very informative. Here’s a quick breakdown of how much each HRM-based arts organization (I’d […]
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Struggle for equal rights at Dalhousie goes back decades
[Image-1] The Dalhousie dentistry scandal has dominated local headlines for more than a month. The public has reacted with fury to sexist and homophobic remarks by fourth-year dentistry students, and references to faculty showing students a video of women in bikinis to wake up male students. All this has been compounded by the university’s messy—and […]
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Risky business inside Washmill underpass report
[Image-1] It was a “perfect storm” of failures that lost the municipality $11 million in building the Washmill Lake underpass. Yesterday, auditor general Larry Munroe presented his 129-page report to the city’s audit and finance committee. It was the culmination of a two-year long investigation into the Bayers Lake capital project. While Munroe—at great length—detailed […]
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Choose your new ferry name
[Image-1] It’s once again time to name that ferry. Halifax Transit has bought itself a spiffy new passenger ferry, which arrives this summer. Since the last naming contest was such a hit (with over 13,000 residents voting), HRM has launched another online poll to choose this new ship’s honorific. You can read the official entries […]
Posted inFood + Drink
A tale of two cities
Gahan House 1869 Upper Water Street, 902-444-3060 Sun-Tue 11am-11pm Wed-Sat 11am-midnight The Gahan House has been in Charlottetown for over 10 years. It’s been in Halifax for over 10 weeks. So why not compare the two? Let me get this out of the way: I find the beer at the Gahan House pretty samey, hoppy […]
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Ridiculous development approved out of spite
[Image-1] “We see petitions on a number of occasions. If we listened or agreed with petitions then there’d never be a convention centre.”—councilor Stephen Adams “Hand gestures are OK as long as you use all fingers.” —mayor Mike Savage “It doesn’t meet any of our design guidelines, guys. It doesn’t meet ANY of our design […]
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Halifax has a nasty case of corporate branding
[Image-1] Names are powerful things. They’re not just signifiers, but the means with which you and I can talk about our shared environment. That becomes annoying when the language is infected with sponsored advertisements. It’s regrettable then, that Halifax is so eager to sell pieces of itself off to the highest bidder. There was BMO, […]
