A three-year-old idea to let pets board harbour ferries is dog-paddling its way back to city hall. Councillor David Hendsbee is asking for a staff report on the feasibility of letting dogs ride Halifax Transit’s ferry service. “Residents have been discussing and requesting that pet owners be given permission to take their dogs on the […]
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Vincent Coleman and Rita Joe win Halifax ferry naming contest
The results are in for the second most important election in the province: The harbour ferry naming contest. As if that classic Heritage Minute weren’t enough, Halifax hero Vincent Coleman will be memorialized by having his name painted on the next ferry. Over the course of the 10-day naming contest, 11,014 votes were tallied, with […]
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Why does no one care about Georges Island anymore?
[Image-1] There’s a forgotten treasure in the Halifax Harbour and those who care to visit remain unsuccessful. It’s been over a year since the general public was permitted on Georges Island and there’s been no indication of progress to reopen. Tristan Cleveland, coordinator of Our HRM Alliance, says establishing visitor accessibility to historic sites should […]
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Which irritating bridge shuttle should you take for the next year?
[Image-1] Once again we thank the Big Lift for its upcoming 18-month-long disruption of our lives. Starting next week, Halifax Transit won’t travel across the Macdonald Bridge after 6:30pm (from Sunday through Thursday). To compensate, HT will run a special shuttle service between Halifax and Dartmouth five nights a week. Which is confusing, since Halifax […]
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Big Lift to be a big drag
[IMage-1] Welcome to The Coast’s ongoing coverage of the Big Lift. Get comfortable, we’re going to be here for a while. For the next 18 months, Halifax and Dartmouth are going to have to get acclimated to reduced use of the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge as significant and necessary repairs aim to extend the life […]
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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 […]
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The briny, grimy deeps
“I would love to see Nova Scotia do the same for marine waste as we have for on-land waste,” Lisa Kretz tells me in Clean Nova Scotia’s lunch room. She is the project officer for the organization’s marine waste project. “There needs to be more awareness and education, one person at a time.” Today it’s […]
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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 […]
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Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster
[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.] “It’s a frustration,” allows Peter Kelly. Throughout a half-hour interview in his City Hall office, Kelly seems genuinely pained by the course of events related to Halifax’s failed sewage treatment […]