The latest video report from The Coast and PLANifax collab is all about the Cogswell Interchange. It’s some of the most valuable real estate in Halifax, being used for a road to nowhere, yet despite repeated reports urging its destruction and near-universal public hatred, city council is only now talking seriously about getting rid of […]
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Angela Carlsen captures buildings’ sleeping beauty
Angela Carlsen is wearing a hardhat, bodysuit and steel-toed boots, preparing for a moment she’s been anticipating for months. Entering the abandoned Halifax Infirmary has become an unshakeable obsession of hers. She’s stared longingly at the infirmary for days, while working at her day job at Atlantic News. She pleaded with the head of the […]
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NDP government: Real change for a change?
Originally published at The Halifax Media Co-op, a project of the Dominion News Co-operative. Republished with consent. Darrell Dexter seemed to be enjoying himself Thursday as he addressed his newly expanded NDP caucus. “This frivolity has got to stop,” the smiling premier-designate told caucus members who only moments before had been laughing, shaking hands and […]