[Image-1] “I don’t think the job of city councillor is one that’s meant to be 20 years and you get a gold watch afterwards,” says District 14 candidate Lisa Blackburn. Blackburn is one of five council hopefuls who are joining together Tuesday at Grand Parade to promise to introduce term limits to city hall if […]
HRM Elections 2016
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Irvine Carvery announces campaign for north end council seat
[Image-1] It wouldn’t be an election without Irvine Carvery. The community activist and former president of the Africville Genealogy Society is running in next month’s municipal election for the open seat in District 8: Halifax Peninsula North. Carvery made his campaign announcement Monday morning in a Facebook post, just one day before the application deadline for […]
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Updated: Paul Boyd (maybe) drops out of race for mayor with hostage video parody
[Image-1] Update: Never mind. Boyd says in a follow-up video that he doesn’t know if he’s still running yet. Like a mix between Alex Jones and The Brand Review, Paul David Fraser Boyd has crossed over from perpetually-unsuccessful political candidate into ‘satire.’ The Dartmouth cab driver has ended his candidacy for mayor in October’s HRM […]
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Mike Savage holds commanding lead in latest mayoral polls
[Image-1] Now that that other election is out of the way, let’s talk municipal politics, baby. The most recent “Urban Report Survey” from Corporate Research Associates has incumbent mayor Mike Savage with a 70 percent lead over challenger Lil MacPherson. The telephone survey of 400 HRM residents, conducted between July 26 and August 6, found […]
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Building a better election
[Image-1] If you were part of the conscientious minority who voted during the last municipal election in the Halifax region, you may recall city hall’s reporting of results was a tad slow. In 2012, not enough election workers using too few telephone lines set up by staff often couldn’t get through to the city’s main […]
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Lisa Blackburn joins a growing list of HRM council candidates
[Image-1] Some crowded ballots are coming together for election day in HRM. Longtime broadcaster Lisa Blackburn has announced her campaign for District 14, joining 51 other council candidates (plus three more contenders for mayor) hoping to win your vote on October 15. The 25-plus-year radio veteran was a morning co-host and news anchor for Newcap […]
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UPDATED: Province may sell old Spring Garden library to private developers
[Image-1] UPDATE: Communications advisor Toby Koffman (with the department of Business) claims The Coast extrapolated inaccurate information from his fellow spokesperson Brian Taylor’s emailed statement. We’ve published his response below the amended article. ——— It was always supposed to be either a park or a library. But now that it’s not a library, it could […]
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Reg Rankin lands “sweet gig” as executive director for Otter Lake monitoring committee
[Image-1] Retiring from council after 25 years doesn’t mean Reg Rankin is retiring from the government payroll. The District 12 councillor has accepted a job offer from the Otter Lake landfill’s Community Monitoring Committee (CMC), and will officially start as its new executive director on November 1. Rankin announced earlier this year that he would […]
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Democracy’s other Bernie
[Image-1] Bernie White knows municipal elections. He should—the man spent decades working in municipal government before retiring in 2014 as clerk of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Now, the 59-year-old from New Waterford is working a three-year term as this province’s municipal elections officer. Part of White’s duties involve training local returning officers and trying […]
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Bruce Holland uses his community newspaper to announce campaign for city council
[Image-1] There are five candidates currently running for a council seat in Timberlea-Beechville-Clayton Park-Wedgewood, but only one is buying ink by the barrel. Parkview News publisher Bruce Holland recently used a front-page editorial in his own community newspaper to announce his candidacy for city council, and if that’s not journalistically unethical, it definitely strikes ones […]
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Matt Whitman’s big mouth keeps getting him into trouble
[Image-1] Despite his claims to the contrary, not all of Matt Whitman’s constituents are happy with how he conducts himself online. The deputy mayor and councillor for Hammonds Plains—St. Margarets has made a habit out of saying things he probably shouldn’t. He’s casually mentioned confidential information over the radio, cracked jokes maligning residents and been […]
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The underdog Dominick Desjardins
[Image-1] He’s not the most recognizable name for voters, but District 7 candidate Dominick Desjardins is counting on a fresh face being an advantage in October’s HRM election. Both incumbent Waye Mason and former councillor Sue Uteck have been unable to fix the problems in Halifax South Downtown, he says. “We’ve had two chances in […]