D eja vu—is that you? It is. In the fall of 2011 Halifax Regional Council OK’d a possible $20 million contribution to a rumoured $60 million stadium. At that time The Coast reported that the money was contingent on a slew of factors (the factors did not come to fruition, the moulah was never spent, […]
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Halifax’s accessibility advisory committee’s town hall dominated by talk of inadequate transportation.
A few dozen residents turned up for a Tuesday evening town hall discussion on accessibility in HRM at Cole Harbour Place. The Advisory Committee on Accessibility town hall panel included representatives from Halifax’s winter operations and recreation teams, 311 contact centres and more. Attendees made a point of discussing the state of Halifax’s accessible transit […]
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Halifax’s apartment buildings are a trash-sorting dumpster fire, residents say
L iving in an apartment building can have its benefits. There’s security, there are facilities and the buildings provide services for tenants. For every residential building with more than six units in HRM, one of those services is garbage collection. “Each apartment building is required to have five bins in the waste room in the […]
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Harbour rising: Halifax’s harbourfront in 2100, come hell or high water
As the eye of Hurricane Dorian spun around Halifax Harbour like a cocoon, it could have been any other grey day in Nova Scotia—were it not for the building floating in the water in Herring Cove. The large boathouse was home to Thomas Reyno’s three boats, two tubes and 45 years worth of memories. Now […]
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How Halifax composts 50,000 tonnes of material a year.
H alifax has been composting since before it was cool, way back in 1998. These days, the municipality composts about 50,000 tonnes of compost every year—almost twice as much as it recycles. That’s about 100 tonnes a day, or the equivalent of 13,000 curb-side green carts. The Miller Waste facility, on Gloria McCluskey Avenue in […]
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Three sidewalk vigilantes who can’t wait for the city to figure out what to do about sidewalk safety
I t’s as easy as look left, look right, they say. In Halifax, not so much, and fed-up citizens are taking matters of safety on sidewalks into their own hands. Matt Spurway, Doug Carleton and Martyn Williams say Halifax’s flawed traffic design, policies and infrastructure are partly to blame for unconscionable and avoidable traumatic injuries […]
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A seat at regional council is up for grabs in Lower Sackville, meet who is in the running
What’s the #1 job of a HRM councillor? Paul Russell: I used to think: Infrastructure. I now think: Helping our community and our society at the most grassroots level possible. Tony White: To improve their community in general. You’re advocating on behalf of the people who, by voting for you, have trusted you to do […]
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Haligonians are composting almost twice as much as they are recycling
A ccording to HRM, residents disposed of an average of 380 kg of waste in 2017-18. That’s like 380 bags of flour per person. This includes everything from clear bag garbage to recycling and compost. The reported national average for Canadians is almost double that number, at just over 700 kg, according to Statistics Canada. […]
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How to recycle and compost properly in HRM
If you’re new to town, you may notice that Nova Scotia recycles and composts more than some other provinces. A 2012 study by the Conference Board of Canada actually ranked Nova Scotia first among provinces for waste generated per capita, at 386 kg per year. What goes where? If you download the Halifax Recycles app […]
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Halifax is asking us (and our dogs) to stop pooping in the water
Summer: a blissful time to load the kids and the dog in the car, drive a mere 20 minutes to the beach, unload the kids, hastily apply sun screen, and watch the two- and four-legged freaks fling themselves into the water. Moments later, a mischievous smile from your child and—unnoticed but likely still happening—a second […]
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Transit updates, parking promises and something that was Yarmouth’s idea first
H alifax Transit gave a third-quarter key indicator report, noting that there’s been just under 10,000 transit passes given out through the department of community services’ pilot project, and over 1,000 of those have been given to children. And Dave Reage, director of Halifax Transit, says they’ve been working towards the goal of having Access-A-Bus […]
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Meditations on music, religion and neuroscience
“I’ve always been interested in many different things and I choose to do them all, unapologetically,” explains Sidath “Sid” Paramee Rankaduwa. At just 22, Rankaduwa is an alumnus of Dalhousie University with a rather unusual combined Bachelor degree in both music and neuroscience. Through his craft, he’s exploring society’s intersectional interplay between the brain, culture, […]