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It’s probably not the worst intersection in the municipality, but it’s got to be the most needlessly confusing. Now the meeting points of Windsor Street, Chebucto Road and Cunard Street will be getting an overhaul, according to HRM’s recent request for proposals for designs to reroute the intersection. Currently anyone driving on Cunard Street […]
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Get up off your U-Pass
[Image-1] Students of Halifax, listen up: By now you’ve waited in line, smiled at a webcam and have had placed in your hand a small plastic likeness of yourself. This is the almighty student ID, an unassuming little card that proves you exist. Smack-dab next to your pretty mug you should see a little reflective […]
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HRM finally releases its sunshine list
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 [Ed: Spokesperson Brendan Elliott lets us know there are 453 people working for the fire department as of June 30, and 788 in various capacities in the police department. That puts 47 percent of Fire and Emergency on the sunshine list, and 37 percent of HRP, instead of the 44 and 57 percent numbers […]
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Reason and rhyme: meet Rebecca Thomas, Halifax’s poet laureate
The first time you hear Rebecca Thomas perform her spoken word poetry, something will happen to you. Your mind will calm as the tide of her voice takes over, the conviction of her words buoying you up until she reaches the ultimate, perfectly crafted finale and her perspective crashes down, challenging you in one hand […]
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By the Pen of Zeus: HRM seeks new Poet Laureate
The Halifax Regional Municipality is seeking nominations for the next Poet Laureate, a two-year term beginning in 2016: “The Poet Laureate will be a resident poet, storyteller or spoken word artist who has achieved excellence amongst his or her peers and whose body of work demonstrates connection with and relevance to our citizens.” Duties include […]
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Financial thriller
[Image-1] “Councillor Walker has both my interest and my sympathy now,” —Barry Dalrymple, on Walker’s Canada Games Centre woes. “If council agreed with every petition they got, there’d be no convention centre,” —Steve Adams, on the thousands of people against the development on Wellington. “Bring this out in the open.” —Reg Rankin, about the Blue […]
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Khyber Arts Centre, Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia to be relocated
(Disclosure: I am currently a member of the Khyber board) This Monday, Khyber Centre for the Arts’ artistic director Dan Joyce got a notification from HRM Events & Cultural Initiatives manager Elizabeth Taylor to leave and have no further programming at the Khyber Building on 1588 Barrington Street. The reasoning being that construction on a […]
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Time out at Sir Sanford Fleming Park
Meantime in Greenwich is an innovative public art project by media artist David Clark being officially unveiled Monday, August 6 in Sir Sanford Fleming Park. The project is a nonlinear audio narrative and augmented reality experience presented through a series of interactive sundials distributed throughout the park. Park visitors will be able to download a […]
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Evolve Postering Charges Dropped
spinsandneedles.com HRM Courts are not pursuing the case against Evolve Festival organizer Jonas Colter involving $4,500 worth of postering charges.In an email to the Honorable Judge William Digby, copied to Colter’s lawyer Gordon Allen, the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office wrote yesterday that “there is no reasonable prospect of conviction on the charges before the court.” The case was originally intended to go to court Friday May 13. During last July’s Evolve festival, Colter was arrested and fined 18 tickets at $250 each for 400 Evolve posters that had been placed in several Halifax neighbourhoods. The charges cited that Colter had violated
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Duffy haunts City Hall
Before he retired earlier this year, Chronicle-Herald columnist Peter Duffy was internationally renowned for such groundbreaking journalism as his first-person account of being anally raped by a ghost, a single-entendre report on the opening of the Dartmouth Hooters and a softball interview with white supremacist Jared Taylor. This week that expertise is being taken to […]
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Province still dedicated to highway construction
The provincial government last week approved starting appropriation proceedings to acquire 38 hectares near Timberlea, land needed to build Highway 113, a controversial proposal to connect existing Highways 102 and 103 with a new 10-kilometre long, four-lane divided highway laid through a fragile wilderness area west of Halifax (see map above). Additionally, an environmental assessment […]