After yet another in-camera debate about Matt Whitman’s conduct, mayor Mike Savage is eager to explore hiring an integrity commissioner at city hall “I’m prepared to revisit that,” Savage told reporters after Tuesday’s council meeting. “I think it may be something we need to do so that we can get an impartial person to give […]
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Halifax will try to “wow” Amazon
Mike Savage will try and sell Halifax to Amazon and that’s just barely an embellishment. The Seattle-based mega-company announced on Thursday that it’s looking for a location to build a second headquarters, dubbed HQ2. Amazon says it will invest $5 billion US on the project, which it claims will employ up to 50,000 workers over the […]
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Campaign endorsements are getting political
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An outgoing councillor’s endorsement can help or hinder a candidate’s chances of getting elected, depending on who the councillor is. As he leaves behind municipal politics, Waverley–Fall River–Musquodoboit Valley councillor Barry Dalrymple is publicly endorsing Cathy Deagle-Gammon in the race for District 1. That could be seen as an unfair advantage, but it really comes […]
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Mike Savage wants to keep the good times rolling
[Image-1] “The challenge is, as a mayor, you want to focus on big issues,” says Mike Savage of his past four years. It’s a difficult role—to act as a figure head and authority on an entire municipality. “I was a member of parliament for three terms, and nobody really ever called me up to ask […]
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15 questions with mayoral candidate Lil MacPherson
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 The Coast sent all 53 candidates running in HRM’s municipal election the same 15-question survey in order to help their residents and our readers know a little more about who’s running for council. Here’s what mayoral candidate Lil MacPherson sent back.
 ——— Why should residents of HRM vote for you?
I have the energy to […]
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15 questions with mayor Mike Savage
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 The Coast sent all 53 candidates running in HRM’s municipal election the same 15-question survey in order to help their residents and our readers know a little more about who’s running for council. Here’s what mayor Mike Savage sent back.
 ——— Why should residents of HRM vote for you?
Since 2012, Halifax has become greener, […]
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The city’s mayoral candidates won’t be using any campaign signs this election
[Image-1] While some open districts this election seem to have more lawn signs than eligible voters, HRM’s two mayoral candidates won’t be slapping any advertisements onto residential properties. On Monday incumbent mayor Mike Savage and challenger Lil MacPherson issued joint press releases announcing their decision to forego lawn signs in favour of “other means of […]
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Not ALL police officers
[Image-1] Quite the couple of weeks for Halifax Police, eh? First, they took the “unprecedented step” of releasing to the public HRP’s full response to Hilary Beaumont’s Coast cover story (a move we had some issues with). Now, another lengthy essay has been penned by the police after the shocking story of a violent home […]
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Fred Connors is running for mayor
Fred Connors was an honoured guest at tonight’s Courage to Give Back awards, where he was receiving the Family SOS Ambassador Award. But instead of just basking in glory, he used his turn at the podium to show what courageous giving back is all about by announcing he’s running for mayor in the October 20 […]
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Mayor kills HRM arts awards
For every one step forward the city makes (Khyber/Bloomfield redevelopment, Nocturne, Emerging Artists Studio Program), all that good work got shot to shit with the news that HRM is cancelling the arts awards, including: Mayor’s Award for Literary Achievement: $1,500Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Book Illustration: $1,500Mayor’s Award for Achievement in Theatre: $1,500Mayor’s Award for […]
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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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Peter Duffy to do something or another for Peter Kelly
Update, 2 September, 2009: Coast listings editor Holly Gordon has discovered Duffy’s “raped by a ghost” columns archived, here. I often dream of doing an April Fool’s Day all-satire version of The Coast, with utterly ridiculous articles throughout. Problem is, reality trumps anything we could come up with. Today, there’s this news: A former columnist […]