The latest development to get approval while the Centre Plan nears crunch time will sit eight and a bit storeys high on Robie Street between Cunard and Compton Streets facing the Halifax Common. Neighbours from the area came forward at the public hearing to voice their concerns, but at this stage in the process they […]
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After a nine-month search, Dal’s new president starts in eight months
Dalhousie University’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Dr. Deep Saini has been elected as the university’s new president and vice-chancellor. He will be only the 12th president in the history of the 200-year-old school. Saini is not the first Dalhousie president to be born outside of North America; he follows inaugural president Thomas McCulloch […]
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Florida man comes all the way to Nova Scotia to yell at Emera
An environmental group from Tampa Bay, Florida came to Halifax this week to protest their local energy provider’s mother company: Emera Inc. Emera Inc. is the billion-dollar multinational corporation that owns 10 affiliate companies including our homegrown NS Power and international power companies like TECO (Tampa Electric and Peoples Gas) in Florida. If you haven’t […]
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Floorball’s world championship rolls into Halifax this week
Halifax has played host of to a number of major sporting events, including the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2003, the 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship and the World Figure Skating Championships way back in 1990. Now this week it’s hosting the world championship for something called floorball. The 2019 World Floorball Championships for men […]
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Avalon Sexual Assault Centre workers form union
Workers at the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre are unionizing. Avalon is the only sexual assault centre in the Halifax Regional Municipality–that’s an area of over 400,000 people–and is chronically under-resourced. Avalon employees say the decision to unionize is about forming a stronger and united front to address the systemic issues that lead to a lack […]
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Bonfire of the vanity plates
An Alberta advocacy group seems driven to distraction by personalized plates. Last week’s hearing in Halifax Supreme Court about Lorne Grabher’s plate is the third case the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has backed in April alone. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a right-wing law organization, represented Lorne Grabher in court last week. The […]
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UPDATE: Rugby gets kicked in the crotch by NS sports federation
UPDATE TWO, TUESDAY MAY 7: So. On Thursday the NSSAF canned rugby, then Friday the education minister made his statement demanding its return, and that seemed like the last word. But despite the minister’s convincingly stern tone, the NSSAF didn’t reverse its decision; at the start of the week rugby was still sidelined. Today, however, […]
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HFX Wanderers looking to turn their luck around in pro soccer home opener
A new era in Canadian soccer began last weekend with the start of play in the professional Canadian Premier League. In front of a sold-out crowd Sunday night in Westhills Stadium in Langford, BC, the HFX Wanderers lost their first game 1-0 to Pacific FC. During a slow start for Halifax in the first half, Pacific’s […]
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Ferry service betweem Sir Sandford Fleming park and Jubilee Road to launch
During the summer, 24-year-old David Backman starts each day with a jump in the Northwest Arm, just like the late Jim Gowen, a noteworthy Halifax journalist known for swimming in the Northwest Arm 365 days of the year. And this spring, the ‘Jimmy Gowen’, Backman’s 22-foot pontoon boat will ferry residents and commuters across the […]
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The not-ready Centre Plan strikes back while moving forward
HRM’s Centre Plan is marginally closer to actually existing. The community design advisory committee reviewed all the land use bylaws included in the Centre Plan on Wednesday, and gets two more meetings to pick it apart, a version of progress that’s coming too late for councillor Sam Austin’s constituents, who blame “broken” bylaws for a […]
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Council approves 2019-20 budget
City council approved $163 million in capital spending and $793.7 million municipal expenditures in the budget for 2019-2020 this week. The city’s been shaking up the budget process for over five years, and this year’s parking lot of shopping expenses was the latest attempt to make the process more effective. Tuesday’s meeting was more ceremonial […]
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Police Commission makes recommendation to suspend street check practice
UPDATE: On Wednesday, April 17, justice minister Mark Furey directed police across NS to suspend street checks of both pedestrians and passengers in vehicles until further notice. The Halifax Board of Police Commissioners put its weight behind ending the practice of street checks at this week’s meeting following Scot Wortley and the NS Human Rights […]
