At its next meeting, Halifax regional council will debate a proposal for a review of policing in the city with an eye to having civilians handling mental health calls, traffic enforcement and more. Coun. Waye Mason gave notice of motion at the end of Tuesday’s council meeting that he’ll make a motion at the next […]
Council rejects staff recommendation, agrees to $750,000 for Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes land purchase
Halifax regional council unanimously rejected a recommendation from staff and voted on Tuesday to spend $750,000 to help the Nova Scotia Nature Trust fill a big gap in the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes wilderness area. Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes is the picturesque area between Bayers Lake and Hammonds Plains. Within that area, 1,700 hectares, or...
Cornwallis statue to stay in storage after Halifax council approves nearly all task force recommendations
A statue of Halifax’s so-called founder will never again stand in a position of public commemoration after regional council voted to accept that and many more recommendations from the task force charged with deciding its fate. The Task Force on the Commemoration of Edward Cornwallis and the Recognition and Commemoration of Indigenous History tabled its […]
Halifax Transit ditches ‘Willy Wonka tickets,’ council approves new plan for mobile ticketing app
Halifax Transit will move ahead with a new plan to let riders use their phones as tickets, moving in a cashless direction that made some councillors uncomfortable. Regional council voted unanimously in favour of Halifax Transit’s new fare management strategy at its meeting on Tuesday, agreeing to start with a mobile ticketing application using “visual […]
Halifax’s board of police commissioners is confused
The city’s police board is unable to get through an entire agenda — at least in public. The board got hung up again on Monday with a procedural debate about how it wants to define defunding the police. The Halifax board of police commissioners met Monday for its second virtual meeting of the month. Most […]
Halifax developer updates design of massive Robie Street project with taller towers and more units
The developer behind one of the two big, controversial projects proposed for the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road has tweaked his design, opting for taller towers and more units. ZZapp Consulting submitted an updated design to the municipality on behalf of a numbered company owned by Peter Rouvalis in May, and it...
Black man arrested for being in city park after dark says he was racially profiled by Halifax Regional Police officers
A Halifax couple’s complaint of racial profiling by two police officers got bogged down by legal arguments at a review board hearing on Wednesday, eventually leading to an adjournment until the fall. Adam LeRue, who is Black, and Kerry Morris, LeRue’s partner who is white, stopped to make a phone call in the parking lot […]
Halifax committee recommends in favour of eight-storey downtown heritage property addition
The city’s peninsula planning advisory committee is recommending in favour of a big developer’s plans to add a modern eight-storey building to the back of a South Street heritage property. Summer Wind Holdings, with the same owners as Southwest Properties, wants to build a total of 112 units in the space between South and Harvey...
Not satire: Halifax police board to consider appointing committee to define defunding
At a meeting where it was expected to debate defunding the police, Halifax’s police board voted to debate appointing a committee to define defunding the police — at its next meeting. The board of police commissioners had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Thursday, but after starting more than half an hour later due […]
Development agreement approved for preschool at Halifax councillor’s house
Coun. Shawn Cleary’s colleagues on the Halifax and West community council approved a development agreement for his house Wednesday night following a virtual public hearing. Michelle and Shawn Cleary have been running a preschool — Maple Tree Montessori, one of two campuses in Halifax — out of their home at the corner of Quinpool Road...
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