Starting later this week, unhoused people in Halifax will have a place to shower for at least nine weeks. Halifax regional council passed a motion at its meeting on Tuesday approving a mobile shower pilot program. “The pandemic has exacerbated pressures on housing and shelter across HRM and led to a substantial increase in the […]
Halifax RCMP sent ‘problematic’ email to councillors after Mounties stopped Black officer at gunpoint
Coun. Mason wrote a letter to Board of Police Commissioners about his concerns with the email, urging board to adopt a communication policy around sharing of sensitive information.
A Halifax councillor has raised concerns about the RCMP sharing details of its internal investigation into a high-profile incident this summer with some of his fellow councillors and not the Board of Police Commissioners. At its virtual meeting on Monday, the board received correspondence from Coun. Waye Mason, a former commissioner, who drew attention to […]
Halifax police chief promises ‘fulsome review’ of Aug. 18 police raid on homeless camps, board to consider independent probe
Halifax Regional Police Chief Dan Kinsella is promising a “fulsome” review of the events of Aug. 18, and while it’s unlikely the findings will be public, an independent review could be on the way. The Halifax Board of Police Commissioners met on Monday for the first time since police evicted people living in parks and […]
Volunteers call for moratorium on Halifax tent, shelter evictions after residents lose hotel rooms
Following an abrupt end to hotel stays for unhoused residents, the group of volunteers supporting people living in a municipal park is calling on the municipality to publicly declare a moratorium on tent and shelter evictions from municipal parks. A month ago this weekend, Halifax Regional Police and city staff evicted people living in tents […]
Halifax Convention Centre deficit grows again
The convention centre’s COVID-19 deficit is getting deeper. In year-end financial statements released on Thursday, Events East, the Crown corporation that runs the Halifax Convention Centre, reported that it lost $11,295,905 in fiscal 2020-2021. That’s about $200,000 more than forecast in Events East’s 2020-2021 budget, released months late in November 2020. The convention centre was...
Audit finds Halifax Fire’s building inspection program doesn’t pass the test
Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency’s inspection program doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, and according to the city’s auditor general, the fire department has no documented plan to fix it. Auditor general Evangeline Colman-Sadd and audit lead Ashley Maxwell presented their Management of Fire Inspection Program Audit to a virtual meeting of regional council’s Audit and...
Halifax council approves Cogswell contract, boot bylaw, discusses campaign finance breaches
The Cogswell interchange’s days are numbered after a regional council vote on Tuesday. The process to tear down the aging series of overpasses is tentatively scheduled to start in January, with Dexter Construction getting the $95.7-million contract to bring out the wrecking ball and then realign the street grid. As the Halifax Examiner reported last...
New road design guidelines for Halifax pass first reading despite concerns they’re still too wide and too fast
Agreeing they were better than the status quo, Halifax regional councillors voted in favour of a set of new road design guidelines despite some concerns about the specifics. Municipal staff presented long-awaited revisions to the Municipal Design Guidelines, generally referred to as the Red Book, to council’s committee of the whole on Tuesday. The guidelines...
The RCMP’s ‘no apology’ speaks louder than words
What the Mounties are saying is simply this: Yes, street checks do disproportionately affect African Nova Scotians. But no, that’s not our fault. If you get street checked because you’re Black, well... that’s your problem. You're Black.
So, on the one hand, the RCMP “acknowledges the disproportionate harm that street checks have caused to marginalized communities, particularly African Nova Scotians.” But then, sticking its other ceremonial boot firmly and deeply down its throat, an official Mounties’ statement of August 27 went on add: “However, we are also part of the broader RCMP, […]
Cogswell redevelopment expected to start in January as contract heads to Halifax regional council
After years of delays, the crumbling concrete overpasses of the Cogswell Interchange are now expected to fall this winter. That’s one takeaway from a staff report headed to Halifax regional council on Tuesday recommending in favour of increasing the budget for the Cogswell redevelopment project and awarding the tender to build to Dexter Construction for...
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