by Hilary Beaumont “Super scary stuff—heads up Haligonians,” one of my Facebook contacts typed last week as she shared a story about a drug that went missing from the QEII hospital. She wasn’t the only one to react fearfully to the story. On Twitter and Facebook people posted about the 16 vials of Midazolam, a...
Halifax rallies for Ferguson after Mike Brown shooting
Article by Hilary Beaumont They might have marched out of a history text. In a scene nearly indistinguishable from a 1960s civil rights protest, a multiracial crowd of nearly 300 people stalled traffic Tuesday evening as they walked down Spring Garden Road. The rally was a show of solidarity with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri where...
Chronicle Herald to disclose columnist Peter Moreira’s conflict of interest
Wednesday, The Halifax Examiner pointed out that Chronicle Herald business columnist Peter Moreira has a financial interest in promoting the companies he writes about in this column. Specifically, five government economic development agencies that fund the companies also pay Moreira for work related to promotion of those companies. While Moreira has every right to pursue...
BREAKING NEWS: City sold Grafton Street for $1.9 million
The city sold a one-block section of Grafton Street to Nova Centre developer Joe Ramia for $1.9 million, the Examiner has learned. The block of Grafton Street between Prince and Sackville Streets is incorporated into Ramia’s Nova Centre complex now under construction. Sale of the street contradicts city policies against creating “superblocks” downtown and breaking the downtown street grid....
Final construction permit issued for Nova Centre
The city has issued the last building permit needed to construct the Nova Centre. A project as large and as complex as the Nova Centre must obtain a number of permits—in this case 13. They range from relatively minor permits removing existing sewer lateral connections to the city’s main, to two blasting permits, to four temporary...
Thiels: The province is helping Joe Ramia poach our tenants
By giving Joe Ramia’s Nova Centre project an exemption to the city’s planning laws, the province unfairly gave Ramia the ability to compete for tenants now housed in Thiel family properties, says a brief filed with the court. The Thiels own several properties in the financial district, including the BMO building, the TD Centre, and the Royal Bank Tower. Collectively,...
Kimberly Ann McAndrew went missing 25 years tomorrow, but missing persons data is still incomplete
Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of the disappearance of Kimberly Ann McAndrew, a 19-year-old woman who was last seen on August 12, 1989, leaving her place of work, the Canadian Tire store on Quinpool Avenue. There was an unconfirmed report that McAndrew was later seen at a flower shop in Penhorn Mall in Dartmouth, but the...
Stairway to heaven: Free Lab addresses Citadel Hill erosion problem
by Chris Benjamin The southeast corner of Citadel Hill, at Sackville and Brunswick Streets, is significantly eroded. Climbing onto the pathway leading up the hill poses a challenge, even for the fleet-of-foot and healthy-hearted. But today, a group of nine Dalhousie architect students is solving the problem, led by Devin McCarthy of DSRA Architecture and...
Review of investigation into Holly Bartlett’s death criticizes Halifax police actions
A review of the Halifax police investigation into the death of Holly Bartlett finds that “based on the evidence presented to the reviewers,” her death was accidental. The report, however, goes on to fault the police department’s investigation, noting that the investigating officers jumped to a conclusion early on, before collecting all the evidence, and then kept...
Mainland Common may be solution to Africville dog park kerfuffle
Tensions were high at the beginning of last night’s public consultation over how to replace the Africville dog park, but as the meeting progressed dog owners and city staff seemed to zero in on a possible solution agreeable to all: A new, large and fenced dog park at the Mainland Common. To back up, former residents...