Keeping the dump open & the proposed Wellington Street development: Council preview, December 9, 2014 meeting

December 8, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

I’ll be live-blogging tomorrow’s meeting, starting at 10am, via the Examiner’s Twitter feed, @hfxExaminer. Dump issues I’m old enough to remember when the perfectly good term “dump” that describe the place we literally dump our garbage morphed into the feel-good “landfill.” But besides making no sense at all—how do you fill land?—I object to the word…

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