Incumbents aren’t safe in District 7. In 2012, Waye Mason beat four-term councillor Sue Uteck by 114 votes. Uteck challenged in 2016, and Mason won by more than 1,300 votes. This time around, Mason faces three challengers for the district, which includes downtown Halifax and the south end. The Halifax Examiner posed the same five […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 6 — Harbourview-Burnside-Dartmouth East
Tony Mancini first won his seat in a byelection in 2016 after the former councillor became the area’s member of parliament. Mancini had to defend that seat just a few months later in a general election, and beat the only other candidate, Carlos Beals, now his colleague on the board of police commissioners. This time […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 5 — Dartmouth Centre
Downtown Dartmouth politics in the post-McCluskey era are becoming increasingly less competitive. In 2012, Sam Austin lost the downtown Dartmouth district to long-time councillor and former mayor Gloria McCluskey in a field of seven candidates. In 2016, after McCluskey retired, he won in a field of eight candidates. This time around, it’s just Austin and […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 4 — Cole Harbour-Westphal
One of two women on Halifax regional council, the three-term incumbent for District 4, announced this summer that she wouldn’t be running again. Without Lorelei Nicoll in the race, a dozen candidates have stepped up to take her place, representing the district that includes Cole Harbour, Westphal, Cherry Brook and Lake Loon. Of those 12 […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 3 — Dartmouth South-Eastern Passage
With four-term incumbent Coun. Bill Karsten bowing out, District 3 is anyone’s race. The district, covering Russell Lake, Portland Hills and Estates, Eastern Passage, and Cow Bay, is home to 20,927 eligible voters — more than any of the other 15, based on the 2016 numbers. There are five candidates vying for the seat: Vishal […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 2 — Preston–Chezzetcook-Eastern Shore
The municipality’s geographically largest district stretches along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia from Lawrencetown to Ecum Secum. Inland, it includes North and East Preston, Lake Echo, Porters Lake and Musquodoboit Harbour. There are four candidates trying to canvas that massive area in this fall’s election: David Boyd, David Hendsbee, Nicole Johnson and Tim Milligan. […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: Mayor
There are three candidates vying for the seat at the head of the Halifax regional council table — the two-term incumbent mayor, a two-term councillor, and a young TikToker. The three candidates sparred in a forum last week, but they also answered some questions for the Halifax Examiner. The Examiner posed the same five questions […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 1 — Waverley-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley
District 1 — Waverley-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley is one of the municipality’s largest, spanning the growing suburbia of Fall River to the farmers’ fields of the municipality’s most rural areas. Following a redrawing of the district boundaries in 2012, Steve Streatch lost his seat to the other incumbent, Barry Dalrymple. Streatch got it back in 2016, […]
Halifax council to consider real living wage requirement with supplier code of conduct
Staff are recommending Halifax regional council adopt a code of conduct for its suppliers, including a living wage requirement for most kinds of contracted work at an estimated cost of $8 million annually. It’s a response to council’s lukewarm reception of the social procurement policy passed in July — an optional policy, where departments “shall […]
Back to School: what are the risks?
Morning File, Tuesday, September 8, 2020
News 1. Back to School School starts in Nova Scotia today, and everyone is understandably anxious. Over the weekend, the Department of Health announced that a new case of COVID-19 was discovered in Nova Scotia Health’s Central Zone, which is mostly HRM. That new case is still under investigation by Public Health, so we don’t […]
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