News 1. Halifax CAO Jacques Dubé to resign Halifax’s highest paid employee will be stepping down at year’s end. As Zane Woodford reports, Jacques Dubé, Halifax Regional Municipality’s chief administrative officer for nearly six years, will resign at the end of 2022. The news was shared in a release from the HRM. “Since September 2016, […]
Halifax councillors tweak staff plan to designate tent sites in city parks
Describing it as the best of a set of bad options, councillors are moving ahead with a revised version of the staff proposal to create designated tent sites for unhoused Haligonians. But significant questions remain about how and when people currently living in municipal parks will be asked to leave, or whether they’ll be forcibly […]
Municipal staff recommend allowing tents at a handful of Halifax-area parks
Municipal staff are proposing the creation of a limited number of city-sanctioned tent sites in response to the housing crisis, but advocates for unhoused Haligonians worry the recommendation will mean forced eviction for people sleeping in municipal parks. In a staff report coming to council’s virtual meeting on Tuesday, Max Chauvin, parks and recreation special […]
Councillor blames Halifax Mutual Aid for alleged assault in Dartmouth park
The councillor for the area is blaming a group of anonymous volunteers for an alleged assault in a Dartmouth park. Halifax Mutual Aid erected its latest emergency shelter in Starr Park on Prince Albert Road in Dartmouth on Saturday. They’re the same shelters that were first placed on municipal park land in early 2021, and […]