The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Councillors voted to restore $2 million in funding for land purchases in downtown Dartmouth, along with money for three jobs related to the city’s climate change plan and two snow-shovelling programs at their budget committee meeting on Friday. The budget committee has been meeting nearly […]
The development boom’s echo: filling in Halifax Harbour
In Halifax schools, children learn that the city has the second largest natural harbour in the world. It’s one of those motherhood statements that people repeat as a mantra when visitors come calling or businesses look at setting up shop here. So why are we filling it in? Since 2011, the Halifax Port Authority has...
Will the Sawmill River see the light of day? Yes. Will it look like a river? Maybe.
About 75 people gathered last night for a lively discussion about the prospects for a daylighted Sawmill River in downtown Dartmouth, organized by the Ecology Action Centre’s water team. The Sawmill runs from Sullivan’s Pond down into Halifax Harbour, formerly a key piece of the Shubenacadie Canal, and before that, the river system that was […]