Cornwallis Park is now officially Peace and Friendship Park. Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of the staff recommendation to rename the park on Tuesday. The motion also starts a public consultation process to choose a new name for Cornwallis Street. Councillors tacked on an amendment too, looking to create a process for future […]
The yacht club subsidy: how the city’s tax cut program gets it all wrong
We’re fortunate to have dozens of nonprofit organizations doing socially important work in our community: health clinics, boys and girls clubs, organizations to help the homeless and forgotten youth, groups providing space for adult day care, teenage drop-in centres, childcare, hospice centres for the dying. The list is varied, but the one thing they all have […]