News 1. “Cautiously optimistic” activist hoping for dignified housing solutions Sixteen people are currently living in a small park at the corner of Chebucto and Dublin streets in Halifax. Formally called Meagher Park, it has come to be known as “People’s Park” since Halifax Regional Police evicted people from tents and emergency shelters in parks […]

当莎拉Manchon让他r bike to ride home from work, she can predict where she’s likely to have drivers yell at her — or worse. The former chair of the Halifax Cycling Coalition, Manchon works for Halifax Public Libraries at the Halifax North End Memorial branch on Gottingen Street. She lives off Quinpool […]

News 1. Evelyn C. White on Emancipation Day A famous photo taken moments after the assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Cardinals extending their range northward. The history of slavery in the Maritimes. Watermelon mango ale. The incomparable Evelyn C. White brings together these elements and more in an essay on Canada’s first national […]

News 1. Candidates (mostly) oppose South Shore open-pen fish farms Candidates in the riding of Chester-St. Margaret’s appeared at a forum on fish farming held outside the Blandford Community Centre yesterday. The event was organized by two groups opposed to fish farms on the South Shore, the Twin Bays Coalition and the Healthy Bays Network, […]

News 1. Here come the electric buses Zane Woodford has a developing story on the announcement that three levels of government are pitching in to start electrifying the Halifax Transit bus fleet: Halifax will start electrifying its bus fleet in the next two years, with 60 electric buses en route, using money from the federal […]