Council’s environmental committee is recommending the municipality start testing lake water quality, implementing a monitoring program for the first time since 2011. Under a plan submitted to council’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee during its virtual meeting on Thursday, based on a report from consultants AECOM, 74 of the more than 1,000 lakes across Halifax...
Appeals court throws out Heritage Trust application to shrink Brunswick Street development
A development approved for Brunswick Street is not too tall for the area, Nova Scotia’s highest court ruled on Thursday. It’s likely the end of the line for the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia’s fight against the proposal from developer Adam Barrett’s Brunswick Street Developments Ltd. for a 42-unit, eight-storey residential building at 2267 Brunswick...
At $95.7 million, Dexter Construction submits lowest bid for Cogswell Interchange construction
Dexter Construction is in line to get the contract for the Cogswell Interchange project, submitting the lowest bid for the work at more than $95 million. Halifax first issued a request for qualifications for the project in 2018, outlining the scope of work for the successful bidder. That includes tearing down the existing labyrinth of...
Liberals vote down motion for more data on Nova Scotians at risk of eviction
Liberal MLAs reluctantly agreed to hold an extra meeting to discuss Nova Scotia’s housing crisis, but wouldn’t support a motion for more data on potential homelessness during a standing committee meeting on Tuesday. The legislature’s Standing Committee on Community Services met virtually with “Housing and COVID-19 and the homelessness crisis” on the agenda. The committee […]
Work underway to search grounds of former Shubenacadie Residential School
“To date no graves or human remains have been found” at the site of the former Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, according to the Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative, but the search is continuing. Last week, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced that the remains of 215 children were found at the site of the former Kamloops […]
Commission recommends against rent control, urges $25 million in spending to start solving affordable housing crisis
Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission report: Wages have not kept up with rent increases, more Nova Scotians are being forced to spend a greater proportion of their income on housing
The group tasked with identifying solutions to Nova Scotia’s affordable housing crisis has recommended the government immediately spend at least $25 million to start to turn things around. And if all of its recommendations are followed, the long-term outcome will be better than rental control, the group argued. The Nova Scotia Affordable Housing Commission was […]
Where’s Snoopy?
After a real estate agent stole a Dartmouth man's dog, he's tracked him down, but the cops won't retrieve the poodle.
Months after a Halifax-area realtor had her knuckles rapped for stealing a poodle, Snoopy the dog still hasn’t been returned to his rightful owner. In January, the Nova Scotia Real Estate Commission suspended and fined Sarah Sullivan for violations of the Real Estate Trading Act and the Commission By-law. As the commission’s statement at the […]
Noise bylaw amendments would mean louder downtown Halifax patios — but only until 11pm
New bylaw amendments would allow downtown Halifax bars to be louder for longer outdoors — but only until 11pm. The proposed amendments came to a special virtual meeting of Halifax regional council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee on Thursday. In the staff report to the committee, planner Ross Grant proposed the creation of...
In-person school year cancelled, lockdown extended, 2 deaths and 83 new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia on Wednesday, May 19
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Jump to sections in this article: Overview Schools Vaccination Demographics Testing Potential exposure advisories Two more people have died in Nova Scotia from COVID-19. One was a man in Nova Scotia Health’s Northern Zone, and the other […]
Frozen salaries, an accessibility strategy, student transit passes and more: Halifax council round-up
For the second year in a row, Halifax regional councillors won’t get a raise in 2021. Council met virtually Tuesday, and passed a motion from Coun. Shawn Cleary to direct chief administrative officer Jacques Dubé to amend the administrative order governing councillor salaries to declare that “there shall be no increase November 1st, 2021 to […]
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