Like most pandemic projects, it’s going to cost the city more than expected to widen the sidewalks on its busiest pedestrian street. Halifax regional council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee met Thursday, and considered an item added at the last minute: a budget increase for the Spring Garden Road streetscaping project. The municipality has been...
Heritage committee recommends registration for two north end Halifax homes, rejects a third
The municipality’s Heritage Advisory Committee is recommending Halifax regional council add two north end properties to the heritage registry, but a third scored too low. The committee met virtually on Wednesday to consider and score the three properties — 2381 Moran St., 2587 Creighton St., and 2224 Maitland St. It was the first Heritage Advisory...
Council approves Danny Chedrawe’s big Halifax development that’s already being built
Construction has long been underway, but Danny Chedrawe got the official go-ahead for his company’s massive north end Halifax development on Tuesday. Chedrawe’s company, Westwood Developments, applied back in 2016 to construct a multi-tower building on the property between Almon and St Albans streets. In the years since, there have been 14 changes to the...
Nova Scotia urged to depopulate jails as prisoners and staff continue to wait for vaccine
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health says the province will soon begin vaccinating prisoners as a group of advocates calls on the government to depopulate the facilities. In a news release on Monday, the East Coast Prison […]
Two Halifax Transit drivers test positive for COVID-19, union calls for safety measures
The Halifax Examiner is providing all COVID-19 coverage for free. Please help us continue this coverage by subscribing. Two Halifax Transit operators have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the president of their union. Ken Wilson, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 508, confirmed the positive cases to the Examiner on Monday. He said one […]
Former councillor Lorelei Nicoll seeks provincial Liberal nomination in Cole Harbour-Dartmouth
Former Halifax regional councillor Lorelei Nicoll wants to make the jump to provincial politics. Nicoll announced Monday morning that she’s seeking the Liberal nomination for the new Cole Harbour-Dartmouth riding. Nicoll was the councillor for the same area for three terms, from 2008 to 2020. She announced last July she wouldn’t reoffer in October’s municipal […]
City looking at legitimizing downtown Dartmouth skateboarding spot
After a complaint sparked a discussion, skateboarders in Dartmouth may soon have a city-sanctioned place to learn to shred. Last week, skateboarders rolled up to the paved tennis court at the park on Pine Street to find a sign warning that the ramps and other features they’d added to the area were going to be […]
What did Halifax councillors say about police budgets during the campaign?
In light of councillors’ votes this week to add $230,800 to the Halifax Regional Police budget, we’re looking back at what they were saying on the campaign trail. Since they were elected in October 2020, councillors have approved a base $88.6-million budget for police. The vote was unanimous, with only Coun. Lisa Blackburn absent. That’s […]
哈利法克斯起重机倒塌由于焊接故障,实验室our department investigation concludes
The crane that toppled over a Halifax building in the winds of post-tropical storm Dorian, damaging multiple buildings, evacuating residents and closing a busy street for two months, collapsed due to a “weld failure,” according to the provincial government’s investigation. The Department of Labour and Advanced Education released the report into its investigation on Thursday […]
Halifax budget talks close: even more cash for cops, less blue bag pickup, average tax bill up 1%
Halifax councillors wrapped up their budget process on Thursday, adding even more money to the police budget, reducing blue bag pickup to biweekly, and cutting the tax rate to raise the average property tax bill by 1%. They won’t finalize the 2021-2022 budget until next month, but during a two-day meeting of council’s budget committee […]
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