Halifax councillors will consider adding $72,500 to next year’s budget to fight anti-Black racism within the municipality. The money would be added to $300,000 redirected from the planned purchase of an armoured vehicle for Halifax Regional Police. When councillors voted to cancel that purchase in June 2020, they also voted to spend most of the […]

Most decommissioned Halifax Regional Police vehicles won’t be sold anymore, Chief Dan Kinsella told the city’s board of police commissioners on Tuesday. The board met to discuss HRP’s capital budget items after voting last week to recommend in favour of a 3.1% increase to the department’s operating budget. One of the items on the capital […]

The city’s board of police commissioners is recommending an increased Halifax Regional Police budget for the year ahead. At a special virtual meeting on Thursday, the board voted unanimously in favour of a 3.1% increase to the HRP budget — from $86.3 million in the current fiscal year to $88.9 million for 2021-2022, the fiscal […]

Paying workers enough to live in Halifax is a “substantial burden” for employers, the construction industry told a committee of council, claiming the policy is “hurting the lower wage people.” Representatives from three construction industry associations made a presentation to council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee at its virtual meeting on Thursday outlining […]

Halifax’s regional centre councillors called the developer’s behaviour “deplorable” and questioned how he sleeps at night, but couldn’t find anything legally wrong with his proposal for North Street during an appeal hearing Wednesday night. The city’s Regional Centre Community Council, made up of the councillors representing the Centre Plan area — Tony Mancini, Waye Mason, […]

Workers collecting solid waste in the Halifax area will have to wait five more years before they’re guaranteed a living wage for their work. Halifax regional council voted unanimously to award eight contracts for solid waste collection to four contractors during its meeting on Tuesday. The contracts for collection of garbage, recycling, and compost cover […]

The Halifax Convention Centre will not be used as a homeless shelter during the COVID-19 pandemic, chief administrative officer Jacques Dubé told councillors on Tuesday. In a verbal update during council’s meeting, Dubé explained why the idea, floated during a meeting in December, isn’t going to happen. “Given the upcoming events planned in the centre, […]