Citing a lack of research and policy around the technology, the city’s board of police commissioners isn’t ready to green light a plan for body-worn cameras for Halifax Regional Police officers. As the Halifax Examiner reported on Friday, HRP wants to equip all officers with body-worn cameras by 2023. The total cost, over five years, […]

Halifax Regional Police are charging ahead with body-worn video cameras, proposing in a new submission to phase them in over the next five years at an estimated cost of $3.71 million. For at least one justice reform activist, the plan and its price tag are “a slap in the face” for “a meaningless technocratic measure […]

The municipally-owned arena formerly known as the Metro Centre is expected to be $2.65 million in the red this year due to COVID-19. Events East, the Crown corporation that runs the arena and the Halifax Convention Centre, posted its 2020-2021 business plan for the building named after a bank — which the Halifax Examiner calls […]

厌倦了听到房东删除十的故事ants’ doors and windows to force them out, Halifax regional councillors want to step up enforcement of the municipality’s minimum standards bylaw. “There’s been a recent rash of very disturbing media reports that have been kind of printed at face value where some landlords — just a few, […]

With the convention centre’s losses mounting, Halifax regional councillors are expressing interest in using the space as a homeless shelter. Council was tasked with approving a fiscal 2020-2021 business plan for the convention centre at its meeting on Tuesday, a full eight months into the fiscal year. Despite a budgeted deficit of $11.1 million, council […]

The feathery residents of Sullivan’s Pond have left their summer home and, after a municipal tender process, are wintering at their usual accommodations. The municipality issued a tender seeking winter refuge for the geese earlier this month. Hope for Wildlife, the Seaforth, N.S. animal rescue that’s cared for the geese for years, won the contract […]