The federal and provincial governments have confirmed they’ll help Halifax pay for the planning of one of the new ferry routes proposed in last year’s Rapid Transit Strategy. The Mill Cove ferry — one of three proposed in the Rapid Transit Strategy, HRM’s plan to create a grid of rapid bus and ferry routes — […]
Halifax’s completion of auditor general recommendations is slipping
The municipality is completing fewer of the recommendations from its auditor general than in years past, and blaming the slip on COVID-19. Halifax Auditor General Evangeline Colman-Sadd’s office tabled its follow-up review of three audits from 2019 to council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee on Wednesday. Those three audits — into the municipality’s Payroll Management,...
School bus yard retroactively approved despite concerns from Lucasville residents
A company in Lucasville will be allowed to continue to store school buses on its property following a decision from a community council this week. Halifax’s North West Community Council, comprising councillors from the Fall River, Bedford, Sackville and Hammonds Plains areas (districts 1, 13, 14, 15 and 16), met Monday evening. A 360-degree...
Committee recommends in favour of one Dartmouth development, defers another
One Dartmouth developer ticked a box on Wednesday, while another will have to wait. The municipality’s Design Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to city planners on the design elements of proposals under the Centre Plan, met virtually with two proposals on the agenda: one for Wyse Road and one for Pleasant Street. Both proposals are...
Park name changes, parking for free, roadside memorials, and more: Halifax council roundup
康沃利斯公园现在正式和平和的朋友ship Park. Halifax regional council voted unanimously in favour of the staff recommendation to rename the park on Tuesday. The motion also starts a public consultation process to choose a new name for Cornwallis Street. Councillors tacked on an amendment too, looking to create a process for future […]
Halifax councillor wants staff report on municipality’s use of polygraph testing
Coun. Shawn Cleary wants a staff report on the municipality’s use of polygraph testing for employment screening. At the end of council’s meeting on Tuesday, Cleary gave the following notice of motion: That Halifax Regional Council requests a staff report on developing an evidence-based formal policy for polygraph testing for the purposes of human resource […]
Staff recommend Halifax council officially rename Cornwallis Park to Peace and Friendship Park
The park where a statue of Halifax’s so-called founder once stood may no longer bear his name after council’s meeting on Tuesday. The municipality stopped calling Cornwallis Park by that name after removing the statue of Edward Cornwallis — who was sent in 1749 to settle Halifax and later issued a bounty on the scalps […]
Environment committee recommends in favour of water quality monitoring at 74 lakes across HRM
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...
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