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 […]
Committee to define defunding for Halifax police board launches questionnaire
The committee struck to define the concept of defunding the police for the Halifax Board of Police Commissioners has started its public consultation process with an online questionnaire. The Committee to Define Defunding the Police, chaired by professor, activist and Halifax Examiner contributor El Jones, launched the questionnaire on Tuesday. “The committee is leading a […]
Halifax police interpret public gathering injunction broadly
Kinsella: Order "applies to any gathering"
With Halifax Regional Police facing criticism for ticketing protesters at a vehicle-based rally over the weekend, Chief Dan Kinsella explained his interpretation of the injunction against public gatherings to the city’s police board. The Halifax Board of Police Commissioners met virtually on Monday, and during the monthly update from the chiefs of HRP and Halifax-district […]
Dartmouth bike lanes coming soon as part of Macdonald Bridge bikeway project
With a tender out this week, Halifax is moving ahead with new bike lanes for Wyse Road, part of the Macdonald Bridge bikeway improvement project planned since 2017. But some plans have changed for the work on the Dartmouth side of the harbour since the Integrated Mobility Plan laid out the city’s preferred bike network...
Board rules ‘race was a factor’ in Halifax cops’ decision to ‘target’ Black man for jaywalking
Two Halifax Regional Police officers discriminated against a Black man when they watched him, followed him into his workplace and ticketed him for jaywalking four years ago, an independent board of inquiry of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission has ruled. As a result, the municipality has been ordered to apologize to the complainant, boost […]
Halifax council passes budget, considers commercial tax change for next year
Halifax regional council has passed its 2021-2022 budget, slightly lowering the tax rate to keep the increase to the average property tax bill to 1%. The budget came to council on Tuesday for final approval after months of near-weekly budget committee meetings where councillors hashed out the details for each business unit. The final details, […]
Council approves development proposal for former Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children lands
Council approved bylaw amendments Tuesday night allowing for new development on the site of the old Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children. Halifax regional council held a public hearing at its meeting, hearing from 14 people, mostly in favour of the proposal to rezone the land on Highway 7 in Westphal. The Halifax Examiner laid...
哈利法克斯的交通委员会认为Herring Cove Road plan, restricting turns at intersections, taxi rules
The plan for new bike and bus lanes on Herring Cove Road got the Transportation Standing Committee’s stamp of approval on Thursday. Transportation planning engineer Harrison McGrath presented the Herring Cove Road Functional Plan to the committee after it deferred a vote last month to give councillors and the public time to digest the 599-page […]
Halifax Transit is eight years into its five-year tech plan with no end in sight, according to AG
Eight years into a five-year plan, Halifax Transit still doesn’t know when it will be done upgrading its technology. That’s one of the findings of a report from municipal Auditor General Evangeline Colman-Sadd, who presented her office’s Transit Technology Project Management Audit during a virtual meeting of council’s Audit and Finance Standing Committee on Thursday....
Committee recommends in favour of over-budget Spring Garden Road streetscape contract
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...
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