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 […]

足够支付工人住在哈利法克斯是一个“子stantial 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, […]

Andrew Goodsell got a roof over his head this weekend. For the past few months, he’s been in a sleeping bag on park benches and outside libraries. On Saturday, he moved into one of Halifax Mutual Aid’s new shelters in Dartmouth — the second the group of anonymous volunteers has dispatched to a tract of […]

Three people who live near the corner of Oxford and North streets are appealing the municipality’s approval of a development proposal for the site where a developer started demolition before every tenant had moved out. At its meeting next week, Halifax regional council’s Regional Centre Community Council is scheduled to hear the appeal of the […]

Halifax councillors voted Tuesday to approve a new development agreement for one of three affordable housing projects receiving federal funding through the municipality. After a public hearing at the Halifax and West Community Council, councillors voted unanimously in favour of the development agreement for Adsum Women and Children’s property in Lakeside. The proposal from Adsum […]