With four-term incumbent Coun. Bill Karsten bowing out, District 3 is anyone’s race. The district, covering Russell Lake, Portland Hills and Estates, Eastern Passage, and Cow Bay, is home to 20,927 eligible voters — more than any of the other 15, based on the 2016 numbers. There are five candidates vying for the seat: Vishal […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 2 — Preston–Chezzetcook-Eastern Shore
The municipality’s geographically largest district stretches along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia from Lawrencetown to Ecum Secum. Inland, it includes North and East Preston, Lake Echo, Porters Lake and Musquodoboit Harbour. There are four candidates trying to canvas that massive area in this fall’s election: David Boyd, David Hendsbee, Nicole Johnson and Tim Milligan. […]
Halifax council passes regulations for ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft
Ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft have received their final green light to start operating in Halifax. Regional council voted 13-4 in favour of taxi bylaw amendments to regulate ride-hailing companies, which the municipality calls transportation network companies, or TNCs, during its virtual meeting on Tuesday. Councillors Lindell Smith, Shawn Cleary, Stephen Adams and Richard...
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: Mayor
There are three candidates vying for the seat at the head of the Halifax regional council table — the two-term incumbent mayor, a two-term councillor, and a young TikToker. The three candidates sparred in a forum last week, but they also answered some questions for the Halifax Examiner. The Examiner posed the same five questions […]
Halifax council candidate questionnaires: District 1 — Waverley-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley
District 1 — Waverley-Fall River-Musquodoboit Valley is one of the municipality’s largest, spanning the growing suburbia of Fall River to the farmers’ fields of the municipality’s most rural areas. Following a redrawing of the district boundaries in 2012, Steve Streatch lost his seat to the other incumbent, Barry Dalrymple. Streatch got it back in 2016, […]
Halifax police board votes to appoint El Jones to develop committee defining defunding
Halifax’s board of police commissioners voted Monday to appoint El Jones to propose a committee to define defunding the police, and Jones hopes to turn that into an opportunity for more public input at the board. It’s the culmination of months of debate at the board over how to approach the issue of defunding the […]
Halifax council to consider real living wage requirement with supplier code of conduct
Staff are recommending Halifax regional council adopt a code of conduct for its suppliers, including a living wage requirement for most kinds of contracted work at an estimated cost of $8 million annually. It’s a response to council’s lukewarm reception of the social procurement policy passed in July — an optional policy, where departments “shall […]
Province changes QEII hospital parkade plans again, further encroaching on Halifax Common
The provincial government has updated its plans for a new parkade for the QEII hospital, and it’s now further encroaching on the Halifax Common. It’s the third plan for a parking garage on Summer Street as part of the QEII redevelopment project after the second one got council’s reluctant approval. The first plan would’ve seen...
Transportation committee pushes back on buttons at Halifax intersections
反击直辖市交通盟thority, council’s Transportation Standing Committee wants to rid much of the city of pedestrian push buttons in the next year. The committee met in person at Halifax City Hall on Thursday to discuss a list of information reports that were deferred from a council meeting earlier this month. Among […]
Halifax refuses to reveal source of mysterious motion defining defunding police
Halifax is refusing to reveal the source of a controversial motion around defunding the police that was added to a Board of Police Commissioners agenda at the 11th hour this summer. At the board’s July 9 meeting, municipal staff brought forward a motion aimed at defining the concept of defunding the police: That the Halifax […]
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