by Chris Benjamin The most significant item up for discussion at yesterday’s Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee was the ongoing pondweed (four different kinds, all native to Nova Scotia) infestations in Lakes Banook and Mic Mac. The committee received a report from chief planner Bob Bjerke on the weed situation. The report recommends mechanically harvesting...
我的大，大胆的早餐
This morning I went to the Building our Future breakfast sponsored by Greater Halifax Partnership at the Delta Halifax. I have been critical of the entire “Bold Halifax” campaign from the start, but I went with something of an open mind—I didn’t think I would change my opinion of the campaign, but I thought I might better...
Wellington Street development, garbage, signs, anti-whistling bylaw: Council preview: January 13, 2015 meeting
Tender awards Dexter Construction—$651,999.98 for paving various locations in Burnside Business Park. Lange’s Rock Farm Construction Limited—$660,130.38 for rebuilding the Northwest Arm Seawall. Wellington Street Last month’s public hearing on the proposed Wellington Street development ran til midnight, so council will debate and vote on the issue tomorrow. I gave extensive background on the issue...
游艇俱乐部补贴：该市的减税计划如何得到所有错误
We’re fortunate to have dozens of nonprofit organizations doing socially important work in our community: health clinics, boys and girls clubs, organizations to help the homeless and forgotten youth, groups providing space for adult day care, teenage drop-in centres, childcare, hospice centres for the dying. The list is varied, but the one thing they all have […]
法律与障碍：琳达Mosher听证会在三个月内恢复
律师林达莫尔赫·林达·莫尔赫·林达·斯莱尔（Gavin Giles）表示，被指控错误的罪行。Mosher于2013年5月7日在一场导致骑自行车司机伤害的事件中被指控不正当地打开车道。但最多，昨晚在听证会上争论吉尔斯，Mosher可能被指控有一个不正当的转弯 - 但是[...]
UARB rules for Housing Trust on Gottingen Street buildings
Earlier this year, the Halifax and West Community Council approved a change in land use bylaws that will allow Housing Trust of Nova Scotia to build two new affordable housing projects in the north end. The buildings, which will stretch from Gottingen Street to Maitland Street, are taller than previous bylaws allowed on Gottingen Street, and because...
保持转储开放和拟议的惠灵顿街道发展：议会预览，2014年12月9日会议
I’ll be live-blogging tomorrow’s meeting, starting at 10am, via the Examiner’s Twitter feed, @hfxExaminer. Dump issues I’m old enough to remember when the perfectly good term “dump” that describe the place we literally dump our garbage morphed into the feel-good “landfill.” But besides making no sense at all—how do you fill land?—I object to the word...
Ramia unilaterally broke agreement with province for Nova Centre
上周五，新星中心开发商Joe Ramia宣布，他将通过2016年1月1日的“实质性完成”日期未能完成该项目。相反，他表示，他说Nova Center将于2016年9月30日之前完成，而是“公约”centre part of it wouldn’t open until January, 2017. Originally, the convention centre was to open […]
阳光清单，用舌头发言，并命名名称：委员会预览，2014年12月2日会议
The meeting starts at 1pm. I’ll be live-blogging via the Examiner’s Twitter account, @hfxExaminer. Here are some of the bigger issues: Tenders Voith Canada Inc.—$1,348,912 for two propellers for a ferry. This is part of a plan to replace and expand the ferry fleet. The first new ferry in this plan, the Christopher Stannix, is now...
Does anyone care that the convention centre Joe Ramia is building isn’t the one we ordered?
关于今天的宣布乔里布利亚将遗漏2016年1月1日的目标是完成新会议中心的目标。相反，拉姆里亚现在表示他将于2016年9月30日开设会议中心 - 也就是说，在夏季会议季节之后，至少有一些公约已经安排 - 和[...]