POLITICS
HALIFAX – Council mulls hiking downtown meter rates [Metro]
HALIFAX – NDP trying to smear me: Zinck [Metro]
FREDERICTON – City borrows $356K to replace ground hoists [Daily Gleaner]
FREDERICTON – City to sign deal with Local 1709 [Daily Gleaner]
DIEPPE – Dieppe city council looks at policing options [Times & Transcript]
SAINT JOHN – Students offer council tips on cutting crime [Telegraph-Journal]
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
DIEPPE – Dieppe changes sign bylaw [Times & Transcript]
SAINT JOHN – Put on hold [Telegraph-Journal]
NB – Big projects equal big money and good news for employment [Telegraph-Journal]
CHARLOTTETOWN – New downtown hotel approved for Charlottetown [CBC]
CHARLOTTETOWN – City council approves plan for new six-storey hotel [Guardian]
ST. JOHN’S – St. John’s area march housing starts released [Telegram]
COMMUNITY
HALIFAX – Momentum Grows to Fight Homelessness in Halifax [Media Co-op]
DARTMOUTH – Greenvale Schoolers gear up for reunion [Chronicle Herald]
NS – N.S. RCMP blow whistle on road hockey [CBC]
NS – N.S. to spend $5M more to create 400 subsidized daycare spaces [Daily Gleaner]
NL – Funding approved for recreational programs for seniors [Telegram]
URBAN GREEN
HALIFAX – Province pulls out of Shubie Canal project [Chronicle Herald]
NB – Safety warning issued on Petitcodiac [Times & Transcript]
NB – Engineers poised to open Petitcodiac causeway gates [Telegraph-Journal]
OTHER NEWS
REGION – Terry Fox family starts Atlantic cancer program [CBC]
FREDERICTON – Fredericton homes hit by peace-sign vandal [CBC]
MONCTON – Metro man has had enough with ‘booting’ downtown [Times & Transcript]