Civic Engagement
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Value City – Planning?
HALIFAX – Ka-Ching. With a $13 billion dollar debt in NS (cleverly illustrated by Hugh Pouliot), how can we not talk about value? It is ironic...
By Crystal Melville -
Events Guide: PechaKucha Night #7
I like it here. So why is my neighborhood and thousands more like it, so often ignored by architects and architecture schools? The very environment where...
By Crystal Melville -
Event Guide: Eastern Gateway Waterfront Presentation
CHARLOTTETOWN – The Charlottetown Area Development Corporation is ready to reveal the Eastern Gateway Master Plan that will (we hope) transform the...
By Joshua Biggley -
Why i’m voting for a mixed System (and why I changed my mind)
CHARLOTTETOWN – When voters in Charlottetown head to the polls on November 1st they will be casting a vote for not just for a mayor and council to...
By Joshua Biggley -
Show of Hands Halifax launches!
HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY – Ever wondered how decisions in this city are really made? Tried to decipher one of City Hall’s official...
By Emma Feltes -
Events Guide: Creative City
Halifax – Nocturne, what a time! These oft empty streets were teeming with citizens and music and art OH MY! But now that the dust is settling and...
By Veronica Simmonds -
Where Have All the Politicians Gone?
CHARLOTTETOWN – If political participation in Charlottetown, the capital of PEI, is any indicator of the malaise of the general population, then we...
By Joshua Biggley -
Events Guide: Commons Dance Party
HALIFAX – Alas, summer is coming to an end. Perhaps a little Earl-y, but those hot hot Haligonian hay days are now making way for crisp evenings...
By Veronica Simmonds -
Have your say, Halifax! …Or don’t. Whatever.
Photo by John McCarthy, member of the Spacing Atlantic flickr pool. HALIFAX – Voter apathy and low turnout are not uniquely Haligonian challenges...
By Emily Richardson -
Events Guide: Halifax Central Library Consultation
HALIFAX – “How will my central library transform our lives, our city?”, this is the question that Haligonians are being encouraged to...
By Veronica Simmonds -
Volunteerism 2.0: Better cities through open data
What information would you need to solve the problems and nuisances of city life? Because if you live in San Francisco, you can probably find it. As...
By Emily Richardson -
Events Guide: The Halifax Chebucto NDP AGM
HALIFAX- It’s that time again… time for Halifax Chebucto’s shareholders (us!) to weigh in on how Howard Epstein and his NDP have been...
By Jessica Walker