Community
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Herring Cove Road Redesign
HALIFAX – Something brilliant might be coming to the Spryfield area this summer. City staff have been working diligently on a new street design...
By Steve Bedard -
Now Closed – Saint John Harbour Passage
SAINT JOHN – It’s been a mixed bag here in the Port City lately. Tuesday marked the 225th anniversary of the incorporation of Canada’s...
By Abad Khan -
Events Guide: Grand Opening of the Prospect Road Community Centre
HALIFAX – Community members of the Prospect Road area have been waiting for over 20 years to see a facility built that would fit their needs, and...
By Veronica Simmonds -
Events Guide: Blooming Imaginations at the Bloomfield Centre
HALIFAX – Spring has sprung, the town’s in full bloom and its time to head to the field — Bloomfield that is. In fitting with this season of...
By Veronica Simmonds -
Events Guide: Public Meeting on New Common Front for Housing Rights in NS
HALIFAX – Following the momentum of last month’s meeting, where 50 people came together to begin the process of building a Common Front for...
By Emma Feltes -
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: InFullBloom Imagine Bloomfield Spring Fair
HALIFAX – In celebration of the coming of spring and with it an increasingly green city, the Imagine Bloomfield Society is throwing outdoor spring...
By Emma Feltes -
Halifax Jane’s Walk traverses transformation
HALIFAX – About 25 people gathered in front on the Halifax Farmers’ Market last Saturday to take part in Halifax’s Jane’s Walk...
By Spacing -
Well developed? Halifax’s North End and the G8
This piece is cross-posted on the Halifax Media Co-op HALIFAX – Following a stream of events in opposition to the G8 meetings in Halifax this week...
By Emma Feltes -
Putting the ‘gate’ in Quingate
HALIFAX – It goes without saying that there’s plenty Halifax could do to improve its pedestrian and cycling infrastructure. Nothing, however...
By Jake Schabas -
Can a convention centre thrive when carbon has a cost?
HALIFAX – Simplified, the debate over the convention centre boils down to this: On the one hand, proponents believe that the convention centre will...
By Emily Richardson -
Time to give Citadel Hill a facelift
HALIFAX – Last week, WebUrbanist published a neat article on old star-shaped fortresses still kicking around in the US, Europe and Asia. It struck...
By Jake Schabas