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The Cogswell Interchange and the Ecology Action Centre celebrate 40 years
HALIFAX – Forty years after its inception, the Ecology Action Centre (EAC) is still fighting to make Nova Scotia an environmental success story. To...
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Events Guide: The Fight that Saved Downtown Halifax
HALIFAX = To celebrate one of the Ecology Action Centre’s (EAC) first successful campaigns that stopped plans for a four lane highway plowing through...
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Events Guide: Public Information Session – YMCA/CBC Development
HALIFAX – On May 3, 2010, The Coasts’ Tim Bousquet wrote an article titled Proposed YMCA/CBC development will break HRM By Design height...
By Crystal Melville -
Atlantic Snapshots: Out with the Old
Halifax, Nova Scotia Photo by Dean Bouchard, member of Spacing Atlantic’s flickr pool.
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World Wide Wednesday: High speed rail, transit journeys and blue urbanism
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Bayers Lake expansion approved behind closed doors
HALIFAX REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY – In early April, Halifax Regional Council approved a two hundred and fifty million dollar expansion to Bayers Lake...
By Sean Gillis -
Headlines: This Week in Review
POLITICS ST. JOHN’S – Assessing the assessment [The Independent] NOVA SCOTIA – N.S. mayors march for funding deal [CBC] SAINT JOHN...
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Spacing Saturday: South Beach, Citizen Adivisory and Reclaiming Streets
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. The Dome of the Library...
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Events Guide: Sock-Hop Benefit Show for Out of the Cold Shelter
HALIFAX – As winter hits Nova Scotia each year, the Out of the Cold Shelter (OTCS) fills up quickly with people who have and had no other options of...
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Events Guide: Putting PlanSJ on Paper
SAINT JOHN – In early 2010, the City launched PlanSJ to create a new Growth Strategy and to develop a new Municipal Plan to guide development over...
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Events Guide: Point Pleasant Park Advisory Committee meeting
HALIFAX – Join the Point Pleasant Park Advisory Committee (PPPAC) for their monthly committee meeting today. The PPPAC meetings are open to the...
By Crystal Melville -
World Wide Wednesday: Budget woes, skating highs
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered