Politics
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Well developed? Halifax’s North End and the G8
This piece is cross-posted on the Halifax Media Co-op HALIFAX –Â Following a stream of events in opposition to the G8 meetings in Halifax this week...
By Emma Feltes -
Events Guide: Peasants’ Day and Seedy Saturday
HALIFAX – As springtime sun coaxes greenery back onto our urban landscape, it seems to have brought food sovereignty issues with it. This Saturday...
By Emma Feltes -
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 -
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 -
Events Guide: From the Front Lines: A Public Meeting on Actions Against Homelessnes
HALIFAX – This Wednesday, representatives from Halifax’s housing advocacy community and speakers from across the province will come together...
By Emma Feltes -
A Common Plan
In honour of Councilor Jennifer Watt’s recent motion to Council to impose a ban on mega-concerts on the Halifax Common (up for debate at next...
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Who really funds municipal campaigns anyway? Looking back at the 2009 St. John’s municipal election
ST JOHN’S – Ever wonder how much money goes into a municipal campaign? In St. John’s municipal election last September the 32 candidates vying...
By Andrew Harvey -
Fenwick developer hopes to set a new precedent in Halifax
Co-written by Rachel Caroline Derrah HALIFAX – Fenwick Tower, the 40-years unfinished, 33-storey butt of the anti-development community’s â€...
By Emma Feltes -
Revamping representation in Halifax: HRM’s Governance & District Boundary Review process
HALIFAX – Life in a post-amalgamation world. This seemingly perpetual challenge lingered in the realm of subtext during Wednesday night’s...
By Emma Feltes -
Events Guide: Governance and Boundary Review Meetings
HALIFAX – Leading up to the 2012 election, The Governance & Boundary Review Committee of Council is undertaking a review of the polling...
By Emma Feltes -
[Re]Presenting Halifax #4: Making the Case for Urban Renewal
The [Re]Presenting Halifax series revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region. See my first...
By Matt Neville -
New life for Shannon Park
Squat rows of...
By Lizzy Hill