Tuesday, HRM Council voted in a 13 to 9 vote to once again confirm the sale of the St Patrick’s Alexandra school property to the Jono developments.
Staff had prepared a report, as requested, outlining options regarding, both in this case 
and the last decade of surplus school disposals, …
“For years, no one wanted to live in this community. Now they all want to live here.” That's what one older black woman had to say at the end of a community meeting held in Cornwallis Street Baptist Church on Saturday. The unstated corollary: And so she's supposed to go.…
Right now, the best example of HRM “getting it right” is probably the construction of the new Dartmouth Bridge terminal.
The current “terminal” deserves quotes around its description. HRM is replete with clusters of bus shelters, some heated, most not, with the grandiose designation of “terminal.” Anyone coming …
I grew up a navy brat, fed a steady diet of Napoleonic War era novels like Hornblower, Aubrey Maturin, and Sharpe.
But I also grew up reading Canadian novels from another era, the Battle of the Atlantic. Hal Lawrence’s Bloody War and James Lamb Corvette Navy are two books that …
The fat is in the fire now! People are seeing that downsizing from 23 to 16 councillors will really redefine the representative districts boundaries. People can see what they will gain, and what they will lose. Staff quietly put the proposed boundaries for the smaller 16 representative council online late …
While I am running for Mayor of Halifax, I continue to be the
Councillor for District 7 until October 19.
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