Halifax

‘Pride belongs to us’: Pro-Palestine protest organizer speaks on parade demonstration

  Since the Halifax Pride Parade on June 20, news outlets have reported that a group of pro-Palestine protesters demonstrated…

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Residential Tenancies Act remains toothless as support systems become overwhelmed

  Nova Scotia’s New Democratic Party is once again calling on Houston’s Progressive Conservative government to create a tenancy enforcement…

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R.I.P. Spring Garden Transit-only pilot, Dec 2021 – July 2024

The Spring Garden Transit-only pilot is dead for at least another year. On December 7, 2021, Halifax’s city council directed…

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Halifax’s bureaucracy fails two emergency readiness audits

On a muggy morning which promised a heat warning in the afternoon, Halifax’s auditor general turned up the heat early…

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In Labatt’s north end brewery, the water will flow like beer

The sun is beating down, the UV index is high, temperatures are sky-rocketing and the people, well, the people are…

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The Regional Watersheds Advisory Board is gone. What’s next?

  As of the city council meeting on July 9, Halifax’s Regional Watersheds Advisory Board (RWAB) has been canned. The…

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HRM passes road safety strategy allowing for social murder

In the name of road safety, urged on by “professional” traffic engineers, Halifax’s city council have approved a little bit…

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Two weeks after being attacked on Argyle Street, this couple is still waiting for answers from the police

On June 23, Emma MacLean and her girlfriend Tori were attacked—verbally and physically—by a group of young men in the…

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Halifax’s housing crisis uniquely impacts the city’s sex workers

Alex MacDonnell had no idea that a routine outreach visit to a correctional facility would lay the foundation for where…

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Halifax downgrades road safety framework

On Wednesday, June 19, Halifax’s Transportation Standing Committee met and watered down the city’s Strategic Road Safety Framework. During the…

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