Tag Archives: Halifax

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OPENFILE: St Pat’s decision reveals ethics deficit at HRM

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 ...

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GUEST BLOG: Now they all want to live here, and she’s supposed to go – by Lisa Roberts

“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 ...

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OPENFILE: The New Bridge Terminal – Hope for Transit That Works

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 ...

Image taken by Neal Ozano, Openfile

From the Facebook page of Peter Kelly, Mayor

This dialog, take from Mayor Peter Kelly's public Facebook page, was captured around 9:55pm the night of November 11, 2011. Update - it has not been deleted, the nice folks at the Mayor's office have only deleted the stuff on ...

Irony amidst anger and sadness.

Defence of the Status Quo nothing new in “Slackers”

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 ...