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Halifax council gives green light to ride-sharing services like Uber, Lyft
Transportation networking companies like Uber and Lyft have passed a long-awaited stop signal at Halifax regional council. Council eventually voted 16-1 to have the chief administrative officer prepare bylaw amendments to regulate the ride-sharing ...
Hundreds gather at Halifax memorial for victims of plane crash
Passengers with Halifax connections who perished last week on the downed Ukrainian jetliner were remembered Saturday as bright, loving and caring people. “We’ve come together as a community, and we’ve heard that word over and ...
Northern Pulp says it's committed to staying in Nova Scotia
Northern Pulp says it’s committed to the province and wants to operate in Nova Scotia for the long term. “We intend to complete an environmental assessment for our proposed effluent treatment facility and are in the process of ...
Northern Pulp to proceed with environmental process
Northern Pulp has informed the provincial government that it will continue with the environmental process for a proposed effluent treatment plant. “Since the company has chosen to carry on with the environmental assessment process, we are ...
Tax bill hike coming for HRM residents
The average residential tax bill in Halifax Regional Municipality is projected to increase by $30 or 1.5 per cent for the 2020-21 fiscal year. That’s the fiscal framework that regional council agreed to work with Tuesday, although numbers ...
Work underway to reinflate sports dome in Lantz
Work has begun to resurrect the downed dome in Lantz. “While 2019 ended on a disappointing note with the collapse of the dome, I’m happy to say that 2020 will see the dome back in operation,” Scott Forward, executive director of ...
A community of 10,000 people could spring up in Shannon Park
A stadium proposed for Shannon Park has been scuttled but a bustling community of 10,000 residents could be in the works for the northern Dartmouth location. That long-delayed development plan could finally get off the ground in ...
'Institutionalized racism' still plagues Nova Scotia, advocate says
The ignominious Mississippi of the North reference was used several times to describe Nova Scotia on consecutive November days. First, the restorative inquiry report on the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children chronicled the history of abuse ...
Northern Pulp makes plans to close mill
Northern Pulp and Unifor, the national union that represents 240 of its Pictou County mill workers, voiced deep disappointment with Premier Stephen McNeil’s decision not to extend the Boat Harbour closure deadline. “Today is a very ...
Emergency room closures skyrocket in Nova Scotia
The number of unscheduled emergency department closures in Nova Scotia hospitals more than doubled in 2018-19 from the year before. Twenty-one of the province’s 38 emergency departments experienced temporary closures from April 1, 2018, ...
