Cornwallis Statue: It was looking like a fairly quiet agenda for Council until Friday afternoon when the Assembly of First Nation’s Chiefs announced they were pulling out of the committee that was being formed to examine the commemoration of Cornwallis and Mi’kmaq history. I’m personally very disappointed that the Committee that …
News Community Grants Program 2018-2019: The 2018-2019 Community Grants program is now open for applications. The Grants Program provides project specific awards to registered non-profit organizations and charities located in HRM. Deadlines for applications is March 31, 2018. For more information the Community Grants Program Guidebook and application form is available online. …
Plastic Bags: The item that captured the headlines on Tuesday’s agenda was the report on curtailing the use of plastic shopping bags. The original recommendation was for HRM to ask for a Province-wide approach while also consulting the retail industry and experts on ways to reduce or eliminate plastic usage. …
Happy Holidays Before launching into the business of my last newsletter of 2017 (a lot to cover this month), I wanted to take a moment to wish you the best for the holidays and the New Year from myself and my family. I have been serving as your Councillor for …
It was a double Council week. In addition to our regular bi-weekly Tuesday meeting, Council met to set the starting point for the 2018 budget. You can read the staff report and presentations here. The gist of it is there are some pressures due to unexpected costs (mainly labour for …
Free Transit for People on Income-Assistance: The best item on Council’s agenda Tuesday was actually in camera. I would normally not be able to talk about it, but, luckily for me, the Province made the official announcement today so that limitation is now gone. Sometimes it pays to be a …
It was a packed house at Harbour East Community Council last night. On Council’s agenda was a proposal to build a nine storey building at the corner of Prince Albert Road and Glenwood Avenue at the Walker’s Funeral Home property. You might recall that back in 2012, Harbour East Council …
If you missed the meeting on Thursday night at the Mic Mac Aquatic Club, there is an exciting project under consideration: a redesign of Prince Albert Road around Grahams Grove. The upcoming road project would run from the intersection with Sinclair up to the Superstore. HRM is considering narrowing this …
Library Facilities Master Plan: The first thing on Council’s agenda on Tuesday was a presentation by Halifax Public Libraries CEO, Asa Kachan, on the Library’s upcoming facilities plan. Halifax Public Libraries is facing the same challenges that libraries are facing throughout the world as they shift from places that were …
Well Dartmouth, it was a busy night at the Findlay Community Centre as District 5’s first participatory budget became reality. Turnout was more than I was expecting. We had 640 people cast ballots. At one point the line to register and get a ballot was out the door and down …
