News Temporary SheltersEarlier this week, HRM provided notice to folks living in temporary structures in HRM parks to vacate. This isn’t a decision that HRM has come to lightly, but there are real problems with the structures that require HRM to act. The structures have no electricity, running water, or …
News Little Albro Yellow Floating Heart PilotHRM’s pilot project to control Yellow Floating Heart in Little Albro Lake is in the water! This is something I have been working on for the last several years, but it’s not a new problem. Yellow Floating Heart is an invasive species that is, …
News Pine Street CourtHRM is considering making changes to the tennis court in Pine Street Park. The single court is located at the very back of the Park adjacent to Devonshire Street and it doesn’t appear to see much tennis use. When a space is largely empty, sometimes the community …
News Push-Button Traffic Lights:There are some big adjustments coming to traffic lights in HRM: the need to push a button to cross the street is largely going away in dense urban areas. The plan is to switch many signals to automatically display a walk sign between 6:00 am and midnight. …
Property Tax CapNova Scotia’s Capped Assessment Program (CAP) was back in the news last month thanks to the Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) release of a visual mapping tool to better demonstrate the CAP’s impacts. The CAP was brought in by the Province back in 2005 in response to …
News Homeless Camps:A week ago, a shed showed up on a small piece of municipal land in Downtown Dartmouth. The shed was dropped off by Halifax Mutual Aid for a homeless man who had been tenting there for a few months. CBC ran with the story, which included a good …
News COVID:COVID’s second wave has arrived. Quick and decisive action back in March, our Bubble, and the generally cooperative attitude of Atlantic Canadians has meant that we’ve been largely COVID free for months. We’ve been one of the few places in the world that has been able to say that. …
News Election 2020The election campaign is over and the voters of HRM have chosen their representatives for the next four years. You can see complete results on the municipal website here. Here in District 5, I’m very grateful and humbled by the strong mandate I received to continue working on …
News Election 2020:The 2020 HRM municipal election is underway. Polls are open and votes are being cast online and by phone right now. As I write this, the turnout in District 5 is 4,443 (56% of 2016’s overall turnout). The e-vote is open until 7:00 pm Wednesday. All you need …
September’s e-news unusually early! (three opportunities for public consultation coming up next week and the week after that I wanted to plug) News Racist Graffiti:Probably many of you saw my post earlier this week concerning racist graffiti that appeared in District 5 on a power pole outside a person of …
