From banks to bikes, 100 years of cop theft

This time, surely, police reform will work by Katy Jean The board of Police Commissioners met last week. The meeting was open to the public and mostly about planned provincial police reforms. Reforms a century in the making. In the winter of 1931, George Edwin Ritchie was elected mayor of

Are fire numbers heating up in HRM?

by Jenna McConnell with files from Antonia Zwissler Just over four months into this year, the sirens of fire trucks have been ringing through the air with alarming frequency. In fact, HRFE has responded to fires more than once a day: 138 times to be exact. Only one of those

Where the sidewalk ends

No improvements to life-threatening sidewalk by Jenna McConnell and Antonia Zwissler “Nobody drives 60 here,” said Elgin Marko standing in her driveway, 20m away from a Maximum 60 sign. In October last year, she had a close call trying to pull into the driveway. She was in her Mazda

School librarians in HRM still at risk of being cut

by Jenna McConnell School librarians in the HRM face being abruptly fired as negotiations between council and Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) about the future of the librarians’ funding continue. The HRCE employs between 75 and 100 librarians, or library support specialists, in its schools. They are paid through

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Sam Austin tries to make city use roads better

Making sense of Halifax’s transit piorities

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Council cuts school librarians in secret vote

Librarian calls libraries “The Great Equalizers”

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