Halifax mayor promises to do more to tackle housing affordability
Record-low vacancy rates and rising housing costs have created what many say is an affordable housing crisis in Halifax, and elsewhere in the province.
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Posted: Dec 24, 2020 5:00 PM AT | Last Updated: December 24, 2020
Mayor Mike Savage says housing affordability is a big concern for council. (Submitted by Riley Smith)
Mainstreet host Jeff Douglas spoke with McNeil last week, ahead of the fall sitting, to reflect on his time in office. Their conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
How much are you looking forward to just getting back to just being Stephen, to being a dad, to being a husband, just a guy from the Valley?
Well, listen, I ve enjoyed the last 17 years of elected office, but I ve always said this is not a career. It s a privilege to get to do it for a period of time. I m still enjoying it, but it was time to try to see what was next in life and to spend some time doing other things that I m interested in.
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 7:20 PM AT | Last Updated: December 18, 2020
Amelia Penney-Crocker, 15, set out to write a letter a week for a year to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging action on climate change. She sent her last this week.(Amelia Penney-Crocker)
A Grade 10 student in Halifax has spent the last year writing a letter every week to the prime minister urging him to take immediate action on climate change.
Fifteen-year-old Amelia Penney-Crocker, who attends Citadel High, wrote a total of 54 letters about everything from how the climate crisis impacts women around the world to the devastating bush fires in Australia earlier this year.
Superb Dallas-Brewed Beers to Sip This Season
It s winter. We want burly ales, oatmeal stouts, and brews that remind us of gingersnaps. Don’t miss these local favorites. Plus, a few ciders.
By Eve Hill-Agnus
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Food & Drink
December 14, 2020
11:30 am
Local brewers lately have been making entire breweries smell bewitchingly of orange peel and baking spices so we can quaff beers that make us think of wreath-making and snow drifts. Give us some figgy pudding, and all that: hear, hear! And some snickerdoodle ale and oatmeal nitro stout, too.
Barleywine, porters, stouts, strong ales, and similar styles are the stuff of long winter nights. Fond of a hot toddy? Try a strong ale, deep with spice. Or a toasty English ale, cinnamon-hinting and speaking of winter. An espresso-steeped stout, a sangria-inspired cider. Light the fire and crank up the ABV.