Virtual meeting rules passed by province met with displeasure by some HRM councillors
Some Halifax councillors are upset with new rules passed by the province that lay out how municipalities must conduct virtual council meetings.
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Posted: May 07, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 7
Coun. Shawn Cleary is one of the councillors who expressed concerns about the new virtual meeting rules the province passed with Bill 98.(CBC)
Some Halifax councillors are upset with new rules passed by the province that lay out how municipalities must conduct virtual council meetings.
April 23 2021, 9:19 am | BY Ricki Green | 2 Comments
To coincide with Earth Day, Audi Australia and We Are Social have released a short film that follows acclaimed Australian photographer, Woody Gooch, on an epic adventure down the east coast of Australia in the all-electric Audi e-tron Sportback.
A vision of sustainable exploration, ‘Electric Eye’ is the culmination of a 3,500 km, 10-day road-trip in the brand’s first all-electric vehicle. Departing from Rainbow Beach in subtropical Queensland, the journeyman and photographer drove across the New South Wales border through the laid-back town of Byron Bay, down to the Snowy Mountains region and finally back up to Sydney via the South Coast of New South Wales.
Despite a year of calls to defund the police, council adds $2.7 million to HRP’s budget
A bleak signal of what’s to come on police reform in this city. If the words of Mike Savage, quoting Joe Biden Don t tell me what you value, show me your budget and I ll tell you what you value are true, what does Halifax Regional Council’s approach to police budgeting say? In a year teeming with calls to defund or at least reallocate police money, and in a meeting where those calls were voiced inside council’s virtual chamber, yesterday council voted to pour even more cash into three different police requests.
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Halifax council approves funding for report on police body cameras
Despite stiff opposition from some members of the public, Halifax regional council voted 14-3 Wednesday to keep an $85,000 studying looking into the use of body cameras in next year s police budget.
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More than two dozen members of the public spoke at meeting, mostly against increases to police budget
Posted: Apr 21, 2021 8:51 PM AT | Last Updated: April 21
A study on the use of body cameras by police was one of 11 budget extras Halifax regional council approved Wednesday.(Monty Kruger/CBC)
Despite stiff opposition from some members of the public, Halifax regional council voted 14-3 on Wednesday to keep an $85,000 study looking into the potential use of body cameras in next year s police budget.