#halifax — Public Fediverse posts
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax planning changes highlight tension between good design and creating density
At a recent public feedback session on #housing, a #halifax resident described a four-storey development between two houses as "one of the ugliest buildings" she's ever seen. Worse, she said, is the developers didn’t defy any zoning rules or break any bylaws.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-middle-housing-9.7203836?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax planning changes highlight tension between good design and creating density
At a recent public feedback session on #housing, a #halifax resident described a four-storey development between two houses as "one of the ugliest buildings" she's ever seen. Worse, she said, is the developers didn’t defy any zoning rules or break any bylaws.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-middle-housing-9.7203836?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax planning changes highlight tension between good design and creating density
At a recent public feedback session on #housing, a #halifax resident described a four-storey development between two houses as "one of the ugliest buildings" she's ever seen. Worse, she said, is the developers didn’t defy any zoning rules or break any bylaws.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-middle-housing-9.7203836?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax planning changes highlight tension between good design and creating density
At a recent public feedback session on #housing, a #halifax resident described a four-storey development between two houses as "one of the ugliest buildings" she's ever seen. Worse, she said, is the developers didn’t defy any zoning rules or break any bylaws.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-middle-housing-9.7203836?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax planning changes highlight tension between good design and creating density
At a recent public feedback session on #housing, a #halifax resident described a four-storey development between two houses as "one of the ugliest buildings" she's ever seen. Worse, she said, is the developers didn’t defy any zoning rules or break any bylaws.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/missing-middle-housing-9.7203836?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Uncertainty swirls around pitch for #halifax stadium
American company Ridgehaven Holdings met with local and federal politicians about their billion-dollar project. But the site they want to use near the airport is no longer an option.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/uncertainty-swirls-around-pitch-for-halifax-stadium-9.7212996?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Uncertainty swirls around pitch for #halifax stadium
American company Ridgehaven Holdings met with local and federal politicians about their billion-dollar project. But the site they want to use near the airport is no longer an option.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/uncertainty-swirls-around-pitch-for-halifax-stadium-9.7212996?cmp=rss -
CW: CW: Mental Health
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Province extends funding for #mentalhealth clinic serving marginalized Nova Scotians
The #novascotia government is committing $6.2 million over 3 years for a #halifax clinic that provides services to people who might not otherwise have access to #mentalhealth treatment.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/government-funding-psychological-health-brian-comer-dalhousie-university-9.7212801?cmp=rss -
CW: CW: Mental Health
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Province extends funding for #mentalhealth clinic serving marginalized Nova Scotians
The #novascotia government is committing $6.2 million over 3 years for a #halifax clinic that provides services to people who might not otherwise have access to #mentalhealth treatment.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/government-funding-psychological-health-brian-comer-dalhousie-university-9.7212801?cmp=rss -
I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at https://joannemerriam.com/events/
See thread below for Oct & Nov.
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I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at https://joannemerriam.com/events/
See thread below for Oct & Nov.
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I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at https://joannemerriam.com/events/
See thread below for Oct & Nov.
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I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at https://joannemerriam.com/events/
See thread below for Oct & Nov.
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I'm still in the process of setting up my autumn book events, but people have been asking, so here's what's finalized so far! List & RSVP links are at https://joannemerriam.com/events/
See thread below for Oct & Nov.
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Floating tiki bar rescues 2 jet skiers in #halifax harbour
A bachelor party took an unexpected turn over the weekend when the floating tiki bar they were on had to rescue two jet skiers in distress. Stephen Jeddry, owner of Tiki Tours #halifax, tells the CBC's Amy Smith what happened.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7211454?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Floating tiki bar rescues 2 jet skiers in #halifax harbour
A bachelor party took an unexpected turn over the weekend when the floating tiki bar they were on had to rescue two jet skiers in distress. Stephen Jeddry, owner of Tiki Tours #halifax, tells the CBC's Amy Smith what happened.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7211454?cmp=rss -
3DownNation Podcast: CFL expansion buzz, preseason reaction, power rankings
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3DownNation Podcast: CFL expansion buzz, preseason reaction, power rankings
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3DownNation Podcast: CFL expansion buzz, preseason reaction, power rankings
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3DownNation Podcast: CFL expansion buzz, preseason reaction, power rankings
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/48044/ NatWest and Halifax cut mortgage costs #Halifax #LTV #MortgageDeals #MortgageRates #MortgageRatesThisWeek #Nationwide #NatWest
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We had a morning in Dartmouth and stopped at Churned, our new favourite ice cream shop, just as they were opening. It's all plant based and delicious.
Celestine and Tonet love the Mint Choco Chip and have gotten it the past two weekends.
Last weekend I had Pralines & Cream and this weekend I went with Black Sesame & Miso Caramel, which was wonderful.
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An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Halifax... redux.
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An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Halifax... redux.
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An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Halifax... redux.
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An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Halifax... redux.
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An analog relic of a bygone era spotted in Halifax... redux.
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/44508/ Lloyds considers scrapping Halifax brand after 173 years on high street #BankOfScotland #Halifax #LloydsBank #LloydsBankingGroup
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/44119/ Lloyds Banking Group may ‘phase out Halifax brand over coming months’ #BankOfScotland #Halifax #HalifaxBuildingSociety #LloydsBank #LloydsBankingGroup
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Hitchhiking across #canada for cancer research
A young cancer survivor gathers stories and money for the Terry Fox Foundation and the IWK in #halifax on his cross-country trek.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7206386?cmp=rss -
https://www.europesays.com/britain/42562/ One of UK’s most famous banks ‘to disappear from high streets forever’ – 341 branches | UK | News #BranchTransition #Halifax #HalifaxBrand #HighStreetBanks #LloydsBank #LloydsBankingGroup
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
City adds surcharge to tickets, alcoholic drinks for #halifax pro soccer games
The president of the #halifax Wanderers said he fears costs may continue to rise as long as the teams are playing out of the temporary venue.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/hrm-adds-charge-wanderers-tides-tickets-alcoholic-drinks-9.7206067?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax police seek driver who hit boy, then left scene
#halifax police are seeking the driver of a Toyota Corolla that hit an 11-year-old boy in a marked crosswalk in Bedford on Monday morning and then left the scene.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-bedford-driver-boy-crosswalk-9.7206129?cmp=rss -
https://www.europesays.com/britain/42271/ Lloyds Banking Group considers ending Halifax brand #banking #BrandConsolidation #Halifax #LloydsBankingGroup #MortgageLending #UK
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Port of #halifax grain elevator to keep running until at least the end of 2028
The lease for the grain elevator at the Port of #halifax will be extended at least until the end of 2028, following uncertainty around its future.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/port-of-halifax-grain-elevator-to-keep-running-until-at-least-the-end-of-2028-9.7205590?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Alderney ferry returns to 15-minute service after months of delay
The Alderney ferry between #halifax and #dartmouth had been running every 30 minutes since the Vincent Coleman was removed from service Jan. 12 due to a steering system issue.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-returns-alderney-ferry-to-15-minute-service-after-months-of-delay-9.7204981?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
'It's appalling': #halifax women condemn 15-month wait for mammograms
Cynthia McCutcheon thought she heard wrong when she was told the next available appointment for a mammogram in the #halifax area was in July, 2027. She's worried some cancers will be diagnosed at later stages because of the backlog in #novascotia.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/iwk-mammogram-screening-wait-times-15-months-nova-scotia-9.7201256?cmp=rss -
https://www.europesays.com/britain/40216/ HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is being killed off — and its branches in Swansea and Neath are already on borrowed time #BankClosure #Britain #featured #Halifax #HalifaxClosure #Llanelli #LloydsBank #Swansea
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Clone of #halifax family travels to ##moncton in search of Pokémon cards
The Garcia family drove from #halifax to ##moncton to attend the Maritime Collectible Expo on Sunday. The event showcased over 90 vendors selling diecasts, comics, videogames, Hot wheels, toys, and Pokémon, Disney and sports collectibles.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/halifax-family-at-collectible-expo-moncton-9.7203459?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #newbrunswick
#halifax family travels to ##moncton in search of Pokémon cards
The Garcia family drove from #halifax to ##moncton to attend the Maritime Collectible Expo on Sunday. The event showcased over 90 vendors selling diecasts, comics, videogames, Hot wheels, toys, and Pokémon, Disney and sports collectibles.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/halifax-family-at-collectible-expo-moncton-9.7203424?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
#halifax waterfront businesses open up for May long weekend
After a rough start to spring, Nova Scotians have been making the most out of the May long weekend. On the #halifax waterfront, many businesses and small vendors are now open for the season. The CBC’s Andrew Sampson stopped by to see how things are going.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7203393?cmp=rss -
HALIFAX: After 173 years, one of Britain’s most famous bank names is being killed off — and its branches in Swansea and Neath are already on borrowed time
The writing has been on the wall for a while. Now it looks like it’s almost over for one of the most recognisable names on the British high street.
Halifax — the 173-year-old banking brand that grew from a West Yorkshire building society into a household name — is set to be axed by Lloyds Banking Group as soon as this summer, according to industry insiders cited by The Sun, which first broke the story.
The plan, as reported, is simple and brutal. From 1 July, customers will no longer be able to open new Halifax accounts online or through the app. By October, Halifax stops taking on new customers entirely. After that, millions of existing account holders will be gradually migrated across to Lloyds Bank — and the Halifax name disappears.
Lloyds Banking Group declined to comment on any of that. A spokesperson said: “We regularly look at the role our brands play in supporting our customers. Our banking customers can already use any Lloyds, Halifax or Bank of Scotland branch, and see any of their products and services in any of their apps — there are no changes for our customers today.”
Halifax Bank branch in NeathHalifax currently has branches at 22/23 Union Street in Swansea city centre, 31 Queen Street in Neath, and 24/26 Cowell Street in Llanelli.
With the brand disappearing, the Swansea and Neath branches look like candidates for closure — a Lloyds branch already sits just 160 metres from the Halifax on Union Street in Swansea, and another barely 350 yards from the Halifax on Queen Street in Neath.
The case for keeping both open in each town would look thin.
Halifax Bank in LlanelliLlanelli may tell a different story. Lloyds closed its own Stepney Street branch there last year — just 130 yards from the Halifax on Cowell Street. With the Halifax now the only Lloyds Banking Group presence in the town, it could see a reprieve and a rebrand, bringing the Lloyds name back to Llanelli.
The picture gets bleaker still when you add in the Lloyds closures already confirmed in the wider area. The Lloyds branch at Beaumont House on Swansea Enterprise Park in Llansamlet closes on 2 July. The Gorseinon branch on High Street closes on 12 October. Lloyds branches in Port Talbot, Carmarthen and on Oxford Street in Swansea city centre remain open for now — but the trajectory is clear.
But this is happening against a backdrop of relentless branch closures that has already left large parts of south-west Wales with far less face-to-face banking than they once had. Lloyds shut its Ammanford and Gorseinon branches earlier this year.
Gorseinon eventually got a banking hub — but Pontardawe was denied one, despite a Senedd member pushing hard for it. And Barclays has shut branches in Morriston and Tenby and in Gorseinon and Port Talbot.
Nationally, Lloyds announced in February that 95 more branches across its three brands would close by March next year — 31 of them Halifax sites. That will leave the group with just 610 branches across the whole of the UK. The BTU union, which represents 17,000 Lloyds staff, called it “the final nail in the coffin of branch banking.”
Killing off Halifax means reversing a public commitment made by Lloyds’ former chief executive António Horta-Osório, who said in 2011: “We will keep the different brands because the customers are very different in terms of attitude.” It also completes what began in 2009, when Lloyds swallowed up HBOS — the group formed when Halifax merged with Bank of Scotland in 2001 — during the financial crisis.
Halifax itself was born in 1852, when a group of men in the West Yorkshire mill town of the same name founded the Halifax Permanent Benefit Building Society. It was a product of the Industrial Revolution — workers flooding into towns needed affordable housing, and Halifax existed to help them get it.
By 1928 it had become the largest building society in the world, with assets of £47 million. In 1997 it converted to a public limited company in the biggest share flotation the UK stock market had ever seen — creating 7.5 million new shareholders overnight.
The brand became genuinely embedded in British culture through a long-running advertising campaign featuring Howard Brown, a real Halifax customer services representative from Birmingham whose singing and dancing appearances made him one of the most recognisable faces on British television.
Despite all of this, Lloyds has recently invested in its Trinity Road office in the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire. The brand may be going. The jobs, at least for now, are staying.
No formal announcement has been made, and Lloyds declined to comment on the reported timeline. But if The Sun’s sources are right, one of the most familiar names in British banking will be gone from the high street before the year is out.
Related stories from Swansea Bay News
Lloyds Bank to close Ammanford and Gorseinon branches in 2026
The closures that have already reshaped banking across south-west Wales.New banking hub confirmed for Gorseinon after branch closure announcements
How Gorseinon secured a banking hub after its Lloyds branch closed.Senedd member speaks out on ‘deeply disappointing’ Lloyds response on Pontardawe bank closure
#bankClosure #featured #Halifax #HalifaxClosure #Llanelli #LloydsBank #Swansea
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Driver oversight: Documents reveal Uber's behind-the-scenes lobbying in #halifax
#halifax mayor Andy Fillmore delayed a vote on stricter regulations just one day after meeting with an Uber lobbyist, and his approved motion for a review committee used language nearly identical to Uber's official statements.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/uber-lobbying-halifax-9.7203239?cmp=rss -
Source: CBC #news #novascotia
Toronto Rock win NLL Cup with series-clinching 12-7 win over #halifax Thunderbirds
The Toronto Rock beat the #halifax Thunderbirds on Sunday in #halifax to win the National Lacrosse League Cup, the team's seventh championship win.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/toronto-rock-win-nll-cup-over-halifax-thunderbirds-9.7203213?cmp=rss -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/968782/ One of UK’s most famous banks ‘to disappear from high streets forever’ – 341 branches | UK | News #BranchTransition #Business #Halifax #HalifaxBrand #HighStreetBanks #LloydsBank #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
How this skateboard shop carved its niche over 40 years
Over 40 years, one #halifax shop has transformed and evolved not just its own business but the wider community around it. The CBC’s Alex Guye explores the history of Pro Skates, a Quinpool Road staple.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7200617?cmp=rss -
Preparing for a drag show, Halifax, Canada, 1931
https://piefed.social/c/historyphotos/p/2070675/preparing-for-a-drag-show-halifax-canada-1931
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Source: CBC #news #novascotia
What's open and closed on Victoria Day in the #halifax area
As Nova Scotians mark what many consider to be the beginning of the summer season, here's a look at what will be open and closed on Victoria Day in the #halifax area.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/victoria-day-open-closed-halifax-2026-9.7200592?cmp=rss -
10,889 is the announced attendance in #Halifax for the #NLLFinals
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