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  • Audits, horse hearing and a beach bus: Mar 24-28 council recap
    2025/03/31

    Now that budget season is done, as threatened, this show will now become a weekly roundup of what happened at City Hall last week. The obvious high/lowlight of last week was when council finished the budget adjustment list debates on Wednesday, March 26, but did you know that other meetings also happened last week? There was an audit that missed some key financial information, public housing grants were awarded, and next summer, there might be a bus to HRM’s beaches!

    This weekly recap show takes a whirlwind rip through all of council's meetings (except budget committee) from the past week.

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    18 分
  • Halifax’s budget: a political win and fiscal failure
    2025/03/27

    Halifax's budget playoffs wrapped on Wednesday March 26 and Halifax has a budget!

    The budget itself was a political victory for our new mayor, Andy Fillmore, who promised to keep Halifax’s property tax rate flat, which the council did. However, property values went up by 4.7 percent, and so will property taxes.


    Those property taxes will pay for Halifax’s $1.3 billion operating budget and $318 million. Thanks to the final debate day in Halifax’s budget playoffs, we learned more about our new council's politics than we did about the budget. The city doesn’t care for its workers, but it does care for its sports heroes and biodiversity. Some rookie councillors showed some expected inexperience, and a veteran councillor earned their first wooden spoon.

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    24 分
  • Council's making your life more expensive, a 3rd intermission update
    2025/03/25

    Halifax council’s budget meeting on monday March 24th was a stinker, quite literally, and also because council almost voted to make Halifax’s poorest people just a little hungrier because of how Canadian governments divvied up their power and responsibilities. But the good news is that your odds of dying in a fire are going to decrease slightly in the next few years, probably. Still, the bad news is that your taxes in five years are going to be astronomically expensive. You’re not going to get better programs and services for those crazy high taxes because that money will have to go to debt because this council just can’t stop themselves from making terrible fiscal decisions.

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    25 分
  • Library cuts and the police tank, 2nd intermission update
    2025/03/22

    It's the second intermission of the budget playoffs and a lot happened in Friday's debate. Council approved an armoured personnel carrier, the central library got it's reserves cut and council avoided making a terrible cut. All that and more in this budget playoffs' second intermission update!

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    29 分
  • Budget Playoffs Intermission update
    23 分
  • Budget playoffs and a new era
    2025/03/17

    In this episode of the Grand Parade Matt flys solo to update folks on the future of the podcast and the future of Halifax's budget.

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    16 分
  • Halifax's budget season is finally here
    2025/02/07

    The wait is over, it's finally here budget season started on Wednesday. In this episode Matt and Martin dive into what's being going on at city hall from strategic plans, to Windsor street exchange and of course, the start of budget season.

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    1 時間 7 分
  • Five little piggies went to a public meeting
    2025/01/11

    It's been a busy start to the new year with with a few big ticket events for the hosts Matt Stickland and Martin Baumen to break down.

    The Board of Police Commissioners meeting on Wednesday, December 8th, was one of the best meetings in HRM's recent history, which included five little piggies and some light-hearted civil disobedience.

    Matt's been doing a lot of research into road safety and tells Martin all about how much liability the city might have been putting itself in for the past few decades.

    Also, in this episode, a Grand Parade exclusive: Did Andy Fillmore think he would win the vote to de-designate encampments? And a debute of our new segment, Question Period.

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    1 時間 1 分