In fenced-off Meagher Park, one renegade poem keeps surviving its removal
A memorial to Halifax’s unhoused population, Halifax poet laureate Sue Goyette’s poem has found a life of its own—and arrives amid another cold winter for those outdoors.
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A memorial to Halifax’s unhoused population, Halifax poet laureate Sue Goyette’s poem has found a life of its own—and arrives amid another cold winter for those outdoors.
Council braces for a repeat of last year’s shelter siege as conditions at the park degrade. “We are one heavy rainstorm away from a cholera outbreak as far as I'm concerned.”
Halifax city council met Tuesday to discuss homelessness in the municipality.
Residents were told the police were coming, but that may have been a scare tactic.
“That is a crazy pile of money,” mayor Savage said in newly revealed email about $500,000 budget becoming a price tag near $3.2 million.