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Police in Canada continue to investigate the death of a 19-year-old Walmart employee whose body was found Saturday inside a store's walk-in bakery oven.. The Walmart store, located in Halifax ...
In 1996, with the creation of the newly amalgamated Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), the Fire Service was consolidated through a merger of the fire departments of the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth, the town of Bedford and the many volunteer departments located throughout Halifax County. At that time, there were 515 career fire fighters ...
Halifax Regional Police: Halifax, Nova Scotia: November 29, 1963 Ran over by a vehicle while directing traffic Detective Kenneth J. Evans Toronto Police Service: Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec: November 30, 1963 Evans was one of the 118 people killed on board Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 after takeoff. Evans was returning to Toronto after ...
Most communities of the Halifax Regional Municipality are marked with Welcome to our Community signs . Halifax Regional Municipality has many different communities that vary from rural to urban. With a land area of 5,475.57 km 2 (2,114.13 sq mi), [1] there are more-than 200 communities-and-neighbourhoods within its boundaries. [2]
The Halifax Typographical Union called the purchase evidence that the Herald ' s claim of impending financial collapse was a "total fabrication". The president of CWA Canada also weighed in, stating of the ongoing labour dispute: "This has never been about money.
John Boileau (born 1794), author of historical non-fiction (Half-Hearted Enemies: Nova Scotia, New England and the War of 1812, Valiant Hearts: Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross, Halifax and the Royal Canadian Navy, Halifax and Titanic, 6-12-17: The Halifax Explosion) Harry Flemming (1933-2008), journalist, columnist, political pundit
Unlike policing services, Halifax Fire and Emergency (HRFE) is an amalgamation of all fire departments in Halifax County. This created some controversy in rural areas where predominantly volunteer fire companies were being stripped of equipment and trucks which local communities had fund-raised for during the pre-amalgamation period; this equipment was being relocated to service the urban core.
On 1 April 1996, Halifax County was dissolved and all of its places (cities, suburbs, towns, and villages) were turned into communities of a single-tier municipality named Halifax Regional Municipality. Subsequently, Clayton Park and Clayton Park West were both turned into communities within the new Municipality of Halifax.