Commentary

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‘One of the nicest areas in the west end’

Hazelwood rezoning is axed. Sheffield Estates is safe for now. Tom Davis gets sworn in. Truth and reconciliation is formalized, and density increases, one micro unit at a time. 

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Building safer communities. Inertia when a motion dies. A nordic spa, maybe. Child care and dog hair. Ward 4 by-election. Hickman is a poet and he knows it.

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Our snow days are numbered

Last week’s snow lingers on. The poet laureate visits. A new mid-rise on Harvey Rd. A take-out-dream deferred on Hamilton Ave. Keeping St. Clare’s close. 

One fish, two fish, redfish, dead wish

Something fishy’s going on, and Andrew Furey and Gudie Hutchings should be getting us answers.

A shared sense of snow

Remembering Snowmageddon. A desire for daycares. The importance of diverse housing types. New standards for old churches. Getting serious about harm reduction.

Commercial redfish fishery to reopen, but pending quota threatens to push some fishers out

Harvesters in Newfoundland and Labrador preparing for the worst.