Halifax Regional Municipality Essays

  • Citizen Engagement In Halifax Regional Municipality

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    engagement is important for the future of transportation in the Halifax Regional Municipality. Citizen engagement is a process where individuals can participate and delegate public actions and decisions. It integrates the public and allows communities to have a role in policy making. Engagement of citizens is particularly important in regards to aspects of the municipality such as transportation within the Halifax Regional Municipality, HRM. This system directly affects the daily lives of the individuals

  • Basketball in NS

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    from a large and knowledgeable basketball community have made the game a staple of Nova Scotia life, culminating with the capital city of Halifax becoming known as the basketball capital of Canada. When you talk about basketball in the Maritimes you can break it down into different levels of competition. There are the club systems throughout the province, the regional and provincial teams, then high school basketball, then you have to look at intercollegiate basketball, and finally pro basketball that

  • Oak Island Season 4 Analysis

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    Curse of Oak Island Season 4 just came to an end, and all that fans can wonder is if this show will be back for another season or not. Curse of Oak Island has a huge fanbase, but the show hasn't been confirmed for another season just yet. Starcasm shared the details about how the show producer for Curse of Oak Island is speaking out and says that Season 5 will likely happen even though nothing is official for the show just yet. The end of Season 4 of Curse of Oak Island was a bit upsetting for

  • “When Places Becomes Race”: Africville

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    approach that faced most research studies and publications about Africville in the early to mid- twentieth century. The Black community of Africville was understood to be a poor and racialized slum; ultimately key factors in its demise. The city of Halifax viewed it to be their “dump” where all social services were lacking, social conditions declined and a history of poverty was going to be indicative of how the region would be defined in the years before its destruction (Nelson 121-122). It became

  • New Life in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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    On October 2nd, early morning, a flight from JFK International Airport landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I was one of the passengers. At the altitude of 25000 feet, the view I saw was indescribable. I never saw anything like it before. The lights brightly shining upward from the ground, small green trees and the lengthy curved dark roads. It was a dark calm moonless evening. I didn’t expect the scenery to be this spectacular. I was speechless for a moment. As the plane slowly descended to a lower

  • Business Plan: Yo-Good

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    of non-fat frozen yogurt with a dazzling variety of fresh toppings” (Yo-Good: Frozen Yogurt with an Important Difference, 2011) in an all-natural way without the use of artificial sweeteners. Our goal is to bring a Yo-Good franchise to the city of Halifax; a city that we believe is in dire need of great tasting healthy alternatives. The legal form of this business, therefore, would be a franchise. A franchise was chosen in lieu of the formation of a new brand as Yo-Good has successfully established

  • Critical Review of The Old Man Told Us (Excerpts from Micmac History 1500 – 1950)

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    Antoine Simon. “Abbe Maillard a Abbe du Fau, 18 October 1749, Archives du Seminaire de Quebec.” Register of Baptisms in the Church of Port Royal, New France. Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. The Old Man Told Us: Exceprts from Micmac History 1500-1950. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Ltd, 1991.

  • Preserve the Oak Ridges Moraine

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    The Oak Ridges Moraine is one of the last natural areas in southern Ontario which we can preserve for future generations. The Moraine has many natural resources that our city will need for the future. It also is has over nine hundred species of animals, many of which are rare or endangered. Lastly, there are numerous of other places to build homes on without harming twelve thousand years of history. Ruining the beautiful Oak Ridges Moraine would be a mistake because it provides many natural resources

  • Youth Engagement In Canada

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    affect them (Checkoway et al., 2005). Municipalities in Canada understand the importance of engagement and participation of youth in communities (Blanchet-Cohen, 2006). Given the increasing number of youth who reside in cities, it is especially important that municipal governments understand the many realities and perspectives of this part of the greater population (Blanchet-Cohen, 2006). In comparison to the multiple levels of Canadian government, municipalities are of the greatest likelihood to influence

  • Why I Choose To Live In Nova Scotia

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    wife Lavanya, and our loving daughter Saranya. We have plenty of reasons to choose to settle in Nova Scotia permanently and the one that topped the list is – it is really a great place to raise our kid. I was an entrepreneur working with local municipalities as a public works contractor, ended up with huge losses due to the delayed payments and had to wind up the business. Subsequently, I attended Southampton Solent University in England and completed my Master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

  • Vancouver

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    ... ...Free Zone. Aviation Located in Richmond, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is the principal international airport in western Canada and is the second busiest in the nation. As the premier gateway to Asia, it hosts many airlines' regional offices and their flights daily to Asia, Europe, and the United States. Vancouver is the closest air-link to Asia, offering the fastest North American airport with daily flights to the Republic of Korea's Incheon International Airport. Vancouver