Category: Halifax

Ottawa is spending $66 million to build a new armoury for the Army Reserve.

Construction has already begun at Willow Park and is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018. The new armoury will include administration and training facilities, an outdoor compound for military vehicle fleets and facilities for storing and maintaining equipment.

Meanwhile upgrades continue at the old Armoury across from the Common.

Halifax police say more study is needed to determine why visible minorities, particularly blacks, are overrepresented in street check data.

Data was released by the force after a Freedom of Information request by the CBC.  As a result of that, the force went over data dating back even further and found blacks were stopped on the street and checked by officers about three times more than their percentage of the population. The Department says it’s conducting a deeper analysis of the data to determine what’s behind the disproportionality.