QEII Model of health – Chronicle Herald, file

Most Haligonians are aware of recent news stories on the situation with the Province’s plans for hospital expansion on Halifax Common land.  The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal has moved in and started excavations for several massive demolition and rebuilding projects, and apparently it is difficult for anyone, even HRM Councillors to get any information.   (See Waye Mason’s OpEd) This whole situation is far from over, but it’s clear that the Department is acting well beyond any mandate it may have.
A 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between HRM and the Province governed the (more…)