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Originally Posted by KnoxfordGuy
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Great article.
Agree with what Mark said earlier about needing to plan for growth.
But I think that's an excellent problem to have, given that forever, Halifax (and NS) had serious aging population problems. New Canadians and migrants from within Province are mitigating that concern.
One interesting part of the story, is that the Alberta energy industry's weakness has arguably been Halifax's gain. 15% of the population growth in Halifax last year came from within NS.
Historically, those people would move out west for jobs rather than moving to Halifax. It's basically a part of our provincial mythology -- for politicians here, it's always been more PC to let rural Nova Scotians move to Alberta than to tell them to move to Halifax, otherwise Halifax is thus
These attitudes have often been reflected in bad provincial and federal policy that has discouraged urban migration in Nova Scotia that has more naturally occurred in other provinces and significant benefited cities and economic growth within those provinces overall (innovation, growth, and the future is in cities, unfortunately).
Finally, Halifax is benefiting, despite enduring anti-Halifax attitudes among dingbat NS politicians of all parties. And the City we're doing a decent job accommodating this growth with better/smarter leadership (Savage) and a and more astute Councillors compared to historically, though I still think there is too many sprawlparks and too much NIMBYism and anti-Torontoism among Halifax residents, City bureaucrats, and planning more generally. That is, some fear that if we allow more density and height all of a sudden we're going to turn into Toronto.
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Though somewhat ironically this type of situation has the potential to turn Halifax into the very kind of place that people are trying to get away from, if growth happens too quickly.
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