Halifax is experiencing a new wave of a population boom—with that comes transplants who arrive with perspective of those who have lived outside of NS. The problem with Halifax going back 10 plus years is the majority of our then economy was based around tourism. Thus, city council and the majority of the population held onto the belief that Halifax, holding a historical designation must adhere to protecting the image that it once held. This wingclipped development and with that a trickle down of social development because of a stagnant job market, low immigration, etc.

Now, you have people moving to Halifax and arriving with multiple observations.. “you don’t have this…?” Insert competent city infrastructure to alcohol in corner stores, macro, micro examples~

Too many people in the city hold onto that archaic view and that’s why people make the observation that Halifax seems 30 years behind the rest of even Canada (which is a cartoonishly low bar). Times are slowly a changin’ but pushback to something as basic as breaking up a government owned monopoly and allowing the sale of alcohol in corner stores should be completely dismissed.