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Exploring the built Environment in Halifax NS. from the Mind that brought you @hfxshippingnews

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@uytaelee Developers look to make a 100% return minimum. Missing middle projects are probably too small for most developers, and the folks who might do them as one offs probably can’t do 20%down.

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@DenySully The province took over the responsibility for providing public housing at amalgamation, and have built 0 new units since. Even if the city raised taxes to build affordable housing, it’s not permitted to do so.

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some of the oldest footage of crews responding to a fire, and there is some dumbass, in the way and oblivious.

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

3. No one's sure how it started. Maybe faulty wiring or a stove.

Whatever it was, the flames spread quickly. Soon, every firefighter in the city was desperately trying to contain the blaze.

There's even footage—the oldest film we have of Toronto (via Library & Archives Canada):

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Great Thread.

[Adam Bunch @TODreamsProject]

1. On this night 119 years ago, Toronto burned.

Here's a thread about The Great Fire of 1904 — and the strange, grisly tale of the one life it claimed...

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@Tim_Bousquet @HalifaxWater i think its the same break, just with a more precise location in the newer tweet. That location suggests its one of the large feed pipes, and could be well over 100 years old

https://t.co/smR3cWUbeP

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@RCAF_TACNAV @ArchInAcadie @sharongenest the developer could have applied to demolish the building when they proposed the project, then been able to do it 2 years after the permit was denied as of right. If the developer wanted it gone, there was a path to that, easier then dropping it.

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@spcushing @MatthewHalliday I believe that’s what they call the engineers report.

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@MatthewHalliday @spcushing iirc condos require an engineers report every 5 years addressing coming maintenance issues.

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@AwesomeBiota that would likely be a Queen Anne Revival.

[Omar Gandhi Architects @omargandhi]

Stick with it kids.

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@kyleifax @HfxShippingNews Good Eye!

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Crappy day, but I found intact earthworks and building remains at the Purcell’s Cove HAA site

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@MikeKilfoil @aetotten have any photos of that emplacement?

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The WWII Air defences of Halifax. https://t.co/eG8vMUtcWK This is a very rough post (images are massive, text incomplete)but to good not to share

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@aetotten yes, i have seen that site.

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@KidinaSandbox besides the issue Canada lacks ground based Air Defence, Missiles have replaced guns since the late 1950's

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@aetotten care to share your notes? im super interested in the Temporary wartime stuff, that largely seems forgotten..

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@prpartington Thank you! i see the video is posted as well https://t.co/7bfIO6pqiG

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Anyone know where the WW I trenches in long lake park are?

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@DawnChiasson someone lead a tour of the area years ago, but i couldn't attend.

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@katieyingram that area has mostly developed according to that plan.. though the green space across novalea from merv sullivan is apartments.