On behalf of my friends involved with Awesome Halifax, I'm posting this email here.  This is a great idea, great bunch of people, that really is making Halifax more awesome:

Please forward this email to people who may have a great idea, who may want to invest or would like to attend.

http://awesomehalifax.com/new-ideas-market
http://awesomefoundation.org/chapters/halifaxideas

What: A partnership of Awesome Halifax, the Halifax Chamber of Commerce and The Hub, The Awesome Ideas Market is exactly that...a bustling market of ideas where there are sellers and buyers!

Who: The event is open to folks with business, not-for-profit and social enterprise ideas at any stage of development. We're happy to accept ideas that range from those still in your head to ones that actually have an existing structure around them. BUT, note that this event is specific to ideas in the three identified areas. Got an idea that falls outside of this? Submit your idea here.

There are two complimentary planning processes going on right now that will impact the way District 7 changes and grows over the next twenty-five years.

One is the five-year review of the Regional Plan, RP+5, and the other is the Centre Plan which applies to peninsular Halifax and Dartmouth inside the circumferential.

It is really important that residents take a moment to participate in these processes, either through sending an email, filling in a survey, or attending meetings.  How Halifax grows and what kind of heights and density we are going to encourage are being decided by these processes.

HRM Council made the wrong decision when it announced cuts to ferry service when it passed the Metro Transit budget.  We need HRM Council to invest in transit in the core, where it makes sense and has ridership, not cut services to fund expensive rural transit.

The decision is being justified using ridership numbers and cost saving numbers that mislead people by not placing the ferry service in context.