Fight Poverty: Downtown Halifax

fight poverty: Savage says he'll work for diversity Mike Savage wants Halifax to be a 'better city' — not just a bigger one The final aim Growing Halifax into a city of 550,000 people by 2031, up from about 400,000 today, according to The Chronicle Herald. If you're asking what I'd like the next four years to look like, it will be a continuation of progressive leadership of one of the strongest cities in the country, Savage told the Chronicle Herald. Now entering his second term, Savage is also determined to slash red tape stifling businesses, build more sustainable transit, fight poverty and homelessness, and oversee the continued revival of downtown Halifax. Recent numbers back up his optimism: Halifax boasted Canada second-fastest-growing city economy, beaten only by Vancouver, according to Conference Board of Canada statistics released in March. While shipbuilding has long been an economic mainstay, real estate, construction, banking and commerce, service industries, telecoms, beer-brewing and tourism are also major industries in Halifax. Halifax projected growth of 2.9 per cent was at the time predicated on the building of new Arctic patrol vessels. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.