Fight for Funding

News coverage of the Greater Halifax Arts Coalition’s opposition to cuts to arts funding.

• Feb 12 – CBC Mainstreet (Radio): Coalition organizes over possible 55% cut to arts funding at city hall
• Feb 16 – Global News (TV): City Proposes Cuts to Arts Funding
• Feb 17 – The Coast (Print): Halifax might be about to become one of the worst-funded city for the arts
• Feb 17 – CBC Mainstreet (Radio): Members of Halifax art community weigh in on proposed budget cut
• Feb 17 – CTV News (TV): Arts groups urge Halifax council to keep funding
• Feb 17 – CTV News (Print): ‘We’ll loose our jobs’: Arts, culture groups urge Halifax council to reject funding cuts
• Feb 17 – SaltWire (Print): Funding cuts would be ‘absolutely reckless’: Halifax artists
• Feb 17 – Youtube: Full HRM Budget Committee meeting recording
  [Time marker at 1:16:34 for presentation by Sébastien Labelle, ED of the Bus Stop Theatre Co-op]
  
• Feb 21 – The Coast (Print): How cutting Halifax’s police budget could save the arts
• Feb 22 – Halifax Examiner (Print): Halifax councillors look to increase, not cut, arts funding
• Feb 22 – The Todd Vienotte Show (Radio): February 22 10am – Sebastien Labelle, Bus Stop Theatre
• Feb 23 – CityNews (Print): Council now plans to increase arts funding, not cut it
• Feb 23 – Global News (TV): Halifax budget committee approves increase to arts funding, rejects cuts