An Interesting look at Halifax's future from The Coast:

Ask the right people, and you’ll discover Halifax is about to get a lot bigger. Looking at recent statistics, the population of HRM rose from 359,111 in 2001 to 390,096 in 2011. That's an average growth rate of nearly 1% every year. While past performance is no guarantee of future results, at that rate we're looking at around 407,000 people by 2020 and 453,000 by 2031. But according to the Halifax Partnership, those numbers are low.

The “economic development organization,” is targeting a population of 550,000 by 2031, up from today’s 390,000. However that’s 15 years out, the “anything is possible” realm. In the short term, three-an d-a-bit years from now, the Partnership—with support from mayor Mike Savage—wants to grow the city to 470,000 people by 2020. That's a growth rate of 1.7% every year. Getting ready for that kind of growth is the subject of the Centre Plan, which is the subject of our latest video explainer: You can watch it here before reading the rest of the story.

For more see Growing Halifax without messing it up