Nova ScotiaBoston’s newly re-elected mayor, Michelle Wu, met with Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore on Tuesday at city hall before they attended Halifax’s Remembrance Day ceremony. Wu is in the province on a four-day trip that comes amid ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Wu, Fillmore discussed trade and the generational friendship between Bostonians and Nova ScotiansMolly MacNaughton · CBC News · Posted: Nov 11, 2025 2:43 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore met in Halifax to talk amid U.S.-Canada trade tensions. (Molly MacNaughton/CBC)The mayors of Boston and Halifax cited the cities’ long-standing relationship and the friendship between Bostonians and Nova Scotians when they met in the province’s capital on Tuesday.Boston’s newly re-elected mayor, Michelle Wu, and Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore had discussions at city hall before they moved outside to attend Halifax’s annual Remembrance Day service at Grand Parade.“Our relationship between Halifax and Boston is forged in history and in hard times, and it is strengthened by generation upon generation and strengthened by tradition,” Fillmore said to reporters at a media availability before the ceremony.“We’re here to celebrate that today and also reflect on the shared sacrifices of our veterans through many, many conflicts around the world.”Wu is in the province on a four-day trip that comes amid ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada. She has been in Nova Scotia since Sunday meeting with local officials, including the Halifax Port Authority and the Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub.She said it was important to be here this year “to bring a direct thanks on behalf of the people of Boston” and to emphasize the important relationship between the two cities as an economic driver.“As mayor of a local community, I am unfortunately having to push back and outright fight against so many of the actions of our own federal government in court and every day in the lives of our residents,” Wu said.”And so for me, this is a chance to make clear that the people of Boston feel very differently about the people of Halifax and the relationship that we have than it might seem from our federal politics in America at this moment.” Wu will attend a ceremony Wednesday morning in Martins River, N.S., when a 13.7-metre white spruce selected as Nova Scotia’s 2025 Tree for Boston is cut down.The province sends a huge Christmas tree to Boston each year as a present to the city for providing medical personnel and supplies to Nova Scotia in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion on Dec. 6, 1917.Wu is the first Boston mayor to attend the Tree for Boston tree cutting.A tree-lighting ceremony for the white spruce will take place at the Boston Common on Dec. 4. MORE TOP STORIESABOUT THE AUTHORMolly MacNaughton is a news reporter and associate producer. She’s currently taking her Master of Journalism at the University of King’s College. For story ideas contact her at molly.macnaughton@cbc.ca
Boston, Halifax mayors highlight strength of cities’ relationship on Remembrance Day
