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I think the situation is pretty much unchanged. Stadium aside, Halifax would work far better as a CFL city because it is much larger. If it did get a CFL-sized stadium then Moncton would be dropped, but until there is a stadium Halifax is a non-starter.

Moncton could get a team but it still needs a CFL-capable stadium and team owners with money. Moncton's current stadium and games do constitute a head start of sorts but the reality is that if Halifax builds any stadium it will probably leapfrog what Moncton has, because the budget is in the $60M+ range. It is a binary situation where either Halifax will build the stadium or not. The only advantage Moncton has is that it is better positioned in the future to build the full-sized stadium. Halifax doesn't necessarily need to follow the same sequence of steps.

Halifax hasn't built a stadium because there's been approximately zero political leadership on the issue. HRM regional council often makes bad decisions and the different councillors all pull in different directions so they are not very good at seeing substantial projects through to completion. Back in 2005 or so there was more direction for the Commonwealth Games but since that was bungled nobody has really taken ownership of the stadium issue. More recently, the women's FIFA tournament thing was a joke. We may see things change in October when a new mayor and a new, smaller council are voted in.