Hurricane Earl information statement issued by the canadian Hurricane centre of Environment Canada at 9.11 AM ADT Tuesday 31 August 2010.

This is a preliminary statement regarding future impact of hurricane Earl in Eastern Canada.

Based on the large-scale weather pattern and computer models.. Hurricane Earl will likely play a role in the weather over Eastern Canada in the Friday to Sunday timeframe. There remains a broad range of future tracks for hurricane Earl which is now north Of Puerto Rico and moving northwest. The range of possible track scenarios are as far west as Maine to as far east as eastern Newfoundland. Thus..It is too early to describe details of potential Impacts..But important to realize that a storm of this nature Affecting land would bring heavy rains..Strong winds..And Large waves. Regular 6-hourly forecasts from the CHC will commence Today at 3 PM Atlantic time. As time goes on..We will provide increasing level of detail as is appropriate.

At this point..Probabilistic computer models show a 40 percent Chance of tropical storm-force winds (about 70 km/h) over Western Nova Scotia by the weekend. The probability of hurricane-force winds Over land is low at this time since we are still about 4 days away.. But we will have more information on that in our afternoon technical discussion.

The primary message at this point is to stay tuned for updated Forecasts under this header and the CHC website..And to note That the Friday to Sunday timeframe is the period of impact or closest approach to Eastern Canada.

Former AP reporter, features writer Loh dies at 79
By RICHARD PYLE (AP) – 13 hours ago

NEW YORK — For most of his four decades as a reporter, Jules Edward Loh traveled the United States, reaching every state and using his honeyed Georgia accent to charm his way into the hearts, minds and lives of Americans, famous and obscure.

To write "Lords of the Earth," a 1971 book about the Navajo Indians of Arizona, he became so close to tribal elders that they named him Poputiney, meaning "Many Pencils." Back in New York, his irreverent colleagues at The Associated Press dubbed him "Loh, the poor Indian."

Despite numerous journalism awards by the time he retired in 1997, Loh said of himself, "I am a reporter, period. They can chisel that on my gravestone."

“We didn’t get a lot of information on the issue at council,” Hum says. She has concerns that the medical waste and chemicals in biosolids may not be fully accounted for in testing, and could cause harm. Last week she requested a staff report on the issue, including explanations of how Dunbrack was chosen, how the product is tested, why the public wasn’t better informed, other potential uses for biosolids---particularly using it as an alternative energy source---and potential risks.

Hum says the Dunbrack application was in-line with provincial rules, so staff believed the decision was “operational versus policy-oriented,” meaning public discussion wasn’t required. She adds that using HRM sewage locally “is in line with not shipping out our waste.”

Richard MacLellan, acting manager of the Sustainable Environment Management Office, will present the report to council September 28. “Staff will probably recommend parameters of use that would satisfy community, health and environmental needs,” MacLellan says. Dunbrack Street was the latest in a series of low-key test sites for biosolids. “We were trying to be the least controversial we could be, but obviously we weren’t successful.”

Councillor Steve Streatch, not known for agreeing with environmentalists, is also concerned. “I don’t think it should be so close to the urban centre,” Streatch says. “It’s not the safety; it’s the ick factor.” He adds that, now that farmers have been conditioned to use biosolids, their “source’ll dry up” if it is used instead to generate energy.

Lise Leblanc, N-Viro’s hired consultant, confirms that as much as two-thirds of HRM biosolids could be used as a lower-emissions energy source producing half the energy as an equivalent amount of coal. “So far we’ve done six tests and they’ve all gone really well,” she says. “But even if we used 100 percent for energy it would be a drop in the bucket for Nova Scotia Power.”

The union is going public with its drive today, Thursday, because “we’re trying to pressure Securitas to honour its agreement,” says SEIU organizer David Bush. In 2006, Securitas signed an international agreement with unions committing the company to neutrality during unionization drives, and said it would provide unions with necessary employee information and provide a neutral setting for union organizers to meet with prospective members. (Read that agreement here.)

Before he left his home town, he worked on a little old boat taking holidaymakers on trips to catch mackerel.

Guy Barnett returned in style aboard a £100million superyacht.

The Mail says that the couple was married "Friday in a marquee at the Risley mansion in Chester on the south coast of Nova Scotia. Around 150 guests attended the 'low-key' event and were entertained by a live band." But, says a person who was tangentially involved with the event, there was nothing "low key" about it at all; any excess you could think of was rolled out, and the night ended with an overly long fireworks display.

Incidentally, while the Northern Star is in Dartmouth, England, its sister ship, the Northern Light, is docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Or was, anyway, as of Wednesday night. That boat was just sold for a measly €24.9 million.

Now, enough of your surfing the internet, and get back to working to pay back that student loan!

By no means is that relationship absolute---there are lots and lots of factors that help determine voter turnout, ranging from the importance of the issues in play to the strength of local voting tradition to the personalities of the candidates to the weather on election day. But looking at the evidence, it is apparent that size of district is an important variable.

Bobby O'Keefe of the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies looked at information his organization has collected and came to much the same conclusion. You can read his analysis of ten Canadian cities with populations between 200,000 and 500,000 here. For a larger database of Canadian cities, click here.

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• Middle Sackville councillor Brad Johns.

Rules for motions of rescission are laid out in council's rules of procedures:

56A (1) After a matter has been decided in the affirmative, a member, at any subsequent meeting, may give notice of motion of rescission.
(2) At the next meeting of Council, the giver of such notice, or in that member’s absence, any other member on the member’s behalf, may put the motion of rescission.
(3) A motion of rescission is debatable.
(4) A motion of rescission shall be passed by a majority vote.

So unless Johns thinks he can change someone's vote, it's unclear why he's bothering.

The queen of the Shambhala Buddhist community gave birth to a baby girl Wednesday morning in Halifax.

The old guard brought a lot of good to Halifax, and their dissent continues to sometime boil over the top in the Shambhala community, such as with the recent establishment of Radio Free Shambala. As of today, however, the dissenters have not commented on the arrival of a new princess.

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• What the phrase "United Airlines flight to Canada" makes Americans think of.

“I bought a $5 dollar shirt, and I’m wearing my grandmother’s shorts and some flip-flops,” said Erickson of Wichita, who said she has contacted United Airlines multiple times in the last few days. “My biggest problem is all the time I’ve spent on this when I could have been visiting with my grandmother.”