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Thanks to the Freedom of Information laws, I just got a copy of the contract the city signed for last September’s Rolling Stones concert. As you’d imagine, it’s 18 pages of non-stop excitement. But somehow the three biggest highlights all occur on the first page (pictured), including highlight 1: The cost of renting the Common […]

Our laywers wanted us to mention that this picture in no way implies anything about any particular chain of grocery stores, and/or their affiliates. Nor does it imply that said chain has been taking advantage of subliminal marketing techniques for lo’ these many years. But it is pretty funny. Cheers to the reader who sent […]

While waiting for the bus on Saturday (one of my least favourite things to do) I was briefly amused by a moment of intrigue. Or, maybe it was confusion. But regardless of what I was struck with, here’s what happened. A guy who was also waiting for a bus was passing the time by clipping […]

I found out quite a few random facts whilst working on my part of the “Ways to Make our City Better Now” article. Most of these didn’t really fit into my articles, but I found them interesting regardless, and figured I’d use my next few blog entries to share them. Today’s Item— As a fairly […]

When I typed in my complaint about City Hall to test the city’s graffiti responders, I said “There are two metal doors on the Barrington Street side. Both of the doors are covered with graffiti. One piece shows a gun.” Whoever painted over the first door used the same grey paint to touch up door […]

I’ll admit it, I thought Scott Brison had better chances this weekend than the ever luvin’ Halifax Regional Municipality. On Thursday around noon, I used the city’s new online graffiti hotline to report some tags on municipal property. Namely, City Hall. I was sure the city would take more than the promised three days to […]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061127.NATIONCAMPBELL27/TPStory/?query=Gordon+Campbell This article printed in the Globe and Mail on November 27th, 2006 really drives me. I think it’s really nice of Gordon Campbell to give some props to First Nations people (what a guy!), and take away the attention from the Quebecoise for a minute. But I think he’s rather presumptuous to say that […]

I’m really, really, really in favour of the province’s smoke-free legislation – banning smoking in all indoor public areas, workplaces and outdoor restaurant/bar patios – which officially takes effect Dec. 1. But I’m not sure that I understand the oddly worded press release announcing a photo op of Health Promotion and Protection Minister Barry Barnet […]

I’ve spent the last week woebegone, and Fred Willardless. I’ve been anticipating the release of For Your Consideration (the latest offering from the good people who brought us A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, and my favorite of the lot, Best in Show) for many, many months. Last Friday, the film arrived in Halifax. “At […]

The new Graffiti Management Plan is pathetic for a bunch of reasons. I go into some of those reasons in today’s UpFront column; I’m going to test another one of them right here. I think the city’s stated response times to graffiti complaints, slow as they may be, are still too fast for the city […]