Through the end of June, the Port of Halifax reported a 19.6 percent decline in business from the same period last year. But today, citing unnamed sources, allnovascotia.com reports that figures from July show that port business is down still more– 20.2 percent, compared to the same period last year. And: More alarming is that […]
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The best Halifax election site ever
Is of course, at The Coast: here. Kudos to our web editor, Andy Murdoch, who has brought a veritable ton of information together in a readable and interesting fashion.
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Rodney MacDonald’s non-existent environmental policies
The Ecology Action Centre “applauds” premier Rodney MacDonald in a press release issued this morning, for MacDonald’s participation in the New England Governors / Eastern Canadian Premiers meetings held in Bar Harbor, Maine this week. The govs and premiers approved a Transportation and Air Quality Action Plan, with the following commitments: By 2020, at least […]
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Fire boat accident
Chronicle: A CALIFORNIA-MADE boat the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service had planned to buy despite warnings from local boat builders flipped on its third day of test runs Wednesday, briefly dumping eight men into Halifax Harbour. The 8.5-metre, 500-horsepower boat overturned in perfect conditions about 150 metres from a Dartmouth coast guard pier where […]
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Be it resolved…
Given the number of candidates in this upcoming federal election who’ve already had to suddenly slink off in disgrace because videos had surfaced showing them driving while doping, or skinny-dipping while (or while not) erect, or blathering mindlessly in their blogs about how gays and women must begin packing heat to protect themselves from predators…; […]
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iVote: Can electronic voting save democracy?
The three weeks from October 14 to November 4 are something of an election marathon: The Canadian federal election is October 14, Nova Scotians elect their municipal councillors and school board members October 18 and the US elections, when Americans vote for president, all congressional positions, a third of the Senate and a host of […]
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The joke’s on us
So Gerry Ritz a made stupid, tasteless, offensive joke. Two actually. Is that any reason for Stephen Harper to fire him? My answer would be no. Most of us—well, me at least; thee may be more pure—have, in the heat of an overheated moment, or in a moment of frustration, or in the inevitably mistaken […]
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Death by a thousand polls
How many thousands (millions?) of dollars will Canadian news organizations spend polling public opinion in the leadup to the October 14 federal election? How much of that would have been better spent explaining the concepts and relative merits of competing environmental policies like the carbon tax or cap-and-trade emissions policies so the public opinion they […]
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CBC Radio Information Morning
I’ll be on CBC Radio One’s Information Morning, Thursday in the 7am to 8am hour. This is the the second of what I hope will be a semi-regular gig with CBC’s Pam Berman, discussing the municipal election.
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Airport screw-up
Talk about putting lipstick on a pig… this is a press release from the airport: Two Parking Facility Precast Columns being replacedNo significant construction delays expectedHalifax, N.S. – Two of the recently-erected precast concrete columns at Halifax Stanfield International Airport’s new 23-hundred space parking facility are being replaced. No significant delays are expected in the […]
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Young council candidates
I don’t have any problem with young people running for council—there are a heck of a lot of young people in this city that need representation, and the older crowd isn’t much taking them into account, so why not? What I have a problem with is young people running for council who merely mouth the […]
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The Big Lie from Citizens for Halifax
Sure, everyone tries to spin events to their best effect, but this statement: Malcolm Fraser, chairman of an area community group that’s been publicly critical of city hall, said his organization was hoping to see “more candidates, or more options, for the citizens of the city to have for (regional) council, the school board and […]
