Now that Shannon Park has been sold, and according to news sources the final decision on its status has been handed to city council, the need-for-a-stadium mouthbreathers will increase their push to further bankrupt us. We are already building a white elephant of a convention centre, now to complete the set—and to show the rest of Canada that we are a world-class city (turns head to side and vomits)—we have to have another waste of money. My apologies to the overly sensitive by the use of the word white, when I know all elephants are grey. -Rasputin
This article appears in Apr 24-30, 2014.
now now , not all are grey, some are pink & or pigmentally challenged. Those are the ones they call white .
But seriously for humans , unless you are truly albino is anyone else actually white ?
Talk about a Potemkin Village. A glittery convention center overlooking potholed streets and boarded up storefronts where the sober fear to tread after sundown. A 3/4 empty stadium with a 50/50 chance of the game being called for fog.
Shows how well our esteemed city managers listened to the people’s voices and then go ahead just like they never heard them….or cared for their concerns.
Yes, because after all, we are all so fully qualified on governing our own city.
more lighthouses!
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/2081152256/h6…
The Shannon Park file was bungled from day one when it was closed down in 2004. It was perfect to increase low income housing as the buildings at the time were in good shape though a bit dated. So what happened? The PM at the time Paul Martin and the MP for the area, Mike Savage (does that name ring a bell) did absolutely nothing and as a result we have a bunch of decrepit buildings that will cost a fortune to tear down.
“further bankrupt us”?
Uh, perhaps you should look into HRM’s finances. I was certain Halifax was in the black. *shrug*
Memo to PK the word black is verboten.
All you naysayers are exactly what is wrong with this province. Instead of accepting development and change it’s ALWAYS “NO!!! That’s going to cost too much money!!!”
Monorail or solid gold statue of the “Dig ‘Em” frog?
Giant water slide into the ‘clean’ harbour?
AN APPROPRIATELY FITTING SITE
“Now that Shannon Park has been sold, and according to news sources the final decision on its status has been handed to city council, the need-for-a-stadium mouthbreathers will increase their push to further bankrupt us.” Rasputin
There can be little doubt that the site for the new sports stadium will be appropriately fitted-to-purpose. There are two reasons for this.
While at university in Halifax one of my summer jobs was driving the airport limousine. Depending on the volume of customers, there was the standard sedan accommodating two or three of the more well-heeled types or, alternatively, a small van seating about a dozen individuals who lacked any other means of getting to the airport. There were a number of stops from the company’s headquarters located next to Hillcrest Motors at the top of an obscure, dead-end street next to the red-brick Saint David’s church which, in the same way, belonged to an equally obscure Protestant sect. The Halifax stops included the usual respectable hotels but then came the hair-raising run over the Angus L. Macdonald bridge down into the murky bowels of Dartmouth itself.
Mercifully, no memories survive of the depressing, nondescript downtown stops in central Dartmouth. (Does it have a center?) However, on exiting the barrens of Dartmouth proper one entered that bleak horror, Shannon Park. There was something of the gulag about Shannon Park, and not just the stark huts which housed the naval “other ranks.” The place seemed devoid of men. Only the hard-bitten hags with their cigarette hanging out of their mouths and their muddy spawn tugging at their shapeless coast gave evidence of human habitation. What better place, then, to bulldoze the gulag and build a sports stadium?
A sports stadium, of course, houses sports fans, that cretinous collection of half-wits with their reversed caps and the names of their heroes stencilled on the back of their team’s jerseys, bellowing their approval or disdain as the occasion warrants. “We are number one!” they stupidly scream, holding up their index fingers when their team scores or, alternatively, placing paper bags over their heads when their team is scored against. These are unquestionably the “untermensch” of society, the flotsam, the “lumpenproletariat,” the dregs of a mindless, rootless society. They are, of course, the natural successors to the previous inhabitants of that Erewhon-on-the-hill and so there can be little doubt that Shannon Park, in all its degraded glory, is the obvious site for the new stadium. It must be something in the air.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
It’ll bring in wrestlers and business men – both of which I find attractive so I’m a go…
public baths, really nice ones with marble columns.
Shannon wasn’t even connected to H l i f x water so what generous developer would kick in for that to open a low-wage earner shithole?
They could erect a giant statue of Saint Joan Jessome overlooking the harbour, bullhorn in one hand and large double double in the other?
Those of us who will still be alive 20 years from now are gonna need jobs and that means building SOMETHING. I’m not saying we should necessarily build a convention centre or a stadium but we do need something. Don’t we?