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The report into making donairs Halifax’s official food is finally returning to regional council, and it’s some pretty weak sauce.
“Staff has no recommendation,” reads the thin report.
Maggie MacDonald, managing director of government relations and external affairs, writes that council can direct mayor Mike Savage to make a proclamation declaring donairs our official food, but that will have no actual legal effects.
“In the absence of detailed staff analysis, including consideration of supporting process to identify and evaluate other official foods or other official features, staff would not put forward a recommendation for a proclamation.”
Some other levels of government do have more defined procedures to thrust “official” statuses upon whatever’s lying around. The province, for instance, has an official tree (red spruce), fossil (Hylonomus lyelli), horse (Sable Island’s) and dog (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever).
Councillor Linda Mosher had originally wanted to make it official with donairs while forgoing the need for a staff report. As that goes against procedure, a motion for a report was instead passed during council’s October 20 meeting—but not without some debate.
“When I first heard about this…the person that talked to me basically laughed at me that council would be talking about donairs,” councillor Bill Karsten said. “When we talk about wanting to be recognized as a level of government, then quite frankly, in my humble opinion, we need to act like one.”
Regional council will meet this Tuesday to discuss the report, at which time the beautiful dream of donairs as Halifax’s official food may evaporate like so much milk.
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2015.
NO FUN FOR HALIFAX. FUCK FUN. THIS ISN’T A CITY OF FUN ITS A CITY OF ‘PAY ME A BRIBE & SURVIVE’, goddamnit!
who gives a flying fuck? Donairs are sloppy, and greasy, perhaps Saint John will adopt it as their emblem instead.
thank god we have councillors like Bill Karsten and Waye Mason who were against this.
Rare for me to be on the same page as Bill Karsten. Linda Mosher has too much time on her hands and seems to be paid too much. Maybe we need even fewer councillors if they can be this frivolous.
No, Halifax doesn’t give a fuck about a fuckign donair. I don’t. They don’t. But will someone please unseat Linda Fucking Snow White Donair Loving Mosher? What a waste of a seat! Those who elected her should be ashamed of themselves…
“Staff has no recommendation,” reads the thin report.
Thin?? It’s 43-freakin’ pages! What a waste of resources and to top it off no recommendation.
It’s 43 pages, Al, but 40 of those are just the same article clippings and Google searches Linda Mosher brought to council in October (give or take a few new articles about this whole endeavor).
Hahaha! That’s even worse! Staff time to create a report – be it typed or full of sad GIFs – is a waste of time. You could send me to the store to get office supplies; it would take an hour. It would cost my employer about $26 in staff time…
Found this link near the bottom of the report. Kinda funny.
http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/halifax-is-…
If the councillors want to show that they are fun they can start by downloading Tourrette’s malware into that talking helltree out in Suckville.