The prophet in Clayton Park Bill Deagle says he knows things they don’t want you to know about 9/11, the Oklahoma City bombing and other government secrets. Now he lives in suburban Halifax, with an internet radio broadcast and orders from god to get the truth out there. Celine Dion’s cancelled Halifax show After the […]
Barry Dalrymple
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This week at city council
This year, we’re going to ramp up The Coast’s council meeting reporting. Instead of just one or two articles in the “dead tree” paper, expect much more analysis and comment of council proceedings, with a weekly on-line report posted in this space. This will allow me to touch on issues that I’ve previously ignored. This […]
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Who is running for council in District 1: Waverley—Fall River—Musquodoboit Valley?
The district District map: (Click here for a written description of district boundaries.) Candidates Barry Dalrymple Council report card Website Twitter: None Facebook: None Email Steve Streatch Council report card Website Twitter Facebook Email 20 questions from The Coast Meet the human behind the politician: We sent the candidates a questionnaire, asking questions that are […]
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Former cop Dalrymple scared of lone Occupier
City councilor Barry Dalrymple took it upon himself to snuff out a Fall River community discussion group’s choice to invite a speaker from Occupy Nova Scotia to discuss the meaning behind the global movement. Dalrymple, who represents Fall River, sent an email saying he doesn’t object to most of their chosen speakers, but this one […]
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Barry Dalrymple
2010 grade: D- 2009 grade: D If you’re ever looking for the stereotypical disagreeable ex-cop, a guy who chews marbles when he speaks and has no time for sensitive feefees, Barry Dalrymple is your man. Don’t get me wrong: Dalrymple’s put-upon disposition and no-patience-for-fools manner are his good points. But Dalrymple earns a failing grade […]
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Barry Dalrymple’s frightening statements
[image-1] This morning CBC is reporting that councillor Barry Dalrymple, who is a former RCMP cop, wants to wire up each and every councillor to a lie detector machine in order to discover who’s been leaking stuff to the media. Coming from an elected representative, such a suggested expansion of the police state is alarming. But even more alarming is the last sentence of the ceeb report: Dalrymple acknowledges that no one can be forced to take a polygraph test, but after his years of policing he said he has yet to see an innocent person refuse. Hear that? By
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Barry Dalrymple
2010 grade: D- 2009 grade: D Dalrymple is angry: just ask him. By his way of thinking, everything HRM does is purposely designed to screw over the people of Fall River—every recreation plan, every extension of a water line, every road paving contract is, in Dalrymple’s mind, unjustly penalizing the residents of his district, and […]
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Committee votes for slightly smaller council
A subcommittee of Halifax council today voted to make the council smaller– by just three members. The Governance & Boundary Review Committee passed the following motion: MOVED by Councillor Mosher, seconded by Councillor Dalrymple that Halifax Regional Council be reduced to 20 Councillors plus the Mayor with four Community Councils made up of five Districts. […]