Update, 2 September, 2009: Coast listings editor Holly Gordon has discovered Duffy’s “raped by a ghost” columns archived, here. I often dream of doing an April Fool’s Day all-satire version of The Coast, with utterly ridiculous articles throughout. Problem is, reality trumps anything we could come up with. Today, there’s this news: A former columnist […]
Peter Kelly
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How the sewage plant broke
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] Halifax’s new sewage treatment plant was turned on in February 2008, and it seemed to fulfill its promised intentions immediately. All you had to know was that parts of the […]
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Council’s disaster tourism
Last Friday, city officials gave reporters a tour of the Halifax Wastewater Treatment Plant. It was the first public look at the plant since if failed the morning of January 14. The tour was led by mayor Peter Kelly, Carl Yates of the Water Commission and plant manager Rory MacNeil (pictured above). Councillor Jerry Blumenthal […]
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Enough of Kelly & Co.
To the editor, I would like to thank Tim for a job well done. It’s a well-researched article on Peter Kelly’s sewage disaster. It apalls me to think that my nose is right and my tax dollars are down the drain—at $333 million and climbing. I work next to the harbour at a large public […]
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Peter Kelly wears the sewage disaster
[Editor’s note: this story is one of five Coast articles selected as finalists for the 2010 Atlantic Journalism Awards. All five stories are collected here.] “It’s a frustration,” allows Peter Kelly. Throughout a half-hour interview in his City Hall office, Kelly seems genuinely pained by the course of events related to Halifax’s failed sewage treatment […]
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Audio: Listen to reporters grill Peter Kelly on sewage plant secrecy
After today’s council meeting, myself, Metro reporter Kristen Lipscomb and Chronicle-Herald reorter Michael Lightstone grilled mayor Peter Kelly on the city’s continued secrecy in relation to the sewage plant failure. Council had just received a report from the Halifax Water Commission stating that a preliminary report explaining the failure was ready, and would be presented […]
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Just in time for tourism season: floatables in Halifax Harbour again
CBC: First a sewage treatment plant failed, and now the Halifax Regional Municipality is giving up on attempts to screen out solids from flowing into the harbour. About 80 million litres of wastewater has been flowing into Halifax harbour every day since January, when a sewage treatment plant malfunctioned and flooded following a power outage. […]
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Peter Kelly, Mayor
Phone: 490-4010 Grade this year: C- Grade last year: D Peter Kelly has a knack for getting his indecisive personality caught up in events, you gotta hand him that. Last summer, for example, he told the Chamber of Commerce that thanks to the new sewer plant, the harbour was clean enough to swim in. “Really?” […]
Posted inArts + Music
Peter Kelly wants to give artists $$
We’re a little weary from all this recession talk (being the arts, a portfolio has a slightly different meaning and weight), but we do like cash. Especially when it’s a well-deserved award. Like the new $25,000 Mayor’s Award in Contemporary Visual Art. Halifax Regional Municipality is “sponsoring a competition and purchase program for emerging and […]
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HRM 2008: meh-mories
January After Ellen Page appears on the David Letterman Show, CBC’s Information Morning convinces a parade of Nova Scotian personalities, including fiddle-playing premier Rodney MacDonald, to invite Letterman to the province. Letterman turns down the offer.| A private company making deliveries for KFC refuses to deliver to Uniacke Square, saying the neighbourhood is “too dangerous.” […]
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Best Candidate For Mayor
Last year Sheila Fougere won this category, just as she announced she was running for the job. This year Coast Readers chose Kelly, and as we all know, the man from Bedford will stay at his post for a third term. Does this mean that if the election had been held in October 2007, we’d […]
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The forgotten election
Dan Leger doesn’t mince words. The school board elections? “Roadkill,” he says. The director of news content—editor to the rest of us—at the Halifax Herald makes no apologies, either. “We’re a business,” he says. There simply isn’t room to provide the kind of coverage of school board campaigns that could help voters decide who would […]