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Karma and Carla.
Submitted by Paris a la Mode blog on 07.28.10 at 7:19am.
Recently I had the opportunity to meet with an exceptional person while staying at a hotel in Atlantic Canada. Not the hotel manager, not the restaurant server, not the bartender...but the individual in housekeeping. On my recent travels within Nova Scotia, I met Carla who was responsible for o...
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Is the boy better off?
Submitted by Stephen Kimber's blog on 07.26.10 at 7:08am.
Forget dueling interviews, competing psychologists, contradictory studies, even the difference between physically assaulted and “placed in a position of control.”
Ask yourself one question: is the 15-year-old Cole Harbour boy at the centre of the controversy over his care better off now than whe...
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I prefer my data raw, not cooked and skewered
Submitted by AIMS blog on 07.26.10 at 7:02am.
It was a good news week for Nova Scotia’s tourism industry, or so the numbers would suggest.
The tourism department has been spreading the news that the province has welcomed more visitors this year in comparison to this time last year.
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Fire one, hire one
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.26.10 at 6:07am.
The employee who worked with the WBDC has been let go. But not to save money, because the town is hiring. Here is a j0b posting spotted ina number of places [and on the Town website - although it displays horribly in Firefox.]
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Early Christmas in Wolfville
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.23.10 at 6:06am.
Christmas will be coming to Wolfville early this year. Really early.
Folks at Town Hall must have been disappointed that Wolfville wasn’t mentioned in the CH article entitled “Movie Stars Light up Halifax“. After all the film folk have been busy sprucing up the old Mr. B’s on the corner of Main ...
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Choice words
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.22.10 at 6:06am.
Choices, choices, choices. Take the choice of words for example.
The Town has engaged Landscape Architect, Angela Morin, to develop a Conceptual Plan for the Town parkland at the corner of Main Street and Elm Avenue
Hired is such a crass word isn’t it? It seems to imply MONEY which the town is ...
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They aren’t experts
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.16.10 at 5:50am.
We read a disturbing item in the Advertiser today. It reads in part -
Kings County Council has voted in favour of sending correspondence expressing concern over the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities , the...
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They’ve got the power
Submitted by Halifax Magazine blog on 07.15.10 at 8:03am.
If you’re a long-time reader of my blog, you know that few organizations annoy me quite as much as Nova Scotia Power does. Like all monopolies, it’s focused exclusively on squeezing profit out of the province. It’s not terribly concerned about what’s best for Nova Scotians because, quite simply, ...
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Do the farm markets know?
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.15.10 at 6:28am.
That those labels have to be bilingual, etc, etc?
Ms. Reynolds says the two inspectors removed 108 items from her shelves at Home Grow-In Grocer, a 14-month-old shop that carries only food grown or produced in B.C., including by micro-farmers in Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley and the Okanaga...
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Ciao CAO
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.12.10 at 6:25am.
They are saying good bye to another CAO in HRM. And the severance is $300,00 according to reports.
English was making $190,000 it says. [Consider that Wolfville's CAO makes more than half of that for our little town of 4,000!] The payout is staggering. But it is easy to spend other people’s mon...
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Just read this in THE COAST and it makes me feel ill....
Submitted by Alice In Paris Loves Art and Tea on 07.9.10 at 6:46am.
Birch Cove Lakes-Blue Mountain wilderness area threatened by development
-Posted by Tim Bousquet on Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:32 AM
A high-powered and high-dollared political battle in City Hall is playing out largely unnoticed by local media. At stake are potentially hundreds of millions of dollar...
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Legal Matters- a response
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.23.10 at 6:35am.
A submission from Mr. Daniels, also published in the June issue of the Mud Creek News.
COMMENTS ON “legal matters” IN THE MAYOR’S NEWSLETTER
David A. Daniels
Finally, here is the blacked-out part of the Mayor’s letter:
“On behalf of Council, I express the confidence and satisfaction we have w...
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New agencies won’t resolve old case; we need an inquiry now
Submitted by Stephen Kimber's blog on 06.18.10 at 7:36am.
The Harper government’s proposal to replace the current, gums-only Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP with a new, baby-toothed civilian watchdog agency is better than nothing.
But not by much.
The new agency will have power to force witnesses to appear and testify, but will need ...
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Nearing the tipping point
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.18.10 at 6:34am.
How long will it be until there are more people who don’t pay tax than those who do? Recently the stats in the US revealed that in 2009 47% of the American population paid no federal income tax, and this figure has increased from 40% only 5 years ago.
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Let’s communicate
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.14.10 at 6:30am.
This is a submission from one of our readers. We are posting it as received.
Let’s communicate
On June 7/10, I attended a town council meeting in which the consultant presented the final version of the public participation and engagement plan… (Let’s finally admit we have a communication proble...
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Berwick’s budget
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.11.10 at 6:42am.
Berwick’s budget process got a lot of print in the Advertiser of June 8th. Our impression is that, if the report is anything near the truth, there was a lot more fight to cut costs there than in Wolfville, where the process seemed to be rushed through and where everyone just rolled over and said ...
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Lighthouses
Submitted by Annapolis Royal Heritage on 06.10.10 at 8:00am.
Some nights I have trouble thinking up a topic for this blog. Invariably I will start flipping through archival images to see if anything jumps out at me. Usually some image out of Annapolis County's history will rise to the surface. This was not my problem tonight. Tonight I have at least four f...
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Blogging Frank 587
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.9.10 at 6:35am.
We know it’s just out but we are tempted to comment on the article on p. 15 of Atlantic Frank’s latest issue. The one with the title “The Secret City and your Money. “ Here are a few snippets:
…taxpayers are being kept in the dark. Asking for a list of salaries of senior officials is now consid...
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No laws broken
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 06.8.10 at 6:30am.
No laws broken. Isn’t that what we heard with the MLA expense scandal? Does that let government staff or elected officials off the hook with the voters or do ethics count? It’s a good question.
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Canadian Navy Celebrates 100 Years With a Lot of Bangs
Submitted by Travel to Nova Scotia blog on 06.2.10 at 8:01am.
Although Canada became independent in 1867 the Royal Navy looked after the Canadian shores until Canada could float its own boats in 1910. This year Halifax joins the rest of Canada in celebrating the centennial of the Canadian Navy.
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Open Nova Scotia
Submitted by Top Banana on 04.11.10 at 9:28am.
Since returning to Halifax five years ago I have been sickened by the secrecy and lack of public information – and informed discussion – about big, expensive projects such as the Commonwealth Games bid, the sewage treatment catastrophe, and now a proposed $100 million convention center the detail...
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