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Campus Clubs
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 09.7.10 at 6:25am.
Anyone interested in starting an Atlantica Party organization on the Acadia campus? This message from the AP.
Campus Clubs
For those of you returning to campus AP is establishing campus clubs across the province. Dalhousie-Kings and CBU have been established and can be reached here
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Batten down the hatches
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 09.3.10 at 6:46am.
We expect everyone is watching the weather and will be for the next day or so to see where Earl is headed. As an alternative to Environment Canada we’ve been watching AccuWeather’s storm tracking.
As of late Thursday afternoon it appears that the center of Hurricane Earl has already reached its ...
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RCMP remind drivers to pay attention to school zones
Submitted by Bedford Beacon on 09.2.10 at 8:03am.
The Nova Scotia RCMP would like to remind the motoring public that in September, students across Nova Scotia from elementary to university, return to class.
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Lobster sandwich reward
Submitted by Life With Yourgogirl on 08.31.10 at 8:04am.
There was an interesting reward offered on this morning's facebook newsfeed posted by Denise Nickerson, manager of the Cape Forchu Lighthouse.
Vandals smashed four out of five donation boxes on site Saturday evening and stole the contents. Because the boxes are emptied daily, they likely didn't ...
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Lower gas tax for Amherst just moves the problem
Submitted by AIMS blog on 08.31.10 at 8:00am.
Last week a gas merchant in Amherst floated the idea of a new zone for the regulation of gasoline prices. The idea being that this zone near the provincial border could be given a reduced gasoline tax so that retailers near the border could better compete with gas retailers in New Brunswick, wher...
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Land of orange vehicles
Submitted by Contrarian on 08.31.10 at 7:11am.
What’s up with Queens County, Nova Scotia, and orange vehicles?
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Is this a good idea?
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.31.10 at 6:53am.
Council is considering allowing longer liquor hours in Wolfville. Liquor hours are included in the MPS [Why?] and so that would have to be amended. Closing hour in Wolfville is 1 am while elsewhere closing hour for drinking “establishments” is 2 am.The town wants input from “stakeholders” .
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Now Hiring – again
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.30.10 at 6:24am.
Wolfville is hiring again. The Town must feel they are flush with money, so flush they need another manager to manage it. Another body to help the well over paid CAO. Here are the details in case you are thinking of applying and signing on the sinking ship!
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Get your card ready
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.26.10 at 6:48am.
You will need an ID card no matter what your age at the Wolfville ( and some other) NSLC outlets in the next week or so.
Between Sept. 5 and 11, Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. outlets in New Minas, Wolfville and Antigonish will ask for ID from every customer — whether they look like a post-secondary p...
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And let’s make paying it back optional…
Submitted by AIMS blog on 08.24.10 at 6:58am.
Another day, another demonstration of how government loan programs tilted toward “innovation” or high tech firms never pan out in the end. As reported by Canadian Press Reporter Michael Tutton in today’s Chronicle Herald, ninety percent of loans provided through the first round of funding for the...
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Musings
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.24.10 at 6:16am.
As we wandered around Wolfville on our various errands we got wondering about a few things.
Will Front Street ever get finished. There seems to be so little progress for so many men about. Is that why it is in the hands of the Little Co.?
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A fishy story
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.23.10 at 5:54am.
Those of you who get the Globe and Mail or follow it online may have seen one of the Ian Brown Eats Canada series on his visit to Nova Scotia. Titled A Day without Lobster, this casually written post highlights a number of culinary and other delights in our part of the world but was sure to baff...
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jon tattrie, disappointingly white
Submitted by Pay Per Hack Writer on 08.17.10 at 6:48am.
i was at a book signing for the hermit of africville saturday when a white woman came up and asked when mr tattrie was arriving.
i'm him, i said.
oh, she said, her face falling. i thought he was black.
it wasn't as bad as my very first signing, for black snow, where a woman threw my book back ...
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What’s race got to do with it?
Submitted by Stephen Kimber blog on 08.16.10 at 8:16am.
I accept the argument. Those involved in the recent decision to provide a group of—white—residents in Lake Major with keys to an old logging road so they could avoid having to travel an extra 5.5 km through the—black—community of North Preston were providing a small but reasonable favour to those...
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Why we cancelled the Herald
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.16.10 at 6:59am.
This is the sort of writing that made us cancel our Chronicle Herald subscription long ago. If Dross Donald Cameron thinks that a line like this:
I am not saying that Stephen Harper is another Hitler…
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Mr. Steele’s request for input on retirement incomes
Submitted by AIMS blog on 08.12.10 at 7:25am.
The August 9th “Province Seeks Input on Canada’s Retirement Income Plan” announcement by the Nova Scotia government is really disappointing. It’s merely another political ploy from Mr. Steele the Minister of Finance, because his strong economic credentials have already fallen a long way from his ...
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Herald vs. coyotes
Submitted by Contrarian on 08.12.10 at 6:45am.
Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim is the title of a 1980 compendium of unintended double-entendre headlines collected by the Columbia Journalism Review. It illustrates the power of tiny punctuation flubs — in this case, a missing hyphen — to radically alter meaning. Readers also have to chuckle in wond...
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Let’s not forget to prepare for the next storm
Submitted by AIMS blog on 08.11.10 at 7:25am.
I was going to avoid the reminder again when I saw yesterday’s front page news in Nova Scotia: Not much gas left in the tank. That reminder being that we’ve always known that our offshore revenues were going to run out. We talked about it in 2002, in Ten Reasons to Remove Nonrenewable Resources f...
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Welcome to the rat days of summer
Submitted by Stephen Kimber's blog on 08.9.10 at 7:40am.
When did we realize we had finally entered the deeps of the news-challenged rat… er, dog days of summer?
Was it when that story about the number of rats per city block in Halifax—75; You count ‘em, I’ll pass—made CBC Radio’s marquee World at Six news show last week?
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Why do governments hate small food producers?
Submitted by AIMS blog on 08.9.10 at 7:32am.
These kinds of stories really make me go nuts. Locally, HRM council debates food security, urban farming, and eating local, yet tries to shut down restaurants not over health issues but over zoning issues. What’s worse, the place was a restaurant before the current tenants moved in, and it’s prac...
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Municipal boondoggle
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 08.3.10 at 5:59am.
Why should a group, whose members pay their fees out of public funds, and whose conference fees are also paid out of taxpayer money, ask for additional money from the hosting Municipality or Province to contribute to the expense of their junket conference?
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More decisions
Submitted by Wolfville Watch on 07.30.10 at 6:58am.
It’s hard to make decisions, it seems, in Municipal offices. Does a town spend on aesthetics and town beautification or essential services like waste collection, roads and bridges? It’s especially hard to decide between such alternatives in hard economic times when your constituents are struggli...
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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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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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