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Response to No Response and Still No Response

Back in January I posted a suggestion about how we might increase activity at QP and improve PR. and fairness to taxpayers.
I followed up with an email to the QP committee that included a link to the original post.
The QP committee (Bruce Inglis, Susan MacLeod and Jack Fancy) did not respond c...
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Liverpool – Future Company Town?

The Diary received a call from a source that wanted assurances of anonymity which we granted. All our sources, including the public ones, are anonymous. We also had to assure him our phones weren’t tapped. With the formalities out of the way he told us a remarkable tale about a secret committ... Read More.

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Poll Summary

Time to end the polls and see if they told us anything.
To the question about giving taxpayers credit toward activities at Queen place equal to their tax subsidy:
28% supported the suggestion, 25% strongly opposed the suggestion, 22% strongly supported the suggestion, 17% Opposed and 8% had ...
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QP Philosophy

Teapot tempest of curling vs skating at QP suggests we need a closer look at the philosophy behind QP’s management.
Forget the high sounding web site words that QP is ” A hub for recreational, social, and cultural activity”. So far that has not been realized – we hope it will but that won’t ha...
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The QPEC Stimulus Package

How would the Diary’s QPEC plan (Now called the QPEC Stimulus Package) work?
It is the very model of simplicity. Assume there are 4000 taxpaying units in Queens and the QPEC deficit was $200,000. Each taxpaying unit would get $50 in credit towards using QPEC (it could be based on a percentage ...
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Open Nova Scotia

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... Read More.

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