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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
Stephen Harper’s federal Conservative Party has hit a new low with their attack ads on the Bloc Québecois. Their latest fantasy, an attack on the Gilles Duceppe-led party, is a tactic designed to appeal to the gun-toting loonies in the country, the simple-minded souls who stand to the right of Attila The Hun.
And give Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff full marks for having the guts to take issue with Harper and the Conservatives on this matter in the heartland of the right wing nation, Calgary.
Attending the Calgary Stampede, he climbed up on a stump and challenged the Conservative trash ad that suggests the Bloc, by voting against a law imposing minimum sentences in child traficking cases, are soft on pedophiles. The Grit general correctly stated that it is a dirty tactic, and completely unworthy of Canadian politics. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
I have always believed there should have been an eleventh commandment; “Thou shalt not committee.” Far too much time, especially within governments and their bureaucracies, is spent in meetings and committees, with little or nothing being accomplished. The mayor’s recent Round table on Crime Committee is a case in point.
It looked good on paper. So does my budgie. And he makes better use of it.
Halifax is going to hell in a hand basket - and we do studies? Meanwhile the lawbreakers get more brazen – and more dangerous - by the day. It is just a matter of time before some innocent bystander is gunned down by these mindless, gun-toting, drug-addled idiots.
What’s the old saying? They hang wallpaper and let these nitwits live. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
So the smokers and the shopkeepers, those who sell the cancer sticks, have their knickers in a knot after the new NDP government followed through on a Rodney MacDonald initiative and raised the taxes on tobacco products. My only criticism is that the tax increase was too low.
For years I struggled with the addiction, burning away thousands of dollars on cigarettes and, probably slowly destroying my body with each puff. I would justify it by glibly saying “Might as well smoke here as in the hereafter.”
I grew up in an age when just about everybody smoked. The cost of a package of 20 cigarettes was thirty-three cents.
There were no health warnings - hell, my doctor smoked during medical appointments! When I was 12 years of age, I was offered a cigarette to see if it would “make me sick.” This wasn’t out behind the barn, it was in my home. I smoked that butt and tens of thousands more over the next 49 years.
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 18 June 2009 |
“Lighthouse shines beacon on culture of defeat”
A middle aged mother was sitting outside a telephone both, sobbing uncontrollably. A man approach, put his hand on her shoulder and said, “what’s the matter, your husband leave you?
“No, it’s much worse than that,” she blubbered.
“Worse than that. Is there a serious illness in your family?” he offered
“Noooo,” she bawled.
“Oh no, a death in the family?” he pressed. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
You don’t vote, you don’t have a say. It is as simple as that. It’s my humble belief. Always has been, always will be.
In our province, following the June 9th Provincial Election, over 40 per cent of our residents did not cast a ballot – and from now until the next provincial election, should remain absolutely mute on matters political and things controlled by our government. No vote – no voice.
How seriously do I take this civic duty? I rate non-voting right up there with draft dodging.
In the “War to end all wars”, World War 1, Canada sent 600,000 troops to Europe to fight the Germans, and 60,000 of them, one in ten, never came home. World War II saw 42,789 Canadians left behind in shallow graves, with an additional 97,988 wounded, many of them losing one or more limbs.
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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
A must read brought to you by Parker Donham. He wonders what Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil is hiding?
Here's a tad, but check out his post for the scoop.
Well this is disturbing. In defending his decision to keep the names of private donors to his campaign secret until after election day, Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil cited privacy concerns. Since provincial law requires the names and addresses of all donors, and the amounts of their donations, to be disclosed and published annually by Elections Nova Scotia, this looked like a feeble excuse to avoid drawing pre-election attention to any embarrassing donors on the Liberal list.
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do- Will Rogers
Ah what a difference 12 months doth make. Had former United States president Bill Clinton come to town this time last year, I would bet every penny of my measly monthly pension that not one Halifax Regional Municipality councilor would have taken a free ticket, purchased with our hard-earned tax dollars, to hear him speak.
“Why?” You ask. Because 12 months ago, we were a couple of months away from the municipal election and had they pulled this outrageous stunt at that time, I can guarantee a number of them would have felt it where it really hurts, the ballot box. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 28 May 2009 |
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
- Abraham Lincoln
An old departed friend, Gordon Hatcher, once warned me, “put a devil on horseback and he’ll ride straight to hell.” I think of my former sidekick every time I see the face or hear the voice of Stephen Harper. Because he validates Gordon’s assertion.
It is sad, terribly sad, to characterize our prime minister as a “devil” but what else can be said, given the almost satanic tactics he employs.
I’ve always somewhat believed in reincarnation, wondering at times if some of the nasty people in our history would came back. Methinks Richard Nixon did, missing Washington this time around and landing in Ottawa.
Nixon, like Harper, liked to play with tapes.
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Columnist - Alex J Walling
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Written by Alex J Walling
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Sunday, 24 May 2009 |
So big Jim is taking the package from Mother Corp. All I can say is… it must be a big one.
Like or hate him, in our media business, he has had a distinguished career. He was almost born into the business as his dad; Clyde owned or managed a radio station (CJFX, Antigonish) and was a politician and even a cabinet member.
So, broadcasting and politics is something Nunn learned early.
I first met him in July of 1972 at the Lionshead Tavern when he told me that I would have a hard time making it in the sports business.
Oh, he wasn’t being nasty but honest as this city had a plethora of sports people with Steve Armitage and Harris Sullivan on the TV side and the likes of Sullivan (he did double duty of both radio and TV), Gerry Fogerty, and Pat Connolly on the radio side. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 |
Darrell Dexter is perplexed over the constant barrage of attack ads, from the camp of the desperate PCs, and the constant nattering of “where’s your plan.” Whether it is Rodney MacDonald, his candidates or spokespersons, it always comes down to three little words, “where’s your plan.”
Of course the New Democrats have a plan, so to do the other three parties in the race. It seems like the advisors to the premier and his party is stealing a page from history and inventing the Big Fib. We all know about the Big Lie. Repeat it often enough ….
This strategy was never more evident than in the debate (?) when at every turn, MacDonald utters those three little words to muddy the waters.
I understand Dexter’s angst but he should consider the source. These are desperate people, trying to cling to power and, let’s be perfectly honest here we should not expect an intelligent dialogue because, as the late Johnny Carson once suggested, some of these guys in the advisor’s bunker couldn’t ad lib a fart at a baked bean supper. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
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Residents of this area are fortunate to have four local television networks: CBC TV, Global, the “A” Channel and CTV. Between them, we get just about every program available. |
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