During the 2000 municipal elections, a fast ferry from Bedford to Halifax was proposed by then mayor, Walter Fitzgerald. It wouldn't float in 2000, so why is it making like a turd in Halifax harbour and floating now?

Bedford Ferry Not a Very Good Idea: Expert -From the Daily News, September 02, 2000
Walter Fitzgerald's Opposition to Commuter Rail Produces Unworkable Alternative Proposal
Mayor Walter Fitzgerald's idea for a ferry from Bedford to Halifax is just a political "red herring," says a transportation expert who doesn't think the idea will float. "If money is poured into a ferry, it's going to be a complete waste of time," Larry Hughes, a Dalhousie professor and transportation activist, said yesterday.

A Ghost in need is a Ghost indeed. Haligonians worried about abandoned or neglected local ghosts will be happy to read that the Rescue Mediums, aka Jackie Dennison and Christine Hamlett, are hard at work rectifying the problem.

ALSO: Did you know Global TV launched a news package at 11pm? A. J. Walling has something to say about it!

This is the third attempt at a SEASIDE-FM fundraiser. I hope this one will work.

For those not in the know, Seaside FM is the community radio station (94.7) that is located in Eastern Passage and broadcast to parts of metro. They are nearly five years old and that by itself is a major accomplishment.

Yes, it's true, Halifax would have been in the World Class club. This news just makes Halifax look like the city of fools the Beatles sang about all those years ago. From The Herald in Scotland, the stunning truth.

Forget the 2014 Commonwealth Games bid by Glasgow and Abuja - Halifax would have won outright on the first vote. That astonishing claim was made yesterday by a member of the executive board of the Commonwealth Games Federation at their meeting in London.