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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Ho
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
There was a time when the Herald’s Director of New Content, Dan Leger would have sent Amy Smith back out to ask the right questions of her “globetrotting” MLAs. Smith, if you missed it, had a story that dominated the front page of the July 24th edition of the Chronicle-Herald. It had all the potential of a blockbuster. Instead, it bordered on being a complete bust.
Leger, who cut his journalistic teeth at the Fourth Estate and later the Dartmouth Free Press, would have blown the whole lot out of the water had he been assigned to the story.
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
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On March 15, 1999, I smoked my last cigarette. At that point I had smoked for 49 years and had hit the two-pack-a-day plateau. It wasn’t a level I wanted to achieve, not in the least. For years I had wanted to quit, but I simply could not. Like everyone else who lit up the weed, I was hooked.
Like millions of other Canadians, nicotine had a death (in more ways than one) grip on me. I knew it was killing me, but I lacked the will power to stop. Then along came a miracle drug called Zyban. In my case, it was the assist I needed, and after a week or so on the medication, I suddenly lost my desire, no, make that my intense craving, for tobacco. |
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Columnist - Alex J Walling
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Written by Alex J. Walling
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Sunday, 13 July 2008 |
 Can you believe that in six-weeks time it will be 20-years since MITV hit the airwaves?
20 years!
Amazing.
One of the audio gods of that period, a chap by the name of Doug Murray, is heading an unofficial MITV reunion. Doug who worked for many years of the early years is coming into town, from Vancouver or some westward port, and wants as many of ‘the gang’ to either touch base with him or make it down. The date is September 5th which could be the exact date of the 1988 launch of the station. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 |
I am not picking on all terrain vehicle owners/drivers. Not in the least. Driven in a responsible manner, with total respect for the environment, the vehicles can be, I am told, most pleasurable. My concern, and that of many, is the lack of an age control for young drivers. It seems if they can straddle the machines, then, in today’s lingo, it’s “good to go.”
My friend Alan Weeks, who now resides in Ottawa (Stephen Harper beware), sent me an article from the Ottawa Sun. It told of an accident on June 26, that came at the height of the local debate on the mini ATVs, purchased by Barry Barnett without Rodney MacDonald’s knowledge. As my departed stepfather liked to say, “Don’t eat that, Elmer, that’s horseshit!” |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Sunday, 06 July 2008 |
Is there a disturbing conflict of interest within the halls of the provincial civil service? Since the debacle about the purchase of mini ATVs, I am hearing that a great number of those who develop and help to enforce policy are devoted all terrain vehicle enthusiasts.
Whether these provincial civil servants allow their personal preferences to influence their decisions matters not, it is the perception that counts.
For this reason, and strictly in the interest of fairness, the Auditor General should launch an immediate investigation into everything surrounding ATVs. The taxpayers of this province, those on both sides of this issue, must have confidence and faith in the system. |
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
His hands might not be nail scarred, his side not riven, and he has little or no hair to soften the crown of thorns, but Barry Barnett was crucified on Thursday. Hung out to dry by his boss, Rodney MacDonald.
Rodney, just back from the Middle East (Isn’t that where the Hill, Golgotha, is located?), nailed Barry to the cross by publicly stating that the purchase of pee-wee-sized all terrain vehicles was “poorly handled.”
Wow! And Barry believed, up until that moment, that the NDP’s Matt Whynott and whoever the Liberals put up in the next election were his political enemies.
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Nova Scotia News
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Written by Halifax Live
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Thursday, 26 June 2008 |
In a bizarre about-face amid the hugely unpopular government-funded all terrain vehicle (ATV) safety program debacle, Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald today is not only lashing out at the Health Department for their purchase of over a quarter of a million dollars worth of mini-ATVs, he is now demanding that the $230,000 in question be returned to government coffers.
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Columnist - Al Hollingsworth
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Written by Al Hollingsworth
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Saturday, 21 June 2008 |
The fanfare surrounding the rolling out of the kid-sized ATV this week is nothing short of a mug’s game. Rodney and the gang are applying the art of advertising and media hype to convince people the money they are spending on these potential death traps is something we need.
In short, the Tories are pandering to the residents of rural Nova Scotia, many of whom believe it is their god-given right to race through the fields and forests, leaving torn up woodlands in their wake.
It’s not about safety and responsible use of all terrain vehicles. If it were, they would not have spent nearly a quarter million dollars purchasing these over-sized toys, but would instead have kept children under the age of 16 years out of the saddle. |
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Columnist - D.L. McCracken
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
Where was our local media during last weekend's forest fires? CTV? Global? Where were you? Did you even know that there was a major forest fire burning out of control inside the boundaries of the HALIFAX Regional Municipality? How about those five thousand displaced persons? Did you just assume that every last one of us were being given first-hand news from the front lines? Oh but we are eternally grateful for the stock video footage you aired at 6 and 11:30 PM. It was so comforting to realize that you were on top of the story.
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Local HRM News
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Written by Staff
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Saturday, 14 June 2008 |
FIRST ON LIVE: Halifax Live has learned that some homes have been lost in a fire that has been raging in the Porters Lake area of the HRM.
One witness posting on the Nova Scotia Live discussion board says at least 4 homes have been lost on Candy Mountain Road. UPDATE: Officials have confirmed damage to homes on Candy Mountain Road....
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Local HRM News
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
Halifax police have evacuated residents from hundreds of homes in the Porters Lake area as very strong winds fed a out-of-control fire that firefighters continue to fight.
Power was knocked out to over 8,000 homes after fire damaged a transmission line and Nova Scotia Power turned off electricity to other areas as crews battled the flames. |
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