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.

It only takes one Nova Scotian to change a light bulb, and Conserve Nova Scotia is giving households two compact fluorescent light bulbs to get them started.

Remember the 80’s tune by Denise Williams called ‘Let’s Hear it for the Boys’, well this year's version, should one be recorded today, could be called, ‘Let’s hear it for the Paul’s as in Paul Kennedy and Paul Meagher, who volunteer their time and efforts for a community radio station.

More about them in a minute but first.

I do one hell of a lot of radio listening.  Like the McGuire Sisters song, “radio in the morning, radio in the evening and radio at supper time” I seem to have my radio on be it the car, office or home, most of the day, the local community radio station, Seaside-FM.

We here at Halifax Live are delighted that Ottawa is moving forward with funding for the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights.  Although we suspect that Winnipeggers would rather have their hockey team back, we never the less congratulate the citizens of that fair city on their new cultural attraction.

One thing that puzzles us however is why American architect  Antoine Predock chose to model the new building on the Pickelhaube, the Prussian designed helmet worn by German soldiers up until the middle of the first World War.