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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Friday, 17 February 2006 |
The Fraser Institute, a prestigious Canadian thinktank on government and social policy, released the findings of an in-depth study on the effects of cross-border prescription drug shopping. In the paper titled, "Price Controls, Patents and Cross-Border Internet Pharmacies: Risks to Canada's Drug Supply and International Trading Relations" the director of Health and Pharmaceutical Policy Research and Insurance Policy, Brett J. Skinner is warning of dire consequences to the Canadian prescription drug consumer if changes are not implemented to protect our supply.
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Written by Alex J. Walling
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
 News 95.7 radio blew it. News 95.7 had a great opportunity to showcase the Tory leadership convention this weekend and blew it, big time.
Where were they? As one media person told me, ‘you mean they were there’ at the convention?
Being in my news mode and wanting information on what was being called one of the closest political races ever, this past Saturday afternoon I hit the radio dial and started twisting and calling newsrooms.
I called several newsrooms to find out if they had a reporter or two at the convention and when the ‘coverage’ was to begin.
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Written by Frank Streicher
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Sunday, 05 February 2006 |
 The daily humdrum of living life as a third rate satirist for the fourth largest news source in Halifax, entails being at the mercy of one’s editor in chief, or god, as he likes to be called. Hence it was with only the slightest murmur of protest that I rushed to HQ when the old man called an urgent meeting. |
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Written by Frank Streicher
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 |
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Late this evening, I received a frantic phone-call from the editor-in-chief of this paper. “We have to get in on this whole Mohammed cartoon controversy,” , he sputtered with the tense excitement that comes along with running Halifax’s fourth largest news source . “See what you can do” . |
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Written by Frank Streicher
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Monday, 23 January 2006 |
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Traditionally, elections in Nova Scotia are happy events. It is our chance to annoy our neighbours, friends, and family by voting for the person whom they like the least. If your parents, for example, would rather swallow a hedgehog fried in cod-liver oil than vote for the Liberals, then you naturally mark your ‘X’ next to the candidate wearing red. Or, if you prefer, you can irritate your neighbour with the hundred gnomes in her front yard, by voting for the Gnome Separation Party, if one happens to be on the ballot. This is all good fun, until you realize that the whole thing also works in reverse. Thus, elections are also the time when every idiot you have ever encountered gets to decide your fate for the next five years. If that prospect annoys you, maybe it is time to vote strategically. |
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Thursday, 19 January 2006 |
Alex J. Walling is a man of some repute in this part of the country and beyond and has established himself rightly so as a respected journalist and sports analyst. In many circles when AJ talks, people listen. He could even be described as being on the brink of becoming an icon of sorts especially within the sports commentary genre.
Mr. Walling today published an article on HalifaxLive titled, "Hotline Howe Callers Paranoid and Sparks Out of Line", Howe being Rick Howe, the host of CJCH's Hotline Show. The article however was not about the political proclivities of Howe himself but those of a few of his dedicated callers. Walling went so far as to publish these caller's first names and then proceeded to cut them and their opinions to ribbons.
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Written by Alex J Walling
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Wednesday, 18 January 2006 |
Notice to the Howe Hotline callers…Stephen Harper will not cause this country to crumble.
Maybe it’s because most of the past 50 years the Liberals have been in power and so they have more diehard fanatics. Maybe they’ve held power for so long over the last 50 years that they really believe it is theirs and have brainwashed the over 50 crowd.
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Wednesday, 18 January 2006 |
Daily commuters who rely on Metro Transit to transport them to and from their work place each day may have noticed that their bus has been a bit more packed than usual lately. No, it isn't the beginnings of a hiring surge within the HRM. The reason you may be suddenly forced to stand in the aisle in an over-crowded bus is the result of the implementation of the Metro Transit U-Pass and those extra riders are in fact student bodies - 12,000 student bodies.
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Written by Frank Streicher
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Sunday, 15 January 2006 |
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After living in Nova Scotia for a few years, a couple of things quickly become apparent. For one, pedestrians and drivers have developed a strange east-coast form of ESP, which allows the latter to know exactly when the former decides to dart out onto a street. Both sides acknowledge each other with a friendly wave, oblivious to their almost mystical union. Casualties only occur if an unfortunate pedestrians tries this stunt with a tourist. Faster then you can say “Agricola is not a soft drink” , the poor Bluenoser finds himself squeezing a Loonie into Phlegyas’ outstretched hand before crossing the Styx to have a Keith’s with Howe and the boys . |
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Written by D.L. McCracken
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Saturday, 14 January 2006 |
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Sometime later in 2006 the 52nd meeting of the Bilderberg Group will begin and continue over a period of four days in a five-star hotel resort. In attendance will be no more than 100 of some of the west's chief political movers, business leaders, bankers, industrialists, strategic thinkers and even a trusted journalist or two. All participants will be absolutely forbidden from disclosing what they discussed during the four days although the invited journalists are provided with a vague press release for the curious. |
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