Dear HRM people, you might have gone too far with your anti-backyard-hen stance this time. Yes, yes, Mr or Ms Bylaw Enforcement Officer, I know you’re “only following orders” and it pained you to issue the Notice To Comply… we all know about that principle. So how many is this now? What?…, three backyard chicken [...]
Today, December 24th is downtown office potluck day. Watch for all the folks around the streets with their Tupperware containers, shrimp ring boxes and armloads of paper plates and napkins. We’re having one at my office. Yesterday was clean out the staff fridge day. Everything was tossed. Maybe this happens once a year, I’m not [...]
David Whitzman PPC “I have no great aims in art. No axe to grind. No world ailments to cure. I paint to please myself and to bring pleasure to others.” This week I had the great pleasure of taking my Mom to visit her friend of many years, David Whitzman. We had a delightful time [...]
Here’s what I get to do for work… make trips like this from time to time – you might need to click the map to see my route. View DFO Sept 2, 2009 in a larger map
I live near Monastery Lane where Heritage Gas started connecting a line that will service homes on Yukon Street. The locals got together and got a critical number of people to sign up so the gas company is digging a trench and laying their familiar yellow hose today. On my way home I came across [...]
Here’s another event where you’re either in the “oh it’s just a bunch of hype” camp or the “better get ready” camp. The same thing comes up anytime you mention swine flu although people seem much more divisive about H1N1. Did we get ready for Bill? Yes indeed! I’m no alarmist but as a long [...]
“Hey John how are ya doin’?” … “Excellent!” … or “great“, or “couldn’t be better”! This is how I respond to the typical office greeting. If you ask anyone at my work I’m probably one of the happiest, most content, easy going guys around. I’m always doing “excellent!” Is it true? NO! Like everyone [...]
Halifax has some urban wildlife areas. You see all sorts of spots around Halifax where little islands of nature eke out an existence oblivious to our busy schedules and never ending development. They go unnoticed by our backhoes and saws and gravel trucks and asphalt spreaders. Some are remnants of a long-ago city and some [...]
In 1893, Archbishop Cornelius O’Brien acquired 15 acres (6 hectares) of land on Quinpool Road, five of which were used for the building of Holy Heart Seminary to be run by the Eudist Fathers. The seminary occupied that part of Quinpool from Chebucto (Monastery Lane) to Vernon Street, and was a familiar landmark from its [...]
DARLING, Peter Duncan, QC, LLM The family is saddened to announce that Peter died on Sunday, November 2, 2008, in Halifax, following a courageous battle with cancer. The son of Barbara (MacPherson) and the late Frank Darling, Peter was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal. He studied law at [...]
