So its Wednesday before the long weekend, and with the turning of the seasons I am once again sitting in the shade on the Woodside ferry, itself gentle rocking in the light swells coming from the mouth of the harbour.
This means my 10-15 minute essays on whatever I am thinking about on my commute to work have also returned.
ACT 1 – Setting the Stage
Despite the usual mid-summer media doldrums there was still a lot of coverage of HRM By-Law trying to shut down Caribbean Twist.
The new, black owned, busy and delicious Caribbean Twist restaurant at 3081 Gottingen Street had been told that they had to close because the building was “not zoned for a restaurant.”
This is how it was presented by media but being a nerd, I know there is no specific restaurant zoning, so I started digging. What is the real technical problem here? Surely this building has always been commercial? There is no difference in Commercial zoning, if you have it you can be a restaurant. What gives?
Oh, it took a biggun to get past my couple of weeks of writers block following being unable to type (first diagnosed as Cubital Tunnel, later confirmed as simple tendonitis.) Oh and what biggun it is!
About 11:20 am this Friday twitter delivers this announcement from the @Chronicleherald – “BREAKING: HRSB super Carole Olsen’s husband leaked the Fells video to Frank, she admitted today. MORE LATER“
My immediate response was “SHE MUST RESIGN”. Moments later someone else on the web messaged me to say she offered to resign, and the HRSB Board did not accept her offered resignation.
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One of today’s lead news stories is that the provincial government might be willing to entertain funding the construction of an Eastern Passage high school. Because of this, the Halifax Regional School Board (HRSB) has decided to wait on whether to request construction or not.
It has been awhile since this has story has been news. Eastern Passage did not get a recommendation in the late and unlamented “Imagine Our Schools” pseudo consultation in 2007 and 2008. Read more…
My short op/ed piece “Afterthought: $800 for 20 minutes of work” was published in Halifax Magazine on Apr 6, 2010
Maybe this has happened to you: you have been doing the best you can to help your community, but something happens, something just so frustrating and stupid that you think “Oh, why does it have to be this way?”
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