Political News
Lieutenant Governor hosts annual Garden Party
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: July 26, 2010
What could be better than seeing a Garden Party through the eyes of a child? According to nine year old Flavie Deveaux, the answer is “attending one”! A number of residents from District 2 accompanied Minister Percy Paris, MLA for Waverley – Fall River – Beaver Bank, to the annual Garden Party hosted by the [...]
PC Leader Karen Casey speaks at local PC Association AGM
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: July 21, 2010
The Waverley, Fall River, Beaver Bank Progressive Conservative Association held its AGM at the LWF Community Hall in Fall River on June 15. During the meeting the executive was returned for 2010, and Bernie O’Rourke was returned as president. PC interim leader Karen Casey came by and spoke to people who attended. In a brief [...]
PC Party says old rules on constituency spending not acceptable
Announcements: July 15, 2010
Halifax – In a recent news release, the Progressive Conservative Caucus is making its position clear on rules governing left over constituency spending allowances. Last week the House of Assembly management commission voted that money remaining in the January-March constituency budget could be used by the MLA for advertising following the old rules. “Our Caucus [...]
Dalrymple discusses boundary review
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: June 4, 2010
Fall River, Nova Scotia (D2N) – Councillor Barry Dalrymple discussed the Boundary Review with District 2 News. “I joined HRM’s Boundary Review Board Committee six or seven months ago,” said Dalrymple, “because I don’t believe the size of council and the way council is distributed is in any way close to being fair. And I [...]
Paris Promotes Nova Scotia to the World
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: April 7, 2010
Percy Paris, MLA for Waverley – Fall River – Beaver Bank, is the Minister of Economic and Rural Development, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Heritage for Nova Scotia, the Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs, as well as the Minister responsible for Nova Scotia Business Incorporated. Paris recently returned from a trip to India, [...]
Councillor Gives Residents an Update on Tax Reform
Barry Dalrymple: January 24, 2010
Fall River (D2N) – Barry Dalrymple, Councillor for District 2 of the HRM, addressed the matter of Tax Reform in an update to his January Column. “This has been in the Halifax media a lot lately and I would like you to clearly understand my position on this. Two years ago the HRM struck a [...]
NDP Announces Tax Break for New Homes
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: August 13, 2009
Premier Darrell Dexter gave prospective homebuyers and homebuilders reason to rejoice when he announced a new tax break on Wednesday. The Nova Scotia Home Builders Association had put forth a plan to the PC’s, the Liberals, and the now-reigning NDP party last spring before the provincial election was held. The association had suggested a tax [...]
Dalrymple Fighting to Win War on Tax Reform
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: July 23, 2009
Fall River (D2N) – Councillor Barry Dalrymple says changes to the HRM’s Municipal Transit Tax rate is a positive step for residents living in District 2. “We have been paying transit tax since amalgamation,” said Dalrymple. “We have been paying to subsidize city transit since then. They buried the transit tax rate in the General [...]
NDP Call for Veterans-RCMP Centre
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: July 16, 2009
Fall River (D2N) – NDP Veterans Affairs Critic Peter Stoffer has sewn a seed he hopes to watch grow and bloom. The NDP Member of Parliament for Sackville-South Shore and NDP MP for Halifax Megan Leslie, today called for the government to begin the process of reviewing and planning for the construction of a Veterans-RCMP [...]
The Election, the Results
Joanne Jordan - Reporter: July 4, 2009
Fall River (D2N) – It’s now been three weeks since the provincial election, which swept NDP MLA Percy Paris to a second term as MLA of the Waverley – Fall River – Beaver Bank riding. Paris was re-elected as a wave in the orange tide that moved across the province in a history-making vote by [...]