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MUTTERS, FROM PREVIOUS PAGE Say, what’s Percy Paris up to these days? “He hasn’t done anything,” says West Hants Councillor Randy Matheson on the correspondence skills of MLA Percy. W.H. Council recently penned five letters to Economic and Rural Development Minnie Perce with concerns about the peculiar dismissal of their development agency’s CEO, Paul McGinn, last December, which the Enfield Weekly Press described as “steeped in mystery.” With the unanswered letters about the competency of the Hants Regional Development Authority, the council decided to pull its $63,000 portion of funding to the agency. “We want to know why they don’t have any protocols and why policy and due process wasn’t followed,” says a rather resolved Randy. Perce attests his response is on its way. But if it doesn’t arrive soon, perhaps the West Hants Council will erupt in an anarchist revolt. (Wait, do anarchists even believe in the postal system? — ed.) Cable corgies Eastlink have reached Down Under and plucked out one of Australia’s low-budgetiest nuggets of childhood entertainment to fill our Atlantic airwaves. Story Time with Tall Ted, originally created in that forsaken deathtrap of a country by Bret Dalgleish for Australia’s Channel 31, is now clogging up our Maritime televisions with its creepy giant bear suit. Call me xenophobic if you must, but I’d have thought that scheduled time should be reserved for local talent, like Community Access Bulletins. Anyhow, if you’d like to traumatize your children, Tall Ted can be tuned into weekday mornings at 7:30. Speaking of tuning in and turning on, several dopeheads popping Ecstasy lately have dropped right into the hospital for an extended stay. The RCMP have stated they believe there was a bad batch of 28 FRANK MAGAZINE MAY 24, 2011 MDMA floating around and warn love druggers to be wary of taking E that might be mixed with dangerous substances, or could even be something else all together. Quite the contrary, say some local burnouts. Reports from the underground suggest the lot of E wasn’t tainted, but simply “too pure” and the Halifax young’uns couldn’t handle the very refined high. RCMP spokescop Scott MacRae says Health Canada analyzed some pills they seized and found they were, rather, a psychedelic known as Foxy that has been linked to deaths in the U.S. due to kidney failure. jacob@atlanticfrank.ca Car 54, 55, 56, 57 & 58... where Are you? A Donut Emergency moment at the Windmill Road Timmies.
RALSTON, FROM PAGE 18 courses. Richard’s assistant Janet A mover helping Ralston “downsize” his operation in the Maritime Centre, who didn’t want to be named, says getting money from Ralston was like pulling teeth. Ralston called him to move half a century of files to the Shelburne Boy’s School, but says staff in both locations were warning him he might be stiffed. He says staff at MacDonnell Consulting were whispering, “Make sure you get paid, this guy isn’t going to pay you.” The mover finally got paid after threatening to visit Ralson’s Halifax offices, and then Ralston’s South Street residence. In Halifax, things are equally dire. There’s word that as of January, MacDonnell Group of Canada, Ltd. — the engineering branch of Ralston’s empire — had some issues with its insurance. Dermot Mulroney at Engineers Nova Scotia Association tells me that, “for things like environmental and for structural (engineering), usually, we’re looking for some kind of insurance there.” He says, however, MacDonnell Group of Canada, Ltd. has paid its ENSA dues this year, and lists former vp engineering Dr. Vidya Limaye and MacDonnell on that membership. A big portion of MacDonnell Consulting’s cash flow left during what Ralston called “downsizing” around Christmas: Damian Stoilov, who sources told Frank was on two weeks’ stress leave in December (Frank 604), never came back. And Richard Morash, the manager of MacDonnell Security Risk Management — the branch that taught port security to security people at ports (makes sense — ed.) — left in early March. Damian curried clients, Rich taught the HERALD, FROM PAGE 25 Darling Dan must have not been counting the many of Facebook posts as feedback (my abacus counted over 30 outraged and outspoken voices), which is odd for a man who is seeking to usher in the Internet Age at his Paper of Record. “They’ve worked, via media appearances, to make their most loyal writers look like a bunch of whiners,” says occasional Chronicle contributor and rabble-rouser Sandra Phinney. “They’ve shown their writers no faith, respect or loyalty. It’s very disappointing,” says Chris. Sandra adds, “It’s a sad day when adults can’t get together and consult on an issue to find solutions. Again, we would love to do that. Ralph and I would drive from Yarmouth and meet up with (fellow writers) and any of the upper echelon Campbell bailed as well. Former CFO Paula Walker, who sources say is owed up to $20,000 in back pay and expenses, quit in January. Also gone are vp engineering Dr. Vidya Limaye; Ming Zhang-He, who did the computer drafting work; Dr. Amjad Memon, the staff engineer; Brenda King, executive vp; and Sarah Vanderhooven, who was part of MacDonnell Cultural Productions, the branch of the company that produces exciting events like BRIDGELIFE Bridge Safety and Longevity Conference and Expo, which might have happened this past April. Ralston is getting money where he can, it seems. His home on South Park in Halifax (2011 assessment $789,500) has been mortgaged three times: once in 2004 for $425,000, once in 2008 for $500,000 (later increased to $775,999.40), and just recently for $150,000. Likewise, his “cabin” in Chester (2011 assessment $558,600) has been tapped for a half-mill in 2008, $550,495 with one lender and $616,000 with another in 2007, the last one being increased to $876,000 in 2008. Last year that property was slapped with an $8,500 lien claim by Karo Horticulture Ltd. All the properties are in his wife Charlene Latimer MacDonnell’s name. They’ve also got a condo in Florida at 775 Longboat Club Road worth a cool $632,800 that isn’t mortgaged at all, and whose property taxes are fully paid. Sources say the condo was a bone of contention with what are now former staff members. “That’s where he was at over the Christmas holidays when nobody was paid,” the source says, “and where his wife is now, so obviously, there’s money to be had.” neal@atlanticfrank.ca at the Herald. We are on stand-by to do this.” Silverfox Don says, “If Dan would like to negotiate with writers one by one, which one has he started with? Clearly not me; he doesn’t even answer my letters.” As the writers’ wait for bigwig Dan to pick up the phone, it seems he’s already moved on. “Over time we will welcome new voices at the paper,” says the editor who inked an ad in his pages looking for new freelance writers around the time the contract starting ruffling feathers. Chief Dan repeated the refrain about being a business with the consistency of a cuckoo clock. “We’re a business, we don’t get any federal funding or backing from nameless millionaires.” (Ah! Touche. — ed) mairin@atlanticfrank.ca Frank Facts Number of times the Globe and Mail endorsed a Tory candidate since 1953: 14 No. of times the Globe has endorsed a Liberal candidate: 6 Instances where they endorsed a John Diefenbaker: 4 Instances where the Globe endorsed the losing candidate: 5 Number of votes that went to Western Block Party, who seek independence from their “Eastern Masters”: 748 No. of votes that went to the Rhinoceros party who have promised to repeal the law of gravity and move Toronto closer to Montreal: 3,819 Approval rating of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan before his death: 3% Number of points U.S. President Obama’s approval rating rose following the announcement they had killed bin Laden: 11 Number of approval points former U.S. Prez Bush achieved after they captured Saddam Hussein: 8 Number of men who are sworn police officers in Halifax: 431 Number of women who are police officers: 93 Number of women elected to the 41st Parliament: 76 Canada’s rank in the world of women represented in parliaments: 40 No. of people who attended Growing Local, a conference focusing on finding African Nova Scotians to farm: 21 Cost of an “I’m a Mrs.” wedding gift, a Canadian product that sends government and bank forms allowing people to change their name after marrying: $30 Cost of government and bank forms: 0 MAY 24, 2011 FRANK MAGAZINE 29
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