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PAULA IS ON THE JOB
BY LEFTY MCCASHY
CAROLYN SISLEY, SENIOR ADMINIS–
TRATOR FOR DALHOUSIE’S PSYCHIATRY
DEPT., ASSURES ME THAT A PRIVATE
COMPANY NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE
UNIVERSITY HIRED ROBERT CHISHOLM’S
WIFE AND BIZ PARTNER PAULA SIMON TO
LOBBY THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT.
I’m sighing with relief, as I imagine Robert,
who sits on the uni’s board of governors, would
need to fend off pesky conflict of interest allegations
were this not the case.
But let me shout it from the rooftops, the
former N-Dipper chief socialist turned CUPE
rep turned private sector capitalist was not
involved in retaining his lovely lobbyist spouse
Paula, who co-owns the imaginatively named
Simon Chisholm Consulting Inc. with her
politically connected hubby.
The Simon-Chisholm biz partnership works
as a hired gun for Colour, the PR-marketing
geniuses whose Bayers Road HQ is overrun
with John Hamm era Tories, and newly recruited
lefties like Paula, Robert and erstwhile
NDP party prez Ed Wark, the union donation
guru.
No Dal money is lining Paula’s lobbyist pockets,
Carolyn stresses, telling me the former
realtor and Justice Dept. hackette was hired
by Academic Psychriatry Inc., (Nicholas
Susan Dodd
Delva, prez), a motley crew Carolyn describes
as “an independent contractor” made up entirely
of headshrinkers. These Freudian fanciers
and foes evidently bill the province, and
not Dal, for their services. (Why, that’s crazy
talk! — ed.)
Dal spokesthingy Charles Crosby massages
my shattered journalistic ego when he
insists that Robert and his fellow boardies only
have input on hiring senior administrators, and
are not involved with general uni hiring decisions.
I’m tickled pink, since I would hate to see
an over-burdened Robert taken away from his
own lobbying workload. On March 24, he
signed the necessary paperwork to sweet-talk
provincial officials on behalf of the Municipal
Association of Police Personnel, advocates
for the superiority of Halifax’s Finest over
criminals the RCMP. Robert’s lobbying duties
will target the Premier’s Office, the Justice
Dept. and the Treasury & Policy Board; no
individual MLA may be safe from his advances.
On March 25, a mentally motivated Paula
registered to lobby MLAs, Community Services
and the Education and Health depts.,
to “promote a provincial mental health strategy
and finalize psychiatry-related funding
issues.” As Prince once sang, Let’s Go Crazy!
Busy as a bee Paula is also lobbying for a
new client, Motorola Canada. She plans to
BY CECIL B. DEMENTED
SUSAN DODD IS THE LATEST N-DIPPER
PATRONAGE STAR OF THE WEEK, AFTER HER
CABINET APPOINTMENT TO THE OH-SO-
WONDERFUL-AND-GLAMOROUS FILM NOVA
SCOTIA BOARD.
A top N-Dipper campaign strategist (Frank
560), Kings J-School prof Sue ran Darrell
Dexter’s April 2002 leadership bid, back when
the laptop and digital camera collector toppled
custom-made furniture king John
MacDonnell to become the party’s great socialist
spender, er, leader.
BTW, Sue’s parents were cabinet minnie
Ramona Jennex’s long-time next door neighbours
on Main Street, Berwick, so let’s all
break out in a rousing chorus of Solidarity
Forever, shall we?
Beside Sue, who has written extensively on
Westray mine labour violations and is finishing
a book on the Ocean Ranger disaster,
motor down to Province House, to direct her
motormouth against MLAs, and mo’ departments,
such as Finance, Transportation/Infrastructure
Renewal and the Treasury &
Policy Board.
Robert, who last year sat on the Darrell
Dexter government’s transition team, has
parked his impermeable posterior around
Dal’s B of G boardroom table since 2004. His
twice-extended term expires on June 30.
Does Frank Know?
atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca
READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP
where 84 crew, including her brother, perished,
the Dexter cabinet also appointed
McInnes Cooper lawyer Jeff Larsen to the
Film Nova Scotia board.
Treehugger Jeff is also listed as a director
of MaManna Renewal Energy, whose other
bigwigs include DHX Media exec David
Regan and Scott Travers, the Minas Basin
Pulp & Paper prez.
Jeff’s appointment ups the McInnes Cooper
quota on Film Nova Scotia’s board, as firm
partner and corporate governance queen
Cheryl Hodder’s FNS term was renewed for
three years, until 2013.
Members of the celluloid board, under Chairman-for-Life
Bonita Kirby (Frank 534),
pocket $100/day for meetings, held whenever
globetrotting ceo Anne MacKenzie is at
home, resting between her international film
festival jaunts.
Does Frank Know?
atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca
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