Liveblog: NSP meets its customers – Day 1
9:15 Roberta Bondar poses with charmed NSP flacks. My old Daily News chum David Rodenhiser, now laboring in NSP communications, asked Bondar if she had any startling revelations in space. Many of them....
View ArticleSelf-indulgent lefties let Harper off the hook – updated & corrected
Pinto Pony Productions, a small Toronto video production house specializing in non-invasive filming techniques, took to the streets of Toronto this weekend and shot the best roundup of...
View ArticleAllNovaScotia punk’d by Denis Ryan
[Updated below] Our friends at AllNovaScotia (subscription required) appear to have been punk’d by [restaurateur] singing investor Denis Ryan and Halifax folksinger-comedian Tony Quinn in a YouTube...
View ArticleAnother irrefutable argument for the serial comma
An anonymous cartoonist strikes a blow for virtuous punctuation: When will newspaper style guides wake up to its obvious superiority? H/T Lee Amme Gillan via David Rodenhiser. This has been cropping up...
View ArticleThis morning’s waterfront view
Here’s the view this morning from the second storey of the Nova Scotia Power building on Lower Water Street. Photo: David Rodenhiser. Click image for full sized version. Of course, you can’t see the NS...
View ArticleWhich obit makes the news?
From a September 9 Facebook post by David Rodenhiser, marquee columnist for the Halifax Daily News until its demise in 2008, now toiling for Nova Scotia Power’s communications group. In the Obituaries...
View ArticleProof that it’s never to late to correct a factual error
The New York Times this morning published a correction of a story it ran 161 years ago, on January 20, 1853: The Times does take its responsibility for factual accuracy seriously. This whimsical...
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