THIS JUST IN....

RE: the Halifax Commonwealth bids games.

Local councillors are livid that the province sent out the media release indicating that the province and the city withdrew their support for the games, wait for it, before the councillors actually voted! To boot, the councillors were still in a meeting discussing that very decision when simultaneously, their Blackberry's went off letting them know what they had yet to vote for!

Needless to say, one councillor was quoted as saying Halifax Mayor Peter Kelly had "no vision, no leadership." Duh!

SMALL MINDED MENTALITY WINS OUT AGAIN....

The province of Nova Scotia and the Halifax Regional Municipality has done it again; it has shown it's small-minded mentality when it comes to progressive development. The province and HRM have recently pulled the plug on their support for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, all but ending Halifax's chance of hosting the event, and more to the point, getting federal funding for much needed sports infrastructure.

This mentality is reminiscent of that which exists in Kingston, Ontario, my pseuo-hometown, where councillors recently voted to continue on with the LVEC project. The mentality is such that they want big-time events and big-time infrastructure, but are unwilling to realize the meaning of the word 'investment.' Rather they get caught up in cost.

Now, because of thier lack of a spine, Halifax is the joke of the country, a city that boasts of it's ability to host big-time national and international sporting events, but can't get it's horses together to host the opportunity of a lifetime. And it is the opportunity of a lifetime, because after this, their isn't a committee that is going to serious consider coming to Halifax and risk being associated with such a mess.

Aside: we can't even get a friggin' tower built downtown because of these relics known as "heritage preservers..."

More later