The Outs

We're on the outside and we're not looking to get in

This is a series of articles about Halifax politics and political ideas from the widest view.

John Wesley Chisholm

Dec 29, 2021
8 min

Yelling at the Government Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy when you see it...

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The Police Can't Tell Your Money Where To Go

John Chisholm

Oct 4, 2020
10 min

The Police Can't Tell Your Money Where To Go

Ahead of the Municipal Election in Halifax this is the first in a series of posts that are intended to decipher and make something useful of

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Local Politics - They Don't Want You To Be Interested

John Chisholm

Oct 1, 2020
9 min

Local Politics - They Don't Want You To Be Interested

With only a couple weeks to go until the municipal election the main comment I hear is "It's hard to get interested in local politics." Peop

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Who's Running This F$%^$in' Town Anyway?

John Chisholm

Sep 15, 2020
7 min

Who's Running This F$%^$in' Town Anyway?

Here's the problem. Less than 30% of eligible voters will cast a ballot in the municipal election in October even though it's as simple...

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Big Developers, Big Money, Big Problems for Halifax

John Chisholm

Sep 9, 2020
8 min

Big Developers, Big Money, Big Problems for Halifax

Developers are in the business of building. Cities are in the business of being. There's a big tension between the two filled with...

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John Chisholm

Sep 8, 2020
11 min

2020 Halifax Election - 101

Basic information you need to vote in the Halifax Election this October

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Uneconomic Growth - The Economics of Cancer

John Chisholm

Sep 7, 2020
3 min

Uneconomic Growth - The Economics of Cancer

Just keep pouring that F#$%ing concrete and putting up those 30 year glass curtains.

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John Chisholm

Sep 6, 2020
4 min

Thinking Small

In the summer of 1959 Bill Bernbach had a big problem. The ad agency he worked for had a contract to promote a car called the Volkswagen...

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John Chisholm

Sep 5, 2020
8 min

How We Got Amalgamated

Wait a sec. Before you read this answer one question. Where do you live? Don't think of what you'd say to someone from somewhere else....

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