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A chicken & egg argument reads today's headline in our Chronicle Herald.

"A suburban Halifax family fined $500 and ordered to get rid of their 13 pet chickens says HRM is making much a-cock-a-doodle-do about nothing…"

Another chicken family in metro recently sent their birds to Heliotrust for a country holiday rather than pay the fine.

Has anyone noticed that the voice and nostalgic story lines of U.S. presidential hopeful Mike Hucklebee sound remarkably like those of Vinyl Café's Stuart McLean? You be the judge!

I rarely laugh out loud at letters to the Ed., but this one in the Chronicle Herald did it for me. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, recently became the first jurisdiction in Canada to ban smoking in cars carrying children. That prompted Harry Flemming, well known local columnist/pundit, to recount this anecdote in a letter to the ed.

“In the late 1930w and early 40‘s. my mother, father, younger sister and I frequently took the dirt road in the family 1931 Packard from Truro towards Tatamagouche to stop at Waugh’s River to visit relatives.

I saw The Veil yesterday in Halifax. It was an unforgettable experience. The play is an original English production based on Masoud Behnoud’s epic Persian novel Khanoom involving “four generations of women as they struggle to find their identities, independence and a place for themselves in a rapidly changing world”. The use of a set of white curtains with scene projections which are rearranged at intervals to convey different contexts is mesmerizing, as are the story and the acting. It will be in Toronto at the Harbourfront Centre Studio November 28 – December 9, 2007.

Omar Khadr goes on trial today. (Pentagon takes 3rd try at Khadr (TORONTO STAR).
I wish the Canadian politicians would be as vocal about this individual’s legal rights as they are about other child abuse and human rights issues. Of course we now don’t mind the death penalty being applied to our citizens in other countries, so why not prosecution of child soldiers.