PLEASE BE POLITE ALWAYS, AND FIRM
PLEASE TELL THEM HALIFAX WILL KILL BRINDI UNLESS THEY ACT!
- Please be sure to give them your location, and ask for a reply.
- Follow up a week later until you get a reply and then keep writing...!
- Don't let them dismiss it by saying things like, "It's before the courts." Point out things like...
- Elected officials are accountable to their constituents.
- Elected officials make laws, must amend laws that don't work or are abused by those entrusted to enforce them. They are directly involved and accountable.
- Send photos of Brindi with them if you can (download from the blog or Save Brindi).
- Phone calls and regular mail or postcards are very powerful if you are able to send them.
- Avoid using Brindi in the subject line of emails, especially to city officials.
- ALSO IMPORTANT: To be more effective, please cc all messages to the media. See list below.
UPDATED LIST OF CONTACTS
TELL THEM HALIFAX MUST NOT KILL BRINDI AFTER AUGUST 1 OR ANYTIME!
PLEASE CONTACT THEM OFTEN!
USING TELEPHONE AS WELL AS REGULAR MAIL IS VERY POWERFUL!
ALSO IMPORTANT: To be most effective, cc to the Media List and other media.
Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)
http://www.Halifax.ca
@hfxgov
Halifax City Hall
1841 Argyle Street, Main Floor
PO Box 1749
Halifax, NS B3J 3A5 Canada
Tel. (902) 490-4000
NON-ELECTED LOCAL OFFICIALS
Head of Halifax Legal Services: John Traver traverj@halifax.ca
Municipal Prosecutor: Katherine Salsman salsmak@halifax.ca
HRM Animal Services:
P.O. Box 1749
Halifax, NS B3J 3A5
Phone: 001-902-490-7371 or 490 1791
Fax: 001 902 490-6142
Manager Andrea Macdonald macdonaa@halifax.ca
Supervisor Lori Scolaro scolarl@halifax.ca
Homeward Bound City Pound (private contractor to the city)
Website: http://www.citypound.ca
@CityPoundHfx
Address: 201 Unit 9 Brownlow Avenue, Dartmouth, NS B3B 1W2 Tel: (902)407-SAVE (7283) Fax: (902)406-8588
Director Hope Swinimer email: hopeswinimer@accesswave.ca
MUNICIPAL ELECTED OFFICIALS
Mayor Mike Savage: savagem@halifax.ca, mayor@halifax.ca
phone: 001 902 490 4010
twitter: @mikesavagehfx
HRM Municipal Councilors: see http://www.halifax.ca/councillors/index.html for full contact information.
Brindi’s local councilor: David Hendsbee.
Website:http://www.hendsbee.ns.ca/contact.htm
Mobile: 1 902.483.0705
Home: 1 902.829.2465
Mailing Address: 1 Chamberlain Drive, Dartmouth, NS B2Z 1B1
Email addresses for all 16 HRM city councilors:
david.hendsbee@halifax.ca
barry.dalrymple@halifax.ca
bill.karsten@halifax.ca
lorelei.nicoll@halifax.ca
gloria.mccluskey@halifax.ca
darren.fisher@halifax.ca
waye.mason@halifax.ca
jennifer.watts@halifax.ca
linda.mosher@halifax.ca
russell.walker@halifax.ca
stephen.adams@halifax.ca
reg.rankin@halifax.ca
matt.whitman@halifax.ca
brad.johns@halifax.ca
steve.craig@halifax.ca
tim.outhit@halifax.ca
Some councillors have twitter accounts as well. Best to search, as they are subject to change.
PROVINCIAL ELECTED OFFICIALS
Attorney General and Minister of Justice: Hon. Ross Landry
Email: justmin@gov.ns.ca
website: http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/minister.asp
Minister of Municipal Affairs: Hon. John MacDonnell snsmrmin@gov.ns.ca
website: http://nslegislature.ca/index.php/people/members/John_MacDonell/
Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
1505 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2M4
Phone: (902) 424-5550
Fax: (902) 424-0581
Member of Parliament for Halifax/Eastern Shore: Peter Stoffer stoffp1@parl.gc.ca
website: http://peterstoffer.ndp.ca/
Community Office:
2900 Hwy #2
Fall River, Nova Scotia, B2T 1W4
Tel: 902-861-2311 or toll-free (NS only) 1-888-701-5557
Fax: 902-861-4620
Ottawa Office:
Room 242 Confederation Bldg.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Tel: 613-995-5822Email: stoffp@parl.gc.ca
Member of the Provincial Assembly
Kevin Murphy - MLA For the Eastern Shore
MEDIA LIST
-subject to change- please send updates
LOCAL MEDIA: news957@rogers.com, radionews@halifax.cbc.ca, Eileen.McInnis@CBC.CA atlanticnews@ctv.ca, news@ctv.ca, jackie.foster@ctv.ca, marnoon@cbc.ca, cbcns@cbc.ca news@globaltv.com, newsroom@herald.ca, letters@herald.ca, editor@herald.ca, Rick.Howe@rci.rogers.com, mileshowe@hotmail.com
On Twitter: @cbcns @cbcmainstreet @maritimenoon @jordimorgan @theRickHoweShow @news957 @chronicleherald @twitcoast @tim_bousquet @openfileHFX @HalifaxMagazine @HalifaxNSNews @nealozano @CKDU881FM
NATIONAL: CBC radio and TV, CTV, Global TV, National Post, Globe and Mail
OTHER LOCAL TWITTER ACCOUNTS: @hfxnovascotia @halifaxtweeters @occupyns
Contacting individuals directly and often brings better results than petitions. Several petitions have been done - the last total was 10,000 signatures. The city ignored them, the trial judge accepted them but did not record as submitted.
Local petitions, over 4oo handwritten signatures in 2009, presented to HRM regional council in person, but also ignored.
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