Posted Aug 22, 2011, 5:15 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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It is too bad. The Coast was never reliably great from what I remember but sometimes there were interesting articles about the city. Tim Bousquet seems too bombastic for that though; every article I have seen is arrogant, accusatory, and difficult to even get through. He frequently condemns new plans and passes off his own personal conspiracy theories as fact.
Casual readers can only take so much of that before it's all filtered out as noise. For those actually involved in projects like the convention centre much of it must be personally insulting. Bousquet's message does resonate with some but I think he's preaching to the small choir of disaffected Coast commenters and missing the wider audience.
I am pretty sure he reads this forum***. Hopefully he will tone it down a bit in the future and write some more positive articles.
***Bousquet has insultingly written about people on the internet who like generic highrises and skylines -- another "drive-by" style hit on yet another group that has far more nuanced opinions than he lets on. There are people here who know way more about planning than writers at The Coast do. I would also guess that SSP members have had a far more positive impact on Halifax development than Bousquet's rants have.
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