Bullfeathers

That's the clever way e-mailer John tried to get across his point about Rick's anti-smoking stance today. We're getting a lot of callers taking umbrage with Rick's hardline stance. Keep the calls coming - it's great, I love it when Rick gets fired up!

Let me just say that for our Hotline Nova Scotian of the Year - I voted for Tina Chaulk. She has so much strength; she is so classy and I admire her so much. She's continuing to fight for safer crosswalks 2 years after her daughter's death. She's tired of the politicians studying studies and not taking definitive action. I agree with her 100% that the action of running someone down in a crosswalk needs to be further criminalized. A fine of 387.50 is absolutely ridiculous. I'm fairly certain during the last session of the legislature that they raised the fine for "failing to yield in a crosswalk" to a thousand dollars, but still no points, no insurance deductions - no criminal charges. I'm with Rick on this one too, in terms of having red lights at overhead crosswalks instead of amber lights. Red lights are ingrained into us to STOP! It makes so much sense, probably why the government isn't doing anything about it.

So, we had Health Minister Chris D'Entremont in the studio during hour number two today. It seems like we've had a lot of Tories on the show this year - I guess the directive for them not to come on the show has been lifted?? Anyway, we received a lot of calls, some about deplorable conditions in hospitals which is truly shocking to hear. D'Entremont says he's going to check it out himself, so we'll see what happens!

Were you shocked about the acquittal of the boy who was driving the S-U-V that struck and killed Demetrious Bravakis last year on Lacewood Drive? I'm stunned. I'm planning to do some hardcore googling this afternoon about Pam Williams decisions, hoping to find a pattern. Unbelievable. Another teen goes unpunished for his actions.

Anyway, it's snowing quite hard right now! Good luck surviving this latest winter storm!

Cheers,

Amber