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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is keen to ensure a legitimate, democratic order in Ukraine .
But his government is curiously casual about ramming through changes to Canada's election act that this country's opposition parties claim are illegitimate.
In the case of Ukraine, Canada's Conservative government has moved so quickly that it dispatched a team to meet the Eastern European country's new transitional government even before that government had been formed.
Ottawa did so after Ukraine's parliament, under pressure from street protestors, united to impeach and remove discredited president Viktor Yanukovych.
Harper's quick action is understandable. Ukraine is in a perilous position. As the Star has reported, not all parts of the country accept the new order in Kyiv. Anything that Canada can do to help Ukrainians create a legitimate, broadly based government would be useful.
So it is puzzling that the Harper Conservatives are insisting on election reforms here in Canada that many, particularly in the opposition parties, say stack the deck.
Democracy works only when all involved figure the rules are fair.
In the case of Bill C-23, which the government calls the Fair Elections Act , virtually the entire opposition say Harper is moving too precipitously.
A motion this week to hold cross-country hearings on the bill was backed by the New Democrats, Liberals, Greens and at least one former Tory MP.
That motion was handily defeated by Harper's Conservative majority. The government has also used its majority to limit debate in the Commons on Bill C-23.
Opposition misgivings centre around three issues: the government's desire to take enforcement of the election act away from chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand ; its plan to tighten requirements for voter eligibility; and its proposed loosening of some financial rules.
Indeed, the plan to shift enforcement to the Justice Department does smack more of pique than policy. Mayrand is the man who famously took the Conservative Party to court for breaking election laws, and won.
The government argues that its proposed regime would be even tougher on miscreants. The problem, however, is that it would have the top election law enforcer working for the government of the day.
By contrast, the chief electoral officer works for Parliament. His role, like that of the auditor general, is to stand above partisan politics.
Opposition MPs also claim that government plans to tighten voter eligibility requirements are designed to suppress the vote. Critics are particularly irked by clauses that would remove voter notification cards mailed out by Elections Canada from the list of acceptable IDs and that would end the practice whereby one voter is able to vouch for another's identity.
The government response is that there will still be 39 kinds of identification that voters can use to cast ballots. That's true, although many of the 39, such as parolee identification cards, are not widely held.
Still, it is odd to treat as acceptable a phone bill that arrives through the post but not a mailed notification from Elections Canada.
The government may have a reason, or at least a reason better than the one offered by Mississauga Tory MP Brad Butt (he twice claimed he had personally seen individuals picking voter notification cards from the trash to use fraudulently before, finally, admitting that both statements were entirely untrue.)
If so, the government would be wise to slow down and explain itself.
Changing the rules around voting is always tricky business. The last major overhaul in 2000 was bitterly opposed by Harper, then head of the right-wing National Citizens' Coalition and by the Communist Party.
The Communists won their case in court; Harper did not.
The then Liberal government used its majority to ram those 2000 reforms through the Commons. That wasn't smart then. It isn't now.
People often accept governments they didn't vote for. But they do so only if they view the process as legitimate. Allowing the election law itself to become a partisan issue is playing with fire. Ukraine provides an extreme example of what can happen when a government loses legitimacy.
Thomas Walkom's column appears Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Correction - March 4, 2014: This article was edited from a previous version that misspelled Marc Mayrand's surname.
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The tall, dark-haired actor is in the running for best performance by an actor in a featured role in a musical for his work on "Bullets Over Broadway."
Following his nomination, he marvelled that the tangled path he followed — growing up in Hamilton's west end, attending Ryerson University for acting, dropping out to start a rock band and even recently enrolling in a real-estate course as a fall-back option — could lead to a Tony nod.
But win or lose, Cordero already has a golden souvenir from this run on the Great White Way.
"I have a pile of hand-written notes written on yellow notepaper in Woody Allen's (handwriting) that are sitting in my dressing room, that I have to put in a very nice frame one day," Cordero said down the line from New York on Tuesday.
"Again, I'm a kid from Hamilton," he added with wonder.
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"Things like, early on, when you're sort of figuring out what the tone of the comedy is, you tend to maybe push it a little more than you need to or emphasize it in a way that it doesn't need to be emphasized," recalled Cordero, who made his Broadway debut in "Rock of Ages."
"And some of his early guidance was really stuff (like), don't present it necessarily that way. If you don't get a laugh, then it'll be my fault and not yours — which I thought was pretty sage advice. Just be heard and be truthful and if it's funny, it's funny.
"Working with him has been incredible. Something I'll never forget."
Cordero had similarly resounding praise for the production's star, Zach Braff, who's a "true prince."
"He's doing such a good job," Cordero said. "He's onstage for about two and a half hours straight. He rarely leaves, and he's gotta deal with me spitting in his face and throwing him on the ground and shoving him around.
"He's giving it 110 per cent every night. Without him, there's no show."
The production is about a 1920s playwright who leans on the mob to finance his show, on the condition that he find a role for the demanding girlfriend of a gangster. Cordero portrays Cheech (played by Chazz Palminteri in the film version), the newbie actress's escort who possesses a surprisingly keen eye for theatre.
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"And spoiler alert — but I die at the end and I get talked about what an artist I am. So it's pretty much the perfect role."
Although a challenging one, to be sure.
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TRANSCRIPT Press Conference – Baha Mar Project Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham House of Assembly Majority Room Wednesday, September 29, 2010 PM: Much is written in the newspaper about this project. All sorts of motives are ascribed to myself, and no one has ever asked me any questions. And I thought it opportune this morning, to make myself available so that you can ask me any questions you wish and at the same time, provide you with any additional information that I can so that we are not proceeding along every other day saying 'this will happen tomorrow, that will happen tomorrow.' You can take what I tell you and rely upon it. Media: Is there any concern about whether Baha Mar is financially sound because of the delay in reaching an agreement with Scotia Bank? PM: Well, you can draw your own conclusion as I will draw mine. I will keep mine to myself and you would make yours known to the public. Baha Mar has a mortgage with Scotia Bank and a condition of the loan from the China Eximbank is that the Scotia loan must be satisfied - must be paid – before the Eximbank loan can kick in. There are some additional conditions, but one of the principal conditions is [Baha Mar] must pay Scotia off so that they have title to the property to be able to give to [the Bank] to hold as a lender. That is what is taking place now, discussions over that. Media: Is it surprising that it is taking so long? PM: Well, I am surprised in the sense that last week Wednesday while we were in the House, I had very good reason to believe that the parties had arrived at an agreed position, or would have arrived at an agreed position certainly by Friday of last week. We thought that had been the case, but they have not yet agreed. The issue relates to, very frankly, that Baha Mar does not believe that it ought to pay Scotia all the monies that Scotia says is owed to it. They believe they ought to get less money, and Scotia believes it ought to get as much of the money owed to it as possible and that is what the argument is about. Media: Have you had any discussions with the Chinese partners? PM: There are a number of things that must be done before China Eximbank comes in. First of all, Scotia's loan must be satisfied, the Agreement with the Government must be had. There are a number of conditions in the Government Agreement that Baha Mar would have to satisfy and there are some additional conditions that are required to be satisfied by Baha Mar before the loan kicks in. At the moment, what the Government has before it is an arrangement made between Baha Mar and two Chinese companies. Once Baha Mar is in a position to fulfil its side of the bargain in terms of having its property free and clear, then the Government has for consideration what has been agreed Baha Mar and the China Eximbank and the China Construction Company. And the extent to which we will engage in exchanges with them will be subsequent to the satisfaction of Scotia's mortgage. At the moment, there is no basis upon which we can speak to them formally. Media: What is your response to the Opposition Leader's earlier criticism about your tone in Parliament with respect to the project. Do you have faith in the Baha Mar deal? PM: I wish you could have heard the Leader of the Opposition speak to me privately just about 15 minutes ago in the presence of the Member for Mt. Moriah and see the difference between that position which he had taken publicly, and the private position which he has in relation to this project. But as for your question, I am hopeful for the project. Certainly on our side, there is no one who is opposed to the project. There are concerns which would need to be satisfied. There are concerns that first of all, we are going to be embarking on a course with respect to foreign labour that has never happened in The Bahamas before; you would be building the largest single resort project in the country with exclusively foreign labour – foreign labour where there is no transfer of any knowledge to locals. You would, at the same time, be producing a number of rooms that is larger than anything we've got in the country without any major hotelier being involved to-date so that you can determine the extent to which you are likely to have a successful project down the road. You have the experience of what has happened in Grand Bahama at Our Lucaya – a wonderful resort that is nearly empty most of the time. So the branding of such a facility would be critical from the Bahamas Government's point of view. Apart from that, you have persons who are of the view that the project should be done in phases; that we cannot put on the market in The Bahamas 3,500 hotel rooms at one time; that we don't have the capacity to attract the visitors to make such a thing successful; and that we will put ourselves in a position where either there will be competition down to the bottom in terms of rates where we can end up negatively affecting Paradise Island and Cable Beach; that it is critical for there to be substantial training of workers to work in these hotels when it is completed and that if you build them all and open them all at the same time, it is not likely to produce an acceptable result. So there are a number of issues that would need to be resolved before we move on. At the moment, all we've got is a deal between Baha Mar and the China Company, and the Bahamas Government cannot be in a position where it is 'take it or leave it' proposition. We have to be able to take account of the interests which The Bahamas has and seek to have a project that takes account of our interest. Media: Who will hold as collateral the Cable Beach property once the move beyond this step with Scotia Bank? PM: You know, I am fascinated by that question because there has been some suggestion that if the property is mortgaged, then the Chinese can end up owning it. Well the Canadians mortgaged it, does it mean the Canadians owned it? If you got the loan from an American bank it would be the Americans owning it. Secondly as Minister Tommy Turnquest said yesterday, when you go to the bank to borrow money to buy a house, you don't concern yourself with whether the bank is going to take the house because you intend to pay the bank back, and once you pay the bank back, you get your papers. So if it is a relevant question as to if this project does not go, will the Chinese end up owning it, it means there is some doubt as to whether it is going to be successful. If such a doubt exists, then we ought to put it on the table and discuss it now up front and not put The Bahamas in any difficult position. The other point that is of fundamental importance is, the Bahamas Government committed itself in the Agreement with Kerzer International that no one will get a better deal for a development than they got. That was in 1997. In 2003, that was strengthened by the Government when [Kerzner] did Phase 3; it is called a Most Favoured Nation clause. If therefore, the Bahamas Government agrees to 5,000 Chinese workers building the resort on Cable Beach, at some subsequent time in The Bahamas, Kerzner will have the entitlement to come and ask for the same deal and the Government would be bound to give him the same deal. So these are all matters that need to be considered up front. Media: Can Baha Mar and Kerzner co-exist? PM: Yes, over a phased period of time. In other words, if Baha Mar brought in 1,000 hotel rooms first as Kerzner did, and then later on some additional rooms, etc, it can work – but not to just dump in the market at one time, these numbers of rooms. We also have to take account of reality. We have operating now at Cable Beach, a number of hotel rooms, many of them are closed now including the casino. If I have difficulty in dealing with less than 1700 rooms, what is likely to be the case if I put 3,500 there? What makes me feel and what gives me the level of confidence that all of a sudden, I've become a magician in terms of the management of a hotel, and how have a very successful operation with high levels of occupancy and good revenue to be able to pay the loan of $2.4 billion? And if I am having discussions on the question of repaying a loan of $200 million that is dragging on and on, does that raise questions that I ought to be concerned with. These are all matters that the Government has to be concerned with, so it does not matter {named persons} go to the Tribune to tell me what I ought to do. My duty is to do what I think is best for the Bahamian people, and we are considering and pondering all these matters before we give formal consideration. We came to Parliament, not to ask Parliament to tell us how to do our job, but I want the Members of the House of Assembly to express to their constituents and to the Government what their views are – I don't want anyone hiding. Whatever your concerns are, whatever your views are, say it there – we will take those into account when the Government is considering the matter. And so there are two questions being asked of the Parliament in the Resolution – one is Do you approve this project, and Do you approve 8,150 Chinese coming to The Bahamas to work on this project over the next three or four years. They are the two questions to be answered, and we expect them to be answered. The Opposition have said that they could not support up to 200 Chinese coming to The Bahamas for the Airport Gateway Project and now we've got 8,150 coming. Let's see what the deal is. Media: You had indicated that this was a 'PLP baby" and that if the PLP voted no on the Resolution there would be no project. Has that position changed? PM: Not yet; we will see when the vote comes. I expect the Resolution to pass, but that has nothing to do with the project – the Government still has to approve the project. Media: Have you had discussions with Baha Mar on the specific issues you have raised this morning? PM: Well, the Agreement with Baha Mar that the Christie government did said that they were to have a major hotel chain or group as an equity partner in the deal and they were to have a major casino operator. At that time, they had Harrah's and Starwood. We do not yet know who will replace them, because the deal was never intended to be a straight deal between the Government and Baha Mar. From the Government's point of view, and I am speaking about the Christie government, the Government was not satisfied that it would be willing to give an individual such an arrangement unless it was also connected to a major hotel grouping. Media: Is that your position? PM: Well, do not expect for me to ask less than the Christie government did. Indeed, if there is anything, expect me to ask more. Media: Can you speak to Baha Mar's recent statement that contradicted your House statement on when the transfer of lands in the deal would occur? PM: I don't comment on Baha Mar, I speak for the Government. Baha Mar already has ownership of more than 150 acres of public land on Cable Beach. Additional lands are to be transferred to Baha Mar if this deal goes. Several things that we did not agree to in our negotiations with Baha Mar were (i) we did not agree to what the PLP had agreed with them, which was to sell them 70 acres of public land on Gladstone Road for their Back of the House. We said we would lease it to them and we agreed to lease them 50 acres. (ii) We did not agree that any housing units could be built on the 99 or so acres of land owned by the Water and Sewerage Corporation and fee simple title transferred. We agreed that the land could be leased and if they wanted a piece for their housing, they had to give us back another piece of land of equal size in the immediate vicinity, and that at no time would the fee simple title of the Water and Sewerage Corporation be diluted below the 99 percent. (iii) We did not agree that the Gaming Board and Development Bank should be sold to Baha Mar at all, and (iv) we did not agree that we would pay $20 million to put the electricity underground between JFK and the Baha Mar project. There are several others things we did not agree, but they are basically what we are talking about. What has to be understood is the history of Cable Beach. The Government of the Bahamas in the 1950s determined that Cable Beach was a significant tourism product for The Bahamas, and that it would not sell to anyone, any fee simple land from between the Nassau Beach to the end of the Governors Beach hotel. The Government was able to persuade the owners of the Emerald Beach hotel to build a hotel on a lease condition. It was able to persuade the owners of the Nassau Beach hotel to build the hotel on a lease condition; that was when the UBP was in office. When Carnival came to build the Crystal Palace hotel, they too wanted to buy the land. The PLP government said the land is not for sale, and so those hotel towers were built on leased land. The Government gave them a 50 year lease with an option to renew for a further 50 years. The Government sold the fee simple title to the Cable Beach hotel, so Baha Mar owns it outright today. And they agreed to sell the Nassau Beach hotel property and also the property where Carnival had their hotel, so that they changed policy and all the title would now go to Baha Mar to be mortgaged to whatever foreign entity. I don't think that we ought to be so discriminatory by saying that if it is the Chinese we find it difficult, if it's the Americans, Canadians or any other foreigner, its acceptable. If you do not want it to go to foreign ownership, then the policy that existed lease-hold land would have been continued. And so, those lands now will be transferred. Also, the Hobbyhorse Hall land south of Bay Street will have to be transferred. So, together with the 150 + acres which has already been sold to Baha Mar, including the golf course we now have the other side. You know, just to get the facts straight, the Government of The Bahamas paid $120 million + to build the Cable Beach hotel. It was sold for $30 million including the land, and I am not counting all of the interest the Government paid on the loan over all of those years. Media: Do you think that's criminal? PM: I wont make any comment. We had the election campaign and we got elected, and I said some of these things before. Media: [Asks follow-up question on money paid for the hotel] PM: Well, first off, we are owed some money. Baha Mar still owes the Government money so, a part of the deal with considering their applications will be the payment of the Government's money – stamp tax, gaming tax, BEC, Water and Sewerage, etc. It is quite a few dollars. Media: The money you spoke of for the National Stadium's infrastructure will also be borrowed money? PM: It can only be borrowed money. There is no other means by which the Government can produce the money other than by borrowing it. What we have done is that we have conditioned it so that we would not have to borrow the money until the development reaches a certain stage, so that we would not be putting money in for them to get started. Media: Might there be discussions on changing the arrangement to a phased development? PM: We will certainly put that to both Baha Mar and China State Construction and also the China Eximbank. We also understand the implication of that, that if they are going to do it in phases, it will end up costing more money, and that they would need fewer Chinese workers in The Bahamas. And so the extent to which there can be trade off we do not know. But at the end of the day, we will make a decision as to what we think will be best for The Bahamas. Media: Is there any protection for the Bahamian people should Baha Mar not be able to meet its debt obligations? PM: Not any more than what is in place to protect the Bahamian people who get a mortgage from the bank for a house and do not pay the bank and the bank sells the house to someone else. But, if we conclude in our deliberation that there is a high probability that Baha Mar will default on the loan, then it is certainly a decision for the Government to make as to whether it wishes to put The Bahamas in such a position. Media: Have you had discussions with Kerzner on how this project might affect their property? PM: I have discussions with major developers with great regularity, including Kerzner. What I do not need them to tell me is what I must be able to see with my own eyes as the Head of the Government of The Bahamas - knowing that right now in September on Paradise Island, they are at about 30-35% occupancy, that hundreds of people are working two days per week, that's hundred of people are on vacation, that in Grand Bahama at the Our Lucaya hotel they probably have occupancy of less than 20%, that on Cable Beach, hundreds and hundreds of rooms are closed and the casino is closed. I don't need Kerzner or anyone to tell me what that means; I can see that. Media: How confident are you that you can survive in the next election approving 8,150 Chinese workers? PM: Well, I think you are asking the wrong man because I am only here for so long as the public wants me to be here. And if the public says it does not want me to be here today I will happily leave today, so you might ask others who want to stay, but I can go any day. What I mean is, I will make what I think is the best decision; I will not take account of what the political consequence of that is. I will do what I think is best for The Bahamas. And if that means that there is a political price to pay, then I will pay it and my Party will pay it. Media: What quality assurance measures will be put in place with respect to the Chinese materials to be brought in for the project? PM: That is a very good question. We do not have the capacity in The Bahamas to manage a project of this size. And so The Bahamas Government would have to employ a firm engineers, quality control persons, environmental people, etc, to undertake the supervision of the project, the monitoring of the project, to ensure the quality of the materials – materials that are coming from outside our region that we are not accustomed to. [They would] ensure that they meet standards that are understood in this part of the world. To give you an example, the Government is going to build a four-lane highway from the airport into town. We are going to engage a firm that will be our quality control firm, being a supervisor for us, and we would have to do the same thing for this project. Now, the cost of this would be very high to be able to properly supervise this project. Media: With so much to consider, when do you expect the Government might have a final determination on the project? PM: I am going to China on October 22. I do not expect that we would decide that before I go. Media: The Central Bank spoke to a dimmer prospect for 2011 than previously forecast. It also said that a major project could help to turn the situation around. What other hope is there apart from Baha Mar? PM: One of the things I really take exception to is seeing in a column that Baha Mar is a saviour for The Bahamas. I find that most offensive and I would like to urge you all not to offend me everyday by saying that about my country, as it is your country too. Media: Its not a saviour? PM: It is not. It is not. We are not going to die if Baha Mar doesn't come. We've been here from the time Christopher Columbus came in 1492 and we will be here 500 more years plus. If that was the case then the Government would have nothing to consider, it would just rubber stamp it. The Central Bank of The Bahamas is no more able to determine what is going to happen in the future than the IMF, the World Bank, the IDB, the US Government and everyone else – they are all just guessing. They may have educated, informed guessing, but they have no means of knowing when the world economy is going to turn around and what the impact is going to be. All of us are forecasting and doing the best we can. And so, there is this theory that we all will have, that in order for us to take care of the huge labour force in The Bahamas - much of which is unskilled – we need a big project every so often, and we have been fortunate to have a big project ever so often, but at some point in time The Bahamas is not going to have a big project. Albany is a big project that is going on right now down at the west end of New Providence, a well funded project. It would be wonderful if we had Baha Mar going on. It would be even better if we had a scaled-down version of Kerzer's Phase 4 going on at the same time, but the reality is we don't and we have prospects, but we don't count chickens before they hatch. Media: Will there be any transfer-of-knowledge stipulations if the project is approved? PM: We are concerned that there is going to be no Bahamians working on the core of the project which is the construction of the hotels, etc. Lots of Bahamians gained additional skills at Kerzner. They gained skills working at the Cable Beach hotel in Nassau when the Government built that and then when Carnival's hotel and the airport was built, etc. And so, we are concerned that it would be a bad precedent to set to allow the construction of 3,500 hotel rooms in The Bahamas with exclusive foreign labour. The material is foreign, the capital is foreign, and for the labour to be foreign will be a pill that will be very difficult for The Bahamas Government to digest. But we have come to Parliament to see the extent to which Parliament believes this is a digestible pill. And if it is not digestible in whole, to what extent can we make it into something that is digestible and doable. Media: Reference to the BCA's request for training stipulations to be included in the Agreement… PM: They have been promoting Baha Mar and cussing me that I would not do this, that and the other. Now they are beginning to see. Some people can only see when things are near. Others can see when things are very far away. They have a signed Heads of Agreement with the Christie government that people did not complain about. I will never forget that night sitting waiting for the news - there was no ZNS news but a big thing in the Cabinet Room announcing this Baha Mar project. Don't forget, this project should have been completed, this was signed off in 2005. The project has not yet started. What is amazing is how easy it has been for the print and broadcast media in The Bahamas to be manipulated, and promote this project without asking any questions and then blaming people like me for standing in the way. Media: Are there no skilled Bahamians to work on the core project? PM: Oh no, I do not accept that. There is no question that a project this size would require significant foreign labour – we accepted that for Kerzner, we accepted that for Phase I of the airport that we are now doing, but that there is a significant part to be played by Bahamians in doing those also. I don't think there is a better example of the difference between ourselves and the PLP than what is going on at the airport today. When the PLP was in office and Perry Christie, Bernard Nottage and Vincent Peet was a Minister, the Brazilians got a deal to build the US Terminal at the airport and said that they could bring in 70 percent of their workers from outside the country. And if the Government wanted more than 30 percent Bahamians to work there, the Government had to pay them more money. Go to the airport now and see what we are building down there and see what the foreign and Bahamian content is - the exact opposite. I don't think there is any other yardstick I can use that can better illustrate the difference between ourselves. Media: Given all that is happening in the country, do you think that the country should be appreciative that you are in the chair? PM: No, no. I will tell you this though: I believe that the broad base of people in The Bahamas believe that I am thoughtful, that I am not indecisive, and that I will do the best I can. Media: Do you plan to go into the various constituencies and get a pulse of the people on the project? PM: No, we are not going to seek to abdicate our responsibility. It is our responsibility to hear what people say and to make decisions and we don't do that by having public meetings constituency to constituency. Media: Is the $45 million that you said the Government would need provide for the Baha Mar project a part of previously approved borrowing sums? PM: No money has been borrowed for Baha Mar. Fifteen million or more of the National Stadium money is in the budget and included in the monies we got approval to borrow, just like the money that we need to fix the courts is in the budget, the money to build the port at Arawak Cay is in the budget. Media: Are we still borrowing to pay salaries, etc? PM: There is no other way. There is no other way for The Bahamas unless we dismiss thousands of people, than to run an overdraft at the Royal Bank of Canada which would fluctuate between $75 million and $120 million. And every time I hear people talk about borrowing, I wonder what they expect us to do, not borrow? Yes, we could not borrow and shut down. Media: How much longer can we go on like this? PM: It is not as bad today as it was last year, so we are making some progress. But as to the question of how much longer we can go, we can go forever; we would just have reduced standards of living, infrastructure would be run down, etc. The reality is that at the same time, the Government is also improving the infrastructure in this country. We are putting down the pipes in the ground for the water, electrical lines and telephones, to be able to accommodate us and supply us with our needs and to accommodate growth in the economy.
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Lin Nah will be leaving you info + links here for putting up on the wiki. Yes it is as opposed to doing it myself. Some of them require organising, wording etc. Mostly info + links I already have and so it is a copy + paste without prettying it up. Some will be links to where to find the info. Lin Nah (talk) 22:49, 14 December 2014 (AEDT)
Stuff for wiki
Assortment of content I'm chucking on this page. Hopefully someone can take some time to put it in the righ tpages etc.
Some stuff todo here in the r/auckland FAQ http://www.reddit.com/r/auckland/wiki/index and r/nz faq http://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/1exkfs/faq_tourism_visiting_new_zealand/
Maps: either Open streetmap or google map If someone is creating them
Speciality foods
SUpermarkets do have a lot of the organic, dairy free, gluten free(incl bread + pasta), sugarfree , and food for special diets. However there's other shops too. Eg if the bread/pasta/biscuits isn't in the bread/pasta section, check for the supermarket's speciality section or ask staff.
Good selection at supermarket. Those that won awards usually have a label.
- Cheese Award winners listed here http://www.nzsca.org.nz/cheese-awards/
- 2014 cheese awards winners http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1403/S00116/dutch-trio-sweep-nz-cheese-awards.htm
- Kapiti Cheese + Icecream shop
19 Shortland St, Auckland CBD https://www.kapiticollection.co.nz/ http://thefoodpornographer.com/2013/05/the-kapiti-store-auckland/
- La Cigale market - there's some french cheeses sold there.
Bakeries in town
- Pandoro (queen st) 75 queen st http://www.pandoro.co.nz/Retail+Stores/Auckland/Queen+Street.html pdf of order form http://www.pandoro.co.nz/site/pandoro/PreOrder%20Autumn%2014Mar%202013.pdf
- Cheap bakery at Atrium on Elliot food court
- Paneton by Victoria Park http://www.panetonbakery.co.nz/
Unit 1, 21 Halsey Street Freemans Bay 1010, New Zealand +64 9-309 5338 https://plus.google.com/105757249149019169544/about?hl=en&gl=nz
- Supermarkets have bakery section
Best pies
Prob good for ppl going on the roadtrip and wish to have pies along the way http://www.nzbakels.co.nz/pie_awards_2014.cfm
Cake shops
Whole cakes, don't need to order
- Pandoro. http://www.pandoro.co.nz/Retail+Stores/Auckland/Queen+Street.html Have whole cakes + by the slice. pdf of order form gives you an idea of what ackes are avail http://www.pandoro.co.nz/site/pandoro/PreOrder%20Autumn%2014Mar%202013.pdf
- Gateau House, http://www.gateauhouse.com/
18 High Street or 328 Queen St. opposite Carls Junior. http://www.gateauhouse.com/contact lists address, phone numbers + hours Lovely choc mousse cakes, chiffon cakes. whole cake, also by slices. Website has pics + range
- La Couronne: 5C Lorne St. CBD> http://lacouronne.co.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/Lacouronnecakeboutique has pics 8)
- Vaniye (Parnell). French cake shop in Parnell http://www.vaniye.com/
- FB + twitter has pics to drool over. FB https://www.facebook.com/Vaniye Twitter https://twitter.com/Vaniye
- google+ page https://plus.google.com/+PatisserieVANIYEAuckland/?hl=en
I like markets as they are a good place to find the best NZ local produce (especially the farmers markets). "Farmers market" in nz means things they sell has to be made/grown within a certain radius of the market's location. They tend to be organic or spray free too. Authenticity http://www.marketground.co.nz/fmnz/35275/
- Britomart Farmers market on Saturday 8am - 12:30pm http://www.britomart.org/city-farmers-market google+ https://plus.google.com/102403961790008849161/about?gl=nz&hl=en
- Parnell Farmers market - behind the jubilee building on Sundays 8am - noon mySiloParkhttp://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Farmers-Market-Auckland.htm google+ https://plus.google.com/+ParnellFarmersMarketAuckland/?hl=en
- La Cigale French Market in Parnell. on Sat + sundays St Georges Bay Rd. Can walk from carlaw park accommodations. Doesn't comply with "farmers market" rules. La Cigale (the shop which started the market) has imported french cheeses and wines as well as other kitchenware. However there's many stalls there that would comply within the NZ farmers market regulations.
Very very good market. There's a glutenfree sausage stall there too.
When: every Saturday from 8am to 1.30pm and Sunday from 9am to 1.30pm. Web http://www.lacigale.co.nz/french-market/ google+ https://plus.google.com/101268803893335286964/about?hl=en&gl=nz FB https://www.facebook.com/lacigalemarkets
- Friday night market at Wynyard quarter
- Farmers market web page http://www.farmersmarkets.org.nz/
Further afield (for travellers) the Matakana market on Sat morning is worth visiting if you're on the way to visit the marine reserve at Leigh.
- Wellington City Market- there's a foodies market on sunday
FB https://www.facebook.com/WellingtonCityMarket + Twitter https://twitter.com/thecitymarket
http://www.quaymed.co.nz/ lists their fees as $80 http://www.quaymed.co.nz/practice-hours/patient-fees They are close (by the old railway station on Beach Rd)
http://www.citymed.co.nz/ I rang to ask $85 for tourists (Same as the casual + not enrolled NZer + NZ PR)
http://www.thefono.org/services-fees/fees/ (by St Patricks Square)
Note: Casual + not enrolled applies to any person going to a GP that isn't their normal GP. So applies to ppl who travel from out of town.
Marine reserves near Auckland
Leigh + Cathedral cove
- Walking + Tramping tracks in Auckland http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/parksfacilities/walkingtracks/Pages/home.aspx
- Fergs kayak
Free stuff
Heritage walks
- Auckland Domain 2 hr self guided walk with podcast
http://www.parnell.org.nz/Parnell-Trust-Heritage-Walks-podcasts-DOMAIN.htm If you look towards the bottom of the page above you'll find links to other walks in the domain Auckland Museum: Pukekawa - The Domain Volcano Walk Auckland Museum: Auckland Domain Sculpture Walk Auckland Museum: Domain Heritage Walk
- Grafton Heritage Walk 1.5hr self guided walk with podcast
- Grafton Bridge http://www.ipenz.org.nz/heritage/itemdetail.cfm?itemid=135
http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Bridge http://kroad.com/heritage/grafton-bridge/
- History + map of Symonds St Cemetary
What / Where is this
K Rd = Karangahape Rd