HRM-isms
In an abbreviated form, this is how to reference the Halifax Regional Municipality.
What is the municipality?
Boom! This is the time the gun fires from Citadel Hill, in CP Style.
What is noon?
This punctuation mark joins two statements that are closely related in meaning.
What is a semi-colon (;)?
Parks & Recreation employees manage these community facilities that offer a variety of classes, programs and activities for residents.
What are recreation centres?
The abbreviated ‘K’ is used to represent this in financial listings, graphs, charts and on X (Twitter).
What are thousands?
Occupations are never capitalized... but one is.
What are Operators (Halifax Transit)?
This is how you would write the time in a municipal PSA about a Department of National Defence initiative taking place at 1300hrs.
What is 1 p.m.?
When referring to a proper name of a formal municipal document, specific legislation or by-law, this font style is used when writing it out.
What are italics?
There are 16 of these Regional Council members. In Canada, we spell this differently than our American counterparts.
What are Councillors?
The misuse and overuse of this punctuation mark decreases our credibility and the effectiveness of our communications.
What is an exclamation point/mark?
Roadie to the bay of St. Margaret! Is that road sign right?
What is St. Margarets Bay Road?
This is how you write the numerical order of Olympic medal placements (gold, silver and bronze) in CP style.
What is first, second, third (no superscripts)?
This process involves having another member of the Corporate Communications team review materials before hitting send to a client.
What is a quality assurance check or the quality assurance process?
Olivia Rodrigo got this last week.
What is licence?
X bat, Y bat – ah ah ah. This is the way the Count should write his numbers through to nine bat.
What is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine (aka write them out)?
Written in CP style, this would be the correct way to combine and write "Barrington, Hollis and Lower Water" in a sentence.
What is Barrington, Hollis and Lower Water streets?
How Dr. Evil would tweet about his $100 billion fortune. Groovy!
What is $100B?
This abbreviation means “that is to say”.
What is i.e.?
Now a common practice in Canada, this formal statement is typically given before meetings, conferences, workshops or other events which recognizes and respects the Indigenous Peoples of that region and their relationship to the lands.
What is a Land Acknowledgement (with an ‘e’)?
This symbol should only be used in financial listings, graphs, charts and on X (Twitter) and should otherwise be spelled out.
What is % (the per cent symbol)?
By law, this is how a by-law should be written in a legal document.
What is By-law?
Brrrr…it's cold! This is how you would write 30 below in CP style.
What is - 30 C?
A numbered list should be used in place of bullet points in this instance.
What is in sequence or sequential order?
Practice or practise - one is a noun and one is a verb. Which one should be used here: Do you have a licence to _______ nursing?
What is practise?
This punctuation mark can only be used in the following instances: for titles, headings, sub-headings, business units, division titles and X (Twitter).
What is an ampersand?