Riding: Pictou Centre
Candidate Name: Jim Lindsey
email: jimtlindsey@eastlink.ca
Jim Lindsey was born in Texarkana in rural east Texas on December 15, 1952. His father, also Jim Lindsey, was once Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. His mother Moja has been his father's wife and partner in everything for more than sixty years. They currently live on the hill above their vineyard in northern California.
Lindsey was Vice-President of the student council at his junior high school, and won an Honors scholarship to Denver University. He graduated with an M. A. from Boston University in 1976. He was runner-up for the United States Award in Poetry in 1975 and has published two books, one with the University of Pittsburgh Press and one with Princeton University Press.
After a lengthy career as a reporter for various Texas newspapers including the Dallas Morning News, and as a technical writer for several major IT companies in California’s Silicon Valley, Lindsey moved to Nova Scotia in 1995, bought a house in Prospect, and became a Canadian citizen in 2003.
“Why did I move to Nova Scotia? Because,” says Lindsey, “I wanted a sane lifestyle and I wanted
to live by the sea. I visited friends in the Shambhala community in Halifax and found what I was looking for. After fourteen years here and two hurricanes, I have no doubts. My home and heart are here.”
Lindsey was owner of Drala Books & Gifts in downtown Halifax for several years, and has now returned to work in the IT industry. His interests in open software and alternative energy technology led him to become involved in the Green Party.
“I thought the political realm was my father’s,” Lindsey says. “But now I see a need and a reason
to enter the field myself. Nova Scotia has a wonderful environment. I know we can not only save
and preserve it but turn the province’s economy around in the process. With current alternative
energy technology advances, clean energy production can be put into the hands of the people. The ability to make money and be of benefit can go together, as it turns out. Nova Scotia’s wind and sun and tides can be harvested and should be, by us all and for the good of us all.”
At 56, Lindsey is more active than ever, has read from his literary works and taught meditation throughout the province, is an actor of stage and screen, and will appear in the upcoming second Trailer Park Boys movie as a parole board officer.