At least one councillor in HRM thinks advertising flyers are becoming a nuisance.  Darren Fisher, who sits on the city’s Environment and Sustainability Committee, is calling for tougher regulations on companies that distribute the weeklies.  ]

Fisher says councillors get calls from residents complaining about flyers all the time.  He says right now, companies aren’t compelled to honour residents’ wishes to avoid deliveries.

“Let’s make some effort here, so these people will obey these do not deliver lists,” he says.  “Let’s let them put out a nice laminated 5 x 7 card that says ‘no’.  Years ago, when we used to get milk, it was yes or no, you flipped it around when you needed milk.”

Fisher says there is one company in the city that will voluntarily stop deliveries to homes and another that won’t.  
Other members of the committee are concerned that legislating change will add more burden to taxpayers.