Bruce Wark

Dear Darrell D: Thanks for commanding your overworked spinmeisters to drop everything whenever I call for government info. Now, with their guidance, my reporting will never stray too far from truth, justice and the NDP way. Let me give thanks by offering these political insights on the $6.2 billion Lower Churchill power project. Darrell, watch your […]

I thought of my dear departed parents last week when a guy in Amherst collared a would-be bank robber and held him for the cops. The CBC dubbed the guy a hero, but my parents, who grew up poor in the Dirty Thirties, would have sided with the robber. “I hope they never catch him,” […]

“Tuition increases limited to 3%,” a Herald headline proclaimed last week, over a story labelled EXCLUSIVE. It quoted “a senior government official,” who cheerily said the province was imposing a three percent tuition cap “designed to protect Nova Scotia students, ensuring that their tuition will remain below the national average over the long term.” The […]

Peaceniks, eat your hearts out: Finally, good news! In spite of the global recession, business is booming for arms makers. In 2009, global military spending reached a record $1.5 trillion US—a solid gain of nearly six percent over 2008 and a whopping increase of 49 percent since the year 2000. The authoritative 2010 yearbook from […]

Father Robert McNeil drew chuckles at a Pictou County funeral last week when he recited a Depression-era verse: “Life is mysterious/Don’t take it too serious/You work, you save/You worry so/But you can’t take it with you/When you go, go, go.” The Roman Catholic priest was speaking during a funeral mass for June MacDonald, 65, a […]

The WikiLeaks release of the chilling video “Collateral Murder” in April was one of the most significant news events of 2010. The footage shows the US Apache helicopter, “Crazyhorse 18,” slaughtering Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007. One of the first nine victims worked for the Reuters news agency. When the driver of a minivan arrives […]