Bruce Wark

In August 2000, freelance writer Barry Boyce came down with a typical case of the Hospital Blues. In a column for the Halifax Daily News, he wrote that he “stepped in a hole in the floor of an old country barn,” twisted his ankle, “and within minutes my foot was the size of a small […]

A beaming Darrell Dexter told the Halifax Chamber of Commerce last week that the $6.2 billion mega-project to import power from the lower Churchill river in Labrador “truly is Atlantic Canada’s CPR.” The NS premier was referring to the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. He might do well to remember the Pacific […]

On July 14, 1965, as the US marched into Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson stepped into a White House staff meeting. “Don’t let me interrupt,” the American president said. “But there’s one thing you ought to know. Vietnam is like being in a plane without a parachute when all the engines go out. If you jump, you’ll […]

I worry when my 10-year-old twins stand on neighbours’ doorsteps shouting, “Trick or treat!” Last Halloween, Jimmy and Joanie collected six razor-blade-bearing apples. Admittedly, the twins were courting disaster. Joanie was garbed in a Stephen Harper outfit complete with a motorized Pinocchio snout that lengthened every time she prorogued, while Jimmy masqueraded as Maggie Thatcher […]