OK, here comes my $250- million question: Who the heck is running this province, fat-cat business tycoons or our new NDP government? Warning: Before answering, consider the evidence presented two weeks ago to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. It concerned the huge profits the auto insurance companies raked in after the Tories and […]
Bruce Wark
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‘Mouse vs. rottweiler’: update on Ocean vs. Economical
Update on second week of Ocean lawsuit against Economical Insurance in which Ocean continues to argue she feels threatened by the insurance company.
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Class war in class
Economist Tim O’Neill should have dedicated his report on Nova Scotia universities to Marshall McLuhan. “School is the advertising agency which makes you believe you need the society as it is,” McLuhan wryly observed. Yes, believe hard enough in the status quo and, as O’Neill points out, your lowly BA will earn you $765,000 more […]
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Rick Salutin out as Friday Globe columnist
Globe replaces freelance columnist Rick Salutin with Irshad Manji as part of its “radical redesign”.
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NS Supreme Court hears testimony in marathon insurance battle
May Ocean testifies at the opening of her lawsuit against Economical Insurance that she does not feel safe. Supreme Court Judge Deborah Smith warns Ocean she could face severe financial penalties if she is found to have prolonged the trial.
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Dal forum hears scathing critique of higher education
CBC Radio forum in Halifax hears scathing criticisms of cash-strapped universities.
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Mo’ Better blues
“For most of human history, the two birds More and Better roosted on the same branch,” writes journalist Bill McKibben in his 2007 book Deep Economy. “You could toss one stone and hope to hit them both.” McKibben’s birds are a clever way of illustrating that, in the past, when the economy produced more, life […]
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Making a Rotten Bet
When Don Connolly sat down last Wednesday to play on-air poker with NS Finance Minister Graham Steele, the veteran CBC Information Morning host was holding a royal flush. That winning hand had been dealt to him two days earlier by gambling expert John McMullan. The Saint Mary’s prof told Connolly that the real reason provincial […]
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Churchill fails
Darrell Dexter was playing politics when he huffed and puffed this week about Quebec’s objections to federal subsidies for an undersea power line between Newfoundland and Cape Breton. “The reality is that when good things happen for Quebec, it is seen as a triumph of federalism,” the NS premier complained to the Herald. “But when […]
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Blow job
There are ironies everywhere if you notice them. Like the Dutch windmills on June MacDonald’s yellow tablecloth. MacDonald, a 64-year-old retired school teacher with twinkling eyes and good-humoured determination, has been fighting for more than a year against the installation of windmills near her home in Baileys Brook, Pictou County. But they’re nothing like the […]
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Peace works
Building a culture of peace may seem like an impossible dream when rich nations are spending billions in Afghanistan waging war on the world’s poorest people, all in the name of self-defence. Yet participants at a conference this week at Mount Saint Vincent University know full well that discussing ways of building a culture of […]