NDP’s federal climate change bill moves forward after Commons vote.
Bruce Wark
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Halifax MP calls for help to save climate bill
Halifax MP, Megan Leslie calls on Nova Scotians to phone or e-mail Liberal and Conservative MPs to ask them to support NDP climate change bill.
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NDP hikes HST to 15%
Graham Steele answers questions at budget news conference Nova Scotia’s finance minister strode to the lectern to begin his budget news conference at Province House today and fished out a pair of children’s running shoes. Bathed in the glare of flashbulbs, Graham Steele explained that the NDP government was eliminating the provincial portion of the […]
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NDP to slash civil service
NDP budget will announce 10 percent cut to civil service, through attrition, not layoffs.
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Utility sales never a good idea.
Maybe Nova Scotians could learn a lesson from the public outcry in New Brunswick over plans for the sale of NB Power to Hydro Quebec. The uproar began last fall when John Ritter lookalike Shawn Graham announced the sale of NB Power’s transmission and distribution system, as well as its power plants, for $4.8 billion. […]
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Local activists surprised by Clinton apology to Haiti
Local activists react after former US president, Bill Clinton apologizes for forcing Haiti to import cheap American rice.
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Canadian-sponsored apartheid
“Write down!/I am an Arab/and my identity card number is 50,000…Record!/I am an Arab/You have stolen the orchards of my ancestors/And the land which I cultivated/Along with my children/And you left nothing for us/Except for these rocks../So will the State take them/As it has been said?!…Write down on the top of the first page:/I do […]
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CCPA to NDP: Don’t panic over deficit
CCPA Alternative Budget aims to cut deficit while strengthening social programs
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Greenpeace targets Sobeys for selling cod
Greenpeace protests against Sobeys selling Atlantic cod
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O, Canada!
Steve Harper’s on-again, off-again flirtation last week with expunging sexist language from our national anthem brought back bitter memories of my misspent youth hunched over a battered Underwood. While neighbourhood kids indulged in light-hearted play—sniping at hunters in the woods or setting fire to the town crematorium—I huddled in the cellar hammering out stories, poems […]
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Community building
This week’s Coast takes a detailed look at the intriguing possibilities for Halifax’s central library—everything from the potential for an inspiring new building with beautifully designed public spaces to the opportunities for a vigorous balance between old and new media. Our reporting celebrates what we see as a victory in the clash between town and […]
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Voters Should Turn Their Attention to Corporate Subsides
I‘m not religious, but last Sunday I felt like parking myself in the nearest church pew to thank god for the uproar over MLA expenses. At first, I thought the expenses story was a tempest in a teapot. I blamed sustained media hype for the furor over MLA spending on such items as big-screen TVs, […]
