Tim Bousquet

Sure, news of King’s College’s so-called “beer class” has made the Washington Post and all the other big-name fancy-smancy international media outlets, but only one reporter is actually attending the class, taking notes from a chair at the back of the room. Read The Coast blog, thecoast.ca.

Speaking of human rights, there’s a relatively new (started in August) local group called the James McGregor Stewart Society, advocating for accessibility throughout the region. 
 Stewart was a Pictou boy whose stellar academic record brought him to Dalhousie University, where he was a potential candidate for a Rhodes Scholarship reserved for a Dal student. […]

February is African Heritage Month, and celebratory events are scheduled locally nearly every day through the month. The focus of most of the events is rightly on the broad range and depth of African-Canadian culture and history, which, however, necessarily includes discussion of the historic wrongs done to African-Nova Scotians. 
 Halifax has a troubled […]

You can help the Halifax Farmers’ Market see its new harbourfront market become reality. You know the plan: windmills, green roof, killer views, etc. It all depends on cash, of course, and so the accounting alchemists have used their financing magic to meld provincial commitments to ACOA to HRM to CEDIFs to blah, blah, blah, […]

City council has fully embraced internet voting, awarding a $487,151 contract to Intelivote, a Dartmouth firm, to oversee an internet component for early voting in the October council and mayoral elections (traditional voting remains an option for early voters, and the only choice on election day). I worked as a reporter in the US when […]

Paging EllenFor some reason we’re all proud of Ellen Page, even though 99.9 percent of all Haligonians have done exactly nothing to advance her acting career. We may as well be proud of the fog, or of gravity, which we also have nothing to do with. Still, Page is likable enough and Juno is a […]

Halifax Council is poised to do away with most of the regulations on taxis, bowing to the wishes of downtown business patrons and hotel owners who, evidently, have bought into our car culture’s instant gratification/car available at every conceivable instant mentality, as well as the American right wing’s religious belief that the mythical “free market” […]