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I just received the Utility and Review Board’s decision granting Nova Scotia Power’s 9.3 percent rate increase. I’ve only skimmed the decision, but will have much commentary in coming days. You can read it yourself here.

We’re one step closer to our queer-positive Islamo-Christian pacifist-terrorist worker’s paradise! Sorry, that’s the best I can do; I’m a little hungover today… Our web editor, Andy Murdoch, sent me the following email at some ungodly hour this morning (10 or so): Remember after the last election there were Americans saying they’d move to Canada? […]

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but dishonesty is another thing entirely. From this morning’s Chronicle-Herald: Premier Rodney MacDonald said he’s disappointed that an old wooden building on Upper Water Street was levelled over the weekend.”Whenever you see a piece of our heritage going by the wayside, that’s not a good thing,” the premier told […]

I’m continually amazed that new councillors often don’t have the slightest clue what’s going on. You saw it during the campaign– many candidates weren’t aware of the controversial issues that were splashed across the newspapers every day, or even had passing knowledge of fundamental council governing documents, like the regional plan or the transit capital […]

I just interviewed Ron Colman, director of GPI Atlantic, publisher of the Nova Scotia GPI accounts. You’ll be hearing a lot about this on the TV news tonight and in the Chronicle-Herald tomorrow morning (and I’ll be writing about it in next week’s Coast); a short description comes from GPI’s press release: For 12 years, […]

This will surprise no one, but I voted for a secret Muslim, America-hating redistributionist as president of the United States last week.

Andrew Younger: “I don’t think Ben McCrea’s bluffing,” Younger said. “He’s losing $250,000 a year on these buildings… By this logic, I’m losing a billion dollars a year because the city won’t let me build a nuclear power plant in my back yard. Or, if the argument is that McCrea is “losing” the money because […]

No, no, not Pierre. Gary: Buoyed rather than daunted by his distant third-place finish in the recent mayoralty race, perennial candidate David Boyd is now throwing his hat into the federal Liberal leadership race.

I’d really like to say: you get a healthy economy, prosperity for all, by doing thing one, thing two and this other thing, #3. Just follow my advice, and we’ll all be rich. Alas, that’s falling into the pony fallacy. Truth is, there are no simple answers, no ponies to magically appear and carry us […]