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We reporters should recognize the role we play in furthering racial stereotypes. It can sometimes be a difficult balance to find, but we should think carefully before giving racial descriptions (black, white, native, Asian, whatever) to suspects in crimes. Clearly, race as part of an overall description can be essential in apprehending a suspect, but […]

What is it about this town and cats?Press release: The Nova Scotia SPCA is seeking information on the identity of a person who abandoned two cats in the parking lot of their Metro Shelter in Dartmouth on the evening of November 4th,, 2008. A member of the public placed two cats under a staff vehicle […]

Chronicle-Herald: The new Halifax regional school board is turning a page in its own history book. Its nine members voted in Africville activist Irvine Carvery as their chairman during their first meeting Wednesday in Dartmouth. This is a nice gesture on the part of all the elected members, and might begin to heal wounds with […]

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.