Some rogue electioneer has taken political postering into their own hands at the corner of Quinpool and Robie. Who did it? I like the ‘no-left turns’ sign below it. Harper’s taking flack on all fronts these days. Canada’s first lady of literature, Margaret Atwood, wrote a deadly comment piece in yesterday’s Globe and Mail.
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The smog of electoral war…
Is a carbon tax a good idea? What the f*&^ is a cap-and-trade policy anyway? And why has the media—for the most part—abandoned its traditional role of trying to make sense of it all for us? Perhaps the simple, unhappy answer is that our journalists are so busy reading the leavings in the bottom of […]
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Going to the candidates’ debates
I happened to be in Boston last weekend for a conference, which is how I ended up watching the first U.S. presidential debate Friday evening (September 26) on a big-as-my-house widescreen TV with several hundred of my new closest friends in the atrium of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. It was fascinating, […]
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Makin’ sense of it all…
Still puzzling over how to cap carbon, or trade a tax, or emit a greenhouse gas, or… The Ecology Action Centre will host a primer entitled “CARBON JARGON: MAKING SENSE OF CAP & TRADE AND CARBON TAX” on Monday, October 6 at the Dal Law School (Room 105) from 6-7 pm. Meinhard Doelle, who teaches […]
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Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine
It starts with a violent coup by dictatorAugusto Pinochet September 11, 1973. The Chicago Boys, a gang of Chilean economists trained by free market guru Milton Friedman, are uncannily prepared with a manifesto of economic policy, “The Brick.” It lands heavy on the left-leaning populace, inducing a state of shock. The Chicago Boys have somehow […]
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Downtown council election
I have a piece in tomorrow’s Coast about the election for Halifax’s District 12— the district bounded by North, Robie and South streets and the Halifax Harbour. I interviewed each of the four candidates, and you can listen to each of the unedited interviews here: Dawn Sloane, interviewed in her Creighton Street home. The bell […]
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Port business down still further
Through the end of June, the Port of Halifax reported a 19.6 percent decline in business from the same period last year. But today, citing unnamed sources, allnovascotia.com reports that figures from July show that port business is down still more– 20.2 percent, compared to the same period last year. And: More alarming is that […]
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The best Halifax election site ever
Is of course, at The Coast: here. Kudos to our web editor, Andy Murdoch, who has brought a veritable ton of information together in a readable and interesting fashion.
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Rodney MacDonald’s non-existent environmental policies
The Ecology Action Centre “applauds” premier Rodney MacDonald in a press release issued this morning, for MacDonald’s participation in the New England Governors / Eastern Canadian Premiers meetings held in Bar Harbor, Maine this week. The govs and premiers approved a Transportation and Air Quality Action Plan, with the following commitments: By 2020, at least […]
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Fire boat accident
Chronicle: A CALIFORNIA-MADE boat the Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency Service had planned to buy despite warnings from local boat builders flipped on its third day of test runs Wednesday, briefly dumping eight men into Halifax Harbour. The 8.5-metre, 500-horsepower boat overturned in perfect conditions about 150 metres from a Dartmouth coast guard pier where […]
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Be it resolved…
Given the number of candidates in this upcoming federal election who’ve already had to suddenly slink off in disgrace because videos had surfaced showing them driving while doping, or skinny-dipping while (or while not) erect, or blathering mindlessly in their blogs about how gays and women must begin packing heat to protect themselves from predators…; […]