Readers will recall that six-year-old Joshua Penny died in October, 2006, and that Paddy Brogan was found not guilty in Joshua’s death in July of this year. Here’s a Toronto Star story on it: SYDNEY, N.S.–A judge found a Cape Breton man not guilty today of impaired driving causing the death of a young boy, […]
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Waterside Centre– another public hearing?
I was discussing the proposed Waterside Centre development with someone this morning, and we both came to the realization that there are some pretty complicated process issues involved with delaying the vote on the application until after the election. Even before getting to the election issue, we have to consider that council’s procedures state that: […]
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New (lilly white) cops
Our new cops. Anyone notice anything, er, alike about them? The force has also said it wants to increase the number of visible minorities in uniform but Thursday’s graduating class was all white, a change from recent years. Const. Dean Simmonds, a recruiter who also gave diversity training and taught bias-free policing to the graduating […]
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HRM delays on violence report
I was on CBC radio last week along with Marilla Stephenson, to discuss the Chamber’s mayoral debate. I got up early, put a pot of coffee on, wrote up some notes for what I wanted to say. It was a phoner, and the Information Morning folks talked first to Stephenson, who went on to say […]
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School uniforms
David Boyd is running for mayor, and not for the Halifax school board, but he has issued a press release calling for a school uniform policy in Halifax schools. No word yet if he has gotten around to reading the city’s five-year transit plan, or if someone has told him of the existence of the […]
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10,000 tourists
There are about 10,000 tourists in town today, disembarking from four cruise ships. That’s a record. I don’t pretend to understand the economics of cruise ships. Perhaps more people are opting off the European vacation and taking relatively less expensive cruises closer to home instead. Maybe the cruise lines are offering fantastic deals in a […]
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Anti Harper vote swap song
Anthony Black is the artistic co-director of the award-winning 2b theatre company. He felt moved during this election campaign to get on the mic. The song, which you can listen to here asks voters to visit a Facebook group called “anti-harper vote swap” and to strategically vote to ensure a Tory majority doesn’t happen. The […]
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Who really wants to be prime minister?
The question is no longer who wants to be prime minister, but why would anyone want the job. Consider: the global banking system is in massive meltdown, the stock market in frantic freefall; our short-term fiscal future seems unpredictable, perhaps unfathomable, even to those who make their living fathoming and predicting it. And don’t get […]
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Short strokes
I take it back. This week’s federal leaders’ debates were far more interesting, informative and, yes, even entertaining than I’d expected. That was thanks, in no small measure, to the presence of Green Party leader Elizabeth May—thank you, Canadians!—who seized the opportunity to make it clear her party was about more than just the environment. […]
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Pondering the thinkable
The Tyee, the British Columbia-based online publication, has a fascinating piece this week on the idea that a centre-left coalition could form Canada’s government after next week’s vote. Writes John Ryan, a retired University of Winnipeg professor: “If for once the Liberals and the NDP set aside partisan politics and acted in the interests of […]
