Andrew Younger, a former HRM councillor and now Liberal MLA, weighs in on premier Darrell Dexter’s 11th hour interference with the city of Halifax’s plan for an expanded Bridge Terminal (press release): (Halifax, NS) Liberal Municipal Relations and Service Nova Scotia critic Andrew Younger is questioning why Premier Dexter is meddling with the approval of […]
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Darrell Dexter explains his concerns with Bridge Terminal plans
Tuesday night, Darrell Dexter was on CTV news, and said that his office opposes changes to the land use bylaws that make the new terminal possible. Tim Bousquet interviewed premier Darrell Dexter today about those concerns. The following is a transcript of that interview. The Coast: What are your concerns about the Bridge Terminal? Darrell […]
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Dexter throws potential wrench in Bridge Terminal plans
This is all very rushed… Apparently, premier Darrell Dexter was on CTV news tonight, and said that his office opposes changes to the land use bylaws that make the new terminal possible. (See here for more detail.) You’ll recall that after initial plans to have the Bridge Terminal travel alongside Nantucket Street were met by […]
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Halifax Geared Up
Halifax’s environmental community has its eyes firmly on Copenhagen, where 15,000 representatives from 192 countries have gathered to negotiate the world’s response to climate change. Those who stayed home are finding other ways to make their voices heard, in a two-week series of protests, vigils, and workshops. The Ecology Action Centre and Sierra Club teamed […]
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Darrell Dexter, Premier
For me, it’s not material things that I find the kind of gifts that move me. I’m a person who’s been away over holidays like Christmas, so the best gift that I’ve received is to be home with family and friends. At home we have a get-together on Christmas Eve. It’s interesting because a lot […]
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Best Member Of The Provincial Legislature
Was it just us or did the city collectively exhale when the NDP swept to power this past June? It may be less fun to mock premier Dexter than it was RodMac, but now the provincial political complexion has changed to a shade of tangerine, are our expectations even higher? Well, they should be. We […]
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Dexter’s duplicity
What was a peace-loving lefty like me doing at the Halifax armaments show last week? Why was I was marching with 1,300 weapons makers, military types and government bureaucrats past shiny displays of naval guns, aircraft engines, mortars and tanks? The answer can be summed up in one famous name: Darrell Dexter. I wanted to […]
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How to listen to citizens
Matt Hebb, the 2009 campaign manager for the Nova Scotia New Democrats, injected some humour into his presentation last weekend at the federal NDP convention in Halifax. His talk was about how the NDP managed to pull off a majority government in the June provincial election. “One of the secrets of winning is to get […]
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NDP government: Real change for a change?
Originally published at The Halifax Media Co-op, a project of the Dominion News Co-operative. Republished with consent. Darrell Dexter seemed to be enjoying himself Thursday as he addressed his newly expanded NDP caucus. “This frivolity has got to stop,” the smiling premier-designate told caucus members who only moments before had been laughing, shaking hands and […]
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Question: Is Premier-elect Dexter cool?
Yeah, I’ll fess up to a little bit of Obama envy, sure. And Chronicle-Herald columnist Ralph Surette says I’m not alone. Surette told CBC Radio’s Information Morning last Wednesday that a voting majority of Nova Scotians are green for Barack, and that’s why we signed in our historic NDP-thick legislature June 9. No question—Nova Scotians […]
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NDP majority: What to do now?
The dream is dead. Long live the dream. For more than 30 years, Nova Scotia New Democrats have enjoyed the ultimately unsatisfying luxury of pointing to smug, don’t-blame-me-I-voted-NDP stickers tattooed on their foreheads while the province lurched from one profligate Tory farce to the next corrupt Liberal tragedy and then back again. And again. And […]
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Who is premier Darrell Dexter?
Darrell Dexter has a complex family background, a complex educational and career history and—if, as expected, the NDP wins Tuesday’s provincial election—a perhaps impossibly complex governing task ahead. photos by Scott Munn