Editorial

It’s been 25 years since the Terry Fox Marathon of Hope and still the hype continues. The dogged one-legged athlete hobbled halfway across Canada in 1980 before he had to abandon his marathon after cancer spread to his lungs. Fox died 10 months later, only 22. Since then, millions of runners have collected hundreds of […]

It’s depression time at the Green Toad, the glass building that squats on the Halifax waterfront near the foot of Sackville Street. Journalists who toil in the Toad’s Daily News offices worry “the people’s paper” is going down the tubes. Shaune MacKinlay, one of its best reporters, recently departed to the greener pastures of PR. […]

I spun Mozart’s Greatest Hits recently as I perused a lengthy discussion paper on the development of the SuperCity’s new cultural policy. A Cultural Advisory Committee composed of two city councillors and an assortment of citizens, artists and kulturcrats released the paper in June. To the foreboding strains of Mozart’s famous mass for the dead […]

On a cloudless September morning four years ago, hijackers commandeered two passenger jets and flew them into a showcase of American capitalism. The 110-storey twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Center collapsed in less than two hours. The American writer, Lewis Mumford once described those towers as dinosaurs, examples of “the purposeless giantism and technological […]

Dear Dalton McGuinty, premier of Ontario, The one-armed boy’s yelling woke me up this morning. I poked my head outside to see if the pit bulls were at him again, and soon discovered what all the excitement was about. “There’s a boat coming, you,” he said. “Better get the frig down there, wha?” Although I […]