Editorial

Renaming Cornwallis Junior High is the right thing to do. Children, of all ethnicities, are attending or interacting with (via sports teams, for example) a school named in honour of a person who promoted racially based genocide. This is simply wrong. It’s wrong to subject Mi’kmaq children to this— honouring the murderer of their forebears is […]

Mayor Peter Kelly is a liar. Which isn’t necessarily a dealbreaker. In his profession, being flexible with the truth is akin to a basketball player being tall or an undertaker being creepy. What matters in our politicians is whether they’re lying for us or to us. Kelly has long been an expert at keeping the […]

As expected, city auditor general Larry Munroe’s report on the concerts scandal contained explosive new details and directly implicated mayor Peter Kelly, former chief bureaucrat Wayne Anstey, Trade Centre Limited president Scott Ferguson and his predecessor, Fred MacGillivray. Munroe explains how these four men abused their positions and improperly funnelled $5.6 million of taxpayer money […]

Dear Federation of Canadian Municipalities delegates: Welcome to Halifax! We’ll certainly roll out the red carpet for you. Heck, to prove just how much we like you, our fair city has already spent $500,000 for the privilege of hosting the 2,000 of you this weekend—$250 per delegate. (Go ahead, order another drink, it’s on us.) […]

Harold Camping, president of the California-based Family Radio, says the Rapture will happen this Saturday, ushered in by a “worldwide earthquake” and leading to the complete destruction of the Earth on October 21. But perhaps Sunday is instead the day of reckoning. As the Mississippi River flood peaks, it might overwhelm a flood control structure […]

Stephen Joseph Harper, who celebrated his 52nd birthday two days before leading his Conservatives to their third consecutive election victory, once joked that his father had wanted him to become a chartered accountant. “But I didn’t have enough charisma to be an accountant,” Harper told the Toronto Star in 2004. Now, as a Conservative prime […]

Harper’s male bomb When you head to the polls on Monday, remember how the Conservatives have repeatedly cut funding for groups that help women. I was glad to see the Conservatives stepping into some well-earned shit last week over women’s reproductive rights. When Saskatchewan Conservative MP Brad Trost bragged that the Harper government had cut off […]

Anyone else feeling it’s been waaaaay too long since we’ve had a day off? This weekend’s Easter break comes 111 days after the last statutory holiday, New Year’s Day. That stretch of winter drudgery gets broken up in several provinces, but not in Nova Scotia. Here we’ve got the fewest holidays in the nation, making […]

Too bad Elizabeth May wasn’t allowed on the TV election debates. The Green Party leader says she would have raised Canada’s shameful treatment of its aboriginal peoples, the widening gap between rich and poor, the continued inequality of women and mass arrests at the G20 summit in Toronto. These are issues of crucial importance to […]

Thanks to prime minister Stephen Harper, we are facing not just the drudgery of yet another election, but international scorn too. “At a time when Arabs risk life and limb for political freedoms, Canadians seem largely apathetic about the erosion of their democracy,” wrote Ramesh Thakur in The Australian. He went on to say “the […]

Lock ’em up and throw away the key. Hand over billions to Lockheed Martin. Slash social programs. Deny climate change and kick Canuck democracy in the ass. That’s what the Conservative-Reform-Alliance party stands for and here are five solid reasons to vote against them on May 2. 1. Slashing social programs: Buried in the Conservative […]

Lock ’em up and throw away the key. Hand over billions to Lockheed Martin. Slash social programs. Deny climate change and kick Canuck democracy in the ass. That’s what the Conservative-Reform-Alliance party stands for and here are five solid reasons to vote against them on May 2. 1. Slashing social programs: Buried in the Conservative […]