[Image-1] Stellarton just became the hottest spot to be tonight in Canada. According to reports, justice minister and longtime Conservative superhero Peter MacKay will announce his resignation from federal politics in less than an hour, at a 5pm press conference in Stellarton. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is expected to attend. Sources suggest to the National […]
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NDP promise to bring back door-to-door mail (if they win)
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 As announced today by Dartmouth MP Robert Chisholm, the NDP are promising to bring back door-to-door home mail delivery if elected this fall. “I’m proud today to tell my constituents that an NDP government would reverse this terrible decision and restore home mail delivery to those from whom it’s been taken,” Chisholm declared to […]
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Running on empty: voter fatigue in Nova Scotia
[Image-1] If you’re a political junkie living in any of the three electoral districts in Nova Scotia that will see a trio of elections between now and the autumn of 2016, you’re going to get your fix in a big way. Should you not be looking forward to sales pitches from political candidates, or casting […]
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Trudeau plays it politically safe during Halifax visit
[Image-1] He was charming and affable to the onlookers who snapped photos. He had a circle of supporters following him around—from giggling fans to local volunteers. While thousands were gathered in front of the Legislature Wednesday afternoon protesting changes to the province’s film tax credit, federal Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau was wooing crowds at […]
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Labour groups are working hard to build an election
[Image-1] Avid players of the blood sport that is politics are busy preparing for the campaign leading to the next federal election, a voting day that’s still months away. Not all are platitude-spouting candidates or party strategists. But each crew—every clique in our political system—has this in common: an agenda. Many business interests, lobby groups, […]
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Seven for Dartmouth
Residents of East Dartmouth’s District Six go to the polls Saturday to elect a replacement for former Halifax councillor Andrew Younger. Younger had to vacate his council seat when he won election to the provincial legislature in June. The byelection is one of the more interesting in recent memory—seven candidates are vying to fill Younger’s […]
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Wait and see, NDP
To the editor, What on earth were you thinking…my god…bringing in an NDP government? We folks out west in BC have tried this group of spending socialists a number of times, and each occasion has been a complete and utter disaster. Keep a close watch! —Paul Crossley, Penticton, BC
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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
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Provincial election temporarily impacts cultural grants
For some Nova Scotian cultural organizations, the upcoming election means short-term belt-tightening and long-term uncertainty over their programming schedules and budgets. “No one’s grant has been postponed,” explains Michael Noonan, communications for Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage. The usual jurying processes and panel assessments are taking place and grant payments are being made to […]
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Premier Rodney MacDonald’s demise
Is it too soon to say, “So long, Rodney?” The final outcome is still far from a done deal, of course. Forget those public opinion polls predicting an NDP victory in next month’s elections. Those numbers reflect mostly province-wide aggregates of voting intentions; real-life elections in Nova Scotia are usually won and lost in the […]
