Astonishing fact number one: Last year, gamblers in Nova Scotia pumped more than $708 million into Video Lottery Terminals, the equivalent of nearly $2 million a day. That info comes from the Nova Scotia Gaming Corporation’s annual report released last week. It shows that in the 2008/2009 financial year which ended in March, VLT betting […]
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NDP victory: Don’t eat the rich
To the editor, I read with interest the feedback on Stephen Kimber’s question, “What now?” (June 11, Upfront). The notion that previous governments have not done enough for the poor due to their support for the rich is misguided. While I agree more needs to be done for those struggling, let’s not forget the hundreds […]
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Who got the meat?
To the editor, Stephen Kimber’s question, “What now?” (June 11, Upfront), about how the new NDP government will operate, recalls a conference on poverty I attended years ago. A participant told me of social workers teaching poor people how to make soup from bones. One of them asked: “Who got the meat?” The new NDP […]
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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 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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My summer: Megan Leslie, Halifax MP
Leslie, born and raised in Kirkland Lake, Ontario—“I’m not from Upper Canada, I’m from Rupert’s Land,” she explains—has been a Halifax resident for seven years, travelling to the province to study law at Dalhousie and having every intention of only staying for the three years of school. Though she found at the end of law […]
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Objector accounts pay for peace
American war vets from Iraq and Afghanistan were testifying before the Congressional Progressive Caucus last month when Barbara Lee, a Democrat from California, wondered how the US military dehumanizes the “enemy,” making it easier for soldiers to kill. Kristofer Goldsmith, a former US Army sergeant who fought in Iraq, replied that in basic training, recruits […]
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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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The need for public auto insurance
If the NDP wins the provincial election expected this spring, Nova Scotians may finally get something they badly need—public auto insurance. Let’s hope so because the present privately run system is the shits. Nova Scotians pay among the highest insurance rates in the country, but get the lowest accident benefits. And as car crash victims […]
