The winds of war, on the political front, are upon us. Nova Scotia’s Liberal government has been bombing the province with pre-election funding announcements, political parties are assembling their roster of candidates (who are keeping campaign ammunition at the ready) and Elections Nova Scotia is gearing up for the multi-million-dollar job of overseeing the vote. […]
Stephen McNeil
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A lesson for Stephen McNeil
If we’ve learned anything during the protracted negotiations between the province and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union it’s that there is a massive gulf between how teachers, students and parents understand the current state of public education, and how premier Stephen McNeil sees it. This gap was never clearer than when McNeil claimed he needed […]
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Quiet on the set a year after Stephen McNeil’s fateful budget
Mark Furey speaks with conviction about the bright future of movie-making in Nova Scotia. “The film and television incentive fund is here to stay,” says the provincial business minister. And you’ve gotta believe he believes it. Last April, after the Liberal budget killed the film funding program that had been luring major productions to the […]
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Friday’s 10 things you need to know
1Stephen McNeil isn’t too happy with Eastlink, after the telecommunications provider announced plans to throttle Internet usage by rural customers. “We are running out of patience, quite frankly, as a government, with what we believe is inadequate service,” the Premier told reporters yesterday. Eastlink had signed a service contract in 2007 to provide high-speed everywhere […]
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Election campaign moves along right on script
Every election needs its defining moment—its too-big-foot-in-too-small-mouth moment, its searing, snapshot flash-of-insight moment, its accidental, incidental larger-than-life moment that suddenly careens the campaign off in an unpredictable direction toward some unknowable destination. So far, we have not, needless to say, had any such moment in this blandest of beige provincial election campaigns. There certainly have […]