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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

04/17/2016 by the editor

There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary campaign of Bernie Sanders. Despite winning a string of primaries and attracting overflow crowds to his speeches, Sanders can’t seem to inspire any mainstream journalists to […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Bernie Sanders, Canada, CBC, Democratic Party, Halifax, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, immigration, journalism, Justin Trudeau, New York City, newspapers, Nova Scotia, Rosie Barton, U.S.

Who really fired Evan Solomon?

06/12/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon When Evan Solomon was appointed host of the CBC program “Power and Politics,” I didn’t think he would be able to fill the very large shoes of the departing Don Newman. He was missing about 30 years of journalistic experience. And although I was right, he gradually began to win me over, in […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Lang, Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian television, CBC, Conservatives, Evan Solomon, journalism, Nova Scotia, Rex Murphy, Stephen Harper, television

MacKay jumps. Next!

05/30/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon I’ve watched a lot of Stephen Harper speeches over the years, but the farewell speech he gave for Peter MacKay on Friday had to be one of the most bizarre. For not only was Harper strangely agitated, and managing to look both cheerful and horribly lonely at the same time. What was […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Atlantic Canada, Canada, Canadian politics, coal, Conservatives, economy, Nova Scotia, Peter MacKay, Stephen Harper, Tony Clement

Peter MacKay’s judicial handoffs

03/10/2015 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Press Progress recently asked why lawyers and party donors prominently featured in Justice Minister Peter MacKay’s 2012 wedding photos wound up being appointed as judges. MacKay’s best man Josh Arnold, red-arrowed here, was appointed to the bench the year after this photo and his wife Cindy Cormier the year after that. Another appointment is a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Catherine H. Zingg, Cindy Cormier, Dept of Justice and Public Safety, Francois Boivin, Gordon MacFarlane, John Tropak, Josh Arnold, Ken Lee, Kerri A. Carpenter, Marni Larkin, Nova Scotia, Peter McKay

Colville: Canada’s other great small town chronicler

02/05/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh Like many, I knew the works of Alex Colville almost entirely from the ubiquitous reproductions of his most well-known paintings. The blonde woman on the PEI ferry staring out with her powerful binoculars at who-knows-what. The haunting image of a large horse galloping down the tracks towards an approaching train, its searchlight […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alice Munro, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, love, marriage, National Gallery of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, painting, Toronto, visual arts

Rehtaeh: A father’s questions

09/23/2014 by the editor

By Glen Canning This morning I sat in a Halifax courtroom and listened as one of the young men involved with my daughter’s case changed his plea to guilty. He is guilty of producing child pornography. He is the person who clicked the button on that cellphone, and as simply as that, he ended her […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: child porn, children, family, Halifax, law, Nova Scotia, police, pornography, RCMP, Rheateah Parsons, schools

Inside Read: “Cold Comfort” by Gil McElroy

06/24/2012 by backofthebook.ca

Inside Read is our sampler of new Canadian books we think merit your attention. In Cold Comfort, Colborne, Ontario poet and curator Gil McElroy uses a box of photographs left behind by his late father, a DEW line operator during the Cold War, to reconstruct that era and “come to terms with the mysterious photographer, […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada, Canadian military, Nova Scotia, WWII

Dziekanski flies like a bird in opera

05/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca

The tragic story of Robert Dziekanski has become an opera, opening on Thursday in Halifax. Composer John Plant and author J.A. Wainwright have put music and lyrics together to tell the tale of the Polish immigrant who died in 2007 after being tasered multiple times by RCMP at Vancouver International Airport. Wainwright says that watching the […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, opera, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski, theatre, Vancouver

The sentimental publishers of “The Sentimentalists”

11/11/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Okay, so I was set to go all crazy right-wing on Gaspereau Press and suggest that its federal funding should be pulled because of its refusal to capitalize on its Giller Prize victory. Johanna Skibsrud’s The Sentimentalists won the $50,000 award on Tuesday night, and immediately her Nova Scotia-based publisher, who handcraft […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada, Gaspereau Press, Nova Scotia, publishing

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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