Kimber’s Nova Scotia July 29, 2007On your mark, get set, munch The Hants Journal is reporting this week that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency lab failed to properly identify a sample collected near Halifax in 1990 as the dangerous-to-our-forest-industry brown longhorn spruce beetle. That gave the critter an eight-year head-start on its ongoing devastating munching […]
Another legacy of Africville I had called Tom McInnis, Nova Scotia’s deputy premier during the last days of the Buchanan era, to ask him a question. In December 1991, McInnis had announced — to great fanfare and applause — that the province would rebuild Seaview United Baptist Church on the site of the former Africville. […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia July 22, 2007 Quarry queries open ‘black hole’ Nobody, it seems, is happy with progress on a proposal to develop a quarry near North Mountain in the Annapolis Valley. Granville Centre residents wrote a letter to Bruce Spicer, whose Bridgetown construction company is behind the project. While he did reply to their […]
On almost feeling sorry for Conrad I did try — for almost a second — to resist the temptation to gleefully pile on. But how to follow all those happy headline writers? “CON-rad Black…” “Lord Greed…” “Lord Fraud…” Or one-up all those many other former ink stained wretches — all once also in the employ […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia July 15, 2007 A roundhouse blow to history A retired teacher and amateur historian says you can’t blame Kentville’s mayor or town council for the fact that one of the town’s last remaining links to Nova Scotia’s storied railway heritage is now rubble. Ivan Smith, who was on hand last week to […]
Feasting at the Horne of plenty Capital District Health Authority has so far officially taken at least $1,024,649.90 out of this province’s badly under-funded health care system to pay for expensive private lawyers to fight the unwinnable, never-should-have-happened legal case against Dr. Gabrielle Horne. I must qualify with so far… officially… at least… because that […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia July 8, 2007 By Stephen Kimber Take that Steve-o… and Jim-bo too No-longer Tory MP Bill Casey may not have made the guest list for Stephen Harper’s Halifax press conference on Thursday, but he was sitting pretty at the top of another political list. Politicswatch.com, an Ottawa website that bills itself as […]
Wright the wrong man for the job If you want to begin to understand the utter disdain Nova Scotia’s department of community services has for its own legislation — and for the people it is supposed to serve — consider its recent appointment of Robert Wright to the committee that is supposed to review the […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia July 1, 2007 Emergency? What emergency? If you live in Digby and have a medical emergency this summer, South West Health suggests you dial 9-1-1. What happens after that is anyone’s guess. The doctor shortage is now so acute Digby General Hospital is closing its emergency department from Mondays to Fridays throughout […]
Fast Eddie’s bullying ‘brilliance’ I don’t pretend to know whether a jury of his lessers will find our own British peer, the peerless Conrad Black, guilty of any or all of the many and various complicated crimes with which he is charged. I hope they do, not so much because I believe the evidence supports […]
STEPHEN KIMBER, a Professor of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of its MFA in Creative Nonfiction Program, is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. He is the author of two novels and eight non-fiction books. Buy his books
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