Stephen Kimber

Liberals dance around trust funds Quick now. Who said the following? “Since the beginning of the Regan administration… the Liberal Party… has been living… from the proceeds of crime.” If you guessed those fightin’ words were uttered — and later retracted —by a politically potty-mouthed NDP MLA during last week’s filibuster on a Tory-Liberal campaign-finance […]

November 23, 2006 Rodney Mac-Donald fights to stay on message A year of leadership in action. by Stephen Kimber Rodney MacDonald looks more like the guy who’s just realized he’s landed smack in the can’t-get-out-of-the-way path of a runaway freight train than the dignified, in-control premier of Nova Scotia. His latest "important good news" press […]

Those of us who live in glass houses “Does Justice David Gruchy feel like he has blood on his hands?” My colleague David Rodenhiser asked that question in a scathing column two days after the Nov. 5 stabbing death of an American sailor in downtown Halifax. Rodenhiser’s argument: the person who has since been charged […]

Uh… don’t pick up that phone Here’s the problem with justice. It must not only be done, but also be seen to be done. Whenever a judicial process is not open, transparent and accountable, citizens – in the words of the 1989 Nova Scotia royal commission into the wrongful conviction of Donald Marshall, Jr. – […]

It was, if nothing else, compelling political theatre. Even on Channel 95 in cable’s nosebleed section. And even allowing for our legislative television channel’s blandly annoying alternating medium-close-up head shots of questioner followed by witness followed by questioner. Although the static camera never strays, never zooms tight on the eyes of the witness so we […]