Kimber's Nova Scotia (Dec 30, 2007)

Kimber’s Nova Scotia December 30, 2007 Winning the wharf war More than eight years after Ottawa disastrously handed control of Digby’s vital fishermen’s wharf to outsiders and more than five years after frustrated locals first organized to buy it back, the wharf is finally in the hands of a community group. In 1999, as part […]

Putting the Christ in Santa Claus (Dec 27, 2007)

Happy holidays… er, Christmas… oh whatever Perhaps it was that last, oh-just-one-more-thank-you eggnog at the holiday… er, Christmas party the other night, but I somehow found myself staring at my daily newspaper on Monday morning and nodding in surprised almost-but-not-quite agreement with our resident right-of-radical, right-even-of Don-Cherry, conservative Christian curmudgeon columnist Charles Moore. Moore was […]

Kimber's Nova Scotia (Dec 23, 2007)

December 23, 2007 They like us, they really like us “It is a land of the great outdoors with breathtaking scenery: thousands of glassy lakes, pristine beaches and carpets of forest that draw tourists to see the autumnal reds and golds.” That’s us that Britain’s widely read Telegraph newspaper is gushing on about. In a […]

Mulroney-Schreiber (Dec 20, 2007)

Why we still need an inquiry According to the most recent public opinion poll, most Canadians don’t want a public inquiry into the strange, fact-is-fantasy, fantasy-is-reality, no-really, tall tale of Lyin’ Brian Mulroney, Sleazy Karlheinz Schreiber, the incredibly shrinking $300,000, the sadly bloating $2.1 million, the globe-trotting lobbying effort on behalf of world peace, light […]

Kimber's Nova Scotia (Dec 16, 2007)

Kimber’s Nova Scotia December 16, 2007 The lawyers’ Christmas present There has been yet another flurry of new legal developments and even newer un-developments in the always developing, ever stranger-than-last-week saga of Nova Scotia’s development-promoting South West Shore Development Authority. In one of the most recent incidents, the SWSDA’s executive finally struck a deal with […]

Anticipating Mulroney (Dec 13, 2007)

Waiting for Brian The problem is that we already know what he is going to say, and even — thanks to the usual carefully parceled out hints from his high-priced, prepare-the-way PR team — the broad strokes of how he is going to say it. When he appears before a parliamentary ethics committee this morning […]