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 […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia June 24, 2007 Vince’s very bad week Occasional Cape Breton regional municipal councilor — and more-time Halifax computer teacher — Vince Hall “visited” Sydney last week to testify at a Utility and Review Board hearing into whether the municipal council should be downsized. Hall — who chaired a CBRM boundary review committee […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia June 17, 2007 Oh, that call centr e I think I may have finally figured out why our provincial politicians are so enamoured with the grant-sucking, low-wage, have-phone-will-travel call centre industry. Because the business is so footloose — opening up shop in one tax-forgiveness jurisdiction one day, shutting down and moving to […]
Can Rodney recover? CBC Radio’s As It Happens was playing in the background in our kitchen Monday evening as my wife and I went about the clattering, chattering routine of preparing supper. “Atlantic Accord…” the distractingly insistent, disembodied voice declared over the din. “Broken promise…” “Unfair…” “Nova Scotians expect…” “Get loud…” “Who’s that speaking?” my […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia June 10, 2007 They can’t say they weren’t warned Federal Tories couldn’t have been surprised when Bill Casey stood in the House of Commons on principle — and against his party — in last week’s budget vote. In truth, the veteran Cumberland-Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley MP has been out of step with Stephen Harper […]
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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