The high cost of refusing to say ‘sorry’ June 7, 2007 The war of attrition the Capital District Healthy Authority seems so eager to wage against some of its best and brightest has now opened on yet another front with the opening salvo in another nasty, pointless — and expensive — skirmish. Last week, Dr. […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia By Stephen Kimber June 3, 2007 Phoning it in Poor Vince Hall. The Cape Breton regional councillor was feeling under the weather last week so he thoughtfully called the municipal clerk’s office from Halifax to say he wouldn’t be able to attend Tuesday night’s council meeting in Sydney and he just might… […]
The Book of Negroes By Lawrence Hill HarperCollins 486 pages, hardcover. ISBN-13: 978-0-00-225507-3 Reviewed by Stephen Kimber It hit me like the text’s “sack of hammers.” Somewhere around page 389 of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, I realized I’d become so completely engrossed in his masterful telling of the hard life and crueler times […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia May 27, 2007 What have they got against curling? Liverpool town councilors might want to re-think their recent decision not to install surveillance cameras downtown. Last Sunday between midnight and 4 a.m., vandals painted the town red. The back wall of the curling club was covered with what one observer called “child-like […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia May 20, 2007 How many politicians does it take to screw up? OK, how many free light bulbs will it take to cover the cost of gassing up the SUV for the 300-plus km drive from New Glasgow to Halifax and back? That’s the question Pictou county residents were asking themselves last […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia May 13, 200 7 The puck-buck starts here Terry Hines believes he knows how to “reclaim Windsor as the birthplace of hockey.” No, the former president of the town’s Hockey Heritage Society hasn’t discovered the “smoking puck” at the bottom of a pile of smelly gear in some musty basement that will […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia What’s that I smell? Last spring, in the lead-up to the election, then freshly-minted wind-up-doll premier Rodney MacDonald gleefully played handout hopscotch, announcing a multitude of multi-million-dollar projects, expansions, upgrades, grants and good times from Yarmouth to Sydney. This spring in the follow-up to his less-than-spectacular budget, our no-longer new but still […]
Kimber’s Nova Scotia Judging letters by the numbers The South Shore Regional Library is facing an “immediate funding problem [and] a gloomy future,” thanks to a combination of provincial funding formulas and the results of the 2006 census. Statistics Canada’s latest head count shows the population of Queens and Lunenburg counties has dropped by 3,500 […]
Workers counting on union to deflate Michelin Emplyoees put out call for CAW after company decides to slash pay for new workers by $3 an hour STEPHEN KIMBER The Daily News Editor’s note: Beginning today, veteran journalist, author and King’s College professor Stephen Kimber gives his unique perspective on news events from around the province […]
An Open Letter to Capital Health To Chris Power, CEO, Capital District Health Authority Dear Ms Power: As you may be aware, the Capital District Health Authority turned down my recent freedom-of-information request for the names of all private law firms providing advice to the authority in the Gabrielle Horne case “and the amounts billed […]
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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