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When is a management fee a profit margin, and does calling it either make it any less a boondoggle?
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What is it about Canadians that makes us different from Americans?
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Accountability ain’t what it used to be
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Troubled waters
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Shopping while strolling
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Good intentions, abysmal execution, lost opportunity
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The fishery of frustration
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On Monday, Health Minister Randy Delorey will…
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Nova Scotia is safe for school children and would-be municipal politicians… but not for Liberal MLAs
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Is your school safe to reopen? Don’t ask your lapdog Liberal MLA
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Will the new McNeil be like the old one? Let’s hope not
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Tara Thorne and the tweet that trumped 20 years of exemplary arts coverage
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So long, Stephen, we knew you too well
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Shrubsall: no guarantees
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Portapique: how to (maybe) turn a rickety review into a transparent public inquiry
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Zach Churchill: our schools will open 100 per cent… unless they don’t
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Does Stephen McNeil believe in workers’ rights? Next question
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Northwood: when a ‘review’ is just a cover-up
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From heroes to zeroes… the pandemic bottom line
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Northwood Inquiry? No need. McNeil and Delorey have this…
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Councillors cancelled the tank contract. Good. Now what?
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Police brutality? Think globally, act locally
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Shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care
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Dear Mr. Premier: I know you’re busy but…
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Welcome, back Peter
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Healthcare lessons from Manitoba’s First Nations… and Cuba.
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Whatever happened to spring legislature sessions that lasted until spring?
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What’s the difference between opioid and gambling addictions?
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Hugh MacKay and our I-know-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing premier
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Is ‘Idle Some More’ back for another season?
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Hold on to your ballots
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Why are we still talking about Africentric schools?
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Complicated legacies
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New street checks almost the same as the old
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Can we expect truth about the Walmart incident from police or the store? Nope
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George Elliott Clarke, the murderer, and the murdered woman
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On Rana Zaman: Some somebodies have some explaining to do
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Northern Pulp: planning the future five years too late
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‘Tis the season to say something positive
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Calvin Lawrence: Black Panther Party’s ‘unlikely cub’
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Coming to terms with Gerald Regan’s complicated legacy
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Doctors’ deal within government’s public sector wage guidelines? Not really
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Physician assistants? It shouldn’t be that hard. Really
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Waiting for Fitch: the much-delayed consultant’s report you may never get to see in full
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Whose deaths matter?
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Stephen McNeil and the Crowns: Magic realism meets reality
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Stephen McNeil’s Collective Bargaining Game
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The curtain falls on this year’s ferry follies… but there’s always next year
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The perils of being progressive
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If we build it, will they come?
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What to do about Justin?
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The Great Dorian Disconnect of 2019
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Politicians criticizing Israel: When 2019 becomes 1984 all over again
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Lloyd ‘I-know-nothing’ Hines knows nothing… still
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Who’s Tory now?
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When a healthcare crisis is an opportunity… for an “important milestone” moment photo-op
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What went wrong with MyHealthNS?
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The Assoun and the Furey
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Can we talk about Israel and the Palestinians? No?
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Going for the secrecy gold medal
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Who’s not telling the truth? Bay Ferries? The Nova Scotia government? US Border Services? All of the above?
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Don’t worry. Be happy. That’s only your tax dollars you see sinking
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Shelburne School for Boys: Good intentions gone wrong? Or…?
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The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless
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What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?
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Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare
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Trying to crawl through a loophole on gender discrimination
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Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Your tax dollars at work covering government butt
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‘This is North Preston:’ a story that ‘needs to be heard’
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A tale of two protests
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Health care crisis? What health care crisis?
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Who’s sorry now? Not the premier, not the justice minister, not the police
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Verdict without end
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Wilson-Raybould, Churchill? Evidence our legislative committee systems don’t work
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Stunting 101: The games Bay Ferries plays
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Back to the drawing board, Bill
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Clearwater wins. Again. Still. Always. And forever
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What would Andrew do? Jagmeet?
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Bobbleheaded Zach joins the public accounts follies
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Alex Richman: R.I.P.
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The Cat can’t come back… to Portland
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Now that the Fangless Five have become the Insensate Seven, it’s time for…?
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Encounter re-encountered, with lessons for today
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Health minister promises to fix long-term care, but offers no money to actually fix it
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The Fang-less Five, the McNeil government and (un)accountability
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Hard conversations: why was ‘fantastic principal’ Lamar Eason suspended from his job?
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Gerald Regan and the legacy of our #MeToo moment
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Shrubsall: Andy Fillmore’s challenge and opportunity
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Race in Nova Scotia: one small step forward, another giant leap into the past
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William Shrubsall: gambling on US justice, gambling on public safety
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Catherine Tully’s power to persuade vs government’s power to ignore
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The president versus the press. Or should that be the president thanks the press?
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Jen’s choice is no choice at all; why not?
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Let us eat cake
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Cannabis is still legal
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Why the pre-legalization crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries?
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Do P-3 hospitals offer value for money spent? None of your business, says Stephen McNeil
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Don’t tax the rich. They don’t pay. Uh… what?
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Stephen McNeil: Read his lips. Just don’t believe a word he says
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Rick Mehta: Acadia clarifies, commingles, confuses
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Rick Mehta: a firing offence or just offensive
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Christopher Garnier’s PTSD: right policy, wrong result, better outcome…
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Is NS Tory leader wannabe John Lohr Maxime Bernier in waiting?
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McNeil says there’s ‘lots’ of film activity; the facts tell a different story
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Health care crisis? Check. Leadership to solve it? Another question…
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The Yarmouth ferry subsidy? Still? Still more? Always…
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Outraged about Russian meddling in the US election? What about…?
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The gospel according to Mark (Lever)
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Canada’s border: Donald Trump stands on guard for he
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Schooling Shawn Cleary on journalism education
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Unpacking the contradictory Mr. Cleary
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Cannabis will soon be legal. Just don’t smoke it, or grow it, or enjoy it
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The Yates case: self-regulation or self-protection
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Ask no questions, get no answers… Mission accomplished
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Council to Armco: ‘Jump? How high, sir, how high…?’ ‘Good dog…’
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Hijacking ‘reasoned debate’ for right-wing noise at MSVU
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From Stephen McNeil’s ‘who me?’ to McInnes Cooper’s #metoo
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Politicians’ snake oil hopes and dreams meet economic, environmental reality
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The Liberals’ Fang-less Five, the data breach and the public interest
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Progress isn’t easy, and sometimes it isn’t
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United Way poverty report: ‘the system needs to change’
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The judge, the complaints and finding the balance between judicial independence and public confidence
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Peter Munk, Clairtone and the Nova Scotia disconnection
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City council, the developer, and the deal that isn’t quite
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Stephen McNeil, the offshore windfall and the royal ‘we’
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When ‘freedom of speech’ is a code, not a value
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The Horne case: mumble-mouthed nothings from mealy-mouthed nobodies
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Memo to Stephen McNeil: beware teachers bearing frustration
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A jury of whose peers?
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Peter Stoffer: former MP, former hugger, accused groper
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Does Cornwallis matter? More than I thought
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PC party’s response to Baillie sexual harassment allegation: better but no gold star
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Can we trust the Armoyans to act in the public interest? No, that’s what council is for…
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What if they created another immigration program and nobody came?
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When being poor equals poor parenting…
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The Desmond file: belatedly untangling the threads that led to a murder-suicide
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Doctor, doctor, who needs a doctor? 42,198 Nova Scotians and counting…
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Northern Pulp bullies Canada’s biggest bookstore chain, wins… and then loses
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The Mulroney Institute, St. Francis Xavier University and the honorary arms dealers
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How much health care could $10 million have bought — and why it didn’t
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UARB fails to protect whistle-blowers, punish wrong-doing bus company
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The Paradise Papers, the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation and tax reform
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Winning, losing and Jamie Baillie
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Masuma Khan and the issue of freedom of speech
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Lyle Howe: a sad end to a sad case
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Tax reform: the Chicken Littles come home to roost
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Reparations raises the racism disconnect
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Beware businesses bearing bleats
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The politics of economics
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The Herald strike ends, how long will the bitterness linger?
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Are you better off? Discuss
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Bar Society says Lyle Howe should be disbarred, ordered to pay $500,000
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Name? Un-name? How about no name?
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Mark Lever’s sins against journalism
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The Herald strike is over. Now the hard part begins
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The Liberals’ $24.5-million Acadia University funding fandango
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Who’s going to fix our broken criminal justice system?
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The Lyle Howe case: guilty, but…
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The Chronicle Herald strike meets the ‘final option’
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Sears stiffs its staff while vulture capitalists profit. Discuss
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Mind your own business
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Is it always a bad idea to get government involved in journalism?
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Can a ‘white van driver’ be a terrorist? Discuss
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Stephen McNeil’s 20 per cent majority: a referendum on…?
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Wade Smith’s unfinished legacy: ‘It’s up to us…’
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Since none of the above is on the ballot…
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Four more years… but what might have been instead
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Are election campaigns any place to discuss serious issues?
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Making our economy ‘more human’ may be utopian, but it’s also necessary
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The younger French president, his older wife and… Amy Hood. Quelle difference?
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Will the next government finally end the 15-year persecution of Dr. Gabrielle Horne? Time to ask…
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Havana, Halifax and the state of democracy
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Lyle Howe and the bar society’s Plan B
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Can Mark Lever succeed where smarter, more experienced minds have failed? No
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The judge and the child abuse registry case: common sense among the Catch-22s
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Questioning the developer-donation-councillor connection ‘an insult to my integrity’
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Who has the ear of the finance minister? Hint: not you
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Journalism: Banking on public broadcasting
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The way politics works — and doesn’t — in Nova Scotia
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The Lyle Howe case: ‘If you look hard enough…’
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Who is Lyle Howe? And why are so many people saying such nasty things about him? (Part II)
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Who is Lyle Howe? And why are so many people saying such nasty things about him? (Part I)
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Education: the Byzantine, bizarre and just plain nonsensical
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Stephen McNeil’s ‘right direction’ and his Chamber of Commerce cheerleaders
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Teachers say no thanks. So Stephen McNeil says…
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What Lies (Spanish edition) among 2016’s best selling titles in Cuba
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Schools, politics and the provincial thumb on the scale
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The teachers’ dispute: just another Monday in Chaos
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So what’s an un-built McMansion really worth? $119 million?
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Police street check data (also) shows we need more journalists, more news organizations
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CEO Compensation: Oops, you’ve been lapped again… and again
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Who is Joseph Boyden, and does the answer matter?
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Stephen McNeil: are Nova Scotians just parking their votes and keeping score?
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Teachers: light at the end of the tunnel? What tunnel?
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How the government chose to build two new schools in the ‘right’ place in the right pre-election time
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The Ghomeshi verdict isn’t Marie Henein’s fault
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Media Coverage Of Fidel Castro’s Death Has Been Abysmally One-Sided
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Mark Never, Grant Machum and ‘Graham Dennis isn’t around to save you anymore’
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The publisher’s daughter
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Three takeaways from America’s fool’s game election
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The latest Gabrielle Horne travesty of justice
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‘We found each other’
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Lindell Smith: more than a symbol
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Job one for the new council: end developer donations
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Voting for change, not electoral victory
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Development: now’s the time to ask
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Halifax council: time for change, but what? And how?
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We care… so why don’t we vote?
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Justice and the sad brutishness of real life
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League Misconduct
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Berry Good
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Is Halifax Needham why Stephen McNeil hasn’t called a general election?
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Kimber to judge Canada’s richest literary nonfiction prize
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What does Sobeys really regret?
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University, government, CEOs: let the students pay
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The Cat, the commitment and the costly complication
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Message from Fidel
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Trinity Law School: ‘discomforting’ our comfortable bar society
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Taxi sexual assaults: Is there too much focus on what women ‘can do’?
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Yarmouth ferry: We pay money, Portland makes money
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Do elections toll for us?
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Do teenage athletes playing for for-profit teams deserve the same protections as other workers?
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We need to talk about Edward
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Film Noir… film no… no film
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Robertson’s independent facilitator’s report: independent? facilitator?
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P3s: Do we trust the McNeil government to act in our interest, or in the interest of its own re-election?
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Dr. Gabrielle Horne and the lessons not learned
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“Without haste but without pause”
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Journalism: From Howe to how-not-to
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Thanks Stephen, Darrell, Rodney, et al… for ‘The Donald’?
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Development: It’s time to talk
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Politics in Nova Scotia is getting interesting
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Is Joan Jessome most hated woman in Nova Scotia?
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Developers get to change rules, the rest of us not so much
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Fort McMurray: worst times, best moments
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Racism’s crime: ‘devaluing of self and others’
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Doctor dysfunction and the case of Gabrielle Horne
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Sarah Dennis apologizes… but ignores the reason she had to
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Stephen McNeil’s film dream — you have to (make) believe
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Why Bay Ferries wasn’t concerned, and why we should be
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Ghomeshi not guilty? How about “not proven”?
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We call suicide a preventable cause of death, but…
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How do you fairly determine how much elected officials should be paid?
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Gary Burrill: the politics of hope, or hope for politics
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The Chronicle Herald: Last one out turn out the lights?
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Nova Scotia Power is reporting its first outage of the morning… and other tales we shouldn’t hear
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Jian Ghomeshi: Justice, the courts and the court of public opinion
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Seniors’ pharmacare? It’s past time for a national, universal pharmacare program
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Government’s Orwellian doublespeak on Pharmacare, the ‘balanced budget’ and the next election
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Film tax credits: a tale of two jurisdictions
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The Herald: on the downhill run to oblivion?
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The burning question: how to balance real risks with feeling safe
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AIMS takes aim at the future
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Stephen McNeil and collective bargaining: saving us to death
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Monday morning this and that
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Volvieron! One year later
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Stephen McNeil’s best laid plans…
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A Pearl by any other place?
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Unanswered questions: Shoppers shoplifting video, and what it shows… or doesn’t
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Andrew Younger hurtles to the hell of political oblivion
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Andrew Younger… gone too late
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Not so-strange bedfellows: the CTF and the CFIB and $8 billion in unpaid taxes
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Canada’s ‘worst deadbeat dad’ responds
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$2 million for consultants, more cuts for welfare recipients
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Our long national Harper nightmare may be over, but…
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Time for principled Conservatives to say ‘no more’ to Stephen Harper’s politics of division
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A statute of limitation on social media stupidity? Yes, please
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Stephen McNeil, the Miller contract and cavalier condescension
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New developments demand ‘exceptions’: where’s the public benefit?
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What a difference a minister makes
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All pain, no gain
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Spud Sabotage
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Guistino Di Celmo dies in Havana; Posada in car accident in Miami
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The Murder of Fabio Di Celmo
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This government brought to you by…
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How not to save a sinking ship
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Finance minister’s new approach sounds like more of the same public sector blaming
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Bad week for Nova Star; worse weeks to come for us
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Privatizing public services: electoral gain for economic pain
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The fascination of Flora
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Stephen McNeil thinks we need electoral reform; just don’t ask him to do anything about it…
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Why haven’t we Evolved?
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Is that any way to start a discussion?
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The Happy Ending
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Who killed Mills Brothers?
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To keep grads in Nova Scotia, we have to first attract students
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Nova Scotia’s generational highway mega projects: an idea whose time has gone?
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Abolish the senate? Ask the people
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When the United Way stated the obvious, the CFIB hit the fan
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So long, Peter, we knew you too well
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Dal’s dentistry scandal: one more footnote in a seismic social and gender transformation
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Corporate charity: who is it good for? Them…
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Some assembly required
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Principle v power and the NDP: discuss
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CBC Nova Scotia’s Halifax election financing database: lessons learned
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Marco… meet John and John; AIMS… meet hypocrisy
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The film tax fandango: saving pennies, losing the future
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Panama, Posada, plots and the Summit of the Americas
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Ambulance chasing in the public interest?
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Nominated for four Atlantic Journalism Awards
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The rise and fall of Andrew Younger
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Continuing Canada’s tragedy of terrors
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Two good guys. Two good journalists. RIP
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Stephen McNeil declares health care victory… and runs
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The great dentistry scandal of 2014, 2015… and counting
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Government’s ‘we know best’ approach to race relations… again, still
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Health care unions, the government and the mess that will be
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Harper’s diplomatically deaf, ideologically inspired foreign policy puts Canadians at risk
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What’s terror? Who’s a terrorist? And other aftermath questions…
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Students speak, government isn’t listening
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The Mayor’s markers: Are people happy, confident we can be better?
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Should Dal dentistry student be suspended … or thanked?
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Mike Savage Part 1: Not quite his father’s son
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My talk at the Martin Luther King, Jr., theatre in New York — January 16, 2015
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Health care unions: arbitrator’s report unlikely to be the end of the story
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Restorative justice? Yes, but also…
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The ‘selfless friendship’ of the Cuban Five solidarity movement
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Be it (un)resolved…
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2014: The year the conversation changed
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The Cuban Five free at last. The week that was.
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Anonymous bullies
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Bourque, Zahef-Bibeau, personal consequences and public accountability
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Selected dispatches from last week’s “whoopsie” file
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Broten report sings from the Common Book of Corporate Prayer
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Transcript of my Interview with “The Taylor Report” on CIUT Radio
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The boy who took the photo, the girl who was bullied to death and the sentence that can never satisfy
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Justin Trudeau, the allegations and the options
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What Lies ‘should be on shelves in every library’
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Seeing the world from the other side changes… everything
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Jian Ghomeshi, Gerald Regan and the court of public opinion
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The journalist’s dilemma: covering breaking news in the Age of Instant
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The Halifax Mooseheads should have known…
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Where’s Leo? … and other notes from the health care week that was
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Leo Glavine: Mis-speaking oneself while saying the same thing
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AIMS aims to cover its…
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What Lies wins nonfiction prize
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The US State Department responds to my four-year-old FoIA Request… sort of
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the new head of the US Interest Section and the implications for the case of the Cuban Five
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Halifax Transit’s not-so-public response to its own public consultation
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The government’s craven; we’re stupid. I’m OK with that
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What would you do to un-Harper Canada?
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Don’t trust Nova Scotia Power to fix what ails it
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No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham
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Northern Pulp, the Sobeys and the lessons unlearned
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State of the union
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Nova Scotia Power, Arthur and the review: the unasked questions
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NSP and the convention centre: failures to communicate
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Revolution rising
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Serendipity
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Heritage Trust v Joe Ramia and the Be-Bolders
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Peter MacKay: the columnist’s gift that keeps on giving
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Lyle Howe, David Sparks and the race question
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Jamie Baillie, Chuck Porter and the issue that matters more
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Bayou of Pigs: Cuba, the United States and Washington’s unrequited obsessive compulsion
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The Liberals, the NDP and the Home for Colored Children settlement
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Does anyone believe Peter MacKay wasn’t involved… and other questions
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Gerardo Hernández: guilty as charged? Alan Gross: innocent as claimed?
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The world’s ‘poorest’ president teaches rich lessons
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When is a management fee a profit margin, and does calling it either make it any less a boondoggle?
-
What is it about Canadians that makes us different from Americans?
-
Accountability ain’t what it used to be
-
Troubled waters
-
Shopping while strolling
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Good intentions, abysmal execution, lost opportunity
-
The fishery of frustration
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On Monday, Health Minister Randy Delorey will…
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Nova Scotia is safe for school children and would-be municipal politicians… but not for Liberal MLAs
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Is your school safe to reopen? Don’t ask your lapdog Liberal MLA
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Will the new McNeil be like the old one? Let’s hope not
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Tara Thorne and the tweet that trumped 20 years of exemplary arts coverage
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So long, Stephen, we knew you too well
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Shrubsall: no guarantees
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Portapique: how to (maybe) turn a rickety review into a transparent public inquiry
-
Zach Churchill: our schools will open 100 per cent… unless they don’t
-
Does Stephen McNeil believe in workers’ rights? Next question
-
Northwood: when a ‘review’ is just a cover-up
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From heroes to zeroes… the pandemic bottom line
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Northwood Inquiry? No need. McNeil and Delorey have this…
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Councillors cancelled the tank contract. Good. Now what?
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Police brutality? Think globally, act locally
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Shiny budget surpluses versus investing in long-term care
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Dear Mr. Premier: I know you’re busy but…
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Welcome, back Peter
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Healthcare lessons from Manitoba’s First Nations… and Cuba.
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Whatever happened to spring legislature sessions that lasted until spring?
-
What’s the difference between opioid and gambling addictions?
-
Hugh MacKay and our I-know-nothing, see-nothing, do-nothing premier
-
Is ‘Idle Some More’ back for another season?
-
Hold on to your ballots
-
Why are we still talking about Africentric schools?
-
Complicated legacies
-
New street checks almost the same as the old
-
Can we expect truth about the Walmart incident from police or the store? Nope
-
George Elliott Clarke, the murderer, and the murdered woman
-
On Rana Zaman: Some somebodies have some explaining to do
-
Northern Pulp: planning the future five years too late
-
‘Tis the season to say something positive
-
Calvin Lawrence: Black Panther Party’s ‘unlikely cub’
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Coming to terms with Gerald Regan’s complicated legacy
-
Doctors’ deal within government’s public sector wage guidelines? Not really
-
Physician assistants? It shouldn’t be that hard. Really
-
Waiting for Fitch: the much-delayed consultant’s report you may never get to see in full
-
Whose deaths matter?
-
Stephen McNeil and the Crowns: Magic realism meets reality
-
Stephen McNeil’s Collective Bargaining Game
-
The curtain falls on this year’s ferry follies… but there’s always next year
-
The perils of being progressive
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If we build it, will they come?
-
What to do about Justin?
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The Great Dorian Disconnect of 2019
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Politicians criticizing Israel: When 2019 becomes 1984 all over again
-
Lloyd ‘I-know-nothing’ Hines knows nothing… still
-
Who’s Tory now?
-
When a healthcare crisis is an opportunity… for an “important milestone” moment photo-op
-
What went wrong with MyHealthNS?
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The Assoun and the Furey
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Can we talk about Israel and the Palestinians? No?
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Going for the secrecy gold medal
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Who’s not telling the truth? Bay Ferries? The Nova Scotia government? US Border Services? All of the above?
-
Don’t worry. Be happy. That’s only your tax dollars you see sinking
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Shelburne School for Boys: Good intentions gone wrong? Or…?
-
The Sackville-Cobequid byelection: seeking meaning in the meaningless
-
What if we just gave Americans cash to come to Nova Scotia?
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Crisis? What crisis? Just a(nother) ‘new (lack of) direction’ for healthcare
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Trying to crawl through a loophole on gender discrimination
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Ka-ching. Ka-ching. Your tax dollars at work covering government butt
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‘This is North Preston:’ a story that ‘needs to be heard’
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A tale of two protests
-
Health care crisis? What health care crisis?
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Who’s sorry now? Not the premier, not the justice minister, not the police
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Verdict without end
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Wilson-Raybould, Churchill? Evidence our legislative committee systems don’t work
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Stunting 101: The games Bay Ferries plays
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Back to the drawing board, Bill
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Clearwater wins. Again. Still. Always. And forever
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What would Andrew do? Jagmeet?
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Bobbleheaded Zach joins the public accounts follies
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Alex Richman: R.I.P.
-
The Cat can’t come back… to Portland
-
Now that the Fangless Five have become the Insensate Seven, it’s time for…?
-
Encounter re-encountered, with lessons for today
-
Health minister promises to fix long-term care, but offers no money to actually fix it
-
The Fang-less Five, the McNeil government and (un)accountability
-
Hard conversations: why was ‘fantastic principal’ Lamar Eason suspended from his job?
-
Gerald Regan and the legacy of our #MeToo moment
-
Shrubsall: Andy Fillmore’s challenge and opportunity
-
Race in Nova Scotia: one small step forward, another giant leap into the past
-
William Shrubsall: gambling on US justice, gambling on public safety
-
Catherine Tully’s power to persuade vs government’s power to ignore
-
The president versus the press. Or should that be the president thanks the press?
-
Jen’s choice is no choice at all; why not?
-
Let us eat cake
-
Cannabis is still legal
-
Why the pre-legalization crackdown on medical cannabis dispensaries?
-
Do P-3 hospitals offer value for money spent? None of your business, says Stephen McNeil
-
Don’t tax the rich. They don’t pay. Uh… what?
-
Stephen McNeil: Read his lips. Just don’t believe a word he says
-
Rick Mehta: Acadia clarifies, commingles, confuses
-
Rick Mehta: a firing offence or just offensive
-
Christopher Garnier’s PTSD: right policy, wrong result, better outcome…
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Is NS Tory leader wannabe John Lohr Maxime Bernier in waiting?
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McNeil says there’s ‘lots’ of film activity; the facts tell a different story
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Health care crisis? Check. Leadership to solve it? Another question…
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The Yarmouth ferry subsidy? Still? Still more? Always…
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Outraged about Russian meddling in the US election? What about…?
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The gospel according to Mark (Lever)
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Canada’s border: Donald Trump stands on guard for he
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Schooling Shawn Cleary on journalism education
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Unpacking the contradictory Mr. Cleary
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Cannabis will soon be legal. Just don’t smoke it, or grow it, or enjoy it
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The Yates case: self-regulation or self-protection
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Ask no questions, get no answers… Mission accomplished
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Council to Armco: ‘Jump? How high, sir, how high…?’ ‘Good dog…’
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Hijacking ‘reasoned debate’ for right-wing noise at MSVU
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From Stephen McNeil’s ‘who me?’ to McInnes Cooper’s #metoo
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Politicians’ snake oil hopes and dreams meet economic, environmental reality
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The Liberals’ Fang-less Five, the data breach and the public interest
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Progress isn’t easy, and sometimes it isn’t
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United Way poverty report: ‘the system needs to change’
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The judge, the complaints and finding the balance between judicial independence and public confidence
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Peter Munk, Clairtone and the Nova Scotia disconnection
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City council, the developer, and the deal that isn’t quite
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Stephen McNeil, the offshore windfall and the royal ‘we’
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When ‘freedom of speech’ is a code, not a value
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The Horne case: mumble-mouthed nothings from mealy-mouthed nobodies
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Memo to Stephen McNeil: beware teachers bearing frustration
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A jury of whose peers?
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Peter Stoffer: former MP, former hugger, accused groper
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Does Cornwallis matter? More than I thought
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PC party’s response to Baillie sexual harassment allegation: better but no gold star
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Can we trust the Armoyans to act in the public interest? No, that’s what council is for…
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What if they created another immigration program and nobody came?
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When being poor equals poor parenting…
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The Desmond file: belatedly untangling the threads that led to a murder-suicide
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Doctor, doctor, who needs a doctor? 42,198 Nova Scotians and counting…
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Northern Pulp bullies Canada’s biggest bookstore chain, wins… and then loses
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The Mulroney Institute, St. Francis Xavier University and the honorary arms dealers
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How much health care could $10 million have bought — and why it didn’t
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UARB fails to protect whistle-blowers, punish wrong-doing bus company
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The Paradise Papers, the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation and tax reform
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Winning, losing and Jamie Baillie
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Masuma Khan and the issue of freedom of speech
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Lyle Howe: a sad end to a sad case
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Tax reform: the Chicken Littles come home to roost
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Reparations raises the racism disconnect
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Beware businesses bearing bleats
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The politics of economics
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The Herald strike ends, how long will the bitterness linger?
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Are you better off? Discuss
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Bar Society says Lyle Howe should be disbarred, ordered to pay $500,000
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Name? Un-name? How about no name?
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Mark Lever’s sins against journalism
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The Herald strike is over. Now the hard part begins
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The Liberals’ $24.5-million Acadia University funding fandango
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Who’s going to fix our broken criminal justice system?
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The Lyle Howe case: guilty, but…
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The Chronicle Herald strike meets the ‘final option’
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Sears stiffs its staff while vulture capitalists profit. Discuss
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Mind your own business
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Is it always a bad idea to get government involved in journalism?
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Can a ‘white van driver’ be a terrorist? Discuss
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Stephen McNeil’s 20 per cent majority: a referendum on…?
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Wade Smith’s unfinished legacy: ‘It’s up to us…’
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Since none of the above is on the ballot…
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Four more years… but what might have been instead
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Are election campaigns any place to discuss serious issues?
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Making our economy ‘more human’ may be utopian, but it’s also necessary
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The younger French president, his older wife and… Amy Hood. Quelle difference?
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Will the next government finally end the 15-year persecution of Dr. Gabrielle Horne? Time to ask…
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Havana, Halifax and the state of democracy
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Lyle Howe and the bar society’s Plan B
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Can Mark Lever succeed where smarter, more experienced minds have failed? No
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The judge and the child abuse registry case: common sense among the Catch-22s
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Questioning the developer-donation-councillor connection ‘an insult to my integrity’
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Who has the ear of the finance minister? Hint: not you
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Journalism: Banking on public broadcasting
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The way politics works — and doesn’t — in Nova Scotia
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The Lyle Howe case: ‘If you look hard enough…’
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Who is Lyle Howe? And why are so many people saying such nasty things about him? (Part II)
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Who is Lyle Howe? And why are so many people saying such nasty things about him? (Part I)
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Education: the Byzantine, bizarre and just plain nonsensical
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Stephen McNeil’s ‘right direction’ and his Chamber of Commerce cheerleaders
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Teachers say no thanks. So Stephen McNeil says…
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What Lies (Spanish edition) among 2016’s best selling titles in Cuba
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Schools, politics and the provincial thumb on the scale
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The teachers’ dispute: just another Monday in Chaos
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So what’s an un-built McMansion really worth? $119 million?
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Police street check data (also) shows we need more journalists, more news organizations
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CEO Compensation: Oops, you’ve been lapped again… and again
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Who is Joseph Boyden, and does the answer matter?
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Stephen McNeil: are Nova Scotians just parking their votes and keeping score?
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Teachers: light at the end of the tunnel? What tunnel?
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How the government chose to build two new schools in the ‘right’ place in the right pre-election time
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The Ghomeshi verdict isn’t Marie Henein’s fault
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Media Coverage Of Fidel Castro’s Death Has Been Abysmally One-Sided
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Mark Never, Grant Machum and ‘Graham Dennis isn’t around to save you anymore’
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The publisher’s daughter
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Three takeaways from America’s fool’s game election
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The latest Gabrielle Horne travesty of justice
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‘We found each other’
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Lindell Smith: more than a symbol
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Job one for the new council: end developer donations
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Voting for change, not electoral victory
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Development: now’s the time to ask
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Halifax council: time for change, but what? And how?
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We care… so why don’t we vote?
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Justice and the sad brutishness of real life
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League Misconduct
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Berry Good
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Is Halifax Needham why Stephen McNeil hasn’t called a general election?
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Kimber to judge Canada’s richest literary nonfiction prize
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What does Sobeys really regret?
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University, government, CEOs: let the students pay
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The Cat, the commitment and the costly complication
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Message from Fidel
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Trinity Law School: ‘discomforting’ our comfortable bar society
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Taxi sexual assaults: Is there too much focus on what women ‘can do’?
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Yarmouth ferry: We pay money, Portland makes money
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Do elections toll for us?
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Do teenage athletes playing for for-profit teams deserve the same protections as other workers?
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We need to talk about Edward
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Film Noir… film no… no film
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Robertson’s independent facilitator’s report: independent? facilitator?
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P3s: Do we trust the McNeil government to act in our interest, or in the interest of its own re-election?
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Dr. Gabrielle Horne and the lessons not learned
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“Without haste but without pause”
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Journalism: From Howe to how-not-to
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Thanks Stephen, Darrell, Rodney, et al… for ‘The Donald’?
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Development: It’s time to talk
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Politics in Nova Scotia is getting interesting
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Is Joan Jessome most hated woman in Nova Scotia?
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Developers get to change rules, the rest of us not so much
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Fort McMurray: worst times, best moments
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Racism’s crime: ‘devaluing of self and others’
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Doctor dysfunction and the case of Gabrielle Horne
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Sarah Dennis apologizes… but ignores the reason she had to
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Stephen McNeil’s film dream — you have to (make) believe
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Why Bay Ferries wasn’t concerned, and why we should be
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Ghomeshi not guilty? How about “not proven”?
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We call suicide a preventable cause of death, but…
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How do you fairly determine how much elected officials should be paid?
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Gary Burrill: the politics of hope, or hope for politics
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The Chronicle Herald: Last one out turn out the lights?
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Nova Scotia Power is reporting its first outage of the morning… and other tales we shouldn’t hear
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Jian Ghomeshi: Justice, the courts and the court of public opinion
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Seniors’ pharmacare? It’s past time for a national, universal pharmacare program
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Government’s Orwellian doublespeak on Pharmacare, the ‘balanced budget’ and the next election
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Film tax credits: a tale of two jurisdictions
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The Herald: on the downhill run to oblivion?
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The burning question: how to balance real risks with feeling safe
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AIMS takes aim at the future
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Stephen McNeil and collective bargaining: saving us to death
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Monday morning this and that
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Volvieron! One year later
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Stephen McNeil’s best laid plans…
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A Pearl by any other place?
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Unanswered questions: Shoppers shoplifting video, and what it shows… or doesn’t
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Andrew Younger hurtles to the hell of political oblivion
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Andrew Younger… gone too late
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Not so-strange bedfellows: the CTF and the CFIB and $8 billion in unpaid taxes
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Canada’s ‘worst deadbeat dad’ responds
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$2 million for consultants, more cuts for welfare recipients
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Our long national Harper nightmare may be over, but…
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Time for principled Conservatives to say ‘no more’ to Stephen Harper’s politics of division
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A statute of limitation on social media stupidity? Yes, please
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Stephen McNeil, the Miller contract and cavalier condescension
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New developments demand ‘exceptions’: where’s the public benefit?
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What a difference a minister makes
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All pain, no gain
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Spud Sabotage
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Guistino Di Celmo dies in Havana; Posada in car accident in Miami
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The Murder of Fabio Di Celmo
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This government brought to you by…
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How not to save a sinking ship
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Finance minister’s new approach sounds like more of the same public sector blaming
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Bad week for Nova Star; worse weeks to come for us
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Privatizing public services: electoral gain for economic pain
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The fascination of Flora
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Stephen McNeil thinks we need electoral reform; just don’t ask him to do anything about it…
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Why haven’t we Evolved?
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Is that any way to start a discussion?
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The Happy Ending
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Who killed Mills Brothers?
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To keep grads in Nova Scotia, we have to first attract students
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Nova Scotia’s generational highway mega projects: an idea whose time has gone?
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Abolish the senate? Ask the people
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When the United Way stated the obvious, the CFIB hit the fan
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So long, Peter, we knew you too well
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Dal’s dentistry scandal: one more footnote in a seismic social and gender transformation
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Corporate charity: who is it good for? Them…
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Some assembly required
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Principle v power and the NDP: discuss
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CBC Nova Scotia’s Halifax election financing database: lessons learned
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Marco… meet John and John; AIMS… meet hypocrisy
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The film tax fandango: saving pennies, losing the future
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Panama, Posada, plots and the Summit of the Americas
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Ambulance chasing in the public interest?
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Nominated for four Atlantic Journalism Awards
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The rise and fall of Andrew Younger
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Continuing Canada’s tragedy of terrors
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Two good guys. Two good journalists. RIP
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Stephen McNeil declares health care victory… and runs
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The great dentistry scandal of 2014, 2015… and counting
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Government’s ‘we know best’ approach to race relations… again, still
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Health care unions, the government and the mess that will be
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Harper’s diplomatically deaf, ideologically inspired foreign policy puts Canadians at risk
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What’s terror? Who’s a terrorist? And other aftermath questions…
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Students speak, government isn’t listening
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The Mayor’s markers: Are people happy, confident we can be better?
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Should Dal dentistry student be suspended … or thanked?
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Mike Savage Part 1: Not quite his father’s son
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My talk at the Martin Luther King, Jr., theatre in New York — January 16, 2015
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Health care unions: arbitrator’s report unlikely to be the end of the story
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Restorative justice? Yes, but also…
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The ‘selfless friendship’ of the Cuban Five solidarity movement
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Be it (un)resolved…
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2014: The year the conversation changed
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The Cuban Five free at last. The week that was.
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Anonymous bullies
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Bourque, Zahef-Bibeau, personal consequences and public accountability
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Selected dispatches from last week’s “whoopsie” file
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Broten report sings from the Common Book of Corporate Prayer
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Transcript of my Interview with “The Taylor Report” on CIUT Radio
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The boy who took the photo, the girl who was bullied to death and the sentence that can never satisfy
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Justin Trudeau, the allegations and the options
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What Lies ‘should be on shelves in every library’
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Seeing the world from the other side changes… everything
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Jian Ghomeshi, Gerald Regan and the court of public opinion
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The journalist’s dilemma: covering breaking news in the Age of Instant
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The Halifax Mooseheads should have known…
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Where’s Leo? … and other notes from the health care week that was
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Leo Glavine: Mis-speaking oneself while saying the same thing
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AIMS aims to cover its…
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What Lies wins nonfiction prize
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The US State Department responds to my four-year-old FoIA Request… sort of
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the new head of the US Interest Section and the implications for the case of the Cuban Five
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Halifax Transit’s not-so-public response to its own public consultation
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The government’s craven; we’re stupid. I’m OK with that
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What would you do to un-Harper Canada?
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Don’t trust Nova Scotia Power to fix what ails it
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No offence intended, Mr. Rudderham
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Northern Pulp, the Sobeys and the lessons unlearned
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State of the union
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Nova Scotia Power, Arthur and the review: the unasked questions
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NSP and the convention centre: failures to communicate
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Revolution rising
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Serendipity
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Heritage Trust v Joe Ramia and the Be-Bolders
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Peter MacKay: the columnist’s gift that keeps on giving
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Lyle Howe, David Sparks and the race question
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Jamie Baillie, Chuck Porter and the issue that matters more
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Bayou of Pigs: Cuba, the United States and Washington’s unrequited obsessive compulsion
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The Liberals, the NDP and the Home for Colored Children settlement
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Does anyone believe Peter MacKay wasn’t involved… and other questions
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Gerardo Hernández: guilty as charged? Alan Gross: innocent as claimed?
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The world’s ‘poorest’ president teaches rich lessons
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The teacher, the hit man and the questions that remain
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You showed them, Mr. Mayor
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Mike Duffy… you're no Mike Duffy
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