Stephen Kimber

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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… […]

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 […]