Stephen Kimber

Health department’s proposed bylaws make bad situation worse It is hard to imagine at first blush, but the department of health’s belated, half-hearted attempt to head off future embarrassments like the still-ongoing Gabrielle Horne affair may only end up making the situation worse. Horne, of course, is the cardiac research specialist whose promising career was […]

Do we need a little more MAD? Mutual Assured Destruction. MAD. The idea is simple. If you have a nuclear bomb and I have a nuclear bomb, you’d better not try to use yours on me or I’ll fire mine at you, and we’ll both be dead. World ends. Game over. For a good chunk […]

MacDonald makes bad law worse To tell the truth, and I sometimes do, I could care less whether I am allowed to shop ’til I drop on Sundays. I have no vested, or even unvested, interest in the outcome of this tiresome debate. I don’t, thank God, work in the retail business. If there is […]

Our school board’s sorry for … everything Geoff Cainen, the coordinator of education quality and accountability (whatever that may be) at the Halifax Regional School Board, clearly believes in inclusion. As he groveled to reporters last week: “If this question in any way has offended anyone with a Muslim background, or Canadian Forces, or anyone […]

Baillie, Batherson blather while Rodney burns If you want to know why the Conservatives managed to lose this election while slightly increasing their share of the popular vote and winning the most seats, you need only rewind and replay the what-me-worry, see-me-smile, that’s-me-still-smiling election-night blather of two of its key backroom operatives — Jamie Baillie, […]

Ignoring the elephant in the election campaign Brian Crowley and I do not agree on much. Crowley is the head of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a right-wing think tank funded largely by big business… and I am not. He believes, if I may simplify just a smidge, that what is best for business […]

HarperCollins Canada’s cocktail party HarperCollins authors Stephen Kimber and Charlotte Gray are joined by Gray’s son, Alex Anderson at the HarperCollins cocktail party kicking off Book Expo Canada 2006 in Toronto June 10, 2006. Photo credit: Rannie Turingan

Stephen Kimber will be one of more than a dozen writers featured during this year’s second annual Halifax International Writers’ Festival at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax from April 5-9. On Sunday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. Kimber will read and discuss his new novel, Reparations. On Thursday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m., he […]