Earlier this month, she turned 19. She is now officially an adult. Not that she ever had a childhood. I’d tell you her name, but I can’t. Besides, it wouldn’t mean anything to you. This might. In the fall of 2006, when she was just 16, she was, briefly, a media sensation when she landed […]
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- 10/16/2009
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I know it is correct—politically and otherwise—to be scandalized by news that child pornography was allegedly discovered on a laptop computer belonging to the now-suddenly former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Antigonish, Raymond Lahey. I am. Up to a point. If the material in question includes photographs of actual children, then someone exploited those children to […]
- 10/09/2009
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You’re Invited! The IWK Health Centre and Nimbus Publishing are celebrating the launch of IWK: A Century of Caring for Families a new book by Stephen Kimber Where: The Gallery of the Richard B. Goldbloom Pavilion, IWK Health Centre 5850/5980 University Ave. When: Thursday, October 8, 11:00am
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This week’s revelation that our on-its-way-out-turn-on-the-taps Tory government renewed a controversial contract with Scotia Surgery in early June—just six days before voters shoved it onto the political trash heap—was… well, interesting. But not surprising. More intriguing—and perhaps more telling—was Health Minister Maureen MacDonald’s shrug response. “They’re entitled to sign contracts right up to the day […]
- 10/02/2009
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On Monday, News 95.7 talk show host Andrew Krystal invited listeners to weigh in on that hoary old chestnut: another kerfuffle over another plan to wipe out another view of Halifax harbour from Citadel Hill. I didn’t catch much during my commute, but I did hear Andrew noting that one listener said he’d recently been […]
- 09/25/2009
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One morning in the late spring of 2008, Trevor J. Adams and Stephen Clare were enjoying their usual weekly “half-business/half-pleasure” coffee at the Trident Café and Bookstore in downtown Halifax, and enjoying even more their own noisy argument about best books. Today they were debating the relative merits of two iconic Nova Scotian-Canadian authors, Thomas […]
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Stephen McNeil was right. And Darrell Dexter was wrong. During the last provincial election campaign, then-opposition NDP leader Dexter made a boy-scout solemn promise that, if elected, his government would balance the province’s books next year. Cross his heart. Really… Stephen McNeil, the then-new leader of the nowhere-to-go-but-up Liberal party, countered—more or less—that that was […]
- 09/18/2009
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On Wednesday, Halifax council announced the appointment of our first ever auditor general. Buried in the PR boilerplate was this ironically unintended wiffle-ball of wisdom from chief bureaucrat Dan English: “Independence and transparency,” he declared, “are key to enhancing public confidence in the municipal service delivery system.” Huh? Didn’t city fathers couple last winter’s motion […]
- 09/11/2009
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Kimber’s Nova Scotia December 30, 2007 Winning the wharf war More than eight years after Ottawa disastrously handed control of Digby’s vital fishermen’s wharf to outsiders and more than five years after frustrated locals first organized to buy it back, the wharf is finally in the hands of a community group. In 1999, as part […]
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Happy holidays… er, Christmas… oh whatever Perhaps it was that last, oh-just-one-more-thank-you eggnog at the holiday… er, Christmas party the other night, but I somehow found myself staring at my daily newspaper on Monday morning and nodding in surprised almost-but-not-quite agreement with our resident right-of-radical, right-even-of Don-Cherry, conservative Christian curmudgeon columnist Charles Moore. Moore was […]
- 12/27/2007
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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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