On December 31, 2011, the Washington Post published an editorial demanding the return of Alan Gross, an American government contractor sentenced to 15 years in Cuban prison for illegally bringing telecommunications equipment into the country. In the editorial, the Post claimed Cuba saw Gross as a “potential bargaining chip” to win the release of the […]
Government by Facebook post? We could do worse. We do. Read any report of any Halifax council meeting. And then consider this. On Thursday afternoon, Bedford Councilor Tim Outhit posted on his Facebook wall: “$20 million to widen Bayers Road, or $25 million to launch an initial commuter rail service?” He invited his Facebook friends […]
Peter Kelly has become the journalistic gift that keeps on giving, our local, 21st century version of those famous “Franco-is-still-dead” Saturday Night Live sketches from the mid-1970s. Breaking News just in. Peter Kelly is still the mayor. And will be for at least another year. If not for life. And perhaps after death… So is […]
What a short, strange, sweet trip it’s been—made all the sweeter because not a single politician, party insider, pollster, pundit or person predicted it. Including me. My first post-election-call column was a lament that—in a campaign focused so tightly on just 50 swing ridings—the votes of the rest of us wouldn’t count. Uh, right… What […]
Friday’s too-soon-to-have-even-been-considered “not guilty” verdict in Luis Posada Carriles’ immigration fraud trial landed with a shocking thud. Luis Posada Carriles After a 13-week trial filled with conflicting testimony from 33 witnesses, a jury in El Paso, Texas, took just two hours and 57 minutes to conclude that Posada—the alleged mass-murdering mastermind of a 1976 Cubana […]
So let me see if I have this straight. The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, which prides itself on being the fists-up, fang-baring defender of downtrodden taxpayers, has its knickers righteously twisted because the province says it can save taxpayers $4.7-million a year… Uh… this does not compute. Or perhaps it does. Some background. Nova Scotia’s Transportation […]
After spending the last three weeks in Havana researching a book—and avoiding winter—I have reached a few modest conclusions. First, there are things Haligonians could teach Habaneros. About pooper scooper laws, for example. Havana’s sidewalks are a canine-created minefield. That becomes more understandable, of course, when you realize Havana has a shortage of plastic bags. […]
On January 16, 1996, the Cuban government filed yet another official protest with the U.S. State Department urging American authorities to stop anti-Castro exiles from violating Cuban airspace… again. José Basulto Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based anti-Castro exile group, had been racheting up its provocative flights since July 13, 1995 when founder José Basulto […]
COMMENTARY Luis Posada, terrorist or patriot? Castro’s nemesis, a former CIA operative, goes on trial in Texas By Stephen Kimber, special to CBC News To the Cuban government, Luis Posada Carriles is the Osama bin Laden of Latin America, a coldly calculating, unapologetic Cold Warrior who is responsible for the murder of at least […]
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CBC Radio’s award-winning international news program Dispatches today will feature an interview with me about the opening of the Luis Posada immigration fraud trial in El Paso, Texas. You can hear the program on CBC.ca at 1 pm (1:30 pm in Newfoundland) across the CBC Radio 1 network, and again on Sundays at 7 pm ET, […]
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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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