Terrorists have given revolution a bad name. So have advertisers, for that matter, who regularly coopt the word to market everything from a new brand of shoe to a marginally pinker shade of lipstick. I attended the swaering in of Nova Scotia’s new government cabinet last night. A beaming Darrell Dexter, the first New Democratic [...]
Archive for June, 2009
12 Jun
1 of 310 – a post-election view
I didn’t get the 500 votes I sought. In fact, at just 310, I fell considerably short. Mea culpa. Many things went wrong, were done wrong, or were simply not done at all. A passion for policy coupled with a passion for politics is not all it takes to run a campaign for elected office. [...]
9 Jun
Guest Blog: Ridings to watch
Patrick Webber, a self-described political junkie, managing director of the Green Party of Nova Scotia, and friend of mine, has written a guest blog for Tangents. Enjoy his tour through some of the ridings he thinks will be worth paying attention to tonight as the polls close and the results get tallied.
Let me begin by [...]
7 Jun
Can’t get a satisfactory election?
As I have previously noted, voter turnout in the last provincial election was something less than stellar. Also something less than 60%. I hope we can do better this time, as a province, because if we do we can actually do better as a province. The province wide voter turnout last time around was 59.89%, [...]
5 Jun
1 of 500 revisited
It looks like an orange tsunami is about to sweep over Nova Scotia. If the polls are to believed – and that’s a mighty debatable if – then the New Democratic Party is about to grab virtually every riding in the province outside of the Valley and Cape Breton. A prevailing sense that it is [...]
4 Jun
You can’t get a voter’s card with no fixed address
Health care. Homelessness. Addictions. Inadequate education. Hunger. What do these all have in common? Poverty as an underlying cause. Poverty is the single greatest social ill in our city, in our province, in our country. This is something I have had much intimate first-hand experience with, as well as something I have intellectually understood. But [...]
1 Jun
The next debate doesn’t have to be boring
There’s a party leader’s debate Tuesday night in Nova Scotia, for three of the four party leaders. If it’s anything like the last one we had, the Chronicle-Herald will crown Stephen McNeil the winner by virtue of the dubious distinction that he was marginally less boring than the other two. And no wonder – there [...]
