By now, Gerald Keddy’s apparent dismissal of the Halifax homeless and unemployed as “no good bastards” has been oft repeated around the province. The responses I have heard have largely been, as the kids say, WTF? Keddy has since issued an apology for having said the words, for not meaning the words, and for hurting [...]
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26 Aug
Neurodiversity don’t ride this bus
My son, Izaak, was kicked off the bus today. A little background: Izaak is eight years old and is autistic. He has been attending the Autism Summer Camp and was with that group today when the incident with Metro Transit happened. He was screaming. A little more background: Izaak’s screams can be an unsettling, almost [...]
20 Jun
You say you want a revolution?
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
31 May
Party Machines
I heard an interesting anecdote today. A former bar employee told me a story about two women and a VLT. It seems these women were sitting in a bar, where they could regularly be found, watching a man play a VLT and eyeballing the large “bonus” that was available on the game. The man finished [...]
28 May
Back to school
I have to be honest here. I would like to see change in how the education system works, but I’m not entirely sure what I want the finished product to look like. I’m not even sure there is a perfect finished product, unless you could design a system so fluid it could mold and adapt [...]
