There's something special about driving home on Christmas Eve in Nova Scotia. Home may be where the heart is but the country roads of Nova Scotia bring wherever that may be more clearly into focus. Today I spent an hour driving the highway from Chester through New Ross to Kentville. It's Trunk 12 for those looking …
Rob Ford’s Icy Highwire Act
Rob Ford may be creeping out on to an icy political high wire by not declaring a state of emergency in Toronto. There is no doubt people are suffering in the city. Crews are restoring power, but as of Monday night 200,000 people are still in the cold and the dark with their prospects for heat …
Graham Through the Looking Glass
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings." - Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carrol It wasn't in iambic pentameter, but Graham Steele's CBC commentary on an imaginary conversation between …
Pass the Salt: The politics of snow
"Now is the winter of our discontent." - W. Shakespeare While doing talk radio I came to understand the things that irritate the citizenry on a visceral level. Topping the list are garbage collection and snow removal. Two functions the city provides felt directly and immediately. Some of the most lively debates surrounded the transparency of …
The Blacklist: Why NS Business fears government – Part 2
NO...NO...PLEASE DON'T!!!! This is what I got back after asking to include a couple of paragraphs from a private email response to yesterday's blog in today's edition. It is from a well known figure in business circles in the province. They had written to share their concerns over a government practice responsible for hobbling our ability to attract …
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Why Nova Scotia Business Fears Government – Part 1
Business in Nova Scotia is afraid. Yes, afraid to speak up on important issues of public policy in our province. Why? Because there is legitimate concern their business might be shut out of what has evolved into our alternate economy. The economy of government expenditure. For some business, speaking out against it could be crippling. …
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Weekend addition
I'm normally not going to blog on the weekend but my hour-and-a-half drive with my son Angus today led me to post this. Angus is in grade 8 and he is studying WWII in social studies. We spent the drive talking about the Canadian contribution to the war effort. His late grandfather, Jack Morgan fought …
The Canada…post Canada Post…post
What would Canada be like, post Canada Post? That fateful day when letter mail was delivered by someone other than Crown Corporation employees. Apocalyptic? Hmm, no. I admit, for some perverse reason, I like my Canada Post home delivery. I rifle through the the usual assortment of poorly designed, ineffective direct mail pieces, pizza flyers, credit …
Hello?
Hey, welcome to my new blog. For the last couple of years I've been able to vent my spleen on issues on my radio program Maritime Morning. That all came to an end in November when Rogers traded me in for the NHL. Today, while tooling around Halifax listening to Jian Ghomeshi, I heard a …
