Last April, when gasoline prices were sky high, Premier Rodney MacDonald said this to reporters outside the provincial legislature.
“I think the most important thing we as a government can do, and all Nova Scotians can do, is to purchase more fuel-efficient vehicles, to take up the opportunity for transit.”
The premier later objected to this headline [...]

Things got a little out of hand at New Year’s Eve festivities at the Cunard Centre, Halifax. Around 1:30 am on New Year’s Day, hundreds of people helped themselves to coats because coat check clerks were retrieving them too slowly. Or maybe there weren’t enough clerks. Or maybe some of the party-goers [...]

A 17-year-old Iraqi girl who has been abused and exploited for much of her young life celebrated a very happy new year in Canada.
From a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHRC), datelined 31 December:
For any refugee, the chance to begin a new life in Canada is a coveted prize. But for Hiba [not [...]

National Post columnist Colby Cosh stated last July that Christians did not consider abortion murder “before the 1960s”. McGill University religious studies professor Douglas Farrow immediately pointed out his egregious error and cited early church fathers condemning abortion. Mr Cosh initially replied to Dr Farrow’s rejoinder with defiance, but when Farrow responded with [...]

Pseudonymous British blogger-bobby PC David Copperfield moved to Edmonton, Alberta, about a year ago. Some people have asked him about the main differences between policing in the UK and in Canada.
Much police work remains the same, of course, but there are notable differences. British police have more powers (to stop, search, arrest) but [...]

This year saw three convictions for human trafficking in Canada—the first since a human-trafficking statute was added to the Criminal Code in 2005.  Contrary to expectations, the perpetrators and victims were all Canadian citizens.
A different picture emerged of a flesh trade often thought of as foreign nationals tricked across borders. It became apparent that Canadian [...]

The latest Fraser Institute report on corporate welfare in Canada arrives at a very appropriate time. The allegedly “Conservative” federal government is about to throw away $4 billion on propping up failing car companies and their unionised workers. Newfoundland and Labrador should also take note: Danny Williams has embarked on an arguably illegal [...]

I, for one, would like to hear more about the LaytonAway Program!
Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, Hamilton Spectator

Danny Williams’ grandstanding is contagious, apparently. Clem Tremblay, Mayor of Dalhousie, New Brunswick, wants his provincial government to seize a paper mill belonging to AbitibiBowater.
The New Brunswick government should follow the lead of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams by expropriating the property of AbitibiBowater’s Dalhousie paper mill, according to the town’s mayor.
Dalhousie’s economy [...]

A private consultant commissioned by the Government of Alberta to suggest policies aimed at alleviating the shortage of nurses has offered a novel “solution”—pressure nurses already working to put in more hours. Right! That will absolutely make nursing a more attractive profession.
For some strange reason, however, Alberta nurses don’t see it that way.
Alberta [...]

We haven’t heard much from Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams lately, but he’s in the news today.   It’s good to hear that he’s still his usual arrogant self.  Check out today’s CBC headlines:

AbitibiBowater may take legal action over N.L. expropriation of assets
‘We wish you well’: Williams to AbitibiBowater

The provincial government passed legislation authorising theft [...]

Last April, Marc Lebuis of the excellent Quebec blog Point de Bascule filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission against Montreal Muslim imam Abou Hammaad Sulaiman Dameus Al-Hayiti. Imam al-Hayiti had written a book, published in Canada and available for download here (in French), containing nasty slurs against many groups in Canadian [...]

So says David Larter, executive director of the Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission. That is a startling admission for a bureaucrat in his position to make.
He needs to get with the programme: Hasn’t he read the script for defenders of Canada’s “human rights” commissions?   Our human rights commissions avoid adversarial procedures. Canada [...]

Among the casualties of the global economic slowdown and the attendant oil crash is the theory of peak oil, which stated that the world was about to run out of oil altogether and that its price would therefore continue to rise into the stratosphere. Reality bites again.
The Financial Post’s Terence Corcoran reports.
As it turns [...]

Last week, the BC “human rights” tribunal found that companies involved in building Vancouver’s Skytrain had discriminated against Latin American workers and ordered payment of compensation. After slogging through the 177-page decision, the Vancouver Sun’s Ian Mulgrew smells a rat.
The Latin American workers were paid the same wage scale as Canadian workers on the [...]