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Judge orders PEI HRC to butt in again

May 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Prince Edward Island’s Human Rights Commission may have nine staff members to police a population of 140,000, making it, as Ezra Levant pointed out, proportionately over ten times larger than the Canadian Human Rights Commission, but it’s not busy enough for at least one Islander. After PEI’s HRC rejected her claim of discrimination in 2003, [...]

Our head of state eats raw seal meat: That’s beautiful

May 27th, 2009 | 6 Comments

Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean’s trip to Nunavut has made a monarchist of former republican and Halifax Chronicle-Herald columnist Steve Maher. THE SIGHT — beautiful beyond words — of Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean holding a bloody piece of raw seal heart in her viceregal mouth has convinced me to abandon my long-held republican beliefs and half-heartedly [...]

Green Party keeps the voters guessing

May 27th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Green Party lives up to its usual standards of organisation in the Nova Scotia election campaign. You can be forgiven if you can’t keep track of who’s running for the Green party. The party has been grappling with candidates pulling out at the last minute in many ridings. These include: •Guysborough-Sheet Harbour. The party’s [...]

Kenney denounces “new anti-Semitism”

May 26th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Speaking in Israel last Sunday, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney (at right) condemned the new anti-Semitism arising from an alliance between Western leftists and Islamic extremists, calling it even worse than the “old European” anti-Semitism. “The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western civilization,” [...]

Iggy just visited Nova Scotia

May 25th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Federal Grit leader Michael Ignatieff just visited Nova Scotia and, based on the Halifax Chronicle-Herald report, he had nothing substantive to say. What do you expect from the man of whom Rick Mercer said, “Does he have any opinions on anything? I haven’t heard them.” Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says Rodney MacDonald and his [...]

NDP proposes more talking to combat disease

May 24th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Nova Scotia NDP offers another amazingly innocuous ingenious plan to improve health care if it wins the provincial election on 9 June. To reduce chronic disease rates, it will set up two ongoing gabfests—a council and a task force—and it will “work closely” with medical professionals. The sheer genius of NDP leader Darrell Dexter [...]

Human Rights Museum running big deficit

May 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment

The place isn’t going to open for another three years, and it’s already millions of dollars in the hole. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, not set to open until 2012, is already running a deficit. The latest corporate report for the museum, currently under construction in Winnipeg, indicates a $5.2-million shortfall in its operating [...]

Danny claims credit for averting Newfoundland nurses’ strike

May 21st, 2009 | Comments Off

An all-night negotiation session resulted in a tentative agreement between the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses’ Union and the provincial government.  No prizes for guessing who’s patting himself on the back. Williams says phone call led to tentative deal with nurses Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier said Wednesday it was his late-evening phone call that broke the [...]

Favourable HRC ruling “like winning the lottery”

May 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Jennifer McSwain of Hay River, Northwest Territories, is one happy lady because the NWT Human Rights Commission has ruled in her favour.   She complained that the territory’s Department of Justice discriminated against her because of her marital status when the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre (SMCC) refused to allow inmates to remove snow at her home. [...]

We don’t need no stinkin’ nomination

May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off

Campaign signs for Kerry Morash are going up all across the riding of Queens in southern Nova Scotia. The problem is that the signs say Mr Morash is the candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party—and that’s not true. The PCs haven’t nominated anyone yet. The signs ask people to elect Mr. Morash and say in [...]

Who leaked nude photos of Nova Scotia NDP candidate?

May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off

Last month, someone from the Nova Scotia Liberal Party sent topless photos of actress and NDP candidate Lenore Zann to CBC reporter Paul Withers. The photos showed Ms Zann’s appearance in a shower scene on the lesbian television show The L Word. A brouhaha promptly erupted with the NDP in high dudgeon accusing the Liberals [...]

NDP offers brilliant plan to solve health care crisis

May 8th, 2009 | Comments Off

The Nova Scotia election campaign is barely two days old, but already voters are knee-deep in political claptrap.  The feeble health-care proposal from provincial NDP leader Darrel Dexter takes the cake—so far. Mr Dexter has a series of brainstorms to alleviate recurrent closures of emergency rooms at Nova Scotia hospitals:  Hire an “expert” advisor/co-ordinator to [...]

Newfoundland hires Warren Kinsella as anti-tobacco lobbyist

April 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Edward G. Hollett has the details. Effective March 1, 2009, Warren Kinsella is a registered lobbyist with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador as part of a nation-wide effect to spark up some kind of law suit against Big Tobacco. Danny Williams must be desperate.

My MP talks to Ontarians, but not to me

April 30th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Scott Brison (at right), Liberal MP for Kings-Hants, has sent out a pamphlet with a few questions for the voters.   At least, that’s what I’m told.   He’s my MP, but I haven’t received one yet. Why do I have to find out about this from Kitchener-Waterloo resident Steve Janke? Scott Brison has sent out [...]

Atlantic Baptist University accused of violating human rights

April 30th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Atlantic Baptist University, the only English-language university in Moncton, New Brunswick, has been the subject of a long-running debate in the pages of the Moncton Times & Transcript. ABU has been accused of violating Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the provincial Human Rights Act because it refuses to hire homosexuals. In his latest [...]