Nova Scotia Scott

Government threatens a citizen who cleaned up a local eyesore, proving once again that no good deed shall go unpunished. An old story, I know, but it never fails to outrage. Every spring since 2001, Gaston Soucy of Hartlen Point, Nova Scotia, has been cleaning up wind-blown litter from a vacant lot near his home.  [...]

Nova Scotia NDP candidate Lenore Zann appeared topless on the television show The L Word and the NDP is shocked—shocked!—that someone from the Liberal Party circulated a photo. I have a tip for Ms Zahn: If you don’t want topless photos of yourself intruding on your election campaign, don’t go in front of a camera [...]

Two more Saint Mary’s University students chime in to defend last February’s shameful and cowardly shout-down of pro-life speaker Jojo Ruba. Their letters, which appear in the latest issue of the SMU Journal, take a ugly turn with personal attacks on philosophy professor Mark Mercer, an outspoken and tireless defender of free speech on campus. [...]

News flash: Two Liberal MPs from Nova Scotia find something useful to do in Ottawa. Call of duty: Nova Scotia MPs guide beaver to Ottawa River […] Mark Eyking and Rodger Cuzner, both Liberal MPs, were on their way to a shared apartment Wednesday night when they saw something standing on its hind legs in [...]

Twice in the past ten days, “clerical errors” led to the mistaken release of prisoners from custody.  One has since been apprehended, the other is still at large.  That brings to seven the total number of mistaken releases or prisoner escapes since Cecil Clarke became Nova Scotia’s Minister of Justice in October 2007. Yesterday, Mr [...]

Screech, mascot of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles hockey team, has been kidnapped. Club officials reported Screech missing after a worker found a supply room door unlocked Tuesday. It showed signs of forced entry. Despite a frantic search, no one could find the $5,000 costume used to pump up the crowd during games. It was [...]

Saint Mary’s University demonstrated how not to protect free expression last month when it allowed a small group of noisy fanatics to shout down a presentation by pro-life speaker Jojo Ruba.  Two weeks ago in the SMU Journal, “pro-choice advocate” Holly Taylor proudly defended the fascistic display by showing utter contempt for the concept of [...]

The web project I mentioned a few days ago has come to fruition. The Parish of Christ Church, Windsor, Nova Scotia, has gone online with a very spiffy website (if I say so myself). Actually, it’s a WordPress blog masquerading as a website, but whatever. Several sermons by our rector, The Rev. David Curry, and [...]

In this week’s Cranky Professor column, Saint Mary’s University philosophy professor Mark Mercer argues that the protestors who disrupted Jose Ruba’s pro-life presentation last month showed contempt, not only for Mr Ruba and his would-be audience, but for democracy itself. One thing to value about democracy is its fairness. When a decision is made democratically, [...]

Mark Mercer has alerted me to “an ugly article/interview” in the new issue of The Journal, student newspaper at Saint Mary’s University. Holly Taylor offers a breathless defence of the small group of anti-free speech hooligans who shouted down pro-life speaker Jojo Ruba last month. Ms Taylor’s “defence” is full of faulty assumptions, erroneous arguments, [...]

Over three weeks ago, a small group of hooligans shouted down a pro-life presentation at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. The university issued a statement defending its decision to cave to mob rule by requiring the speaker and those interested in hearing what he had to say to move off campus.  The presentation continued at a [...]

In 2005, the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) gave $4.2 million to Indian Brook Fisheries Inc., which was owned by eight councilors of the Shubenacadie First Nation in Nova Scotia. An audit raised questions about how some $600,000 of that money was spent, and the DFO has asked RCMP to review the file [...]

Nova Scotia Liberal MLA Leo Glavine wants legislation to force grocery stores to carry meats, fruits, and vegetables from local producers. He used some very strong language in making his proposal. “NAFTA be darned,” he said during the legislature’s resources committee meeting. “If we bring in legislation to move our buy local (campaign) and future [...]

Halifax has proposed widening a busy commuter route into the city.  One section of Bayers Road would be widened from two lanes to four, and another from two lanes to six.  Residents are up in arms, but Barry Barnet, Minister of Conserve Nova Scotia, claims it would be good for the environment. Mr. Barnet said [...]

Six newly built rooms at Atlantic Canada’s largest children’s hospital, the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, are being renovated for use as office space.  The rooms being transformed into offices are, moreover, the most desirable spaces on the unit—with views overlooking a large tree-filled green space in Halifax’s south end.  (Map here.) Several patients’ families [...]