On May 6, Lighthouse Now published an article written by Brittany Wentzell and edited by Charles Mandel and Ed Halverson of CKBW, entitled “Bayview principal bullied and tracked female colleague”. The article contained details from a report issued after an investigation into a human resources (HR) complaint from a staff member at South Shore Regional …
Click here to see correspondence dated 14 December (PDF).
On April 8, the Chronicle-Herald published an article called “Chebucto Heights bullying worries parents.” For some reason, it left out the phrase “by Muslim proto-terrorists,” because that’s what the gist of the article was. It quoted a woman named ‘Missy’ as saying that her daughter had been choked by chain-wielding Syrian children on the playground–twice–while …
Ellershouse Wind Farm by Christian LaForce/Chronicle Herald This past Friday, at about 5:30 am, I was gassing up the Honda at the local Irving station when I bumped into a fellow I know who sits on the town council of Mahone Bay (pop. 986), where I live. I’ll call him C. After exchanging the obligatory …
The first line of an article by Dave Stephens at LighthouseNow.ca entitled, almost unbelievably, “Premier calls for end of negativity from film industry”, goes like this: ‘Nova Scotia’s premier says it’s time for the province’s film and television industry to get back to work and stop complaining about the controversial changes his government made to …
Lost your job in film? Premier McNeil blames your lousy attitude. Read More »
Why is it that people with money seem to hate people without money? Oh, right–it’s because they’re afraid we’re going to take it.
There are so many things wrong with a recent analysis of the film tax credit cut (henceforth referred to as “the Slashing”) on New Start Nova Scotia, a website that says it is a platform for public policy advocacy, that it’s hard to know where to start. “Current events can have a way of intervening,” …
Much has been made in recent weeks of the abysmally shortsighted decision of the Liberal government of Nova Scotia to slash the film tax credit. This credit, which has been in effect for twenty years, has brought hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of film business to our province. Nova Scotia is in pretty bad …
An incredibly bad idea from people who should have known better Read More »
Now is the time to introduce you to one of the most exciting and dramatic features of life in Canada: the Canadian driveway!
February is the month when I begin to look once again with longing at the garden below the house and wonder what kind of horticultural nonsense I’m going to get up to this year. Read more…
