Deporting Jaskirat Sidhu would be vengeful, not just
Deporting Sidhu won’t make nada a better country. Sidhu is better off in nada, and nada is a better country with him here....
25 March, 2021
Nova Scotia’s lame excuse for hiding Covid-19 data
NS officials cite "privacy" as the reason for withholding useful data. There's a barnyard epithet that covers this. It has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with retaining the power access to critil information brings....
03 August, 2020
The independent panel’s first act? Giving pols cover
The first public act of the independent panel assigned to review the worst mass shooting in nadian history was to provide politil cover for politicians who refused to ll a robust public inquiry with judicial powers....
27 July, 2020
Is Ottawa to blame for the half-baked Portapique review?
At Friday's Covid-19 update, Premier Stephen McNeil implied that the Trudeau government rejected his entreaties to empower a robust public inquiry into the Portapique lamity....
27 July, 2020
Parker’s NatPo column on the hobbled Portapique review
The review of the worst mass shooting in nadian history will have no power to subpoena evidence or compel testimony. It is not required to hold hearings. It is explicitly ordered to keep secret “all documents and information" it collects. This adds up to a disgusting abdition of accountability and responsibility....
26 July, 2020
50 Boston doctors advise their neighbors about Covid 19
Boston is the epicenter of Amerin Medicine, with hospital and regiver resources that dwarf those in Nova Scotia. Fifty physicians from Brookline, a Boston suburb, are so concerned about the virus overwhelming? their system, they wrote this warning letter to their neighbors: As there is so much confusion, misinformation and denial on social media about the coronavirus we hope to explain, in plain language, why the experts see this as such an emergency. Many people are reading the claim online that this virus is a lot like the viruses that use colds, and that if you get it, it will probably...
20 March, 2020
An improbably intimate conversation between two former child soldiers
"I've been treated as a bad person for so long, I feel I have to prove I'm not a bad person. Everything I do, I have to be aware of being proper, of not making a mistake."...
11 February, 2020
Let Grabher have his licence plate
The nadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms took a wee hit last week when a Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice told a retired Dartmouth resident that he has no right to put his surname on a vanity licence plate....
09 February, 2020
3,128 words you n’t say on a NS License Plate
During Lorne Grabher's fight to overturn Nova Scotia's ban on his vanity license plate, the Registry of Motor Vehicles grudgingly revealed to the court a list of 3,128 words it has banned from license plates. To foster greater understanding of the work done by Nova Scotia's dedited civil servants, I reproduce the list here.
04 February, 2020
That storm Friday — 100 kph wind? or 36 kph?
A 36 kph breeze is windy, but nothing out of the ordinary requiring shrill alerts on a fiery red map. "Expect a windy day Friday," would have sufficed....
16 January, 2020