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Jonathan Kay: Stop nickel-and-diming our politicians. They deserve to fly...
The expense accounts of modern Canadian politicians are subject to a level of scrutiny that their pre-Adscam predecessors would have regarded as bizarre. Alberta, Toronto and other jurisdictions now...
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National Post editorial board: Hail Nova Brunsward
Anyone looking to see some of the Earth’s most breathtaking landscapes should head directly for Canada’s Maritime provinces. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are beautiful places....
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Jesse Kline: The case against a Maritime union
I was surprised to see my editorial board colleagues advocate the formation of a Maritime union in Wednesday’s edition of the National Post. Such a union could take various forms — anything from...
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Jesse Kline: Too many Maritimers live in small, rural communities and rely on...
CLICK TO ENLARGE While news about East Coast economic struggles is nothing new, Maritimers got a stark wake-up call this week: A prominent business leader warned the regional economy is becoming...
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Kelly McParland: Nothing says ‘Nova Scotia’ like a free whiskey glass and...
I don’t normally get too worked up over reports about politicians rewarding themselves with a bit of minor graft when they travel. As long as it’s reasonable: you attend a premiers meeting in B.C. and...
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Joe O’Connor: Nasty neighbour note didn’t stop Nova Scotia family from...
Lori Perron was intrigued. A trip to the community post office box not far from her Peachtree Hill home in Halifax, N.S., typically yields a stack of bills, some coupons, junk mail and nothing more....
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John Ivison: Conservative Senators prove that they are no rubber stamp
A Conservative senator told me some months ago that a number of his colleagues on the government side were upset at being treated like a rubber-stamp by the Prime Minister’s Office and were discussing...
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Chris Selley: Reining in the lynch mob
This month’s People magazine features an article about Rehtaeh Parsons, the Nova Scotia teenager who hanged herself, later succumbing to her injuries, in April. Headlined “Shamed into suicide,” the...
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Jonathan Kay: Retry Nicole Doucet
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on the case of Nicole Ryan Doucet, a Nova Scotia woman who sought to hire a hit-man to kill her husband, Michael Ryan, in 2007 and 2008. One of...
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Robyn Urback: Chris Brown still hasn’t earned our forgiveness
Chris Brown, singer, entertainer and convicted felon, is set to perform in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia at the end of the summer. The R&B singer, who was found guilty of beating his then-girlfriend...
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Robyn Urback: One unionized cup of coffee? That’ll be $8.95
Consider, for a moment, a scenario in which Halifax baristas are successful in their bid to unionize coffee shop workers across the city. Impassioned by the power of assembly, these organized employees...
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Robyn Urback: Nova Scotia cyber law turns bullied into bullies
Under Nova Scotia’s new cyberbullying law, I could be sued for repeatedly rejecting a suitor’s text-message request for a date. I could also be sued for engaging in a heated dispute over e-mail with a...
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National Post editorial board: Nova Scotia’s bad law
The Nova Scotia government was clearly sent reeling by the horrifying allegations concerning 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, who committed suicide in the spring: A young teenager sexually assaulted at a...
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National Post editorial board: A double-standard on ‘intimate photographs’
A 16-year-old Saanich, B.C., teenager stands accused of maliciously distributing a nude photograph of her boyfriend’s ex. Needless to say, she does not present as a sympathetic figure. “It appears this...
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Matt Gurney: A secret ballot shouldn’t be an obligation
Few things seem as innocuous as taking a photo of oneself doing something that’s not merely legal, but considered a civic duty. And yet Parker Donham, of Nova Scotia, has found himself under...
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Full Pundit: Is moderation hurting the New Democrats?
Tom Mulcair’s dilemma NDP defeats in British Columbia and now Nova Scotia “leave gaping holes in the [party's] federal … narrative that it is ready to govern,” Chantal Hébert argues in the Toronto Star...
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Robyn Urback: What Canada can learn from Israel on organ donation
When Canadians must resort to online ads to find themselves human organs for transplant, we might have a bit of a problem on our hands. Yet a Nova Scotia man took to online classifieds this month in a...
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Robyn Urback: Nova Scotia MLA demonstrates the wrong way to use cyberbullying...
Actress-turned- MLA Lenore Zann has offered a textbook example on how bad laws beget exploitation. The member of the Nova Scotia legislature launched a cyberbullying complaint earlier this month...
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Robyn Urback: Peter MacKay wants to see you code, ladies
The Conservative government has just offered $300,000 to a digital company in Nova Scotia to help get women coding or developing software or something. I’m not really sure. It seems they’re not really...
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Dean Jobb: The tale of the Tallahassee
On a mid-August morning in 1864, Halifax newspapers reported that “a strange armed vessel of rakish appearance,” manned by a crew of “thieves, felons and freebooters,” had dropped anchor in the...
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