OPENFILE: NSCADs gotta know when to hold ’em

If you like NSCAD, the current situation has been hard to talk about.

It is kind of like having a friend—smart, accomplished, successful, arguably world renowned— with a gambling problem.

A smart friend, who you admire, who is about to lose her house because she is running out …


Defence of the Status Quo nothing new in “Slackers”

I grew up a navy brat, fed a steady diet of Napoleonic War era novels like Hornblower, Aubrey Maturin, and Sharpe.

But I also grew up reading Canadian novels from another era, the Battle of the Atlantic.  Hal Lawrence’s Bloody War and James Lamb Corvette Navy are two books that …


The Most Important Election In A Generation: Will The Youth Vote?

Sometimes I write about politics, sometimes I blog about fluff.  Today I am writing not to ask you to vote, or tell you to vote, I am begging you to vote on Monday.  Especially those of you under 35 or so, and even more especially if you are under 25.…


FACT CHECK – how do Nova Scotia education funding and teacher student ratios rate nationally?

One of my frequent posters and I have been arguing about “selective use of facts” so I went looking for better facts, facts that are inarguable and impartial.

Facts are actually not hard to come by. Three google searches found this page – Summary Public School Indicators for Canada, the


Facts and clarity hard to find in education discussion

Education continues to be a burning issue in Nova Scotia.

The issue is vast, engaging people from the parents wait for the snow delayed “cut summit” between NDP Minister of Education Ramona Jennex no scheduled for Tuesday, to the 2,000 plus post secondary students demanding a tuition freeze during Wednesday’s …