Maritime Morning - Andrew Krystal

When people say it’s not about sex, it’s about sex. When people say it’s not about money, it’s about money. The same is true when Mike Duffy says he’s “fair and balanced.” People do not proclaim the obvious, they only do so when it is not evident or when it is not there.
Nor does Stephen […]

Nova Scotia Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil showed up in studio and remained composed, sounded in control, but had his facts wrong and refused to admit his political mistake — one that may be fatal to his leadership given that a party review is coming up May 15th.
The mistake lies in his lack of transparency (something […]

Did you see Stephen McNeil on Steve Murphy last night? The Liberal Leader gave a bizarre interview regarding the sudden resignation on Friday of Glace Bay MLA Dave Wilson.
If you missed McNeil on Steve Murphy, he sounded (again) like Sergeant Schultz from “Hogan’s Heroes”: “I know nothing, I see nothing”. That’s about it. That’s all […]

Liberal Glace Bay MLA Dave Wilson announced his resignation today – another big story that we broke before anyone.
It appears that the MLA Expense scandal is the ugly gift that keeps giving. There is much speculation about why Wilson resigned, and the wording of the resignation letter reads like Bishop Lahey’s — not to […]

A very accountable and courageous Canadian Premier showed up in the studio today. Premier Dexter faced every question, loaded or otherwise, that I had to throw his way. Nor did he blink when I purported that, when you factor in his Barr Association legal fees at $3,400 per year, the Premier has appropriated the most […]

New Nova Scotia poll numbers just announced by Corporate Research Associates show that the honeymoon is definitely over for the Dexter government. But, more importantly, the numbers show the opposition not gaining political ground significantly.
The interesting thing to note is the satisfaction numbers. But will they translate into actual voter change? In other words, will […]

I like the new Federal budget. Or, more accurately, and less in the affirmative, I don’t dislike the budget.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty joined me on air today. He wants to balance the books by 2015 and do so without raising taxes of any kind. It is a rather tall order. This is predicated upon a […]

Here’s the concern, and it’s a whopper: Twenty-five years from now 60 per cent of the population of Nova Scotia (and to a similar degree New Brunswick) is a senior citizen and the overall population is reduced considerably by natural causes and by relocation.
Garth Turner, who joined me this morning, is a financial writer and […]

With public confidence in provincial government at an all-time low following the expenses scandal, there is yet another, perhaps greater, scandal regarding back door campaign funds for the NDP. And as odious as the expenses scandal is, technically speaking, while ethics were abused, there were no actual laws broken. This time, for the NDP it […]

The following excerpt is what the national-government controlled, and numbingly mindless and predictable, publication Pravada had to say about us recently:
   We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbor to the south. The abject cruelty shown […]