Maritime Morning – Andrew Krystal

An old practice in NS politics is to go to the MLA if you’re in need. Most people correctly presuppose that the MLAs are some of the best looked after people in the Province. And they keep getting their gold-plated pension cheques (unlike the rest of us) long after they serve. MLAs have disposable income [...]

When President Lyndon Johnson looked over the White House balcony in April 1968 and saw Washington burning he was sad, but he understood. He was reported as telling aides “if somebody had their boot on my neck for 300 years, I’d break a window too”. Johnson understood the frustration of Black America then, after the [...]

Intemperate remarks by General Stanley McChrystal (no relation) in a Rolling Stone article have created a firestorm not seen since the days of McArthur and President Harry Truman. But both the Afghan war and the Korea war share something: frustration. Then, General McArthur was encouraging the use of the atomic bomb on North Korea and [...]

Obama spoke to America last night … because America is not happy. People are angry in America. They’re angry because they are tired of being lied to: lied to with a false predicate for the Iraq war and WMD (remember that one?), lied to over Afghanistan, and lied to over the value of their homes [...]

(On air editorial News 95.7 Halifax June 14th, 2010) Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff stopped by Halifax on the weekend, but did anybody notice, did anybody care? On Saturday, the Chronicle Herald buried his visit in their coverage and on Sunday the Herald devoted a front page to Iggy recanting the notion of merging with the [...]

A new poll by our friends at Corporate Research Associates shows NDP MP Peter Stoffer would be a serious contender if he threw his hat into the Mayoral ring. Would he make a good mayor? What are the qualities that you are looking for? Frequently, Stoffer is voted as “most congenial” by his peers in [...]

Was HRM School Board Superintendent Carole Olsen telling the truth when she said that her husband leaked the video of Ken Fells restraining a 14-year-old student who had aggressively pushed him? Olsen maintains her husband went into her laptop computer and sent it out – and she didn’t know about it. But, she said her [...]

The NDP government is in free fall in public support according to a new CRA poll. The numbers show the Liberals and Stephen McNeil the biggest winner up nine points. The NDP are down nine points. It’s pretty clear the NDP have lost their first time voters – and more — in this survey snap [...]

The man Jacques Lapointe, and his office, that of the NS Auditor General, shook Nova Scotia to its political knees following the release of his report slamming Expense accounts. Now, he’s back — again — finding problems with the Government books. But, this time, the NDP (a government and a party sworn to transparency after [...]

What are the limits of educational discipline? Have you seen the security video on Youtube that shows a NS Principal using force to discipline an unruly student? The Principal in question, Ken Fells is a 15-year employee of the Halifax Regional School Board, was dismissed from his post at Graham Creighton Junior High School recently [...]