Maritime Morning – Andrew Krystal

Here’s what they’re not telling you … Another capping attempt, another failure and now Obama’s Whitehouse says the oil well gushing 19,000 barrels per day into the Gulf of Mexico could gush for another two months. There is another plan that BP has and that is called a “cap-containment system,” similar to an approach that [...]

What is the media’s role in society? Well, whatever it is, when it comes to politics, it should never be convenient, never mind cooperative. There’s nothing worse than cooperative media. I sometimes take the contrarian approach: when everyone was piling on former Premier Rodney Macdonald over his matrimonial troubles, I left it alone. I did [...]

Nova Scotia has always punched above its weight in Confederation – and let’s try to keep it that way. The AG report which started the whole Expense scandal mess here has really caught the country’s attention. As a direct result of what has gone on in Nova Scotia, AG Sheila Fraser in Ottawa wants to [...]

On the weekend, Liberal Leader McNeil received 83 per cent support during that party’s mandatory leadership review. Here’s what they’re not telling you. Besides, perhaps, Clayton Park MLA Diana Whelan, nobody wants the job right now. There are no contenders for the crown in the current political environment. Moreover, 83 per cent isn’t as solid [...]

It was the most improbable of wins from a very surprising – and surprisingly consistent – overachieving team last night. The Montreal uprising continues on in the Stanley Cup playoffs – sorry Sidney. It even has this Hab-hater gob-smacked with respect… And because I have lost my playoff bet with a listener, and Montreal has [...]

MLA’s have ended their spring session. On CTV with Steve Murphy with me last night, guest commentator Marilla Stephenson noted that the only thing the NDP have been good for is dandelions – a reference to a recent pesticide ban. But about the only thing people will really remember is the Expense Scandal and how [...]

Yesterday we heard from Agar Adamson, the former head of the Political Science department at Acadia, that NS could easily be reduced to a two-party system like so many other Provinces and that the Liberals could be wiped out because the NDP have replaced them, according to observers, on the political spectrum. Out of money, [...]

(Radio script for the morning editorial May 6th, 2010) Chronicle Herald reporter David Jackson reports today that only 70 percent of the Liberal caucus he surveyed actually supports their leader Stephen McNeil. Now, the number 70 isn’t bad if you’re playing golf, but if you’re a political leader it raises eyebrows. Stephen McNeil faces a [...]

(This column first appeared in the Nova Scotia Business Journal) “We were used to 15 per cent before,” barked Finance Minister Graham Steele, responding to my criticism of the looming two per cent HST hike in a recent interview. But he misses one important fact: we are now alone with the tax hike. The highest [...]

Big is not necessarily better: big business, big government, or big labor. But of the three, my preference is big business because they generate revenue, create wealth and jobs, and don’t just move tax money around. The future for NS however, according to economists, is small business. Money Sense magazine, on its most livable cities [...]