urban compass by stephen kimber
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Selective support for collective bargaining
February 13, 2012
Jamie Baillie is a champion of free collective bargaining, but he also thinks collective bargaining is a crock and wants the premier to legislate them back to work.
Leadership necessary for transit
February 06, 2012
Whatever else one can say about the rights-wrongs of the current Metro Transit strike, it is clear HRM negotiators were never interested in negotiating with its 760 bus drivers, ferry operators and support staff.
Recognizing black Nova Scotians one day at a time
January 23, 2012
As Canada Post prepares to issue a new stamp next month to celebrate the life of Viola Desmond, our own government seems about to take a pass on the opportunity to honour the Halifax woman whose personal courage remains a symbolic inspiration in the fight for human rights in Canada.
From bad to better by way of boondoggle
January 16, 2012
The lesson from last week’s reversal of council’s decision to sell the former St. Patrick’s-Alexandra School to a private developer?
Screw the view? Maybe stop screwing the taxpayers
January 09, 2012
On Wednesday, local radio personality Bobby Mac launched a new Facebook group “for those of us who are tired of those whining people who don’t want any progress in this great city of Halifax.” Its name? SCREW THE VIEW.
Macintosh case needs inquiry
December 12, 2011
I hope Nova Scotia’s prosecution service will find compelling legal grounds to appeal last week’s Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision overturning Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh’s conviction for sexually abusing children.
Law’s future is full of labour pains
December 05, 2011
Eric Durnford says if working conditions in Nova Scotia now were the same as in 1984, he too would support first-contract arbitration.
Raking in the dough at whose expense
November 28, 2011
I don’t know for certain, but it wouldn’t surprise me to discover, when we finally touch bottom in the Great Bridgetown Financial Fiasco, gambling was at the heart of the crime.
A ‘Rocky’ lesson in N.S. History
November 21, 2011
I wanted to ask Rocky Jones about his Wednesday lecture titled The Struggle for Human Rights in African Nova Scotian Communities, 1961-2011.
A lesson in ‘democratic decision making’
November 14, 2011
Dear Mayor Kelly, Congratulations. You showed those damn dangerous ... democrats.
How dare you give the workers a say
November 07, 2011
So Nova Scotia’s largest non-union employers are eager to preserve an unfettered collective bargaining process.
Protesters likely in it for long haul
October 31, 2011
The Occupy movement sometimes seems easy for those of us not in its trenches to mock.
Path already paved for steering committee
October 17, 2011
The good news: there are public consultations. The bad news: those consultations are happening late, and only after the central question has already been answered.
A lesson to be learned in Africville relocation
September 26, 2011
No one asked them. Again. The real lesson of the original Africville relocation — which should be seared into our collective consciousness after 50 years of hard-learned-lesson living — is that outsiders, even well-intentioned ones, cannot make decisions for a community without at least asking the people of that community what they really want.
The real lesson of CBC's Swissair documentary
September 19, 2011
Friday’s much-hyped Fifth Estate documentary on the crash of Swissair Flight 111 generated much arcing and sparking about its cause but, in the end, no incendiary device, no hard evidence the tragic 1998 accident off Nova Scotia was anything but.
How the Citadel Halifax shaped downtown development
September 12, 2011
Last week, SilverBirch Hotels, the Vancouver-based company that owns the Citadel Halifax hotel, announced plans to flatten it.
Is Tom Martin running for something?
August 29, 2011
I first met Tom Martin in 2006 when I profiled him for The Coast. What intrigued me then was his passion for solving unsolved — seemingly un-solve-able — crimes. William Shrubsall, Kimberly McAndrew…
Maybe you missed the $2M memo
August 15, 2011
The news it was news to Coun. Steve Streatch is hardly comforting.
It’s not quantity, it’s quality
August 08, 2011
The problem with the Utilities Review Board’s solution to the problem of municipal council is that its solution won’t solve the problem.
Price tag is hard to read with your hand over it
July 25, 2011
Metro reporter Alex Boutilier’s scoop last week that costs for the new convention centre have increased sent local, provincial and federal politicians scurrying about like ants on a hot summer day, but to a less positive result.
Subsidize Yarmouth ferry and drop taxes?
July 18, 2011
Progressive Conservative Leader Jamie Baillie was in high dudgeon last week when he took his summer road show to Yarmouth.
Best to make a good first impression
July 11, 2011
It began in 2003 with the Hamm government’s rightful recognition of our ticking demographic time bomb.
There’s a new sheriff at city hall
July 04, 2011
In his first major public act as the city’s new chief administrative officer, Richard Butts stared down concert promoter Harold MacKay — and won. Sort of.
No hero is without blemishes
June 27, 2011
The latest issue of The Atlantic boasts a history-revisiting article about Cesar Chavez, a hero of my youth.
The joke that keeps on giving
June 20, 2011
Peter Kelly has become the journalistic gift that keeps on giving.
Blah, blah, blah and bafflegab
June 13, 2011
Was it criminal? That seems to have become the question.
Making names public would help
June 06, 2011
Michel Samson is right on both counts. The Liberal MLA is right to acknowledge last week’s collection of NDP appointees to various provincial agencies, boards and commissions is clearly a well qualified lot.
The future is now for the Premier
May 30, 2011
Time flies when you’re having fun. Ask Darrell Dexter. Next month, he will celebrate his second anniversary as the province’s first NDP premier.
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