Archive for December, 2008

Book Review: Stanfield’s world

Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Reviews | No Comments »

Robert Stanfield’s Canada: Perspectives of the Best Prime Minister We Never Had By Richard Clippingdale, $39.95 (pb) ISBN #978-1-55339-218-7, 124 pp. McGill-Queen’s University Press, June 2008   Over his long, distinguished career, Robert Stanfield had ... Read more..

Book Review: Democracy obtained

Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Reviews | No Comments »

The Peaceful Revolution: 250 Years of Democracy in Nova Scotia By John Boileau, $24.95 (pb) ISBN #978-1-55109-680-3, 226 pp. Nimbus Publishing Limited, September 2008   With a dedication that conjures the revolutionary rhetoric of Tom ... Read more..

How did the children lose their tiny, little minds?

Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Economy, Humour, Politics | No Comments »

I rarely look south to our neighbours in the “red, white and blue” for advice about anything. Not about health care, or gun laws, or gay marriage. Not about social ... Read more..

Stomach-churning, but not surprising

Monday, December 1st, 2008 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »

The only thing startling about the nauseating game of political brinkmanship underway on Parliament Hill is the number of pundits now wandering the halls of power with that ridiculous, deer-in-headlights ... Read more..

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