Last week, the province’s Utility and Review Board issued a scathing, 180-page decision accusing Nova Scotia bus operator Stock Transportation of “repeatedly operat[ing] its public passenger vehicles, including its school buses, as it wished and contrary to the Acts, rules, regulations, its licenses, and orders; even drivers’ safety regulations.” Stock not only ran an unlicensed...
The Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, the Paradise Papers, and taxpayer interests
据我所知，加拿大纳税人的联合会甚至没有发出关于天堂论文中启示的一条震惊和宣传的推文，或者要求渥太华开始在损失的收入中收集所有这些数十亿美元。那么加拿大纳税人联合会真正代表谁？谁是其成员？谁资助了……真的吗？为什么它的发言人总是在主流媒体中冒出来，假装为加拿大纳税人说话，而无视他们的真正利益？
现在快。加拿大纳税人联合会（“公民的倡导组织致力于降低税收，减少浪费和负责任的政府”）必须对所有这些税收税收的启示，财务跳动 - 欺骗者揭示出来？对不起。时间到。你赢了。没有。他们什么也没说。我们会回到这一点。2017年11月5日，[…]
Winning, losing, and Jamie Baillie
While I don’t believe Baillie should have won last spring’s provincial election, he probably should not have lost either. If he hadn’t — if Stephen McNeil’s Liberals hadn’t barely sputtered across the majority finish line four long hours after vote counting began — Jamie Baillie probably wouldn’t have considered leaving a job he’d only recently begun to grow into.
Masuma Khan and the question of free speech
University codes of conduct, which generically prohibit “unwelcome or persistent conduct that the student knows, or ought to know, would cause another person to feel demeaned, intimidated or harassed,” will inevitably smack up against the academy’s ultimately more fundamental role as protector of free speech and encourager of vigorous debate. The question is what were Khan's defenders defending?
Should the vice-president of the Dalhousie Student Union have faced even the whiff of disciplinary action from the university’s administration for a less than genteel Facebook exchange she had with some constituents? The short answer is no. The long answer is still no. But… Let’s circle back for some context. On June 28, 2017, the […]
Lyle Howe disbarred
最后，最后并不奇怪。从某种意义上说，结局甚至是不可避免的。但是，无论您对针对他的案子的优点有何看法，结果都是可悲的。对于莱尔·豪。对于法律职业。对于我们其余的人。
“The Hearing Committee of the NOVA SCOTIA BARRISTERS’ SOCIETY gives notice of the disbarment of Lyle Howe of Halifax, Nova Scotia pursuant to Section 45(4)(a) of the Legal Profession Act, effective October 20, 2017 until further notice.” In the end, the end was no surprise. The end was, in a sense, even perhaps inevitable. But, regardless...
税收改革：鸡小点回家栖息
”金布尔教授的言论to reinforce the recent CBC Marketplace show on fake credentials..." "Ask this Stephen if he has ever had a business..." And other reflections from a column on tax fairness.
“Professor Kimble’s comments seem to reinforce the recent CBC Marketplace show on fake credentials,” Gerry Anderson wrote on LinkedIn. He was among the unhappier readers responding to my recent column about the federal government’s modest tax reform proposals. “His comments show that he has not done any research nor has any real-world experience.” Similarly, Robert...
Reparations raises the racism disconnect
"I wasn’t around when slavery existed and I’m not responsible for it, so why should I have to pay reparations? The past is past, things are better now, so let’s just move on…" It’s a comforting argument, but it pre-supposes we, as whites, haven’t benefited from centuries of slavery and racism, or that our black fellow citizens aren’t still suffering its after-effects. It also assumes the economic, educational, judicial, and social scales are now in perfect colour-blind balance. Neither notion is correct.
On Sept. 25, the United Nations Human Rights Council discussed a report on Canada by its Working Group of Experts on Peoples of African Descent. The report, which shone its white-hot light on our country’s sordid history of slavery and racism in virtually every sphere of life — from education to justice to the environment...
Beware businesses bearing bleats
There is no doubt the Liberal tax reform proposals are only a baby step in the right direction — and there are lots of other ripe targets for reform — but we need to begin somewhere.
What should you think when you suddenly find yourself squarely in the firing-squad crosshairs of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Canadian Medical Association, Doctors Nova Scotia, the Canadian Bar Association, the business-boosting press, retailers, restaurateurs, tax planners, even ad hockeries like the newly minted Nova Scotia Coalition for...
Stephen McNeil could learn a thing or two from Fidel Castro
How is it that Cuba, which is such a poor country, can afford such a comprehensive health care system and so many Nova Scotians don't have a family doctor? We're glad you asked.
My wife and I recently spent a week in Washington, D.C., advocating for an end to the failed, 56-years-and-counting U.S. blockade of Cuba. We were with a group that included American, Canadian, and European activists, a renowned Cuban pediatric oncologist, a North American representative of Cuba’s main people-to-people friendship organization, the head of a Cuban...
经济学政治
What price is too much to pay for the Yarmouth ferry, asks Tim? How much is the cost of a vote, responds Stephen...
In last Wednesday’s “Morning File,” Tim Bousquet walked us through the most recent disappointing passenger counts from the still ongoing, seemingly never-ending bottomless money pit we call the Yarmouth-to-Portland ferry service. (It’s worth noting that Tim got his numbers from that’s-public-information-you’re-entitled-to-know-so-here-you-go Portland, Maine officials and not from our own who-are-you-and-what-right-do-you-have-to-ask-how-your-tax-dollars-are-being-spent buttoned-up Nova Scotia government bureaucrats....
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