A fleeting moment on CBC radio this morning pointed to a disintegration of the social fabric in rural Nova Scotia that ought to be more clearly on our collective radar. Jim Morrow, proprietor of Victoria County's only newspaper and CBC Cape Breton's volunteer “party line” correspondent at municipal council, declined to name the public members of the newly created Victoria County Police Advisory Board. Justice Minister Ross Landry created the board to serve as liaison between the RCMP and the County Council. Host Steve Sutherland asked who was on it. Morrow: I don't know if I should really say that, because some of the...

14 February, 2012