NS officials cite "privacy" as the reason for withholding useful data. There's a barnyard epithet that covers this. It has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with retaining the power access to critical information brings....
The first public act of the independent panel assigned to review the worst mass shooting in Canadian history was to provide political cover for politicians who refused to call a robust public inquiry with judicial powers....
At Friday's Covid-19 update, Premier Stephen McNeil implied that the Trudeau government rejected his entreaties to empower a robust public inquiry into the Portapique calamity....
The review of the worst mass shooting in Canadian history will have no power to subpoena evidence or compel testimony. It is not required to hold hearings. It is explicitly ordered to keep secret “all documents and information" it collects. This adds up to a disgusting abdication of accountability and responsibility....
Scheer tailored his remarks to a Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative audience, but found himself in an audience of hard-core right wingers. ...
Stop behaving if you were doing something shameful. Stop pretending it’s not a crisis. You have a good plan for fixing health care in Cape Breton. Bring on the debate. Welcome it....
Throw another log onto the campfire of hatred for Muskrat Falls by which Newfoundland media and politicians have warmed themselves for years....
Halifax Water will not be commencing legal action against anyone over their failure to book appointments for new meter installation. It has no power to do so....
Beaches are complex, dynamic, fragile systems that protect coastlines from storm damage, support wildlife, and offer recreational pleasures. They are imperilled when road builders with no scientific expertise in beach management muck about with excavators....
"They are proceeding with the road repaving project in ignorance of the dynamics of the beach and dunes and therefore are putting the system at risk."...