The view from Halifax

When the Dexter Government's throne speech revealed plans to decentralize a few hundred of the thousands of provincial government jobs in Halifax, AllNovaScotia.com put out a bulletin that read: Bulletin II: Gov't Jobs Leaving HRM I wrote a Halifax friend and asked if that shouldn't read: Gov't Jobs Move to Rural NS My friend shot back with: Gov't Pandering To Rural NS I think my friend was joking,* but you don't have to scratch the skin of a Haligonian very deeply to discover the view that everything—everything—belongs in the provincial capital, with the possible exception of the Peggy's Cove lighthouse and the Shambhala monastery at Red River. This will...