Former CBC Radio host Ian McNeil was disappointed in the answers to his question. In a conversation with contrarian, he called the response of his own MLA, Premier Rodney MacDonald, patronizing.
He said the point of the act was to make people like me feel safe in my home in Lake Ainslie. But it's precisely because this can happen to a guy in Sydney Mines that I don't feel safe in my home in Lake Ainslie.
[Last week, CBC's Joan Weeks reported here and here that a Sydney Mines man with no drug convictions was living in his car after being evicted from a home after neighbors complained of drug activity in the house.]
03 June, 2009

Mary Roach, accidental science writer, comedian, and author of Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, reveals 10 things you probably don't know about orgasm in a talk at Long Beach, California. Actually,  regular readers of Canadian Family Physician may already know Fact #5, the nugget about hiccups, and pig farmers may know Fact #7 about, well, pig farmers....

31 May, 2009

Don Connolly points out that Nova Scotia has two colorful seasons. Speaking Wednesday from Marshy Hope, Pictou County, home of legendary fall foliage, the CBC Radio host described the profusion of pale greens, pinks, yellows, and maroons on display this week. Contrarian concurs. This row of Saskatoonberries, flowering at the edge of Kay MacLean's front field in Ross Ferry, is a perennial favorite....

29 May, 2009