So there you have it, Nova Scotia: Less than one-fifth of the province’s entire population just determined who’s going to lead you, and for how long. No, that’s not an exaggeration. I truly wish it was. But the numbers, as...
I’ve made a big decision to take on a leadership role in one of the most important contributors to the growth of my Christian faith over the past three decades. I’ve accepted a request to lead a Challenge weekend for...
Poor Andrew Scheer. He was poised to be Prime Minister only two years after winning the federal Conservative leadership, as the Trudeau Liberal brand went south once the SNC-Lavalin scandal broke in February. Then...
Ahem: Dear Your Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth The Second of the House of Windsor… Oh, forget it. We both know that I’m not fond of that pompous nonsense. Let me try again. Dear...
Over the past couple of months, we’ve had plenty to say about how other people spend our money. Take the mid-April fire that caused significant damage at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, for example. The world reacted...
Nearly two weeks after we lost him, I find myself feeling a delayed wistfulness about the recent passing of Wally Ellison. I’m writing this column three days after I attended Wally’s funeral in West Bay Road. I was planning to...
As a child and a teenager growing up in L’Ardoise, I got much of my early political education on Sunday mornings at my grandparents’ house, when my family would get together after Mass and hash out the issues of...
There’s an air of familiarity to the Hawkesbury Room, located on the downstairs level of the Maritime Inn on Reeves Street, as we head into the final six hours of St. Patrick’s Day 2017. It’s partly because I’ve been here...
Fourteen months after Peter MacKay won his first federal seat, I got my picture taken with him. He was in Antigonish at the time, in a campaign stop for Hugh Segal, a former senior advisor to...
Ninety-five per cent of me had been looking forward to this moment for months. That’s a sharp contrast to the last time I caught Newfoundland’s Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers at Sydney’s Highland Arts Theatre, 19 months ago. I...




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