Atlantic Canada’s Employment Insurance haul: $12.5 billion in a decade
Don Mills, Chairman and CEO of Halifax-based Corporate Research Associates, Inc., put out the following series of tweets this afternoon: Between 2001-10, Newfoundlanders received a staggering $5.9...
View ArticleNDP buys front page of Halifax paper, much tut-tutting ensues
This was the front page of the free commuter newspaper Halifax Metro today. Looking at it quickly, it might appear as if Metro‘s front page editors were making some editorial judgements about the...
View ArticleJamie Baillie’s pitch in Nova Scotia: Cut taxes, cut government, run a surplus
It was platform day in the Nova Scotia general election. I talk to PC Leader Jamie Baillie about his plans to cut taxes and still end up with a budget surplus in year one.
View ArticleCan Dexter do what Clark and Redford did? Overcome a 20 point deficit?
Looking at the latest poll in the Nova Scotia provincial election, it looks like NDP Premier Darrell Dexter may have his chief challenger, Liberal Stephen McNeil, right where he wants him — 20 points...
View ArticleCan Nova’s Scotia’s Liberals blow a big lead too?
The numbers for the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia and its leader Stephen McNeil look fabulous with less than a week to go until the votes are counted. Two pollsters, including one commissioned by Sun...
View ArticleThe quiet election: Where are the thunder sticks in the Nova Scotia election?
I and our Sun News Network reporters have been on campaign buses in federal elections and in elections in B.C., Alberta, Ontario and others. For the last four weeks, we’ve been following the New...
View ArticleYour Nova Scotia Cabinet: Bigger must be better
Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil leads a cabinet of 16; sworn in today in Annapolis. The cabinet is: Stephen McNeil President of the Executive Council; Policy and Priorities; Intergovenrmental...
View ArticleLiberals ascendant in Atlantic Canada
There was a monster-sized voter turnout in the Newfoundland and Labrador leadership race which concluded over the weekend. As Liberal Matt Ostergard notes (in video above), the voter turnout amounted...
View Articlein 2014, David Alward will seek re-election while New Brunswickers pay more tax
We are likely to see provincial elections in 2014 in Ontario and Quebec but we will certainly see one in New Brunswick. Votes will happen in Ontario and Quebec, of course, only if the minority...
View ArticleIn Ontario and New Brunswick, the NDP go back to populist roots — with much...
We all know about the soi-disant “high-profile” New Democrats who complained in the middle of the recently concluded Ontario election that NDP leader Andrea Horwath had abandoned core NDP principles...
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