A Pride Festival is coming to the Eastern Shore on June 26th and 27th, 2021, at the Old School Gathering Place in Musquodoboit Harbour. This year’s theme is Wear Your Pride, and will include t-shirts, bags, scarves, art and beer, outdoor games, indoor and outdoor vendors, and more.
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By Richard Bell
For more than 200 years, residents of many African-Nova Scotian communities have been unable to secure clear legal title to the land they their families have lived on for generations.
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By Richard Bell
For more than 200 years, residents of many African-Nova Scotian communities have been unable to secure clear legal title to the land they and their families have lived on for generations.
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By Richard Bell
The Facebook comments on the mystery map story (“The Mystery Map: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?”) show that I did not explain clearly enough why the existence of the mystery maps raised serious questions about whether Liberal politicians and department bureaucrats had conducted a legally unbiased site selection process.
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By Richard Bell
The Cooperator has uncovered new evidence suggesting that the Liberal government was planning to locate the new high school in the Eastern Shore Industrial Park in East Chezzetcook at least as far back as the fall of 2015.
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By Pearl Akers
I think this has been the most successful of the 14 years of Children’s Christmas Wishes. I was concerned with all the restrictions, limitations, closures and stress we’ve all had to endure this past year, that the Wishes project might be in trouble.
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In this issue, we are confronting a single problem that corrupts the politics of the province: our Liberal government’s insidious, systematic refusal to allow the citizens of Nova Scotia to participate in making major government policy decisions.
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By Richard Bell
When you’re dealing with a government that likes to operate in secrecy as much as the Liberals have since they took power back in 2013, it can be difficult to understand just how much contempt our elected officials actually have for the people of Nova Scotia
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By Richard Bell
Shortly after Education Minister Zach Churchill announced the replacement of Eastern Shore District High (with no mention of Gaetz Brook) in March of 2018, Churchill said that he would be replacing the site selection rules. Under the new rules, he said the primary driver would be ““technical evaluations” of prospective sites. There was no definition of what measures such a “technical evaluation” might consist of.
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By Richard Bell
The FOIPOP Act was passed in 1993, and there have been calls ever since for strengthening it. The Act’s fundamental weakness if that the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) for Nova Scotia cannot order the government to do anything if the Commissioner (or Review Officer) finds that the government is violating the Act. Suppose you file a FOIPOP, and the government denies your request. You have the right to appeal to the Commissioner. But if the Commissioner finds in your favour, the government can simply ignore the Commissioner’s finding.
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