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Hospital Closures Remain High

By David J. Shuman In 2020, emergency rooms in hospitals in the Eastern Shore Musquodoboit Community Health Board were closed for 5080.5 hours, more than 10 times the number of closure hours just five years ago. ESMCHB hospitals include Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital in Musquodoboit Harbour, Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital (MVMH) in Middle Musquodoboit, and Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital (ESMH) in Sheet Harbour.

June 24, 2021

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Editorial -- Everybody Knows: The Liberal Shell Game

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows--Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows”

June 02, 2021

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Farewell to Car 3252

By Richard Bell The old Canadian Pacific combination car #3252 is no more.

May 10, 2021

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Owls Head Is a Political Hot Potato

By Richard Bell Someone is getting increasingly nervous about Premier Rankin’s refusal to take back his decision as Minister of Lands and Forestry to secretly de-list Owls Head Provincial Park and to secretly sell the de-listed land to Lighthouse Links, which plans to grind the existing park to sand and build golf courses.

April 30, 2021

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East Preston Wins Lower Speed Limit

By Richard Bell The speed limit in East Preston on Highway 7 is now 50km/hr, down from 70km/hr.

April 30, 2021

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Pollsters Asking Questions About Owls Head

By Richard Bell Someone is paying for a phone poll of people on the Eastern Shore to see what they think about destroying Owls Head Provincial Park. You can listen to the poll on this link on Soundcloud.

April 22, 2021

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Owls Head Goes to Court

By Richard Bell Opponents of an American billionaire’s proposed enclave of luxury housing and two or more golf courses on top of Owls Head Provincial Park got their day in court on April 1, 2021. At issue was a fundamental question about whether there should be any restraint on the decisions of the government in selling off parks and other protected lands.

April 02, 2021

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The Mystery Map: What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

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.

March 20, 2021

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Editorial--They Do It Because They Can

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.

February 25, 2021

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Premier Candidates Should Save Owls Head Provincial Park

Welcome to Cooperator’s first issue of 2021. For 8 years now, a growing community of people have cooperated month after month to put together a publication that aims to deepen our understanding and love for the wonderful place we are so blessed to live in, the Eastern Shore.

January 20, 2021

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