News 1. Voter turnout It’s been declining for decades, but at 53.55 per cent, voter turnout was a record low for Tuesday’s provincial election. Part of that was by design. Stephen McNeil knows that low voter turnout generally benefits the party in power, and he certainly did everything in his power to schedule the election […]
Epilogue, Maudie: Take 4
“I think it was a huge missed opportunity for the province,” said Maudie co-producer Mary Young Leckie. “It’s a Nova Scotia story.” She spoke to the Halifax Examiner this week about the decision in the late spring of 2015 to shoot the highly acclaimed feature film about Nova Scotian artist Maud Lewis in Newfoundland. Leckie […]