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When ‘freedom of speech’ is a code, not a value

Making free speech the raw-meat main dish for the Conservative party’s right-wing base worked well enough for current federal leader Andrew Scheer. Will it do the same for wannabe Nova Scotia Tory leader John Lohr?

March 11, 2018 By Stephen Kimber

What is it about Tories seeking their party’s leadership and their seemingly painful need to gymnast-twist the once liberal value of freedom of speech for their own illiberal purposes? Last spring when he was running to become federal Conservative Party leader, Andrew Scheer threatened to cut off federal funding to any university that didn’t foster...

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Filed Under: Commentary, Education, Featured, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: MLA John Lohr, PC leadership 2018, political correctness

A Virginia businessman wants a piece of the action before the city can turn the old Windsor & Hantsport Railway into a trail

Robert T. Schmidt's claim to all of the rail line is contested, and the province has gone to court to force him to maintain his dilapidated property, but Schmidt says he wants taxpayers to pay him millions of dollars

February 26, 2018 By Rick Grant

Halifax Regional Municipality, the Nova Scotia government, and an American businessman want to own a discontinued railway that’s more than a century-and-a-half old. The Windsor and Hantsport Railway is 90 kilometers of track running from Windsor Junction through Mount Uniacke, Windsor, and Hantsport to New Minas. The American wants to be in the rail business, but...

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Filed Under: City Hall, Featured, Investigation, News, Province House, Subscribers only Tagged With: Agriculture Minister Keith Colwell, Canadian Government Railways, CN, Dave McCusker, Dominion Atlantic Railway, Jonathan Abecassis, MLA John Lohr, MLA Margaret Miller, Paul Smith, Peter Hackett, Rick Grant, Robert T. Schmidt, Uniacke Trails Association, Windsor and Hantsport Railway

DEAD WRONG

A botched police investigation and a probable wrongful conviction shed light on the murders of dozens of women in Nova Scotia.

This is a multi-part series still in publication. Click here to go to the DEAD WRONG home page.

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