News 1. Freedom of information: The right to “no” Hot off the digital press: Part one of Joan Baxter’s two-part series on the sorry state of Freedom of Information requests in Nova Scotia. Baxter uses one request from the Halifax Examiner — for information on an application to protect the French River watershed — to […]
Complicated legacies
Was Lionel Desmond a victim of his war demons? Or was he a villain, a perpetrator of domestic violence who murdered his own family? Or both? We may never know.
“Speak not ill of the dead man.” Spartacus “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” Shakespeare Legacies have always been complicated and fraught, of course, but never more so than today. Consider Kobe Bryant. In the first hours after news broke last month that Bryant, “one of the greatest […]