Why do NS politicians always hector us?

Perhaps it’s the self-righteous streak that runs through the Canadian character.
Or maybe the lack of sophistication that limits Nova Scotia politics.
Perhaps, it’s down to the fact that Nova Scotian politicians have always traded off  charisma in order to appeal to the lowest-common-denominator.
Whatever the reason, political players always sound like they are hectoring.
Listen to Stephen Harper.  [...]

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L-word star makes NS Liberals the L-word

Liberal Leader Stephen MacNeil doesn’t seriously expect us to believe he didn’t approve the release of a picture of a topless NDP candidate?
On Thursday the Liberals  released to the media a picture of Lenore Zann who stars in cable TV show The L-Word.
On Thursday night, his communications person Glennie Langille released a self-justifying statement saying [...]

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Want to keep youth out of NS politics? Never let in anyone by the name of Obama

Keep the uninspired Rodney MacDonalds and Stephen McNeils running this province.
Preserve the charisma-less political culture for which Nova Scotia is famous.
Keep talentless politicians like Peter Kelly as Mayor of Halifax.
Cherish and protect the old pork-barreling parochial ways.
Hang on to the first-past-the-post voting system which priviledges voters with white hair, white skin and rear-view mirror thinking.
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Wriggling is for worms, Stephen McNeil

The recently-shorn Liberal leader Stephen McNeil can wriggle all he wants over his support for Rodney MacDonald, but wriggling can’t change facts.
And the facts are that he supported a weak and floundering government that withdrew the eight percent rebate on electricity.
And he did this out of naked self-interest.
Had the Liberal party not been in such [...]

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Rodney’s support is slip slidin’ away

But the big surprise in the Corporate Research Associates poll is that Rodney MacDonald has actually garnered 27 per cent support. After his less-than-stellar spring sitting.
Well done, you, Rodo!
True, you trail Darrell McDarrell with his NDP 38 per cent support and Stephen No-Beard McNeil with his 30 percent.
But they haven’t been in government, have they?
They [...]

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The bland leading the bland in Nova Scotia

He may not knock Premier Rodo McDodo off his stoop, but at least the NDP learder Mr. Darrell McDarrell isn’t propping up McDodo.
He announced today that he will not support the provincial budget.
That’s more than we can say for the Liberal leader Stephen McNoBeard.
He came charging in on a white stallion last week to save [...]

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