Apr 18 2018 — Andrea Hill — Chronicle Herald — More than 2,700 Grits will descend on Halifax this weekend for the Liberal party’s biggest non-leadership convention in decades, and what incoming party president Suzanne Cowan is calling the unofficial kickoff for the 2019 election campaign. Speaking with The Chronicle Herald on Tuesday, Cowan said the timing of the weekend’s convention — about 18 months […]
Apr 16 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — Existence must be a bitter trial for those grand figures who have reached for the golden ring of leadership, imagining themselves the stuff of glittering biography as they nearly grasped it, only to be stymied by a lesser light. It’s tragic to be sure, but politics abounds with such tragedies, although it’s uncool to complain […]
Apr 9 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — There must be days when Vladimir Putin wakes up in the Kremlin amazed at his good fortune. The New Czar of Russia is one of the world’s richest men, with an army to protect him. And his modest investment in undermining Western foes is paying solid dividends. Putin’s Russia literally gets away with murder, despite […]
Apr 2 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — It being the holy Easter season, it’s time to adjourn, briefly, from the profane and political. Let us therefore take this time to pray that the federal Liberals will contemplate the error of their ways and earnestly strive for coherence in the land and in their government. I’m not much for praying, so I’ll put […]
Mar 26 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — Facebook’s vigilant robots tell me I’ve reached 10 years as a member or user, or whatever you call the 2.2 billion people who visit the site each month. Lately, 10 years feels like enough. Everyone knows the story of how Facebook evolved from a university social site into a global media juggernaut, with users in […]
Mar 25 2018 — Andrea Gunn — Chronicle Herald — Halifax native Suzanne Cowan will be the new national president of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party announced Friday that Cowan, the former vice-president, had been acclaimed, she’ll take over from current president Anna Gainey next month at the Liberal convention in Halifax. Speaking with The Chronicle Herald on Sunday, Cowan, the daughter of […]
Mar 19 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — The revelation that Donald Trump lied to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about trade and then bragged about it would be a major scandal at almost any other time in modern history. But not this time, because it’s Trump. We’ve become so inured to Trump’s preposterous claims that this one will vaporize like all the others, […]
Mar 5 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — It’s fair to say the Trudeau government’s budget didn’t do anything dramatic about traditional budgetary concerns, the entirety of which I will now list. The traditional concerns are 1) taxes and 2) spending. This was a budget not about those things, but about politics and an election 20 months away. That Budget 2018 put politics […]
Feb 26 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is human like the rest of us, which evidently he is, he must be going through withdrawal today from his most excellent South Asian holiday. And no wonder. Ottawa must be unspeakably dull compared to the stirring sights and sounds of exotic India. By any measure — history, culture or […]
Feb 13 2018 — Chronicle Herald — Peter Stoffer’s wife is speaking out in defence of her husband, who’s been the subject of multiple sexual harassment accusations in recent days stemming from his tenure as a member of Parliament. “I have no concern about these allegations, many of which have been coming from unnamed people,” said Andrea Pottyondy Stoffer. “They are probably […]
Feb 12 2018 — Chronicle Herald — Another woman is publicly accusing Peter Stoffer of sexual harassment while he served as a member of parliament. Ingrid Deon, 36, was a newly hired Nova Scotia NDP caucus staffer when, she said, Stoffer propositioned her after a fisheries-related community meeting at the Meteghan fire hall on March 8, 2007. Deon said she was approached […]
Feb 12 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — Try this as a thought experiment. Imagine a dog, a titanic dog the size of a continent. Then think of a tail, a tiny tail hanging off the posterior zone of the giant dog. Then think of the tiny tail wagging the dog, slowly at first, but then faster and faster, until the dog shakes […]
Feb 10 2018 — Andrea Gunn — Chronicle Herald — Another woman has come forward with allegations of inappropriate behaviour against Peter Stoffer, adding to the mounting number of complaints about the former NDP MP. The woman, who didn’t want her name used, said Stoffer propositioned her in the early 2000s when she was a young staffer for the party. The woman told The Chronicle […]
Feb 5 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — Let me offer some advice to every political party at every level in Ottawa and every province. Get to know yourselves before you make us do it for you, the hard way. This simple recommendation will save pain and embarrassment for all of us: candidates, parties and voters. Fewer candidates will resign in the middle […]
Jan 29 2018 — Dan Leger — Chronicle Herald — Goodness gracious, fellow Canadians, have we gone off script? Have we forgotten our designated role as the obsequious neighbour to mighty, indifferent America? Do we dare? Apparently we do dare, at least when it comes to trade. It finally has dawned on us that we can do better than spin on the end of the […]