Opinion

Re: The Macdonald Notebook story last weekend on Tall Ship Bounty and the need for a memorial to the ship and its lost lives, Elizabeth Baillie writes:

On this episode of Fall Back Up, I’m delighted to sit down with Don Bureaux, president of the Nova Scotia Community College.

On this episode of Fall back Up , I’m delighted to sit down with author and social business innovator, Barb Stegemann.

In another 12 months, we’ll be dealing with the real world impact of the federal government’s legalization of marijuana. There are still lots of unanswered questions about how this will roll out. These are questions with huge economic and social implications.

Cameron MacKeen, a Halifax Tory operative, writes about Don Mills letter to The Macdonald Notebook last week, in which Mills defends his polling company from criticism by Tory leader Jamie Baillie. Baillie said Mills got the Tory support wrong in the recent election – and also in 2013’s election. Here is Cameron’s letter to the editor:

Fall Back Up with Jordi Morgan and a chat with award-winning Halifax Herald cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon.

In this Spoken Word segment, the speech Scott Brison, Trudeau’s Nova Scotia man in cabinet, delivered on the installation of Art LeBlanc, as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia:

It is not uncommon for our company to be criticized by a political party following an election.

It is natural for party leaders to be disappointed after an election. Our industry is held to an extremely high standard in the conduct of our work, higher than most other professions. Certainly our industry has come under some well-deserved criticism over the past few years for not getting it right.

What if the election was declared Unconstitutional?

This was a question some of us were mulling over on Nova Scotia’s election night.