John DeMont

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | John DeMont

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentDalhousie University political scientist Lori Turnbull has a short answer for why Tim Houston’s Nova Scotia government, despite promises to the contrary, still does what it wants and doesn’t always tell us. It’s because they can. The Conservatives have a supermajority, having won 43 out of 55 seats in the last election, so they can pass any law they’d like and can even change the rules of the Nova Scotia legislature.

3 weeks ago | saltwire.com | John DeMont

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentI had mixed feelings when I heard last week that the Nova Scotia government planned to survey 1,500 of us to hear our views about expanding booze sales to retail outlets like grocery and corner stores. That is the way that much of the country seems to be going. Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador have certain types of hooch available in convenience stores.

4 weeks ago | saltwire.com | John DeMont

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentAs a journalist, Canadian Press reporter and editor Michael Tutton has produced something like 2,000 to 3,000 stories. That is a lot of ledes, the first sentence or two in a print story during which the reader must somehow be hooked. I’m not exactly sure how he would start if writing a piece about his decision to retire from CP’s Halifax bureau this summer to, on Sept. 1, become the Anglican rector of the Parish of Fall River and Oakfield.

4 weeks ago | share.google | John DeMont

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentAs a journalist, Canadian Press reporter and editor Michael Tutton has produced something like 2,000 to 3,000 stories. That is a lot of ledes, the first sentence or two in a print story during which the reader must somehow be hooked. I’m not exactly sure how he would start if writing a piece about his decision to retire from CP’s Halifax bureau this summer to, on Sept. 1, become the Anglican rector of the Parish of Fall River and Oakfield.

1 month ago | saltwire.com | John DeMont

Skip to ContentAdvertisement 1  •   •  Article contentI am of two minds about Netflix’s 2023 movie Leave the World Behind: happy to have seen it because it is so well made but also mildly regretful because it in has left my universe a little askew. The storyline: a family rents a high-end Airbnb and soon discovers that there has been a massive cyberattack disabling all digital communication. I have been thinking about the flick a bit since Nova Scotia Power’s data hack was reported.