People are making a very big deal out of an MOU that is essentially worthless because Smith will never get buy-in she needs.

I too supported JT’s approach but I don’t believe it’s the only approach. Changing times sometimes call for changing strategies.

We’re still without the bus turning lane on the Dartmouth side of the Macdonald Bridge because Houston decided to tinker with local infrastructure with no thought to the consequences.

"Treasuries having their best year" is incredibly misleading as well. The face value of existing treasuries has gone up, yes, but that's because interest rates, and by extension, future expected returns, have gone down. All this because the economy is showing signs of weakness. The spin is gross.

Maybe they will rediscover this HRM city report from last year too and find a new way to ignore it as well

Odd that he didn't include the federal government -- the one he served as a cabinet minister in -- buying and building TMX and massively subsidizing LNG Canada in that list.

The key difference here is that Carney isn’t doing a deal with the oilpatch — and he’s forcing Alberta to put real skin in the game.