Michael MacMillan (Keynote): Former Members of Parliament Speak Out on Canada’s Failing Democracy (SE...
What do former MPs have to say about the health of Canadian democracy? Not much good news, according to Michael MacMillan. In last week's...
Off Script: Road Map (OS1)
In the first episode of the Off Script podcast, we share some of our key findings from the MLA Exit Interviews, and plot the...
Off Script: Clarrie MacKinnon ‘How an MLA gets involved in those kinds of things’
Clarrie MacKinnon recounts the kinds of things he would end up doing when government services fell short of his constituents needs.
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Off Script: Eleanor Norrie ‘Where’s the Minister’
In this week’s story, former cabinet minister, and Truro-Bible Hill MLA, Eleanor Norrie, remembers what she describes as the all-too-frequent experience of showing up...
Off Script: Francene Cosman ‘Three Cheers for the Lady’
Here's the first of the Off Script 'prepisodes' - short anecdotes and stories that kept us laughing, captivated, and in suspense during the interviews,...
Off Script Podcast: Starting Up
We've collected over 75 hours of recorded content, from interviews with more than forty former MLAs. This fall, we'll begin releasing a weekly audio-documentary...
Why we need an Open House in Nova Scotia Politics
There are plenty of ways to find out what is happening in the Government of Nova Scotia, but the most interesting findings rely on...
Living Life in Public: Rachel Bailey, Jennifer Watts, Lynn Hennigar
Councillor Lynn Hennigar (Left-Mahone Bay), Mayor Rachel Bailey (Centre-Lunenburg) and Councillor Jennifer Watts (Right-Halifax) have a frank conversation about living life in the public...
How to Lose an Election | Alex Godbold
Alex Godbold, was the candidate for the NDP in the district of South Shore Saint Margaret's in the 2015 federal election. In this video...
Think hybrid: can we have our ranked ballots and proportional representation too?
Written by Ian Sherman
Living as I do in rural Cape Breton, my very strong feeling is that we’ll never see our largely rural...