Off Script: Atlantic Canada Politics

In this episode, we unpack how a meeting of the Nova Scotia Cabinet works. We explore the tension between Cabinet and the Premier's Office, and how the Premier's offices has grown to wield more and mo...

16 Nov 201741min

This week, we’ll unpack how a minister’s office works, and dig into:- how people who held that office who we spoke to approached making decisions, and the kind of decisions they had to make.- how they...

8 Nov 201724min

Just how exactly does an MLA get anything done at Province House? In this, and the next few episodes of the Off Script podcast, we’re going to explore the nitty gritty of who has what kind of power to...

1 Nov 201724min

On this episode, we’re sharing talks from two members of the Canadian Senate: Senators Grant Mitchell (Alberta) and Wanda Thomas-Bernard (Nova Scotia). Both talks are an excerpt from a larger event ca...

18 Okt 201728min

On this specioal episode of the Off Script podcast, we’re sharing two diverse perspectives on the Ivany report, drawn from a discussion held by the MacEachen Institute for Public Policy at Dalhousie. ...

11 Okt 201723min

This week: we explore the dynamics of the Nova Scotia LegislaturePeople always seem to draw comparisons between politicians and school children when they visit the House of Assembly. We have a couple ...

5 Okt 201725min

Andrew Younger is the only former MLA we’ve interviewed who sat as an independent. In our interview Andrew describes some of the unsung, unknown advantages of being an independent in Nova Scotia polit...

27 Sep 201728min

We spoke with members of the press gallery at province house to hear what they had to say, about what MLAs had to say about them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

21 Sep 201732min