Opposition Leader Claudia Chender is urging the energy minister to step in and make sure consumers are protected from Nova Scotia Power’s (NSP) increasing costs and billing changes. The NSNDP will also intervene to...
This past weekend was, without question, one of the most difficult things I have ever voluntarily done. In the months leading up to it, I nearly backed out more times than I can count....
Spend about 60 years with someone and some things are bound to rub off. I was at work the other day and a colleague left me to retrieve something from the backroom. She had...
I am struck by how quietly the Tim Houston government has managed to introduce a new tax targeting Nova Scotians who chose a more environmentally responsible mode of transportation. At a time when many of us are...
The debate around hydraulic fracturing – fracking – is nothing new. I remember when studying Urban Design and Planning decades ago, it was already a contentious issue. Back then, debates felt different. There was a shared expectation...
In a letter to the editor on April 14, 2026, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Long-Term Care, Barbara Adams, repeated a narrative that long-term care workers are simply tired of hearing. This wasn’t a genuine...
Most days begin with managing the morning rush: packing lunches, searching for a missing shoe, or getting kids to school. Some grab coffee on the way to work. Others stop at the store to prepare for dinner...
For centuries, humanity has wrestled with one of life’s most urgent, civilization-defining questions: “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” Empires have risen and fallen, philosophers have pondered, and somewhere, someone’s uncle has...
High costs, red tape, labour challenges and never-ending uncertainty discouraging the next generation of entrepreneurs More businesses in Canada have closed than opened for six consecutive quarters, and more than half (55 per cent)...
Surveillance pricing is having a moment in the spotlight, thanks in part to a recent push by Canada’s New Democratic Party to curb the practice. At its core, the concept is simple but unsettling: companies use personal...




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