Labour Day is an opportunity to recognize the contributions of workers across Nova Scotia and to reflect on the importance of safe, healthy and respectful workplaces.This year also marks an important milestone: one year ago, Nova Scotia’s...
The days are getting noticeably shorter, and the evenings are certainly cooler. It seems almost overnight that we’ve gone from long, warm summer days to reaching for a sweater as the sun begins to set.
There are certain things in life you assume are permanent.
Death. Taxes. Traffic at the Canso Causeway. The fact that Tim Hortons will somehow be full when you’re already late for work.
It is not uncommon for people to laugh when they are nervous, uncomfortable or even frightened. Sometimes we laugh at moments when laughter seems completely inappropriate. It is, in part, the brain’s attempt to relieve tension –...
Over the past few days, I participated in the annual meeting of the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers in Victoria, British Columbia.I emphasized Nova Scotia’s priorities: increased market and product diversification; stronger enforcement to combat...
The panic is on.
For many of us, the realization is setting in that summer has somehow disappeared. We are looking at the calendar, wondering where the weeks went, trying to squeeze in those...
“You can’t go home again.”
That phrase comes from a famous 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, by Thomas Wolfe. It basically means that you can never fully relive your childhood and recapture...
Over the past couple of weeks, I had the opportunity to attend two premiers’ luncheons hosted by local Chambers of Commerce – one in New Glasgow and one in Port Hawkesbury. Both communities represent the newspapers we...
We all deserve clean air to breathe, safe water to drink, and a healthy community in which to raise our kids. As a retired doctor, I spent many decades protecting people’s health, and part of that job...
There was a time when being a parent meant, among other things, telling your child what they could and could not do.
Want to stay up until midnight? No.
Eat a...