Concentrated marketing, much misrepresentation/deception, abuse of process (ignoring the Municipal Government Act), and absolutely dishonourable and disgraceful behaviour on the part of Premier Tim Houston, Warden Owen McCarron, and Mayor Laurie Boucher are my assessed phrases to...
Accountability is an assurance that an individual or an organization will be evaluated on their performance or behaviour related to something for which they are responsible. An organization which follows the principles of accountability; transparency, participation, evaluation...
Regarding the Watershed Wilderness designation for Archibald Lake, the Cochrane Hill Gold Project did not meet the standard of federal law for major natural resource projects in Canada because the contractual agreement between the province and the...
We live in an age of mass media options and increasingly more choices regarding where we can obtain information.
Unfortunately, all that is distributed for our perusal is sometimes missing and pertinent data is...
Enough already; I’m tired of most of what is making the news during these summer months.
Let’s take a break from what we hear about almost daily: the war in Ukraine; COVID-19; sexual assaults;...
Nova Scotia Public Works has put lines in almost everywhere except Arichat-West Arichat-Petit de Grat. Why?
At night, I come home sometimes after 12 o’clock and if there is heavy fog, which there is...
The “principal principle” states that for every solution not carefully considered, one always creates more problems than one solves. Some readers may even recognize the notion as a variation of Merton’s Law of Unintended Consequences: a frequently-observed...
The past two years have been tough on the Nova Scotia wine industry — and a new Wine Sector Support Program from the federal government provides much-needed and timely relief.
Across our province in...
When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence, you had damned well better take the action that would create it. We all make choices, but in the end...
Skin cancer accounts for one in three new cancer diagnosis in Canada, with Nova Scotia having one of the highest rates of melanoma in the country.
A major cause of skin cancer is exposure...