Despite staggering increases in rent, mortgage, groceries, power, and overall inflation, the Houston Conservatives choose to leave Nova Scotians in the cold. The annual Home Energy Assistance Top-up (HEAT) Fund launched this week with...
October 17 was the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. This day promotes dialogue and understanding between people living in poverty and their communities, and society at large. This year’s theme was “Acting together to...
Everyone is feeling the pinch of the rising cost of living right now, including seniors. This tax season, we want to highlight the different tax credits and benefits available to Canadian seniors that can help put more...
Residents on Grant, Morrison and Mountain Roads in Richmond County, once again, are experiencing clouds of dust this summer. A clear blue sky changes to brown in a flash while driving on the three roads mentioned. No dust control was...
Editor’s note: The following is a letter written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.   Your announcement recently to continue with the “first-past-the-post” system dashed our hopes for a truly representative and inclusive electoral system. Your decision to abandon a key Liberal election...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) final report is the carefully documented response of Canada’s First Nations to the 1969 White Paper of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In it, Trudeau proposed...
More and more families are struggling to afford their grocery bills causing greater demand on programs that help people get healthy food. Data obtained through a Freedom of Information request shows that the number of applications for...
Canadian citizens are the only people who should be allowed to decide the results of our elections. But thanks to a loophole in Canada’s election laws, foreign money is pouring into third-party advocacy groups here in Canada. And these organizations...
Recently, Nova Scotia achieved two major milestones on our climate change journey. We have reached an agreement-in-principle with the Government of Canada on Nova Scotia's approach to meeting federal emissions reduction goals. The agreement recognizes the great work of Nova...
Canada should continue to attract highly educated immigrants. That presupposes they are educated in their home countries as children. Our government has committed itself to building a world where every young person grows up...




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