During the Covid-19 pandemic, home is the safest place
we can be. We are socially isolating in an attempt to stop the spread and
flatten the curve.
However, for many children, youth, and adults home is
not...
Remind me again why we have Daylight Saving Time?
I’ve heard all the arguments: now we can barbeque at 7 p.m.; now we can walk later in the evening; now we’ll have more time to do things – but none...
After a summer in which extensive infrastructure improvements took place around Port Hawkesbury, town council continues to deal with a number of related issues.
During last month’s Committee-of-the-Whole meeting, Port Hawkesbury Town Council wisely announced it will be installing three...
It was not surprising that a legal challenge of changes to provincial electoral boundaries was successful.
On January 24, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal concluded a 2012 change to Nova Scotia’s electoral boundaries violated Section 3 of the Canadian...
The explosion at the Point Tupper mill on Feb. 8, 1982 must never be forgotten.
At approximately 1:40 p.m., a steam-plant evaporator at the pulp and paper mill, owned at the time by Nova...
It’s been a hard week. A recent UN report concluded
that one million species could be facing extinction in the next few decades, a
number so astonishing that I’ve been left to stumble from one mood to another,
from anger...
Would it surprise you to know that the Bras d’Or Lake
Biosphere is the home of three species of wild cats (not including the escaped
domestic variety)?
They are all very mysterious and probably aware of...
Are Canadians being intentionally misled and being kept
uninformed by their governments?
For example, are the equalization transfers and the
healthcare transfers being manipulated by governments for future outcomes that
are not in the best interest of...
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, as well as Nova Scotia Attorney General Mark Furey.
Dear Ministers Blair and Furey,
Since
last week’s column saw me sharing some favourite moments from a crazy stretch
in the summer of 2019, I figure that’s a good theme to revisit for one more
week.
The first
Friday in August saw a...