Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In June of 1995, the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide recommended governments make palliative care programs a top priority in the restructuring of the...
At about 7 a.m. in the morning on Thursday, February 16 in Ruai, Kenya, 280-plus students were on parade to pray, sing and give words of welcome to Fr. Duncan MacIsaac (Stella Maris and St Margaret’s parish priest), representing...
If anything positive can be said of the long drawn-out impasse between Nova Scotia teachers and the McNeil government, it is that teachers clearly informed the general public of the often adverse and impractical guidelines, practices and conditions they...
Nova Scotia’s teachers went on strike recently for the first time in history.
Students did not sit in class, but they learned one of the most valuable lessons of their lives – democracy in action. Many in my generation grew...
Editor’s note: The following letter was written to Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil.
Democracy was defined by Abe Lincoln in the Gettysburg address as “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” While this is indeed an American...
Recently, the European Parliament voted in favour of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) that was negotiated between Canada and the European Union (EU).
This agreement is a major economic development for Nova Scotia that will create good paying...
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...
I am deeply saddened, frustrated and frightened by the situation in which we find ourselves with respect to palliative care in the Strait-Richmond area.
It is especially difficult when one knows and understands, from both professional and personal experience, what...
St Charles Lwanga Secondary School is located near Nairobi, Kenya. Its mission is to provide an education and a home for abandoned street children, orphans or those too poor to pay school tuition.
Since 2012, Inverness County Cares has been...
I listened to an interview on CBC Radio’s Information Morning last month in which Port Hawkesbury Mayor Brenda Chisholm-Beaton was interviewed as part of their year-end 2016 program.
I congratulate her in her new role as Mayor of Port Hawkesbury...