This Red Tape Awareness Week is a reminder that outdated rules don’t just create frustration – they slow down the construction of homes and hospitals, delay access to care and discourage investment in industries like resource development...
Thank you for some uplifting stories in the January 28th edition, the beautiful life story of centenarian Marie Grenier, the one about the work of artist and mathematician Stephen Francis, and the story about the upcoming pilgrimage...
The IWK Health Centre stands as one of Nova Scotia’s most treasured institutions. It is a place of healing, heartbreak, hope, exhaustion, resilience, and miracles – often all within the same day. Families arrive in their most...
I remember, many years ago, dreading the arrival of the Olympic Games.
In our household, there was only one television and a single channel. When the Olympics were on, that was the only option....
African Heritage Month is a time to celebrate the history, culture, and leadership of African Nova Scotians and African Nova Scotian communities who continue to show the power of community and standing together.
At...
By Dave MacNeil
Two years after I graduated from high school, London Life Insurance Company launched its “Freedom 55” ad campaign. So, for a good portion of my adult life, I’ve been comforted by...
Small business long-term confidence started the year just shy of its historical average, sitting at 59.5 in January, finds the latest Monthly Business Barometer by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB).
“We live...
It is time for The Emperor’s New Clothes to return to prominence. Few stories feel as timely or as relevant as this one does today.
The fable recounts the tale of a ruler consumed...
By any reasonable measure, the coldest weekend of the winter is not the moment to tell people to stop heating their homes.
Yet, that is precisely what Nova Scotia Power effectively did when it...
Nova Scotia New Democrats are calling on the Houston government to address the dangerous reality of closed rural emergency rooms and long ER wait times.
NDP MLAs wrote a letter to the Health Minister urging...