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Division of labour with housework is often a hot topic with couples. UNSPLASH

LETTER: Division of invisible household labour includes tasks not mentioned in article

Tackling the invisible (Atlantic Canadians tackle gender roles and invisible labour, April 15), great article. I found it interesting that eye-catching clothespins on a line were used. I rarely ever owned or used a dryer. As a single mom juggling ...

Updated 14 hours ago |2 min read

COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?

Updated 14 hours ago |5 min read

Past UN summits and global conventions on climate and the environment have failed to put the world on a path to sustainable development. Will the UN summit set for September be any different? Marcus Spiske • Unsplash

LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet sheller safety

Updated 15 hours ago |1 min read

An example of a Pallet shelter village set up in Denver, Colo., containing 30 single-occupancy units. A similar setup is planned to be built in Whitney Pier sometime in February. CONTRIBUTED/PALLET SHELTERS

DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation

Updated 15 hours ago |4 min read

LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’

Updated 15 hours ago |2 min read

GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook

Updated 16 hours ago |5 min read

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LETTER: Division of invisible household labour includes tasks not mentioned in article

Tackling the invisible (Atlantic Canadians tackle gender roles and invisible labour, April 15), great article. I found it interesting that eye-catching clothespins on a line were used. I rarely ever owned or used a dryer. As a single mom juggling ...

Updated 14 hours ago |2 min read

JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read

A large flag of Nova Scotia, flies at half staff on memory of the victims on this the 4th anniversary of the Portapique mass killing, at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth Thursday April 18, 2024.

TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

COVID VIGNETTE: A mysterious cancer resurgence

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read

COVID Vignette columnist Gary Saunders. Contributed

COMMENTARY: Nova Scotians still face longest health-care wait times in Canada

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read

WENDY ELLIOTT: Protest real issues instead of carbon tax

Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |4 min read

TINA COMEAU: My tears and disappointment when people laugh about drug addiction

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |9 min read

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COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?

Palanisamy Nagarajan, emeritus professor of economics and an island studies teaching fellow at University of Prince Edward Island, provided the following opinion article. The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment found: "A point has ...

Updated 14 hours ago |5 min read

LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet sheller safety

Updated 15 hours ago |1 min read

DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation

Updated 15 hours ago |4 min read

On Tuesday the Department of Justice issued a press release saying Zimmer would be replaced as the judge overseeing the Desmond inquiry. Minister Brad Johns stated that the Desmond family and the public had been waiting more than five years for answers -- Francis Campbell photo

LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’

Updated 15 hours ago |2 min read

GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook

Updated 16 hours ago |5 min read

RICK MacLEAN: I'm smug. Just ask my blood pressure.

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read

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HMCS Victoria, one of Canada's four secondhand diesel submarines which have been largely unusable. Experts are split on whether nuclear subs are needed to patrol Canada's Arctic.

Opinion: Canada’s Arctic defence policy update is all flash, no bang

The Canadian government’s recent defence policy update, Our North: Strong and Free , was recently released with considerable fanfare. Promised for a year, the delay seemed to indicate the Liberal government’s budgetary pressures given the ...

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |5 min read

SCOTT TAYLOR: Believe it when you see it for CAF spending

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, during a press conference at the National Press Gallery in Ottawa Thursday.

FIRST READING: It turns out Canadian police can actually stop a protest blockade if they feel like it

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |7 min read

Alberta RCMP stop demonstrators from gathering on the Trans-Canada Highway near Highway 22 west of Calgary on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Colby Cosh: Alberta's red tape reduction minister ... demands more red tape on vodka

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |4 min read

John Ivison: On Chinese interference, Trudeau sounds like someone with something to hide

Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |7 min read

FIRST READING: With 'safer supply' showing up in busts, RCMP told to step carefully

Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |8 min read

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BRUCE MacKINNON: Walk it back stat

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 20, 2024.

Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON: Cascading effects

Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Donald the dozer

Updated Apr. 17, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Really up a tree

Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |1 min read

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: No rush to judgment

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |1 min read

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Helping hands

Updated Apr. 12, 2024 |1 min read

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LETTER: Division of invisible household labour includes tasks not mentioned in article

COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?

LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet sheller safety

DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation

LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’

GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook

Featured Local Perspectives

LETTER: Division of invisible household labour includes tasks not mentioned in article

JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us

COVID VIGNETTE: A mysterious cancer resurgence

COMMENTARY: Nova Scotians still face longest health-care wait times in Canada

WENDY ELLIOTT: Protest real issues instead of carbon tax

TINA COMEAU: My tears and disappointment when people laugh about drug addiction

Featured Regional Perspectives

COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?

LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet sheller safety

DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation

LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’

GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook

RICK MacLEAN: I'm smug. Just ask my blood pressure.

Featured National Perspectives

Opinion: Canada’s Arctic defence policy update is all flash, no bang

SCOTT TAYLOR: Believe it when you see it for CAF spending

FIRST READING: It turns out Canadian police can actually stop a protest blockade if they feel like it

Colby Cosh: Alberta's red tape reduction minister ... demands more red tape on vodka

John Ivison: On Chinese interference, Trudeau sounds like someone with something to hide

FIRST READING: With 'safer supply' showing up in busts, RCMP told to step carefully

Featured Editorial Cartoons

BRUCE MacKINNON: Walk it back stat

BRUCE MacKINNON: Cascading effects

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Donald the dozer

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Really up a tree

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: No rush to judgment

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Helping hands

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