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Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani, right, is shown with interpreter Ippei Mizuhara during an NFL game earlier this year. Mizuhara was fired by the team amid allegations he had engaged in "massive theft" from Ohtani to pay off gambling debts, multiple news outlets reported.  Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports/FILE PHOTO

JOHN DeMONT: The dark side of gambling’s golden hour

John DeMont · Columnist |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

I received an email I shouldn’t have the other day. So, of course, I opened the attachments. There was a spreadsheet of every player on every team that had made the NHL playoffs and a list of those hobbled by injuries, along with information on when ...

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The commissioners of the Mass Casualty Commission, Leanne J. Fitch, The Honourable J. Michael MacDonald and Dr. Kim Stanton arrive for  the release of the final report of the Mass Casualty Commission in Truro, NS Thursday March 30, 2023.


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EDITORIAL: Nova Scotia mass casualty proved domestic violence is not a private matter

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 23, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

The authors of the final report of the Mass Casualty Commission studying Canada's worst murder rampage had this important message for all of us about gender-based and intimate partner violence: “Let us not look away again.” The commissioners, ...

Justice Minister Brad Johns speaks with reporters at the media room across from Province House in downtown Halifax on Thursday, July 13, 2023. - Francis Campbell

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Words you can't take back

Contributed |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

When someone says something, it’s because that’s how they feel and they can’t take it back. Apologies ring hollow and it’s difficult to believe them. Such is the case in the recent episode with Brad Johns. Canadians deserve better. Russ Oickle, ...

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

Contributed |Updated Apr. 22, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

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 ...

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.

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

John DeMont · Columnist |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Two anniversaries of the most woeful kind occurred this week. One hundred and twelve years ago this Monday, the White Star liner Titanic struck an iceberg four days into the ship’s maiden voyage, taking the lives of more than 1,500 people, the bodies ...

COVID Vignette columnist Gary Saunders. Contributed

COVID VIGNETTE: A mysterious cancer resurgence

Contributed |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Twice now in the past few weeks I've read that one type of cancer is rising alarmingly in people under 50. And that, because most lethal cancers occur later in life, those with symptoms—especially blood in their stool (excrement)—tend to be brushed ...

According to a Fraser Institute study, Nova Scotians endured a median wait in 2023 of 56.7 weeks between a referral from a family doctor for an appointment with a specialist and the receipt of treatment. Unsplash

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

Contributed |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Mackenzie Moir and Alex Whalen, analysts at the Fraser Institute, provided the following opinion article. Nova Scotia's Houston government has placed great emphasis on health care, engaging in a full battery of health-care policy reforms. This ...

People protesting the carbon tax should take a moment to understand the program and how it’s helping the environment.

WENDY ELLIOTT: Protest real issues instead of carbon tax

Wendy Elliott |Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

Partisan politics are so hard to comprehend sometimes. The uproar over the carbon tax, for example, mystifies me. I bet none of the vocal types against the tax returned their several carbon tax credit cheques to Ottawa. Two different friends of mine ...

This is me, Tina Comeau, sitting in my car with uncontrollable tears nearly every time I've gone grocery shopping since my son Justin, 21, died after a lengthy battle with addiction. Is this funny? TINA COMEAU

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

Tina Comeau · Multi-media journalist |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |9 min read Premium content

YARMOUTH, NS – My emotions swayed between disappointment and resolve. I was at an event in Halifax. The person speaking was talking about a fellow she knew as a kid. She said as a young man he went on to become a really good baseball player. Then she ...

Ed Coleman is a regular columnist for the Valley Journal Advertiser.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Land speculation in 1900s leads to profitable acquisitions

Ed Coleman · columnist |Updated Apr. 16, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered? The railway, if constructed, ...

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