Featured Local Perspectives
JOCELYNE LLOYD: Journalism has value to all generations
LETTER: The disappointment surrounding the East End Crossroad bridge in Truro, N.S.
How disappointing on so many levels to see and hear the lack of interest on CN's part in doing more to beautify, and indeed lift up the image of rail transport in the hub town of Nova Scotia, called the Hub because of it's central location for rail ...
COMMENTARY: Nova Scotians deserve early breast cancer detection
Jodi Lazare, an associate professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, provided the following opinion article. I am a breast cancer survivor. So it should come as no surprise that I was thrilled to learn of the introduction and ...
WENDY ELLIOTT: Is Nova Scotia’s coastline about to change forever?
Walking along the beach near Rushton’s Provincial Park in northern Nova Scotia, it’s easy to see what happens when cottage owners build out water frontage and pile up huge rocks. The shoreline owned by their neighbours get washed away first, then the ...
EDITORIAL: Ben Proudfoot, Academy Awards and making art for art's sake
To music students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, making art is its own reward. This sentiment conveyed in the short documentary “The Last Repair Shop” also earned the film and its Atlantic Canadian co-director an actual trophy, in the ...
ANNE CROSSMAN: Reviewing the history of Royan, France
Recently, I was looking up the history of Royan in France. Some of you may know that Annapolis Royal is twinned with this coastal home of Pierre Dugua de Mons, the founder of Port Royal in 1605 which became Annapolis Royal in 1710. That is a very, ...
COVID VIGNETTE: The shrinkflation blues
I first heard the term in the news last year, dismissed it as a clever marketing ploy, and left it at that. Not till I got stung by it recently did I take it seriously. Sure, since COVID it's been tough to make a living selling stuff. Still, there's ...
JOHN DeMONT: The return of nuclear anxiety
The New York Times has been running a series this week. Called At the Brink, it is about “the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world.” I would suggest not dipping into it late at night, because it is a harrowing read and may well haunt your ...
EDITORIAL: With an ambulance hours away, rural Atlantic Canadians desperate for solutions
When a single-vehicle crash left three young children badly injured, it took a total of two hours and 20 minutes from the first 911 call for all the youngsters to be picked up by ambulance while a first responder had to stabilize a victim's spine for ...
THINKING OUT LOUD WITH SHELDON MacLEOD: What is the true cost of Daylight Saving Time?
A clinical psychiatrist asks Who is Daylight Saving, saving?
ANNE CROSSMAN: Tories chickened out on Coastal Protection Act
What on earth is going on in the halls of the legislature in Halifax these days? First the Coastal Protection Act was passed but not proclaimed, which means it was sitting there on someone’s desk limply and lonely because the right people didn’t get ...