Featured Local Perspectives
ANNE M. CROSSMAN: A soft spot for Lawrencetown, N.S.-based COGS
I have believed for a long time that one of the least-appreciated assets in this part of the province is the Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown. Students come from all over to study there and take ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Dear DFO, save Dartmouth Cove
Dartmouth Cove should not be used as a private dumping ground for construction waste. The waterfront trail, which runs along the cove, is frequented by people walking, biking, enjoying the view of the harbour, birding, fishing, etc. Years of dump ...
COMMENTARY: Land acquisition critical to establishing Blue Mountain Park
By MARY ANN McGRATH Members of the Friends of Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes (BMBCL) Society are excited and highly motivated by the growing recognition of the BMBCL area as a leading contender for designation under Canada’s new National Urban Park ...
JOHN DeMONT: The dark side of gambling’s golden hour
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 ...
EDITORIAL: Nova Scotia mass casualty proved domestic violence is not a private matter
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, ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Words you can't take back
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, ...
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 ...
JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us
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: A mysterious cancer resurgence
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 ...
COMMENTARY: Nova Scotians still face longest health-care wait times in Canada
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 ...