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Palestinians inspect destroyed residential buildings, after the Israeli military withdrew most of its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip April 7, 2024.

LETTER: Retaliation or revenge?

In February 1944, the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, spoke in the House of Lords against the policy of the blanket bombing of towns and cities in Germany in the Second World War. What was called 'terror bombing" was a major weapon for both sides ...

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LETTER: The climate crisis requires all hands-on deck

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Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 9

Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |8 min read

Rhonda Yelruh with her boys during Easter 2024. Contributed

GWYNNE DYER: Iran and Israel, a pantomime crisis, not a real war

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BRIAN HODDER: We need to make a difference in the environment every day, not just Earth Day

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LETTER: Willing to accept wind farms if it will save our planet

Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |2 min read

Israeli soldiers stand near military vehicles amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

GWYNNE DYER: There really are rules to borders among nations

Gwynne Dyer · Columnist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |4 min read

History is mostly a matter of dates, and the key date is always that of the last conquest. All previous conquests are then magically forgiven and forgotten. This observation is prompted partly by the current wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, but ...

Virtual care is a way to deliver health-care services using technology to remotely connect patients and health professionals and minimizes the spread of infections from sitting in waiting rooms. National Cancer Institute photo/Unsplash

LETTER: New pan-Atlantic Canada Patient Advisory Committee on precision medicine in cancer

Contributed |Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |3 min read

Most of us know someone affected by cancer. This is not surprising, as cancer is a common disease in Canada, with hundreds of thousands of new cancer diagnoses given each year. Cancer has a greater impact on those of us in Atlantic Canada. The people ...

Members of the Halifax Regional Police forensics identification unit are seen in front of C.P. Allen High School after a stabbing incident at the school in Bedford March 20, 2023.

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EDITORIAL: A is for anxiety: Atlantic Canadian schoolchildren living new world for learning

SaltWire Network |Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read

The schoolchildren attending classes across Atlantic Canada today are experiencing a very different introduction to reading, writing and ’rithmetic than their parents — or even older siblings — did in years past. These days, an Apple left on a ...

Within the next 60 days, Charlottetown's Community Outreach Centre on Euston Street will be shut down, and the province will move it to 15 Park St., marking the fifth relocation of the centre in just a few years. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre

Contributed |Updated 3 hours ago |4 min read

Ian (Tex) MacDonald, a former mayor of Charlottetown, provided the following opinion article. In the landscape before us stands the Charlottetown Curling Club. It was built in 1945 after the original club, The Excelsior burned down in 1938. The ...

Premier Tim Houston: “I believe they’re giving serious consideration to opening the mine." FILE

TOM URBANIAK: Nova Scotia Guard: Wrong name, sloppy bill

Contributed |Updated 4 hours ago |4 min read

Nova Scotia’s Bill 455 is flawed and needs to be significantly reworked. The bill enables the provincial government to recruit Nova Scotians to a vaguely defined and embarrassingly named “Nova Scotia Guard” to deal with emergencies. Significantly, ...

Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 16

SaltWire Staff |Updated 11 hours ago |7 min read

CHEERS: to moving ahead with new housing construction. It’s good to see funding announced for actual construction work, rather than for more planning and rezoning and committees and delays. Last week, the provincial government announced $20 million ...

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

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

Scott Taylor |Updated a day ago |3 min read

On Monday, April 8, federal Defence Minister Bill Blair unveiled the Liberal government's long-awaited defence policy update. Titled Our North, Strong and Free, the new policy outlines a significant spending increase and promises to acquire some very ...

MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: No rush to judgment

Michael de Adder · Editorial cartoonist |Updated a day ago |1 min read

Michael de Adder's cartoon for April 16, 2024.

Teachers in Nova Scotia will hold a strike vote on April 11. Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Ryan Lutes said teachers hope job action won’t be necessary. STOCK IMAGE

GRANT FROST: N.S. government on hook if teachers walk the line

Contributed, Grant Frost · Columnist |Updated a day ago |5 min read

On Thursday, the teachers of this province voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate. The strike vote was necessary, according to union leadership, in order to get the government bargaining team moving toward what the Nova Scotia Teachers ...

Environment Minister Tim Halman, left, and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister John Lohr introduce the provincial government's plan for climate-resilient coastal communities at One Government Place in Halifax on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024.

HOLD ----- COMMENTARY: Restore N.S. government’s coastal protection resolve

Contributed |Updated a day ago |4 min read

By Ron Swan CARP Nova Scotia is profoundly disappointed by the provincial government’s reversal of its commitment to proclaim the Coastal Protection Act. As an organization of active and engaged older citizens, we take seriously our responsibilities ...