Like their counterparts across the country, Island educators and parents are working to achieve a balance when it comes to access to screen time in the classroom.  For many people, the first thing that may pop into their head when they hear talk ...

I’d like to make some comments in response to Charles Sampson’s critique (‘CBRM residential tax rate unfair,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, April 12) of my March 21 letter to the Opinion page. The substance of my letter was to refute Jamie ...

What is upsetting to me these days is the financial pain people are feeling in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM). Every day it seems there is something in the media about high taxation and people are now going to be faced with wastewater ...

Geoffrey Hurley, a retired environmental consultant living in Dartmouth, N.S. contributed the following opinion article. Email: [email protected] We all know that carrying clover, particularly a four-leaf clover, will bring you good ...

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 ...

I see where the mysterious Havana syndrome is back in the news again. We are also learning that the U.S. case against Cuba for unleashing these “acoustic attacks” grows weaker by each passing scientific study. You may recall that U.S. and Canadian ...

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 ...

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, ...

Health-care workers on the front lines We have a lot of respect for health-care workers, at least most of us do. I also understand how difficult it is waiting long hours in emergency and not blaming the same people. Just recently I watched a ...

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, ...