Featured Regional Perspectives
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 ...
PETER McKENNA: Havana syndrome: Can Cuba be forgiven now?
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 ...
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, ...
LETTERS: Health-care workers are under-appreciated and understaffed
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 ...
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 ...
COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?
Palanisamy Nagarajan, emeritus professor of economics and an island studies teaching fellow at University of Prince Edward Island, provided the following opinion article. The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment found: "A point has ...
LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet shelter safety
When a person builds a house in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (and other municipalities) they are subjected to many rules, laws and bylaws. Physical inspections also take place throughout the process to insure your property is safe to move ...
DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation
Explanations mean little in today’s current political and social climate. An incorrect choice of words, an inept utterance and beware the pounce of those ever at the ready to cry foul. So it may have been for Nova Scotia’s recently deposed Justice ...