By Tamara Lorincz The latest defence policy update and federal budget recklessly put Canada on a warpath. They prioritize investments in weapons production over peacekeeping and the use of armed force over diplomacy. On April 8, at the Canadian Armed ...

Although they only had to come from across town, they started arriving on Sunday. By mid-Monday, a couple of dozen people — many of them wearing the distinctly patterned black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh, others the masks that have become symbolic ...

Last week, a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied territories enough money to settle somewhere else, and ...

While most Nova Scotians and businesses are familiar with the rights and privileges of service dog teams, there are still establishments that lack this knowledge resulting in the violations of the rights of the Service Dog Act and Discrimination ...

It seems that wherever I go these days, people are having conversations about the increased cost of living and how expensive it is just to buy day-to-day necessities.  While many of us are feeling the impact of higher prices, most people are still ...

My tribute to Rex Murphy, who succumbed to the dreadful disease called cancer, that is rampant in this province and all over the world. Rex was born in rural Newfoundland and Labrador and, in my humble opinion, never forgot his roots or our reason ...

Last year around Mother’s Day, a radio program asked people what is one thing they learned from their mom. As the replies were aired, it became apparent that there was a theme to the answers. Almost everyone claimed the one thing their mother taught ...

In the media world, the good news is that there’s interest by several parties wanting to take over this newspaper and the entire SaltWire network, now under creditor protection. The hundreds of jobs and the iconic titles — this one, plus the ...

If Tim Houston’s government thought opposition to their abandonment of the Coastal Protection Act would just go away, they should think again. This thing is lingering like a bad smell for the Conservatives. This week a group of coastal advocates ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 11, 2024.