Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 20, 2024.

If they gave out medals for tone deafness, Nova Scotia’s justice minister would be on the top of the podium this week. As flags across the province were lowered in memory of the 22 people killed in the 2020 massacre that began with an act of domestic ...

Advertisements for cars and trucks are mostly similar. The pictures show happy vehicle owners having a good time in an attractive location, with the voiceover proclaiming some sort of discount (“Six thousand dollars off !”) without ever revealing the ...

Henry Srebrnik Commentary In the wake of the Gaza war, the so-called two-state solution – an Israeli and Palestinian state side by side — has been resurrected. This idea dates back to at least 1937, when a British commission suggested a partition of ...

The menacing growth of government and the authority of the public state has infected even our quaint little Cape Breton community. Mind you, there is a difference between those who work for the government and the government itself. The former are ...

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 ...

I want to applaud the City of St. John's for undertaking its campaign to address violence and crime, called “Building Safer Communities”. While St. John's is probably one of the safest communities in the world, there remains much work to be done to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In introducing the 2024 federal budget, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promised a better life to young Canadians who have been struggling with affording the same lifestyle as previous generations. “A fair chance to build a good middle-class life ...