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Geoffrey V. Hurley, a retired environmental consultant living in Dartmouth, N.S., provided the following opinion article. Email: hurleyenvironment@gmail.com Considerable progress has been made to move to renewable sources of energy such as wind and ...

Jody Jollimore is executive director of CATIE, Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information. What do you think of when you hear about hepatitis C? That was one of the questions posed to Canadians in an online survey we conducted this year at ...

Over the past several weeks, the subject of the federal government’s carbon tax has popped up in conversation quite often. Whether when talking to a longtime friend or a stranger in a waiting room, everyone seems to have strong feelings on this ...

Our granddaughter visited our home a few weeks ago. Inquiring about her activities, because she has so many interests, she told us about a recent visit to Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill’s office. Being a proud ...

Hamas did not need a cease-fire – it had already demonstrated that Israel could not eradicate it. It had achieved its primary goal of wrecking the anti-Iran alliance that was brewing between Israel and the major Arab Gulf states. And it doesn’t care ...

The cool thing about regaining consciousness is how sudden it can be. One minute you’re getting to know what it’s like to be wheeled down the hall on a stretcher. It’s exactly the same view shown in all the TV shows set in hospitals. The lights of ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 4, 2024.

By Susan Joudrey If you think that children are missing more school due to illness than they did before the pandemic began, you’re not imagining things. If you suspect constant illness is affecting their education, you’re not wrong. Documents ...

Whether or not you like what he says, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has certainly amped up the colourful rhetoric of Canadian politics. If you like a good rhyming slogan or a hyperbolic metaphor, Poilievre has one for you. Even if you don’t ...

Like Atlantic Canadian labourers who migrate for jobs in western Canada for months at a time, when Lude Meng left her home in China to work in a Prince Edward Island fish plant, she did so to build a better life for her family. Instead, she faced a ...