By global consensus, fiscally and environmentally, carbon pricing is the best way to fight global warming. The Conservative narrative that "the carbon tax has severely affected the affordability of fuel, groceries, and other goods" is purely ...

My mother was born in the historic fishing village of Moreton’s Harbour in June of 1924. Her father, Watson Small, was an esteemed boat builder and recognized locally as a “fish killer,” the title given back in the day to a fisherman particularly ...

It is incumbent on us, as citizens of the world, to stay as informed and engaged as we can. Many wars, disasters and other calamities go unreported because there is no-one there able to tell us what is going on. There are other wars, disasters and ...

I rarely respond to readers of my opinion pieces because it is great when people have different opinions and express them. But when someone writes (Terry Snead of Musgravetown, "LETTER: Looking at the carbon tax facts" in the April 13 Telegram) and ...

Cancer can affect anyone – the current estimates are that around 43 per cent of us will be diagnosed with cancer in Canada. Access to timely and effective information and health care is critical to prevent, early detect, and successfully treat ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 18, 2024.

Karen Jackson, president of the Union of Public Sector Employees in P.E.I., provided the following opinion article. As we celebrate and recognize the great work and contributions of resident care workers (RCW), patient care workers (PCW) and home ...

An eyesore and embarrassment My name is Dale Vigneault, nee Murphy, and I have recently read yet another article on the old service station on the corner of Queen and Euston Street and I thought there might be some interest in the background of this ...

I’m a teacher in Australia. I retired in Nova Scotia and have been working Down Under for almost a year. My teacher colleagues back home in Canada may be about to go on strike (Nova Scotia teachers vote 98 per cent in favour of strike mandate, April ...

Partisan politics are so hard to comprehend sometimes. The uproar over the carbon tax, for example, mystifies me. I bet none of the vocal types against the tax returned their several carbon tax credit cheques to Ottawa. Two different friends of mine ...