Here we are with April winding down, the weather warming and the grass growing. Before going into autopilot and grabbing your lawnmower to mow the grass, let’s give it a second-thought for the benefit of valuable pollinators, because we are ...

Another Earth Day has come and gone, and we engaged in the usual cosmetic work of cleaning up our immediate surroundings. Some towns provided garbage bags, and encouraged the public to make the town look tidier. As happens every year, we all felt ...

“Without extinction, there would likely be insufficient ecological ‘space’ available for new species.” What? Is this person saying that extinction is a good thing? But what about the scarlet-throated goat-botherer? There’s only 23 of them left in the ...

Open letter to the Canadian government: I am writing today not merely as a concerned Canadian citizen, but as one outraged by the glaring failures and injustices in our approach to public health policy, particularly concerning nicotine addiction. The ...

Government without limits: not to worry, our children will pay! I must admit that I have a lot of respect for Premier Andrew Furey. I believe his intentions are good and some of his policies are quite progressive. However, as with each political ...

In an open letter to the federal fisheries minister: Perhaps the most famous four words in history is Ronald Regan’s speech in West Berlin on June 12, 1987: "Tear down this wall!" Never in my wildest dreams would I be appealling to the ministers of ...

Andrew Furey’s recent spat with Justin Trudeau about that infuriating carbon tax – a spat during which the province witnessed a rare growth spurt for the premier in the political bollocks region, as well as an odd dose of affected vocabulary – begs ...

I have believed for a long time that one of the least-appreciated assets in this part of the province is the Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) in Lawrencetown. Students come from all over to study there and take ...

Michael de Adder's editorial cartoon for Thursday, April 25, 2024.

Protect people and the planet Wars are devastating whole regions around the globe. In the past decade, military spending has increased by 19 per cent. It is deplorable that the majority of casualties in the wars in Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza are ...