Opinion
COMMENTARY: An ode to clover: So-called 'weed' has multifaceted benefits
Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 23
JEERS: to continued delays in compensating Mount Cashel victims. As heard in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court on Thursday, April 18, survivors of abuse — terrible, life-impacting sexual and physical abuse suffered by young people at the hands ...
SCOTT TAYLOR: Canada's military procurement history a laundry list of broken promises
When the Trudeau Liberals announced their long-awaited defence policy update on April 8, it did not take the skeptics long to take to social media to criticize the policy paper. While the announced spending hike is enormous — the Canadian defence ...
MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Problem for another day
Michael de Adder's editorial cartoon for Tuesday, April 23, 2024.
LETTERS: Health-care workers are under-appreciated and understaffed
Health-care workers on the front lines We have a lot of respect for health-care workers, at least most of us do. I also understand how difficult it is waiting long hours in emergency and not blaming the same people. Just recently I watched a ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Words you can't take back
When someone says something, it’s because that’s how they feel and they can’t take it back. Apologies ring hollow and it’s difficult to believe them. Such is the case in the recent episode with Brad Johns. Canadians deserve better. Russ Oickle, ...
LETTER: Division of invisible household labour includes tasks not mentioned in article
Tackling the invisible (Atlantic Canadians tackle gender roles and invisible labour, April 15), great article. I found it interesting that eye-catching clothespins on a line were used. I rarely ever owned or used a dryer. As a single mom juggling ...
COMMENTARY: Will UN environment summit zero in on how we ended up where we are?
Palanisamy Nagarajan, emeritus professor of economics and an island studies teaching fellow at University of Prince Edward Island, provided the following opinion article. The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment found: "A point has ...
LETTER: Concerns raised regarding Pallet sheller safety
When a person builds a house in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (and other municipalities) they are subjected to many rules, laws and bylaws. Physical inspections also take place throughout the process to insure your property is safe to move ...
DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation
Explanations mean little in today’s current political and social climate. An incorrect choice of words, an inept utterance and beware the pounce of those ever at the ready to cry foul. So it may have been for Nova Scotia’s recently deposed Justice ...
LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’
I’ve attended two Cape Breton Regional Municipality council meetings this year – on Jan. 23 and March 26 – during which the status of the new central library in downtown Sydney was discussed. Both meetings were carbon copies of each other with simply ...