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GUEST OPINION: Turn out the lights, the (Conservative) party is over
Mark Freeman Guest opinion The votes are in, and it's official: the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is obsolete and politically irrelevant. During the 2021 CPC convention, delegates voted against recognizing that "climate change ...
LETTER: Low-flow toilets won't make up for french fry processing water loss
Efficiency P.E.I., a government program, is doing great work helping Islanders in numerous ways to reduce their carbon footprint and build a better tomorrow. An example of their work is encouraging us to find ways to reduce our water consumption. In ...
KEVIN TOBIN CARTOON: April 9, 2021
April 9, 2021. - Kevin Tobin ...
GWYNNE DYER: Iran’s non-existent nukes
First, the good news. The United States and Iran had talks in Vienna on Tuesday, and the nuclear deal they and all the other great powers signed in 2015 is coming back. It’s not exactly back yet. After Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of ...
MY TAKE WITH SHELDON MacLEOD: Democracy is messy
It will take months, if not years, before council gets a report on an independent review of the integrated policing model in Halifax Regional Municipality. Let's give them credit for keeping this conversation going. Sheldon MacLeod ...
LETTER: Someday, there could be a cure
The focus these days is on the COVID virus and a vaccine, an antidote or cure. It is probable that one of those long and careful COVID days an antidote or cure for all strains of this pandemic will be found in a lab somewhere on the planet. Mental ...
LETTER: Hypocrisy and the Olympics
The International Olympic Committee, the IOC, awarded the next winter games to Beijing, China. In making its decision, what criteria did they consider? Was it political, economic or something else? There’s big money to be made here. The IOC ...
LETTER: Cape Breton needs to remove ‘colonial shackles’
The path to self-governance for Cape Breton Island will not be easy. One of the challenges we face is that whereas the law ought to protect individual liberties and also collectively our right to self‐determination, ...
PAUL SCHNEIDEREIT: Trying to book a COVID-19 vaccine in Nova Scotia a daily exercise in frustration
I’m in my early 60s, thus eligible for a COVID-19 vaccination. Given the clear risk-reward benefit, I have no reservations about receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, here it is, roughly a month after Nova Scotia first announced my age ...
LETTER: Major tourist attraction Victoria Couty needs upgrade
The North River Trail, to the highest water fall in the Maritimes, is Victoria County’s oldest and most rewarding hiking trail in my opinion. It penetrates the North River Wilderness along the river’s east branch for nine kilometers to ...