Featured Regional Perspectives
LETTER: Nova Scotia needs forests
LETTER: Present Conservative party leader could learn much from Brian Mulroney
Dr. Mary Lynk, a much-missed friend and colleague, gave me a book written by a distant relative of hers, L. Ian MacDonald, titled “Brian Mulroney, The Making of a Prime Minister.” I read it a couple of months before the Progressive Conservatives ...
LETTER: Cape Breton Post cancer series a reminder to test for radon
I suspect that there are few, if any, families in Cape Breton who have not been touched by cancer. This week’s ongoing series in the Cape Breton Post entitled ‘Cancer in Cape Breton’ illustrates just how devastating this disease can be. As mentioned ...
GWYNNE DYER: The world's temperatures are climbing faster than expected and we don't know why
It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age, around 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It ...
ROSEMARY GODIN: Hope is all around us this week
What is a miracle? Simply put, you might think of it as something wonderful that happens unexpectedly with no logical way of explaining it. The origins of the word are found in many ancient languages. For example, the Latin word “miraculum” means ...
LETTER: Mental health and unhappiness
I’m puzzled at the deluge of mental health issues that appear to be taking over an astonishing proportion of the Canadian population. Initially, I blamed it on the pervasive hold social media has on people. Who hasn't seen couples sitting in a ...
BOB WAKEHAM: We'll always be Newfoundlanders first
Historians, political scientists and others who have studied all aspects of Confederation, and who have passed on that information to their students at MUN, certainly have no worries about an ink-stained wretch like myself usurping their ...
WENDY ELLIOTT: Demand for midwifery services continues to grow in N.S.
Well-loved novelist Ami McKay’s first novel was called The Birth House and it was inspired by the Scots Bay home she and her husband Ian live in. The original birth house was the inspiration for her first novel. While pregnant with her second child, ...
LETTER: Let's not miss out on hydrogen development opportunities
Climate change is one of the most important issues being addressed now. The future energy supply is going to be in transition from fossil fuel to green technology. Green technology, in this context, means that the energy is derived from renewable ...
LETTER: Remembering the victims of the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914
March 31st marks the 110th anniversary of the Newfoundland Sealing Disaster. The total loss of life in this disaster sums to 251 men, including 78 from the S.S. Newfoundland and all 173 from the S.S. Southern Cross. This says nothing of the 88 ...
DAVID JOHNSON: Govern for a better Canada in 10 years, not 10 days
In his moving eulogy at last weekend’s state funeral for former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, current Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reminded Canadians of an important strategic consideration that guided Mulroney’s ...