Opinion

For years now, members of the conservation community and even anonymous government employees have expressed to me their worry that exactly this would happen - that years of lethargy from our provincial government would result,...

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year.” That’s one sentence we often hear at this time of the year as the holiday season quickly approaches. It’s a sentence some...

If you have a smartphone, you’ll have a plan associated with it that usually has limits.   These limits can be on the number of calls, texts, and data that you’re...

To the Editor; For over five decades, I have been working to limit the damage caused by the mining industry in Canada, as a community organizer in Sudbury, Ont., as a...

In times of emergencies, members of our own communities are there. When we run away from a burning building, they’re running to it. When we get into a car accident, they’re...

Back in 1994, on July 5, an entrepreneur named Jeff Bezos started a new online store that specialised in selling books.   Twenty-five years later, the behemoth that became Amazon is now...

That sliver of land connecting Nova Scotia to the rest of North America is known as the Chignecto Isthmus, its thousands of relevant acres our only defence against islandhood. In case...

Looking at the calendar for the months ahead, the North Shore is definitely the place to be. From Gathering of the Clans and HarbourFest in Pugwash, to Read by the Sea...

The remotest island in all of Canada is a 42-kilometre long sliver of sand gracing our continental shelf, formed 10,000 years ago by the workings of glaciers. We call her...

As the temperature rises, many of us will be spending more time enjoying the outdoors in northern Nova Scotia.  It is important to take steps to reduce the risk of being bitten...