If doctors who attended medical school in Halifax or elsewhere are leaving Nova Scotia because of working conditions, why would future doctors who attend medical school at Cape Breton University and work under the same conditions choose to stay ...

Excellent dental care experience Being one of those 7,252 seniors on P.E.I. who have received their Canadian Dental Care Program (CDCP) card, I was interested to read your article, (Ottawa’s dental plan begins, May 8). My own dentist’s office had ...

The recent Nova Scotia auditor general’s report has a section in it saying only one of the seven recommendations made in 2019 has been completed to improve the management of bridges. By the way, there are 4,200 bridges in Nova Scotia. There is one ...

By Emily Doyle The Conversation This could be a shifting moment for Canada as the federal government moves to offer children at schools access to a national school food program. Reflecting on my engagement with and study of the school food system in ...

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born,” wrote Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in 1929. “Now is the time of monsters.” Gramsci’s remark is being liberally quoted by South African journalists in the run-up to the election on ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 16.

Re: U.K. reversal of hormone therapy, puberty blockers for youth call N.S. rules into question, May 11 As a concerned advocate for transgender health care and trans youth, I would like to share my thoughts on the article, the Cass Review and its ...

By Davide Del Brocco As gardens bloom and we look forward to seasonal produce, more Atlantic Canadians are considering new ways of eating sustainably — ways that extend our wallets, improve our health and reduce our environmental impact. Shifting to ...

There is a significant milestone coming up soon for the Blomidon Naturalists Society (BNS). As the group prepares to celebrate five decades of service, president Soren Bondrup-Nielsen told members, “We can’t help but feel a deep sense of gratitude.

The mercury was supposed to sneak into the low 20s Wednesday. Since I am a Haligonian, I shed some layers and headed out into the sunlight. I only know one city well — this one. I am, then, not sure if it is because any warmth at all is such a ...