A review of the government’s Spring Bear Hunt Consultation Summary Report spring-bear-hunt-summary-report-en.pdf (novascotia.ca) strongly suggests the decision not to proceed with the pilot hunt, was a political decision, not a decision based on ...

In the early spring season, before green-up of grass and other ground vegetation occurs, litter shows up more than ever. If you walk, run or bike along roads, you may notice that, unfortunately, you often see litter in roadside ditches. If you are ...

The news that Amanda McDougall-Merrill, the mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, will not be running in this fall’s municipal election was yet another ugly story of ignorant people doing and saying revolting things about someone they do ...

Recently a new sign went up on a gate that blocks the lane running along the White Rock canal. It’s been a hugely popular dog walking path over the years. Lined with milkweed plants, the canal has also turned into a swimming hole most summers. Brave ...

Though epiphanies are rare for me, I had one the other day. It came when I asked my wife, in all seriousness, if we still had a doorbell. It wasn’t a “senior moment.” I knew we used to have one. I was just wondering if it was busted, because I ...

It’s been four years since Atlantic Canadians stood out on their porches, clanging pots and pans and shouting gratitude to nurses who were attending to COVID-19 patients confronting the first wave of of the virus, and deaths attributable to it, in ...

Geoffrey V. Hurley, a retired environmental consultant living in Dartmouth, N.S., provided the following opinion article. Email: hurleyenvironment@gmail.com Considerable progress has been made to move to renewable sources of energy such as wind and ...

Like Atlantic Canadian labourers who migrate for jobs in western Canada for months at a time, when Lude Meng left her home in China to work in a Prince Edward Island fish plant, she did so to build a better life for her family. Instead, she faced a ...

I’m still down in the dumps about something I read the other day: that unhappiness among the world’s young people has grown to the point where — even though they have their entire lives ahead of them — they are less joyful about things than ...

Kelly Mitchell Commentary She was our miracle. After six years of infertility, IVF and multiple miscarriages, we adopted Aidaen from Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., at seven days old. She was our only daughter, my parents’ only grandchild, and an angel that ...