Opinion

Another spring day in St. John’s. Cabot Tower looms out of the fog on a windy, wet Signal Hill, April 30, 2024. — Pam Frampton

PAM FRAMPTON: Wake me up when spring comes

“The day is cold, and dark, and dreary It rains, and the wind is never weary…” From “The Rainy Day” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The evergreens across the road have been rendered into shadowy versions of themselves by a bank of low fog that’s ...

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

GWYNNE DYER: 'The second time as farce' – is history repeating itself?

Updated May. 2, 2024 |6 min read

Heinrich XIII (C), who goes under the title Prince Reuss of Greiz, is led by police officers to a police vehicle after arresting him while searching a house as part of a raid aginst so-called "Reich citizens". Nine alleged members of a far-right extremist group accused of plotting to overthrow the German government went on trial in Stuttgart April 29. - Boris Roessler/dpa via Reuters

COMMENTARY: Newfoundland and Labrador’s population is growing fast and homebuilding isn’t keeping up

Updated May. 2, 2024 |3 min read

Provincial and federal government officials announced the opening of eight new affordable housing units on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Jenna Head/ The Telegram)

LETTER: N.L. government isn't representing the interests of the people and nature with approval of hydrogen projects

Updated May. 2, 2024 |5 min read

LETTER: Keels was featured in 'The King Tide,' but community has important history in N.L.

Updated May. 1, 2024 |3 min read

LETTER: How a failed laser eye surgery changed my life

Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith makes a keynote speech at the LNG 2023 energy conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada July 13, 2023.

LETTER: Worrisome actions by Alberta’s Premier Smith

Contributed |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |3 min read

If anybody doubted the ‘otherness’ of the Province of Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith’s latest power grab may help to illustrate it. The dear lady has, since her election to the office of Premier, tried to sabotage the universal effort to fight ...

Justice Minister John Hogan. -Juanita Mercer/The Telegram

LETTER: Apply logic to discussion around retraumatizing victims

Contributed |Updated Apr. 30, 2024 |4 min read

The furor over Justice Minister John Hogan’s saying it was impossible for a lawyer to re-traumatize a complainant in the trial of someone she had accused of sexual assault reminded me of something the late Chief Justice Robert Furlong of the Supreme ...

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Ready, aim, pace yourself

Bruce MacKinnon |Updated 18 hours ago |1 min read

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 4, 2024.

Teachers in Nova Scotia will hold a strike vote on April 11. Nova Scotia Teachers Union president Ryan Lutes said teachers hope job action won’t be necessary. STOCK IMAGE

PERSPECTIVE: Want to fix student absence rates? Reduce illness in schools

Contributed |Updated 17 hours ago |7 min read

By Susan Joudrey If you think that children are missing more school due to illness than they did before the pandemic began, you’re not imagining things. If you suspect constant illness is affecting their education, you’re not wrong. Documents ...

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks as Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre listens during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 18, 2023.

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Poilievre talking points constantly cross decorum line

Contributed, Gail Lethbridge · Columnist |Updated a day ago |3 min read

Whether or not you like what he says, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has certainly amped up the colourful rhetoric of Canadian politics. If you like a good rhyming slogan or a hyperbolic metaphor, Poilievre has one for you. Even if you don’t ...

Lude Meng, a temporary foreign worker in Prince Edward Island, says her dream of relocating to the Island permanently was put in jeopardy after she made a complaint about sexual harassment in the workplace and was abruptly laid off. Meng shares her story in a three-part series for SaltWire. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

EDITORIAL: Temporary foreign workers are critical to Atlantic Canada and deserve supports

SaltWire Network |Updated 22 hours ago |5 min read

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 ...

Research suggests all the time kids spend on screens and social media contributes to anxiety. - Unsplash

JOHN DeMONT: Getting kids off screens will make them happier — here’s how

John DeMont · Columnist |Updated 20 hours ago |5 min read

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 ...

Pat Bates, chair of the New Library Build Committee: "It was a wide-ranging discussion. People got all of their concerns out on the table." CONTRIBUTED

LETTER: New Cape Breton central library project needs public’s support

Contributed |Updated 21 hours ago |2 min read

According to estimates, over the past 10 years approximately 130 media commentaries via the Cape Breton Post and the CBC have addressed the subject of the proposed new public library for Cape Breton Regional Municipality and Victoria County. In ...

Aidaen Mitchell died at age 14 of an overdose after years of mental health issues. Her parents have opened Aidaen's Place Youth Wellness Center in Yarmouth, N.S., in her memory to help young people facing the same struggles. - Contributed

COMMENTARY: Why didn't N.S. mental health system recognize the signs of our Aidaen's distress?

Contributed |Updated 23 hours ago |10 min read

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 ...