Opinion
Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador March 26
CHEERS: to a healthy snow crab resource. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans on Monday announced that the 2024 snow crab total allowable catch (TAC) will be 57,568 tonnes — an increase of 5.2 per cent from last year. That’s incredible. The recent ...
LETTER: Carbon tax and Premier Furey
Mr. Poilievre and our Premier Furey are against the carbon tax hike, of course, out of the concern for the hard-working Canadians struggling with the affordability crisis. Except … that this crisis has nothing to do with the carbon tax – countries ...
LETTER: Nova Scotia needs forests
On March 23, I attended the Friends of Redtail Society's annual general meeting at the newly renovated Elmfield Community Center in Pictou West. I am a member and a former (way back when) director. About 40 people attended the meeting, and the ...
PODCAST: AI decoding chicken chatter and ethical implications
Dalhousie University researcher uses AI to crack the code of clucks and unravel chicken chatter secrets.
Colby Cosh: In Alberta, not even the courts will question a doctor's choice to euthanize
Among those who have tried to reckon with Monday’s assisted suicide ruling from the Alberta Court of King’s Bench, it is naturally our own Chris Selley who has done the best job of conveying the dystopian position in which our courts ...
BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Wishing and hoping
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for March 28, 2024.
JOHN DeMONT: Finding continuity at the corner of Coburg and Henry
For the past eight months, there has been a little mystery in our Halifax neighbourhood: what was going to happen to the building that housed the Coburg Social on the corner of Coburg Road and Henry Street? It wasn’t the sort of question that spawned ...
DEBBIE LANGSTON: Anti-Black racism and disparities in health care
P.E.I. is on the cusp of opening its new medical school to address the shortage of doctors and to alleviate the issue of limited seats reserved for P.E.I. medical students in out-of-province facilities. In order to serve P.E.I.’s growing Black and ...
IVISON: Canadians still positive about immigration but they want Ottawa to 'get its act together,' Marc Miller says
This week, John Ivison talks to Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller. Miller has just announced a suite of measures aimed at capping the number of temporary residents in Canada at 5 percent of the population over the next three years, a 20 ...
LETTER: 'Peace memorial’ more apt term for Cape Breton national park proposal
Re: ‘News photos and credibility,’ Cape Breton Post editorial, March 16. The above article gave me pause to reflect on the role the media has played in the characterization of the proposed Never Forgotten National Memorial (NFNM) in the Cape Breton ...