The Telegram

It’s one small story out of many, and a familiar one, too. That doesn’t make it any less difficult or painful, but there may be more situations just like it on the way. Many more. Residents of Fogo Island want full-time, traditional ...

Well, folks, let’s get 2019 off to a peculiar start. Or at least a grumpy one. Shortly before the New Year, Nova Scotia’s privacy commissioner released a naughty and nice list about the myriad of things that can invade your privacy ...

Cheers: to a safe New Year’s Eve for all. OK, we’re getting ahead of ourselves here, but it’s one of the best New Year’s resolutions you can make, with the fastest dividends: whatever you choose to do tonight, make sure to do ...

Masters and servants It might not be a crime. But it was certainly a boldfaced lie, one told repeatedly and with extreme confidence by provincial politicians more concerned with partisan politics than with good government. And it ...

As 2018 draws to a conclusion, Atlantic Canadians try to find a little time between the hectic Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays for some quiet reflection. It’s a chance to look back on the past year and decide whether we are better ...

Whether you are reading this in print or online, you can be sure that the journalists who put these stories, columns and editorials together have received their fair share of verbal attacks. Most journalists know that, fair or not, extreme ...

Jeers: to idiots and their toys. For days leading up to Christmas, thousands of air passengers saw their flights disrupted by someone flying drones inside airspace at Britain’s second-busiest airport. Flights were grounded at Gatwick for almost ...

It can be expensive to cut off your nose to spite your face. As much as $12.7 billion, plus decades and decades of interest payments. Wednesday, former premier Kathy Dunderdale told the Muskrat Falls inquiry that even if cheaper power had been ...

Political polls have come a long way from being infrequent snapshots of a specific period in time. In this age of modern analytics, they hold considerable sway in gauging the mood of the public. Trending poll numbers can now result in resignations ...

It’s nice to see those social media vacation pictures from your Facebook friends, maybe to talk back and forth through the messaging function about your boss, and just generally live the electronic life, right? Well, maybe not. The New ...