The Telegram

On Nov. 28, 2018, I had a bad health scare, experiencing a slight heart attack in my home. Thanks to the professional work of Triton ambulance attendants Roger and Megan, I arrived in Springdale hospital. Unfortunately, I had a massive heart attack ...

Get used to hearing about Clare’s Law. It’s being rolled out in Saskatchewan and the groundwork is being laid in Newfoundland and Labrador, Alberta, Ontario and British Columbia. Named for Clare Wood, a 36-year-old ...

Let there be no doubt that our province is facing a tough fiscal challenge and solutions are hard to come by. Proposals are emerging.  Some of them come from think tanks, whose role is to divine public policy options and to chart a course ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years ago today, was one of the best parties I ever went to, and certainly the longest. But when I finally sobered up, it was also quite frightening, because nobody knew what was coming out of the box ...

Population decline is having long-term effects on our economy and culture. The negative birth/death ratio and an aging demographic particularly affects rural areas many of which are having trouble maintaining services. A stagnant economy together ...

When The Specials issued their eponymous album in 1979, including the song “A message to you, Rudy,” Rudy Giuliani was not much known outside his own New York jungle. He was certainly not a name to a group of “two-tone” ...

If you grew up during the Cold War, watching the Berlin Wall come down was as earth-shaking an event as the moon landing or 9-11. It had stood for almost 30 years, surrounding West Berlin, a symbol of the standoff between the Western NATO alliance ...

In my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador, our history is filled with a lot of struggle and hardship. One of the ways that we as a people have coped with such trials is through the use of humour; we have learned to laugh at ourselves and at ...

I am writing about the Nov. 4 declaration of a climate emergency by the St. John’s city council. This measure should be applauded, and I congratulate the council for taking this historic step. The climate crisis is an emergency because it is ...

Recently there was an article in The Telegram (or the Cape Breton Post — I mostly read both.) The article concerned a ferry boat — I believe it is/was named The Cat — running a schedule from I believe the Halifax area to ...