The Telegram

During the 1960s, when I was in high school, I (along with all my buddies) smoked cigarettes. Fortunately, during this period, instead of causing cancer, cigarettes were deemed only to stunt your growth. “You better give up those ...

Comparing the climate change policies of the federal parties is a depressing experience. Let’s start with the Liberals, looking first at their performance to date. Once elected, they adopted the same goals for reducing carbon emissions as ...

SHERI SOMERVILLE Normally, an organization like the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce concerns itself with issues related to the economy and taxation, advocating for an environment that encourages investment in the local businesses that create jobs and ...

It’s no secret that campaign war rooms, a.k.a. quick response teams or opposition research bureaus, have played key roles in elections for decades. This time, they might be deciding it. The disreputable behaviour of leaders, candidates and ...

BOB FOUND If you own and use a smartphone, tablet or computer and are connected to the internet (and who isn’t?), you are responsible for much of the energy use and pollution that the web creates. Missing from the conversation on climate ...

Are others getting as unsettled as I am about how Quebec's so-called secularism law (Bill 21) — with all of its Islamophobic dimensions — is rapidly becoming the focus of the 2019 federal election, in the very same way the niqāb issue ...

HEATHER SHAPTER Whatever the election result, Canada must continue to invest in the futures of the world’s most vulnerable girls The power of girls to change the world is once again taking centre stage. Greta Thunberg’s inspiring ...

Successful protest after all? I am disappointed but not surprised by the recent Chronicle Herald editorials about the Extinction Rebellion protest on the Macdonald Bridge. A more responsible editorial would allocate some blame for inconvenience ...

A Sept. 25 letter to the editor published in The Compass (‘Questioning the purpose of a Carbonear walking trail’) criticizes the Town of Carbonear for creating the trail. Among the complaints is one in particular on naming the pathway The ...

It’s hard to argue with a straight face that anything worthwhile came out of the Oct. 7 gong show of a leaders’ debate. But there was one kernel of truth that deserves to be unpacked. In the prescient words of Green Party Leader ...