Featured Regional Perspectives
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Make fighting climate change personal
Now that the flag waving and placard parading has eased and we are paying the three-cent extra carbon tax on gasoline, not the 13 cents Pierre Poilievre was rhyming about, we are reconciled to the ever-changing cost per litre. Just two years ago, the ...
COMMENTARY: Atlantic Canada’s ferries lead charge toward zero emissions
By Brent Dancey The Halifax-Dartmouth ferry service is among the oldest in North America, running since 1752. While the types of vessels and the timetables have changed, passenger ferries continue making regular journeys across the harbour, as they ...
LETTER: CBRM rodent problem needs to be addressed, says reader
I would like to once again express my frustration with Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) officials who not only refuse to do anything about the rodent problem in the area, but they also knowingly add to it through their garbage collection ...
UPSE P.E.I.: The fallacy of Resident Care Worker (RCW) Appreciation Week
Karen Jackson, president of the Union of Public Sector Employees in P.E.I., provided the following opinion article. As we celebrate and recognize the great work and contributions of resident care workers (RCW), patient care workers (PCW) and home ...
LETTERS: Charlottetown Irving site an embarrasment; P.E.I.health workers splintered by government
An eyesore and embarrassment My name is Dale Vigneault, nee Murphy, and I have recently read yet another article on the old service station on the corner of Queen and Euston Street and I thought there might be some interest in the background of this ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Advice from afar on preventing N.S. teachers strike
I’m a teacher in Australia. I retired in Nova Scotia and have been working Down Under for almost a year. My teacher colleagues back home in Canada may be about to go on strike (Nova Scotia teachers vote 98 per cent in favour of strike mandate, April ...
WENDY ELLIOTT: Protest real issues instead of carbon tax
Partisan politics are so hard to comprehend sometimes. The uproar over the carbon tax, for example, mystifies me. I bet none of the vocal types against the tax returned their several carbon tax credit cheques to Ottawa. Two different friends of mine ...
Tim German's 'Dark Angel' — 760K and still delivering
Tim German and his 2017 Hyundai Elantra have made a lot of trips around the Maritimes delivering blood products over the last seven years. And he shares his thoughts about his car, his work and how he has kept his car going long enough to "circle the ...
TINA COMEAU: My tears and disappointment when people laugh about drug addiction
YARMOUTH, NS – My emotions swayed between disappointment and resolve. I was at an event in Halifax. The person speaking was talking about a fellow she knew as a kid. She said as a young man he went on to become a really good baseball player. Then she ...
LETTER: Discussion regarding proposed Cape Breton monument continues
Re: ‘Monument does not belong in national park,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, March 16 Re: ‘Veterans’ monument description upsets reader,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, April 4 As spokesperson for friendsofourfallen.ca, I am ...