Featured Regional Perspectives
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 ...
LETTER: Whitney Pier pitched as new library location
Several years ago, while a student at Cape Breton University, I took a political science course from Dr. Tom Urbaniak. One of the more interesting aspects of the course surrounded the tours we did in Whitney Pier looking at the infrastructure, the ...
LETTERS: On P.E.I.'s Easter Beef cattle sale, parking at the QEH, cycling in Brackley, P.E.I., and more
Horrified by Easter beef ad I'm writing to you today about the March 26 edition of The Guardian. I was heartbroken to come across a full, two-page ad for the 73rd annual Easter Beef Show and Sale 2024. The beautiful cattle featured with their ...
HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Land speculation in 1900s leads to profitable acquisitions
Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered? The railway, if constructed, ...
IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre
Ian (Tex) MacDonald, a former mayor of Charlottetown, provided the following opinion article. In the landscape before us stands the Charlottetown Curling Club. It was built in 1945 after the original club, The Excelsior burned down in 1938. The ...
TOM URBANIAK: Nova Scotia Guard: Wrong name, sloppy bill
Nova Scotia’s Bill 455 is flawed and needs to be significantly reworked. The bill enables the provincial government to recruit Nova Scotians to a vaguely defined and embarrassingly named “Nova Scotia Guard” to deal with emergencies. Significantly, ...
GRANT FROST: N.S. government on hook if teachers walk the line
On Thursday, the teachers of this province voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate. The strike vote was necessary, according to union leadership, in order to get the government bargaining team moving toward what the Nova Scotia Teachers ...
HOLD ----- COMMENTARY: Restore N.S. government’s coastal protection resolve
By Ron Swan CARP Nova Scotia is profoundly disappointed by the provincial government’s reversal of its commitment to proclaim the Coastal Protection Act. As an organization of active and engaged older citizens, we take seriously our responsibilities ...
RAY BATES: Our ages should not be timelines established by others
At what age do we start — or stop — being able to achieve tasks or contemplate thoughts? When I was 15 years old a law dictated that I was “too young to drive” regardless of the fact that I could easily maneuver my father’s truck and tractor. When I ...