Opinion
MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Problem for another day
DAVID DELANEY: Domestic violence, epidemics and the Justice Minister's resignation
Explanations mean little in today’s current political and social climate. An incorrect choice of words, an inept utterance and beware the pounce of those ever at the ready to cry foul. So it may have been for Nova Scotia’s recently deposed Justice ...
LETTER: Stalled Cape Breton library project shows council’s lack of ‘gumption’
I’ve attended two Cape Breton Regional Municipality council meetings this year – on Jan. 23 and March 26 – during which the status of the new central library in downtown Sydney was discussed. Both meetings were carbon copies of each other with simply ...
GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook
“I've said before, you do the right thing and you let the chips fall where they may,” said Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. The chips being the 10 or 20,000 extra Ukrainians who died needlessly during the six months ...
RICK MacLEAN: I'm smug. Just ask my blood pressure.
Phrase: White coat syndrome. Definition: “When you get a high blood pressure reading in a doctor's office and a normal reading at home. The anxiety of being around doctors in white coats can make your blood pressure rise,” says one internet ...
BRUCE MacKINNON: Walk it back stat
Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 20, 2024.
GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Johns remarks spark epidemic of damage control
If they gave out medals for tone deafness, Nova Scotia’s justice minister would be on the top of the podium this week. As flags across the province were lowered in memory of the 22 people killed in the 2020 massacre that began with an act of domestic ...
BILL BLACK: Feds not good at implementing provincial programs
Advertisements for cars and trucks are mostly similar. The pictures show happy vehicle owners having a good time in an attractive location, with the voiceover proclaiming some sort of discount (“Six thousand dollars off !”) without ever revealing the ...
COMMENTARY: Can a Jordanian solution help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
Henry Srebrnik Commentary In the wake of the Gaza war, the so-called two-state solution – an Israeli and Palestinian state side by side — has been resurrected. This idea dates back to at least 1937, when a British commission suggested a partition of ...
DAVID DELANEY: Feeling unwelcome in public buildings
The menacing growth of government and the authority of the public state has infected even our quaint little Cape Breton community. Mind you, there is a difference between those who work for the government and the government itself. The former are ...
JOHN DeMONT: We have met the enemy and they are us
Two anniversaries of the most woeful kind occurred this week. One hundred and twelve years ago this Monday, the White Star liner Titanic struck an iceberg four days into the ship’s maiden voyage, taking the lives of more than 1,500 people, the bodies ...