Mark Hoffe Special to SaltWire In support of National Volunteer Week 2024, which runs April 14-20, Volunteer Canada recently released its campaign kit and rolled out the #NVW2024 and #EveryMomentMatters hashtags. The latter hashtag embodies this ...

Intervention Earth: Life-Savings Ideas from the World’s Climate Engineers By Gwynne Dyer Random House Canada 352 pages, $36.95 When Gwynne Dyer published “Climate Wars” in 2008, the journalist and historian thought he was done with the subject. But ...

Janos Bergman can’t help but paint. “I wouldn’t know what to do with myself,” said the Summerside artist. To step into his home is to step into an art gallery. Every room and corridor boasts his paintings – old works and new – on the wall. In his ...

People have come to expect good things from Kacey Musgraves. That’s because, with each new record, the Texas-born singer-songwriter has taken things up a notch in terms of both the calibre and diversity of her songwriting and the production values of ...

Laura Churchill Duke Special to SaltWire Sunspots, small dark spots on the skin, that when they appear, can often cause a person to worry or at least wonder about them. Are they a reason for concern? Is it inevitable that we get them? Diane ...

Justine Talla Special to SaltWire Brandon Massey holds a figurine in his hand. It's a barbarian figure, unpainted and grey – a blank canvas, ready for somebody’s vision to influence it. "The beauty in these types of games is that you can be ...

In the last column, I made a prediction. The forecasted weather maps showed 48 hours of strong northeast and east winds blowing direct from the Ireland and Iceland to southeast Labrador and the entire east coast of Newfoundland. I suggested not one ...

Well-known Island philanthropists Regis and Joan Duffy recently made a $60,000 gift to the Holland College Foundation’s Thrive campaign – a $2.5 million fundraising effort to establish a centre for student wellness, resilience and success at Holland ...

The Summerside music community is gearing up for a big evening of memories and philanthropy as they gather for the second Owen Hann Keeping Music Alive Fundraiser. Set to take place on April 20 at the Silver Fox Entertainment Complex, doors will open ...

Meghan Dewar Special to SaltWire Epilepsy, a brain disorder that causes seizures, has gained more public awareness in the past few years, but what is it really like to live with it? Carey Wood was diagnosed with epilepsy back in 1996 and has spent a ...