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is either a rookie mistake which shows they are not ready to government or an astute political strategy aimed at forcing an election and achieving a majority. Time will soon tell. When the P.E.I. legislature convened recently after the recent ...

‘It was never my intention to bring harm to any reader of this valued community, particularly those for whom I seek to write and empower.’ This came in a tweet, from January 2019, by Amélie Wen Zhao, a Chinese-American author of ...

We are in a in a pre-election period, an election everyone expects to be a dirty one with lots of mud being thrown on the leaders of each party. I will try not to comment on the truth of these claims on either leader. I don't want to be ...

Those who forget history are often bound to repeat it. In 1905, George Santayana, a Spanish born philosopher, essayist and poet, made the comment those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It was something former British Prime ...

For a long time now, I’ve been curious about the early place names associated with Amherst. If you know me, you know what happens next. I start to read. Now reading history and genealogy is a bit like doing a jigsaw puzzle, a piece here and ...

We worry too much about our children and do not give them the credit they deserve. There is a professor of social psychology who is espousing a view from his position of power that is apparently racist, bigoted and would promote hatred. I do ...

Being put on this earth as a white, Christian, heterosexual, physically and mentally capable female has given me a certain amount of privilege. The female part has not always worked in my favour...in fact, there have been times in my life when I have ...

Many of you will have known or heard of Will R. Bird. He was a prolific local writer and author of many novels with a local historic theme. My favourite - and closely related to the main theme of this article - is The Passionate Pilgrim. He ...

It is becoming an ongoing topic of conversation...the fact that we are polluting our world...followed by our apparent inability to do much more than band-aid fixes related to the problem. This past month it was announced that the Philippines would be ...

When you’ve done everything Dr. Brian Ferguson has, it’s understandable when your body says it’s time to slow down. Unfortunately, his decision to close his family medicine practice is going to have a huge impact on health care in ...