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I get discouraged sometimes. Discouraged, because, caught up in doing things the same way we always have, we keep doing them, even though we should know better. The source of my latest discouragement? Reports late last week that ...

You’re worth money. Never forget that. And companies are going to sell you — or, at least, they’re going to sell your data. Where you live. How and where you drive. What you spend money on. What your social media interests ...

Premier Stephen McNeil campaigned for the office he now holds promising, among other things, a doctor for every Nova Scotian who needs one, and the most open and transparent government in Canada. A little more than five years later, and there are ...

At the end of the runway at the Halifax airport, a crashed 747-400 was being torn apart with a backhoe last weekend. Stay with me now. Sometimes, I lie on my back on the grass in summer, far enough out of St. John’s to have the full clear ...

Well, so much for a pleasant late fall in Atlantic Canada. By now, we had hoped to see an end to the mercurial, extreme weather patterns experienced in the region through much of 2018. It felt like we deserved a quiet finish to the year ...

Here’s an interesting thesis: what exactly did we expect? And here’s a second one — why is anyone surprised? The subject of this thesis is Tony Clement, the shadow justice critic who is now out of the federal Conservative ...

I have a little scrap of advice for contract teachers at Canadian universities. But first some background. Contract faculty, or sessionals as they are sometimes called, now outnumber full time tenured or tenure-track professors at ...

It’s never a good sign when the federal privacy commissioner announces he’s launching a formal investigation. It’s more alarming when that inquiry is targeting Statistics Canada. Why? Because the national data-gathering agency ...

It’s the wrong season. At least, that’s what my antenna is saying. And it makes me think we’re actually on the sharp cliff edge of something that’s been developing for years. I’ve been a business ...

Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston managed to patch up some wounds opened during the party’s leadership campaign and signal differences between his party and the governing Liberals, when he put his stamp on the Tory legislative caucus ...