Andrew Furey’s recent spat with Justin Trudeau about that infuriating carbon tax – a spat during which the province witnessed a rare growth spurt for the premier in the political bollocks region, as well as an odd dose of affected vocabulary – begs ...

Protect people and the planet Wars are devastating whole regions around the globe. In the past decade, military spending has increased by 19 per cent. It is deplorable that the majority of casualties in the wars in Sudan, Ukraine and Gaza are ...

Colm Magner, a sessional instructor at the University of Prince Edward Island who lives in Victoria, P.E.I., provided the following opinion article. There is one significant problem with the “fair treatment complaint” process used to resolve ...

“Safe, sustainable, and affordable housing is a basic human need and a requirement for good mental health. When housing is inadequate or unavailable, personal as well as community well-being suffers.”  This is the first paragraph of a council ...

Rick Mercer and Jann Arden in a night of laughs and intimate conversation

In the dream, it's a Saturday night and I am working with my colleague Bob Benson on the Sunday Telegram. As the editor, I’m giving the pages a final proof. It’s not clear why Bob, a reporter, is still here at this hour, but here he is, offering to ...

Like their counterparts across the country, Island educators and parents are working to achieve a balance when it comes to access to screen time in the classroom.  For many people, the first thing that may pop into their head when they hear talk ...

I’d like to make some comments in response to Charles Sampson’s critique (‘CBRM residential tax rate unfair,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, April 12) of my March 21 letter to the Opinion page. The substance of my letter was to refute Jamie ...

What is upsetting to me these days is the financial pain people are feeling in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM). Every day it seems there is something in the media about high taxation and people are now going to be faced with wastewater ...

I recently used the CBC carbon tax calculator to compare to the carbon rebate for my household and saw that our rebate comes in significantly higher than our estimated carbon tax. Of course, we’ve made decisions to achieve this, so in my household, ...