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A serviceman of the 1148th separate artillery brigade of Air Assault Troops of Ukraine prepares a M777 howitzer to fire towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 20, 2024. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty/Serhii Nuzhnenko via

GWYNNE DYER: Ukraine — the outlook

Gwynne Dyer · Columnist |Updated 20 hours ago |5 min read Premium content

“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 ...

A health-care provider monitors a patient's blood pressure. Rick MacLean has been recording his own BP numbers, as well as other stats at home. CDC/Unsplash

RICK MacLEAN: I'm smug. Just ask my blood pressure.

Contributed, Rick MacLean · Columnist |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

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 ...

Justice Minister Brad Johns recently told reporters his government will not ban the use of NDAs in harassment and sexual assault cases. SaltWire file

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Johns remarks spark epidemic of damage control

Contributed, Gail Lethbridge · Columnist |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

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 ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a housing announcement in Dartmouth on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.
Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

BILL BLACK: Feds not good at implementing provincial programs

Bill Black · Columnist, Contributed |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi looks on during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during Blinken's week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East, in Amman, Jordan, January 7, 2024. Reuters file

COMMENTARY: Can a Jordanian solution help end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Contributed, Henry Srebrnik |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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

DAVID DELANEY: Feeling unwelcome in public buildings

Contributed |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

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 ...

"At its most basic and when taught properly, a martial art is a way of creating stillness in your life, of reducing the chaos that surrounds us," writes Michael Clair of St. John's.

LETTER: St. John's building a safer community by empowering individuals

Contributed |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

I want to applaud the City of St. John's for undertaking its campaign to address violence and crime, called “Building Safer Communities”. While St. John's is probably one of the safest communities in the world, there remains much work to be done to ...

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland takes part in a press conference before delivering the fall economic update in Ottawa, Canada, November 21, 2023.

EDITORIAL: Federal budget papers over important details

SaltWire Network |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

In introducing the 2024 federal budget, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promised a better life to young Canadians who have been struggling with affording the same lifestyle as previous generations. “A fair chance to build a good middle-class life ...

Premier Dennis King argued that a bill that would strike out a labour law provision allowing employers to require employees produce a sick note was premature. He said it lacked details on what would replace this provision to "police" workers who abuse sick leave provisions - Stu Neatby

CHEERS AND JEERS: Jeers to P.E.I. Premier Dennis King for exchange with doctor

SaltWire Staff |Updated Apr. 19, 2024 |8 min read Premium content

Jeers to P.E.I. Premier Dennis King who got into an argument with Summerside ER physician Dr. Kay Dingwell over the topic of sick notes during debate on a Green party bill April 18. A policy requiring P.E.I. public service employees to get a doctor's ...

Demonstrators prtresting the newly implemented carbon tax, gather to axe the tax, om either side of the NB/NS border near Amherst Monday April 1, 2024.

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VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Make fighting climate change personal

Contributed |Updated Apr. 18, 2024 |3 min read

Now that the flag waving and placard parading has eased and we are paying the three-cent extra carbon tax on gasoline, not the 13 cents Pierre Poilievre was rhyming about, we are reconciled to the ever-changing cost per litre. Just two years ago, the ...

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