South Shore Breaker

They didn’t check references. A contract with an estimated value of half-a-billion-dollars hangs in the balance. Yet, the government’s selection committee didn’t bother to check references before cutting the field from four ...

I’m 56, and I’m not as flexible as I once was. I try to make up for that with a near-irrepressible irritability, especially now that my superhero skills are limited to never sleeping through an entire night and the inexhaustible ...

About the best thing you can point to in the leadup to today’s midterm elections in the United States is the dramatic growth in the number of people taking advantage of advance polls. After that, it’s pretty much ...

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. These words, spoken every Nov. 11 on Remembrance Day, carry a deep ...

There has been a titanic shift in my lifetime of people, increasingly trapped in concrete jungles, seeking out nature. This is for their physical and mental well-being, of course, literature supporting the “nature fix” grows weekly, but ...

Not every Atlantic Canadian agrees with some of the more right-wing views of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). The CTF opposes government waste and supports lower taxes and greater accountability. Those are worthy objectives, but the ...

Almost every journalist has a Mike or two on the periphery of their life. Some have a half a dozen or more. (Mike is a pseudonym, by the way.) What’s a Mike? A Mike (or a Michelle, for that matter) gets in touch to tell ...

The deep political and cultural tremors rattling the United States these days are sending waves crashing ashore in Canada. They always do. President Donald Trump ignited a resurgence of America’s dominant cultural characteristic — ...

Why did the Nova Scotia Health Authority bury evidence of its cosy, prior relationship with the two finalists chosen to bid on the biggest health IT contract in Nova Scotian history? Why won’t the NSHA answer that question? What about the ...

Learn from others’ mistakes — there’s some good, clear advice. You can see the toll a mistake takes and avoid the error without having to go through the pain yourself. And right now, there’s plenty of pain. In the United ...