Mackenzie Moir and Alex Whalen, analysts at the Fraser Institute, provided the following opinion article. Nova Scotia's Houston government has placed great emphasis on health care, engaging in a full battery of health-care policy reforms. This ...

Partisan politics are so hard to comprehend sometimes. The uproar over the carbon tax, for example, mystifies me. I bet none of the vocal types against the tax returned their several carbon tax credit cheques to Ottawa. Two different friends of mine ...

YARMOUTH, NS – My emotions swayed between disappointment and resolve. I was at an event in Halifax. The person speaking was talking about a fellow she knew as a kid. She said as a young man he went on to become a really good baseball player. Then she ...

Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered? The railway, if constructed, ...

The schoolchildren attending classes across Atlantic Canada today are experiencing a very different introduction to reading, writing and ’rithmetic than their parents — or even older siblings — did in years past. These days, an Apple left on a ...

At what age do we start — or stop — being able to achieve tasks or contemplate thoughts? When I was 15 years old a law dictated that I was “too young to drive” regardless of the fact that I could easily maneuver my father’s truck and tractor. When I ...

In nearly six decades of driving the Old Barns/Clifton Shore Road, I've never seen it so pot-holey as this February past. Well, once or twice, years ago, it was pretty bad. So bad that, one April day, I took two knee boots, put a brick in each, stood ...

I had missed the Carly Simon total eclipse of the sun, or at least have no memory of the one in 1972, that she sang about in You’re So Vain. So, I was determined to bear witness this week — to be able to say when some grandkid asks, yes, I was there ...

Has there ever been another time in history when the world’s attention has been captured, as it has been this month, by so many spectacular women athletes and teams performing on the international stage? With the WNBA Draft three days away on April ...

Anyone interested in the future of forests in Nova Scotia are invited to attend a woodland conference Saturday, April 20 in Milford. The annual event rotates between counties each year to bring it close to residents living throughout the central ...