Opinion
COMMENTARY: A critical look at P.E.I.'s municipal governance
Martin Ruben, mayor in the Rural Municipality of Victoria who has a background in public sector and not-for-profit corporate governance, provided the following opinion article. If you are living in a rural municipality in P.E.I., your local ...
LETTERS: Clarification received on downtown Charlottetown market and other letters
Clarification about market The following important information has been brought to my attention concerning Charlottetown’s downtown farmer’s market. This information came to me after I had a letter in the Guardian (Don’t cheer for market location, ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE: Stand together for transgender youth
Re: U.K. reversal of hormone therapy, puberty blockers for youth call N.S. rules into question, May 10 The article called into question the validity of providing gender affirming care to youth in Nova Scotia, with particular reference to the ...
SCOTT TAYLOR: Canadian Armed Forces bloated at the top, thin at the bottom
For months now the senior leadership of the Canadian military has been bemoaning the crippling shortfall of personnel in the ranks. Before a parliamentary committee last year, Gen. Wayne Eyre, the chief of the defence staff, acknowledged that there ...
MICHAEL de ADDER CARTOON: Leafs fall again in spring
Michael de Adder's cartoon for May 14, 2024.
COMMENTARY: Defence policy course needs correction
By Tamara Lorincz The latest defence policy update and federal budget recklessly put Canada on a warpath. They prioritize investments in weapons production over peacekeeping and the use of armed force over diplomacy. On April 8, at the Canadian Armed ...
JOHN DeMONT: Lessons to be learned from today’s young activists
Although they only had to come from across town, they started arriving on Sunday. By mid-Monday, a couple of dozen people — many of them wearing the distinctly patterned black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh, others the masks that have become symbolic ...
GWYNNE DYER: Could a buy-out of Palestinians prompt them to leave and end the war?
Last week, a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied territories enough money to settle somewhere else, and ...
LETTER: Service dog team rights and responsibilities explained
While most Nova Scotians and businesses are familiar with the rights and privileges of service dog teams, there are still establishments that lack this knowledge resulting in the violations of the rights of the Service Dog Act and Discrimination ...
BRIAN HODDER: Seniors struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living soars
It seems that wherever I go these days, people are having conversations about the increased cost of living and how expensive it is just to buy day-to-day necessities. While many of us are feeling the impact of higher prices, most people are still ...
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LETTER: Remembering Rex Murphy
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RALPH SURETTE: The fight over truth itself is among the high stakes in journalism
GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Storm brewing over N.S. Coastal Protection Act
BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Flower power
JOHN DeMONT: Let us protect a coastline that is a wonder of the world
LETTER: Don’t rush into new CBRM central library project
LETTER: CBRM fire department budget likely to increase following dismissal of hazmat team
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