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Students make a banner that will name their encampment, 'El Zatoun University', in support of Palesitinians that has been set up by students in the courtyard in Studley Campus at Dalhousie University Monday May 13, 20124. El Zatoun means olive. TIM KROCHAK PHOTO

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 ...
Updated 10 hours ago |7 min read Premium content

GWYNNE DYER: Could a buy-out of Palestinians prompt them to leave and end the war?
Updated 15 hours ago |5 min read Premium content
Displaced Palestinian woman Mai Anseir stands with children at a school where they shelter as they prepare to flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza City, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 13, 2024.  The Anseir family had loaded their belongings on a beat-up car hoping to escape before an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah – where more than a million Gazans who had thought they would be safe are now struggling to find the means to flee again. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

LETTER: Service dog team rights and responsibilities explained
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BRIAN HODDER: Seniors struggling to make ends meet as the cost of living soars
Updated 19 hours ago |3 min read Premium content

LETTER: Remembering Rex Murphy
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JOCELYNE LLOYD: This Mother's Day, think about life lessons
Updated May. 10, 2024 |10 min read Premium content
Former president Donald Trump, often through posts on his Truth Social platform, has convinced half the United States that legitimate outlets are ‘fake news,’ writes Ralph Surette.

RALPH SURETTE: The fight over truth itself is among the high stakes in journalism

Ralph Surette · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

In the media world, the good news is that there’s interest by several parties wanting to take over this newspaper and the entire SaltWire network, now under creditor protection. The hundreds of jobs and the iconic titles — this one, plus the ...
Martin Willison, and hundreds of other protesters, attend a rally outside Province House to demand the full implementation of the Coastal Protection Act on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

GAIL LETHBRIDGE: Storm brewing over N.S. Coastal Protection Act

Gail Lethbridge · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

If Tim Houston’s government thought opposition to their abandonment of the Coastal Protection Act would just go away, they should think again. This thing is lingering like a bad smell for the Conservatives. This week a group of coastal advocates ...
- Bruce MacKinnon

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Flower power

Bruce MacKinnon · Cartoonist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 11, 2024.

Protesters attend a rally outside Province House to demand the full implementation of the Coastal Protection Act on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. Ryan Taplin - The Chronicle Herald

JOHN DeMONT: Let us protect a coastline that is a wonder of the world

John DeMont · Columnist |Updated May. 10, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

I doubt that the placard-waving people gathered in front of the Nova Scotia legislature this week to protest the government’s unwillingness to decisively protect our coastline had numbers on their minds. But, even with my Grade 11 math, I can think ...
The former Cape Breton County courthouse in Sydney, which CBRM council is considering as an option to house a new central library. GREG MCNEIL/CAPE BRETON POST FILE

LETTER: Don’t rush into new CBRM central library project

Contributed |Updated May. 10, 2024 |2 min read Premium content

I'm writing in response to letters and columns in the Cape Breton Post regarding the proposed Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) central library. This subject has been on the radar for well over a dozen years and we seem to be no closer to a ...
A truck used by the Cape Breton Fire and Emergency Services' hazardous materials response team. Four vehicles, two boats and more have been dedicated for Hazmat use. CONTRIBUTED/CAPE BRETON REGIONAL HAZARDOUS MATERIAL TEAM

LETTER: CBRM fire department budget likely to increase following dismissal of hazmat team

Contributed |Updated May. 10, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

Re: ‘Cape Breton councillors ‘shocked' by abrupt changes to hazmat response unit,’ Cape Breton Post, May 6. On May 5, former members of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality hazmat team met with regional fire chief Mark Bettens and deputy chief ...
CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill inside council chambers following Thursday's announcement that she will not be re-offering for the fall municipal election in October. "It’s been really hard to balance being a parent, an elected official and a good partner to my husband," she said. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

ROSEMARY GODIN: Cape Breton Regional Municipality mayor praised for service and commitment

Contributed |Updated May. 10, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

I’ll never forget hearing a woman open her presentation on women in leadership by saying “working while female can be tedious.” From everything Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Amanda McDougall-Merrill has been saying this week, she can ...
The Atlantic Superstore in Sydney River. Grocery shoppers upset over surging food prices and profits from Loblaw Cos. Ltd.-owned stores, which include the Superstore, are being urged to boycott the major chain for one month, beginning Wednesday. IAN NATHANSON/CAPE BRETON POST

EDITORIAL: Canadians making impossible choices between health and food

SaltWire Network |Updated May. 10, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

After Canada’s three supermarket CEOs were grilled in Ottawa in March 2023, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised grocery prices would have to come down or there would be consequences. More than a year later, and the price of a weekly shop is only ...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in the House of Commons on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

LETTER: What's Poilievre's plan if he does axe the carbon tax?

Contributed |Updated May. 10, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

The Conservatives want to scrap the carbon tax, but seem to have no credible alternative solution to offer. On the face of it, this may appear to be standard Tory opposition to taxation in general, although Conservative governments have never found a ...
Cartoonist Kevin Tobin.

Kevin Tobin cartoon May 11

Kevin Tobin · Freelance |Updated May. 10, 2024 |1 min read Premium content

Kevin Tobin cartoon May 11, 2024

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After 29 years in print media, The Guardian’s Dave Stewart has won his first Atlantic Journalism Award. The multi-media journalist was awarded the gold medal in the short feature (print) category at the 2024 Atlantic Journalism Awards in Dartmouth, N.S., on May 4. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian
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Industry, Energy and Technology Minister Andrew Parsons. -Glen Whiffen/SaltWire Network file photo
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Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey (left) and Immigration Minister Gerry Byrne release details of the Ukrainian family support desk initiative expanding to send a team to Warsaw, Poland, to undertake direct outreach to some of the roughly three million people who have fled Ukraine due to the Russian invasion.
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Children jump into the water body of Martyred Intellectuals Memorial at Rayerbazar to cool themselves during a heatwave in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 23, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain
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