Matthew Lau, an adjunct scholar with the Fraser Institute, provided the following opinion article. Recently in the House of Assembly, Krista Lynn Howell, Newfoundland and Labrador minister of education, trumpeted the Furey government’s “efforts to ...

It’s the May long weekend, a time when Atlantic Canadians are spending more time outdoors as the days get longer and (we hope) warmer. While it’s nice to enjoy getting out and about after many months of winter and cold, dark spring, we also need to ...

On May 11, The Chronicle Herald carried two well-written articles that were pertinent to the cause of proclaiming the Coastal Protection Act. One was written by Gail Lethbridge (Storm brewing over Coastal Protection Act) and the other by John DeMont ...

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for May 17, 2024.

Jeers to the P.E.I. government’s foot-dragging bureaucracy that is holding up a potential money-making and energy-conserving project on a former airbase in Mount Pleasant. The Lennox Island First Nation has been working on a proposal to build a solar ...

Jaron Rykiss, a student in the Schulich faculty of law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, provided the following opinion article. “Budget 2024 is all about delivering fairness for every generation.” This phrase is the first thing that you see when ...

Please let me explain how important and valuable the capelin fishery is to plant workers, harvesters, and processors. For plant workers of this province, capelin represents roughly one million hours of work on an annual basis. To a plant worker, each ...

The province's four Liberal MPs are picking a very public fight with Premier Dennis King on the thorny issue of the carbon tax.  In a full-page newspaper ad and an open letter to the premier circulated widely on social media, the quartet criticized ...

Getting a phone call answered for an Urgent Care appointment at the Northside General Hospital is like winning the lottery. We tried 30-40 times a day for four days before finally getting one. This allowed me to show up at 7:50 a.m. on Monday to get ...