Frontier decision will show federal Liberals’ true colours

Within the next month, the federal Liberal government has to choose its poison. If it gives the greenlight to Teck's Frontier Mine in the Alberta...

The redemption of Kobe Bryant

When I asked the most winning coach in Canadian university sports history about the single image of Kobe Bryant that will stick with him forever,...

Jan. 28, 2020

Lessons from a state of emergency - food security, assistance to people with mental health, addictions must be considered in review

After eight long days, which tested the patience and resilience of the citizens of this city, the state of emergency was lifted in St. John's, NL....

Scents and sensibility

Why does everything in life have to be scent-sational? High on the wall in the men’s room at work, there’s an asthmatic little white box....

Staving off coronavirus

You know it’s serious when even the bankers are worried. Consider the news release that went out on Monday morning, headlined “The Contagion of...

Emergency response — we can do better

So, it’s over for now. Over until the next time we get dumped on. I appreciate the fact that the City of St. John’s, in particular, had to call...

Being fitted for the crown

When Rona Ambrose announced she wasn’t going to seek the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) in a Facebook video, she talked...

Jan 27, 2020

Don't let Holocaust horrors fade from memory

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and this year it commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz–Birkenau...

Jan. 25, 2020

Jan. 24, 2020

Cheers & Jeers Jan. 27

Cheers: to those who followed the rules. Kudos to those who took the state of emergency seriously, and did their best to stay off the roads to...

Lessons from the storm

The impact of climate change and the frequency of extreme weather events means this will not be the last time our province experiences a state of...

One week in a snow globe

After a Friday night of keening winds, flickering lights and rattling windows, Saturday seemed relatively docile. Outside my bedroom window, the...

Stores opened to serve those in need

If find it appalling if the city is even remotely considering taking action against convenience store owners who opened their doors in the days...

Jan. 25, 2020

Buy local

Sometimes, it takes a storm to make a point. But don’t think about it for a day and just let it end there. Right now, social media and a host of...

Musings about mushrooms

So, I was thinking about onions. Actually, I was cutting up an onion, and thinking about trial and error. Serious trial and error. Who, for...

Nova Scotia, we have a racism problem

There is outrage – as surely there should be – when a young black woman is roughed up by police at a Halifax Walmart store in an incident that...

Crown in Canada’s DNA

Re: the Jan. 20 Postmedia article by Jacob Dube, “ Most Canadians think that Royals aren’t relevant: poll .” A few observations might be...

Trump and the law

I wish I could find it amusing, all these lawyers of long experience and high repute pretending they don’t know the difference between criminal...

Human rights are for humans

Here’s some food for thought. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Canada reviewed a case from Quebec, in which a company had been fined $30,843...

Jan. 24, 2020

New Canada Post stamp Nova Scotia's black hockey pioneers

There was a time when Kendrick Douglas would have had no idea who those unsmiling men were, staring out from the Canadian Post stamp unveiled...

New Canada Post stamp honours Nova Scotia's black hockey pioneers

There was a time when Kendrick Douglas would have had no idea who those unsmiling men were, staring out from the Canadian Post stamp unveiled...

Five reasons Newfoundland is the place to be when the world is ending

Snowmageddon descended upon the eastern most province of Canada, Newfoundland and Labrador. Its capital, St. John’s, is heaped with mounds of...

Inoculate yourself against anti-vaxxer pseudoscience

Let the anti-vaxxers have their film screening at the LeBrun Centre at the end of the month. It’s the media’s job, not the city’s, to daylight...

Inoculate yourself against anti-vaxxer pseudo-science

Let the anti-vaxxers have their film screening at the LeBrun Centre at the end of the month. It’s the media’s job, not the city’s, to daylight...

Small businesses hurt by state of emergency

I am a self-employed person and have been for 35 years. Although I am self-employed I have also kept three people employed, and all are paid above...

Jan. 23, 2020

New hospital wing honours Neville Gilfoy, the Dartmouth boy with the high-level view

Like so many people in this city, province, region, and, I guess, world, I knew Neville Gilfoy, the magazine editor and champion of everything...

Have your say on medical assistance in dying

If you wanted some say on the federal government’s right-to-die legislation, your window of opportunity is rapidly closing. Ottawa is faced with...

A salute to snow-shovelling soldiers

Can I use your page to express my gratitude to the gallant soldiers who showed up at our snow-blocked doors? I did not catch their names except for...

Maybe the net was cast too wide

I have to vent. With all due respect to St. John’s Mayor Danny Breen, I think we are heading to a potential nightmare in declaring future states...

Weak links in the food chain

Stores, at least, were well stocked to start. People clearly were not. And maybe, just maybe, the general public got an inkling of what food...