Opinion

A poster spreading awareness to vote is pictured on a street ahead of the elections in Imphal, Manipur, India. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

GWYNNE DYER: A look at India's election

Extreme nationalism always looks foolish or even deranged to those who have not caught the virus, but in India, it’s now official. In January, India’s Ministry of Defence started setting up 822 ‘selfie points’ at war memorials, railway stations and ...

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LETTER: Retaliation or revenge?

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Palestinians inspect destroyed residential buildings, after the Israeli military withdrew most of its ground troops from the southern Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip April 7, 2024.

LETTER: The climate crisis requires all hands-on deck

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Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 9

Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |8 min read

GWYNNE DYER: Iran and Israel, a pantomime crisis, not a real war

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |7 min read

BRIAN HODDER: We need to make a difference in the environment every day, not just Earth Day

Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

A simulation of what the wind farm proposed by World Energy GH2 could look like in an area on the Port au Port Peninsula. – World Energy GH2

LETTER: Willing to accept wind farms if it will save our planet

Contributed |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |2 min read

It seems that every effort to mitigate global warming is opposed, quite vigorously, by many different pressure groups. Even people who are otherwise protective of our natural habitat find a way to demonize green initiatives. I suppose it’s just one ...

Israeli soldiers stand near military vehicles amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the Israel-Gaza border, as seen from Israel, April 4, 2024. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

GWYNNE DYER: There really are rules to borders among nations

Gwynne Dyer · Columnist |Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |4 min read

History is mostly a matter of dates, and the key date is always that of the last conquest. All previous conquests are then magically forgiven and forgotten. This observation is prompted partly by the current wars in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, but ...

Tim German's "Dark Angel" — 760k and still delivering

Sheldon MacLeod · Columnist |Updated 9 hours ago |1 min read

Tim German and his 2017 Hyundai Elantra have made a lot of trips around the Maritimes delivering blood products over the last seven years. And he shares his thoughts about his car, his work and how he has kept his car going long enough to "circle the ...

This is me, Tina Comeau, sitting in my car with uncontrollable tears nearly every time I've gone grocery shopping since my son Justin, 21, died after a lengthy battle with addiction. Is this funny? TINA COMEAU

TINA COMEAU: My tears and disappointment when people laugh about drug addiction

Tina Comeau · Multi-media journalist |Updated 2 hours ago |9 min read

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 ...

An artist's rendering of plans for the proposed Never Forgotten National Memorial monument. CONTRIBUTED/NEVER FORGOTTEN NATIONAL MEMORIAL

LETTER: Discussion regarding proposed Cape Breton monument continues

Contributed |Updated 11 hours ago |3 min read

Re: ‘Monument does not belong in national park,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, March 16 Re: ‘Veterans’ monument description upsets reader,’ Cape Breton Post letter to the editor, April 4 As spokesperson for friendsofourfallen.ca, I am ...

The Pictou-Antigonish Library Board has released a three-year accessibility plan for its seven branch libraries, services and programs. Stock Image

LETTER: Whitney Pier pitched as new library location

Contributed |Updated 11 hours ago |2 min read

Several years ago, while a student at Cape Breton University, I took a political science course from Dr. Tom Urbaniak. One of the more interesting aspects of the course surrounded the tours we did in Whitney Pier looking at the infrastructure, the ...

HMCS Victoria, one of Canada's four secondhand diesel submarines which have been largely unusable. Experts are split on whether nuclear subs are needed to patrol Canada's Arctic.

Opinion: Canada’s Arctic defence policy update is all flash, no bang

The Province |Updated 16 hours ago |5 min read

The Canadian government’s recent defence policy update, Our North: Strong and Free , was recently released with considerable fanfare. Promised for a year, the delay seemed to indicate the Liberal government’s budgetary pressures given the ...

BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Really up a tree

Bruce MacKinnon · Cartoonist |Updated a day ago |1 min read

Bruce MacKinnon's cartoon for April 17, 2024.

Auctioneer Brian Craswell takes bids for the grand champion at the P.E.I. Easter Beef Show and Sale in Charlottetown on Friday.

LETTERS: On P.E.I.'s Easter Beef cattle sale, parking at the QEH, cycling in Brackley, P.E.I., and more

Contributed |Updated a day ago |6 min read

Horrified by Easter beef ad I'm writing to you today about the March 26 edition of The Guardian. I was heartbroken to come across a full, two-page ad for the 73rd annual Easter Beef Show and Sale 2024. The beautiful cattle featured with their ...

Members of the Halifax Regional Police forensics identification unit are seen in front of C.P. Allen High School after a stabbing incident at the school in Bedford March 20, 2023.

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EDITORIAL: A is for anxiety: Atlantic Canadian schoolchildren living new world for learning

SaltWire Network |Updated a day ago |4 min read

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 ...