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Nora Loreto is having a rough week. On April 8, she tweeted about the Humboldt Broncos bus crash that killed 16 hockey players and staff, saying, “I’m trying to not get cynical about what is a totally devastating tragedy but the ...

The funerals began even as the death toll continued to mount. A shocked nation is deep into the grieving process. The first funeral was held Thursday even as news spread that team trainer Dayna Brons had died from her injuries. It brings to 16 the ...

The pleasant woman or man who pours your morning double-double got a raise last week, although not quite enough to add up to a cup for themselves even after an eight-hour shift. Nova Scotia’s minimum wage crept up 15 cents-an-hour, to $11 ...

I’m not a lawyer. That’s pretty obvious. But I read legal decisions, follow cases through the courts, and watch an ever-growing movement that’s seeing corporations, unions and governments gain ever-more prominence in court cases ...

Wanted: a high school civics class that actually explains the distinct and separate responsibilities of federal, provincial and municipal governments. Also wanted: a requirement that anyone who seeks public office actually knows how governments ...

YARMOUTH, N.S. – In Bridgewater Friday evening, April 6, it was evident how much support there is in the community for the Yarmouth Jr. A Mariners. The team was playing Game 4 of their division final against the South Shore Lumberjacks and ...

It’s something everyone should have realized a long time ago: despite all its cheap talk about friends and friendship, Facebook is not your friend. Russell Wangersky And it never was. It’s a business, a business ...

Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil isn’t finding much support for his idea of having a common minimum wage in Atlantic Canada by as early as next spring. Whatever his target might be, he’s quick to reject any plans to join the ...

Maybe it’s a solution, or maybe it’s a whole different kind of problem. Russell Wangersky Bill C-51, which focuses on a bunch of different issues in the Criminal Code (including, oddly, the removal of “crime comics” ...

Some say it’s been too long coming, others that it should never come at all, but legal cannabis is just months away, and the legal framework arrived in the Nova Scotia legislature Tuesday albeit with the acknowledgement that it’s a work ...