Opinion

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

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 ...

Updated 9 hours ago |1 min read

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

Updated 2 hours ago |9 min read

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

LETTER: Discussion regarding proposed Cape Breton monument continues

Updated 10 hours ago |3 min read

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

LETTER: Whitney Pier pitched as new library location

Updated 10 hours ago |2 min read

GWYNNE DYER: A look at India's election

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BRUCE MacKINNON CARTOON: Really up a tree

Updated a day ago |1 min read

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 15 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 ...

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 ...

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HISTORICALLY SPEAKING WITH ED COLEMAN: Land speculation in 1900s leads to profitable acquisitions

Ed Coleman · columnist |Updated a day ago |3 min read

Was it a coincidence that Sir Frederick Borden, the minister of Militia and Defence, prepared a Bill late in 1910 proposing the construction of a railway to Cape Split, where a major power project was being considered? The railway, if constructed, ...

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 ...

Within the next 60 days, Charlottetown's Community Outreach Centre on Euston Street will be shut down, and the province will move it to 15 Park St., marking the fifth relocation of the centre in just a few years. Thinh Nguyen • The Guardian

IAN (TEX) MacDONALD: Other locales better suited to Charlottetown's outreach centre

Contributed |Updated a day ago |4 min read

Ian (Tex) MacDonald, a former mayor of Charlottetown, provided the following opinion article. In the landscape before us stands the Charlottetown Curling Club. It was built in 1945 after the original club, The Excelsior burned down in 1938. The ...

Premier Tim Houston: “I believe they’re giving serious consideration to opening the mine." FILE

TOM URBANIAK: Nova Scotia Guard: Wrong name, sloppy bill

Contributed |Updated a day ago |4 min read

Nova Scotia’s Bill 455 is flawed and needs to be significantly reworked. The bill enables the provincial government to recruit Nova Scotians to a vaguely defined and embarrassingly named “Nova Scotia Guard” to deal with emergencies. Significantly, ...

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: Retaliation or revenge?

Contributed |Updated a day ago |7 min read

In February 1944, the Bishop of Chichester, George Bell, spoke in the House of Lords against the policy of the blanket bombing of towns and cities in Germany in the Second World War. What was called 'terror bombing" was a major weapon for both sides ...

LETTER: The climate crisis requires all hands-on deck

Contributed |Updated a day ago |2 min read

On Feb. 24, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, addressed the International Energy Agency. In his speech, Mr. Guterres asked, “Will we move fast enough to limit the worst of climate chaos? And will the transition to renewables be fair, just ...

Her Majesty’s Penitentiary, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

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Cheers and Jeers for Newfoundland and Labrador April 16

SaltWire Staff |Updated a day ago |7 min read

CHEERS: to moving ahead with new housing construction. It’s good to see funding announced for actual construction work, rather than for more planning and rezoning and committees and delays. Last week, the provincial government announced $20 million ...

Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, during a press conference at the National Press Gallery in Ottawa Thursday.

SCOTT TAYLOR: Believe it when you see it for CAF spending

Scott Taylor |Updated Apr. 15, 2024 |3 min read

On Monday, April 8, federal Defence Minister Bill Blair unveiled the Liberal government's long-awaited defence policy update. Titled Our North, Strong and Free, the new policy outlines a significant spending increase and promises to acquire some very ...