The Casket

The World Series starts tonight. As far as the teams competing, it’s a repeat of a series played 102 years ago although, at that time, it was the Brooklyn Robins versus the Boston Red Sox. The Robins would, in subsequent years, become the ...

No one fights like family. They know where the old bruises are, the ones that go as deep as bone and hurt like hell the instant you press them. They know where the skeletons are buried; no one can crush you as successfully with a single off-hand ...

What would you have done in Michelle Murray’s situation? She was waiting in a parked Pontiac van while her daughter and a friend smoked a cigarette. There were three children under three in the van with her; two of them her ...

Are Canadians to Americans as the Irish are to the English? It feels that way to me. The English retain an obvious colonial attitude toward the Irish, when they think of them at all. The Americans tend to see Canada as a mere market segment and most ...

The big reveal is a week away; most of the votes have already been cast; one candidate’s team exudes confidence, but the others say, by their reckoning, the outcome remains very much in doubt. The Nova Scotia Conservative leadership campaign ...

(With apologies to “Stone Soup,” a folk tale where villagers unwittingly contribute what little they have to a shared pot, and then enjoy the delicious soup that results.) A stranger came to town with a stone and a fanciful ...

The New Democrats’ charge that the Nova Scotia government is insensitive to the barriers faced by working mothers gained a little more traction this w ...

Halifax, it seems, has finally fulfilled its quixotic quest to be a “world class” something. ...

This will come as no surprise to reasonable people. We’ve doubled down on dogmatism. We’ve built a wall, and neither side — once you get out to the extremes — has the high ground any more. Anyone who reads ...

Just when you thought the Conservative leadership brawl was as down and dirty as it can get, mud starts flying from a deeper ditch. Cape Breton Regional Mayor Cecil Clarke ended last week with an email to party members that included screenshots of ...