The Casket

It was a 108-character statement on the human condition. (I know, it wasn’t meant that way, but it is exactly how it struck me at the time, and I haven’t been able to shake it since.) “There are reports that a ...

Here’s to getting used to the unusual. Since it’s October, a summer that was warmer than usual for many parts of the Atlantic provinces is now in the rearview mirror. Also probably sliding into memory, for ...

The legislature’s Public Accounts Committee has been, for decades, the last best place in Nova Scotia to find responsible government, warts and all. That ended Wednesday, at least for that one day, but that it ended at all signals a threat ...

The political circus continues to the south of us and, chances are, bare-knuckle politics by a crowd of venal and privileged old men will continue set the tone, serving their cronies and their paymasters. As part of that, even ...

Journalists in the SaltWire Network reached out to several women to ask them to share their opinions on the first anniversary of the #MeToo movement going viral. Click to read  some of what they had to say:  LOWE: #MeToo means that ...

SYDNEY, N.S. — Two simple words. Who could have imagined that two words would start a movement that would go on to shake up the world completely? Me Too. It has been one year since the #MeToo movement went viral around the world, in an ...

If Nova Scotia’s Conservative leadership race maintains its present trajectory it will eclipse, in a matter of weeks, the reputation academics took ce ...

This is a column that’s about a court case in Nova Scotia, and things not being what they seem. It’s still in mid-lawsuit, so there’s no nice, tidy ending — but there is a handy Latin ...

Over the past 12 days, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s actions as a high school and college student have been at the center of a public conver ...

Nova Scotia’s Liberal government used the “tyranny of its majority” Wednesday to neuter the one committee of the legislature that actually sheds an oc ...